This feat of technology, which took from 1859-1869 to complete, would ease the route of ships from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean.
What is the Suez Canal?
100
This person was the leading force behind German unification.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
100
This is the last word of The Communist Manifesto.
What is "unite"?
100
Before helping Italy unite, Camillo Cavour was the Prime Minister of this Italian state.
What is Piedmont? (Kingdom of Sardinia is also acceptable)
100
This is what you should do if your hair catches on fire.
What is put out the fire?
200
Issues over what to do with this country frequently divided the political parties in Great Britain at the end of the 19th century.
What is Ireland?
200
This person was proclaimed king of Italy in 1861.
Who is Victor Emmanuel II?
200
This government, proclaimed on March 28, 1871, ran counter to nationalist feelings by isolating a capital (the "City of Lights") from the rest of the country.
What is the Paris Commune?
200
These two wars helped unify the German states into one nation.
What are the Austro-Prussian and Franco Prussian wars?
200
This woman worked throughout the 19th century to improve nursing practices in the military.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
300
From 1839-1876 was this era (meaning "reorganization") in the Ottoman Empire, attempting to liberalize the empire.
What is Tanzimat?
300
These were the two Prime Ministers who dominated the end of the 19th century in Great Britain.
Who are Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone?
300
This person co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx.
Who is Friedrich Engels?
300
This was created by the Compromise of 1867.
What is a dual monarchy: Austria-Hungry?
300
This is the one reality tv series that Ms. Schlesinger watches.
What is The Bachelor/Bachelorette? And it's awesome. Judge me if you will.
400
This person created the first process to mass produce steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
400
This leader said, “The kingdom of Poland, again subject to Our scepter, will regain tranquility, and again flourish in the bosom of peace, restored to it under the auspices of a vigilant government.”
Who is Tsar Nicholas I?
400
The Second Reform Act of 1867 increased the number of eligible voters in Britain by approximately this many.
What is one million?
400
These are the two Guisseppe's who perpetrated guerrilla warfare in order to unite Italy.
Who are Mazzini and Garibaldi?
400
This person won a gold medal in women's figure skating at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer, and Ms. Schlesinger was real mad.
Who is Oksana Baiul?
500
The British government took responsibility for providing housing for the working class through this act (include the year).
What is the Artisan Dwelling Act of 1875?
500
This was the 1870 battle of the Franco-Prussian War in which Napoleon III was captured, thereby ending France's Second Empire.
What is the Battle of Sedan?
500
This was the name of the main radical society in Russia in the 1870's.
What is Land and Freedom?
500
These were the two legislative houses of the North German Confederation?
What is the Bundesrat and the Reichstag?
500
This is the only U.S. President to serve nonconsecutive terms.