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Where did Napoleon meet his final defeat?
Battle of Waterloo
What act made Canada a self-governing commonwealth?
British North American Act
Whose death caused the beginning of World War I?
Archduke Ferdinand
Who formed the Soviet Union in 1922?
Vladimir Lenin
What was the uprising of native Indian soldiers against the British East India company called?
Sepoy Rebellion
Who invented the spinning mule?
Samuel Crompton
Who is the “Father of Nuclear Science”?
Ernest Rutherford
Who was an American “Ace” pilot in World War I?
Eddie Rickenbacker
Which French king said, “After me the deluge.”
Louis XV
Who was the Russian empress who embraced Western ideas?
Catherine the Great
Who invented the first practical steamship?
Robert Fulton
Name one of the two American army doctors who worked to eliminate yellow fever?
Walter Reed and William Gorgas
Where was Amy Carmichael a missionary?
India
What Radio station was the first commercial broadcasting station to go on the air?
KDKA
Who is called the “Father of New France”?
Samuel de Champlain
Who founded the Fabian Society?
George Bernard Shaw
When is Armistice Day now celebrated?
Veteran’s Day.
11/11
Who introduced the idea of dialectical reasoning?
G.W.F. Hegel
What was the largest British offensive in the East during World War I called?
Gallipoli Campaign
Which French lingual executed during the French Revolution?
Louis XVI
Who wrote The Gulag Archipelago?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Who was Karl Marx’s close friend and co-author of the Communist Manifesto?
Friedrich Engels
Who established the Moravian settlement of Herrnhut?
Count Von Zinzendorf
Who was responsible for the Reign of Terror?
Maximilien Robespierre
Who developed the quantum theory of matter and energy?
Max Planck