The Decline of the Romanov Dynasty
February 1917
What is the phrase that ascribes power to the king from god?
The divine right to rule
What is one conspiracy about the Romanov Family?
What text did Karl Marx and Friedreich Engels write?
The Communist Manifesto
What was the name of China's final imperial dynasty?
What is the name of the Russian statesman who attempted to reform Russia's economy in the late 19th/ early 20th century?
Sergei Witte
Which Enlightenment thinker is known as the "father of liberalism"?
John Locke
What is the name of the Broadway musical about the Romanov family?
Anastasia
BONUS 100 points if you can name ONE of the songs from the musical.
Who is the proletariat according to Mao?
The peasants or anyone oppressed by the ruling class.
Who was the first president of the United States of America?
George Washington
Who lead the march that became known as Bloody Sunday?
Father Georgei Gapon: a renegade priest
Which author/philosopher supported freedom of speech, religion and enlightened despotism?
Which Russian noble has a song named after him?
Rasputin
BONUS 100 points if you can do ONE move from the Just Dance.
BONUS 100 points if you can name the artist.
When did Stalin take power in Russia?
1929
Which ancient civilisation were the first to invent a writing script?
The Sumerians in Ancient Mesopotamia
Who was the first Tsar of Russia?
Ivan the Terrible
Rousseau believed the education would create ______ citizens.
Which Netflix series features a reference to the assassination of the Romanovs?
The Crown
What is the name of the pamphlet Lenin wrote in 1902 to direct the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party?
'What is to be done'
What year did the RMS Titanic capsize into the North Atlantic Ocean?
1912
Which historian said "The tsarists regime's downfall was not inevitable, but its own stupidity made it so."
Orlando Figes
What is the name of the book created by Denis Diderot?
The Encyclopedie
What is the name of the Netflix series about Nicholas II's downfall?
The Last Czars (2019)
Which theory describes Marx's stages of history?
Dialectical materialism
Name each of Henry VIII six wives.
BONUS 100 points for the correct order & BONUS 100 points for identifying who was: divorced, beheaded or survived.
Catharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Katherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, and Catherine Parr
Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived