Napoleon
Name the revolutionary event where Napoleon started his rise to power.
What is the French Revolution in 1789?
The name of the continent that Captain Cook claimed for England in his first trip around the world that took three years.
What is Australia?
Name of the strait that Captain Cook discovered between the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Previously, explorers thought New Zealand was one contiguous island.
What is Cook Strait?
Name the two symbols for how the alphabet and numbers are represented in Morse Code
What are dots and dashes?
Name of the Scottish missionary who was the first white man to see Lake Ngami in Africa and spent his whole life as a pioneer there.
Who is David Livingstone?
Title Napoleon gave himself as ruler of France because it sounded larger.
What is emperor?
James Cook went to search for this southern most continent that reportedly had 50 million inhabitants or prove that it did not exist.
What is Antarctica? (It only had LOTS of penguins:)
Name the two countries for which Lafayette fought for independence.
What is America and France?
The profession/occupation of Samuel Morse before he became the inventor of Morse Code.
What is an artist? He was one of America's best and a successful portrait painter after he realized no one wanted to pay to see his painting of the House of Representatives.
Nickname for the continent of Africa before being explored by Livingstone and others.
What is the "Dark Continent".
This new invention helped feed Napoleon's troops.
What is canned food?
On James Cook's third voyage, he looked for this passage through North America.
What is the Northwest Passage to go from the New World to the Far East quicker
Name one of the two islands to which Napoleon was exiled.
What is Elba or St. Helena off of Africa?
Length of time needed to deliver a message during the War of 1812. This motivated Samuel Morse to develop a faster method for delivering messages.
What is 15 weeks?
Name 2 reasons why England wanted to colonize South Africa and the Boers.
What is (any 2 of 4 reasons below) England
1. wanted a port on the way to the Far East
2. knew diamonds were found there,
3. wanted another colony
4. did not want any other country to take it?
Napoleon III was this relation to Napoleon Bonaparte I?
What is nephew? Napoleon was Napoleon III's uncle.
Name of the place (now part of the United States) where Captain Cook died.
What is Hawaii?
Name the country Commodore Perry forced a treaty of commerce with in Tokyo Bay after giving them extension ladders, suction hoses, telegraph wire and a miniature steam locomotive.
What is Japan?
Name the first message sent on the telegraph.
"What hath God wrought!"
Name of the Falls that Livingstone discovered and named after the Queen of England.
What is Victoria Falls? (It is double the height of Niagra Falls in New York!)
The number of French soldiers who died in the cold battles of Russia.
What is over 500,000 soldiers?
Term that map makers would use to label parts of a map that were still a mystery. James Cook's voyages would fill in a lot of these places!
What is "unknown" or "incognita"? Map makers would draw mermaids and other fun drawings over these parts.
Toussaint L'Overture led this island nation to independence but was later imprisoned by Napoleon because he was a former slave.
What is Haiti?
The number of years Samuel Morse had to wait for Congress to approve funding for the telegraph.
What is 5 years? They gave him $30,000 to lay wire. Buried wires underground did not work, but wires on poles above the ground did.
Name the newspaper reporter sent to find if Livingstone was still alive after 5 years in Africa with no outside contact.
Who is Stanley? He also explored Africa and helped found the Congo Free State containing 1 million miles of beautiful fertile country.