Afghanistan
Local Tribes
Local Geography
European Arrival
Hodgepodge
100

This organization retook control of Afghanistan last month after two decades of US presence.

What is the Taliban?

100

This tribe's name means "downriver people".

Who are the Yurok?

100

This is the place where the Klamath River meets the Pacific Ocean.

Where is Requa?

100
People from this European country were the first to establish permanent settlements in what are today the United States.

What is Spain?

100

He was President when the Twin Towers were attacked. (You must give his full name)

Who was George W. Bush?

200

This Macedonian Greek Emperor conquered Afghanistan and made an Afghan his Queen.

Who was Alexander (the Great)?

200

This tribe's name means "upriver people".

Who are the Karuk?

200

This is the main river along which many groups of Wiyot lived and fished.

What is the Eel?

200

This Italian's name was altered and adopted as the name of our continent.  (You must give the full name)

Who was Amerigo Vespucci?

200

This web address is the final part of a correct Internet citation and should never appear underlined in a bibliography.

What is the URL?

300

This flight hit the first tower in New York on September the 11th, 2001

What is American Airlines Flight 11?

300

This is the plural word for the currency used by native groups.

What are dentalia?

300

This is the smallest of the coastal lagoons, not far north of Arcata.

What is Freshwater Lagoon?

300
People from this country penetrated the inland waterways in search of fur, often allying themselves with Native peoples.

Who were the French?

300

This is the year the US declared its independence from the UK.

What is 1776?

400

He plotted and masterminded the 9/11 attack.  He was killed a decade later in Pakistan.

Who Was Osama bin Laden?

400

This historian and his wife are still authoritative sources on Yurok history, more than a century after they published most of their work.

Who is Kroeber?

400

This is the river which flows into the ocean north of Crescent City, it is also the only major undammed river in the state.

What is the Smith?

400

This current US state was a Spanish territory until the 1840s.

What is Florida?

400

This is the number of colonies there were when the US declared its independence.

What is 13?

500

This man traveled the Silk Road through Afghanistan in the Middle Ages, bringing new products and ideas back and forth.

Who was Marco Polo?

500

Chilula warriors were massacred by a group of White vigilantes and Lassik indians just outisde of this reservation near Covelo.

What is Round Valley?

500

This is the place where the Trinity River meets the Klamath.

Where is Weitchpec?

500

This is the year the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.

What is 1620?
500

This is the capital of Massachusetts.

What is Boston?