They hate to see a girlboss winning
Who wrote the influential book which heavily contributed to the feminist movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s titled The Feminine Mystique?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Betty Friedan
Bell Hooks
Gloria Steinam
Betty Friedan
How many years has the US gone without a sitting Vice President?
A. 0 years
B. 3 years
C. 4 years
D. 7 years
1. In which ancient culture was surgery first performed?
A. Persian
B. Egyptian
C. Mayan
D. Indus Valley
D. Indus Valley
Before he was tamed, what was Alexander the Great’s horse Bucephalus said to be afraid of?
A. his shadow
B. snakes
C. other horses
D. the sun
A. his shadow
This museum is offering a $10 million reward for information regarding 13 stolen paintings, the largest bounty ever offered by a private institution.
The Gardener Museum
This political activist has long been a proponent for the prison abolition movement and the women’s movement, and is known for her works Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete. What is her name?
Angela Davis
This Vice President originally served as Secretary of Agriculture before replacing John Nance Garner in the 1940 election. What was his name?
A. Harry Truman
B. Harry Hopkins
C.Henry A Wallace
D.Alben Barkley
This Vice President originally served as Secretary of Agriculture before replacing John Nance Garner in the 1940 election. What was his name?
C.Henry A Wallace
2.Who built the first gasoline engine car?
1.Henry Ford
2. Louis Renault
3. Karl Benz
4. Masujiro Hashimoto
3. Karl Benz
The earliest form of the stirrup, which is credited with advancing cavalry and military technology, was created in which country?
India
An unidentified man going by this name hijacked a plane and stole $20,000 before leaping out of the aircraft between Portland and Seattle.
D.B. Cooper
This Queen of the Ambundu Kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba (present day Angola) reigned for 37 years, and bravely held off the Portuguese and their expanding slave trade. Who is she?
Nzinga Mbande
Which one of these Vice Presidents has served in the role of VP with two different political parties?
A. John C. Calhoun.
B. George Clinton.
C. John Nance Garner.
D. Andrew Johnson.
A. John C. Calhoun.
3.What was the first known calculator & where was it invented?
abacus, Babylonia
The Duke of Wellington had a horse named after this European city.
A. Paris
B. Copenhagen
C. Berlin
D. London
B. Copenhagen
In the mid 6th century, two monks from this location finally brought an end to China's monopoly on silk production.
A. Japan
B. India
C. Byzantine Empire
D. Ostrogothic Kingdom
C. Byzantine Empire
The first African-American woman to go into space, this person is also a medical doctor, engineer, and writer, has made an appearance on Star Trek, and served in the Peace Corp. What is her name?
Mae Jemison
When not creating Nobel prize-winning economic plans, Calvin Coolidge’s VP Charles Dawes did what in his spare time?
A. He was a professional baseball player before entering politics.
B. He wrote songs, including a chart-topping single.
C. He was a movie director, filming several hit silent movies.
D. He was a sculptor, and several of his statues remain up in both DC and his hometown of Marietta Ohio.
B. He wrote songs, including a chart-topping single.
4.Around what year was the modern piano invented?
A. 1550
B. 1620
C. 1700
D. 1780
C. 1700
Black Beauty, a novel written by Anne Sewell chronicling the life and hardships endured by working horses, was published in this year
A. 1877
B. 1830
C. 1904
D. 1892
A. 1877
In 1671, Irishman Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels, likely because his position as parliamentarian in Ireland was taken away after the English monarchy was restored in 1660. during the heist, what was he disguised as?
A. A guard
B. A priest
C. A farmer
D. The monarch
B. A priest
A physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, she made a key scientific discovery about the law of conservation of parity. However, while the two physicists she helped received the Nobel Prize in 1957 for the discovery, she received no credit. What is her name?
Chien-Shiung Wu
Why did Woodrow Wilson move his VP Thomas Marshall’s office away from the White House?
A. Marshall and Wilson often got into heated arguments and this was the punishment.
B. The White House was being renovated and Marshall needed to move while repairs were being done to his office.
C. Marshall would often accidentally tell confidential information while working and Wilson wanted him away from people to hear.
D. Marshall would stand outside his office and tell bad jokes to the tourists in the White House.
D. Marshall would stand outside his office and tell bad jokes to the tourists in the White House.
5.Where does the word Bluetooth come from?
King Harald I of Scandinavia
The original fossil remains demonstrating the sequence of horse evolution as found by this famous 19th century paleontologist.
Othniel Charles Marsh
The largest heist in US history, known as the United California Bank robbery involved a number of robbers using dynamite to blast a hole in the roof of the safe deposit vault. How much money was stolen?
A. 30 million
B. 18 million
C. 5 million
D. 11
A. 30 million