Quiz Bowl 2021!

Question 1

What treaty ended British involvement in the War of Spanish Succession?

Accepted Answer

Peace of Utrecht

Question 2

This French town near Belgium witnessed 2 decisive battles leading to the fall of 2 French governments in 1870 and 1940?

Accepted Answer

Sedan

Question 3

This Egyptian village changed the study of Christianity in 1946, when a farmer found a trove of new Gnostic Gospels?

Accepted Answer

Nag Hammadi

Question 4

Who was Henry VIII's third wife?

Accepted Answer

Jane Seymour

Question 5

What year did Martin Luther attend the Diet of Worms resulting in the official start of the Protestant Reformation?

Accepted Answer

1521

Question 6

What do historians call the age ushered in by Alexander the Great, known for Greek language and culture?

Accepted Answer

Hellenistic Age

Question 7

Who became pastor of the Congregational Church in Salem Village in 1689 and central to the Witch Trials?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Parris

Question 8

Who was the “transportation expert” for the Final Solution?

Accepted Answer

Adolf Eichmann

Question 9

This Jamaican Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanism organizer also founded the United Negro Improvement Assoc. in 1914.

Accepted Answer

Marcus Garvey

Question 10

Who was the first emperor of the Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

Augustus Caesar

Question 11

What document was drawn up by the French National Assembly in August 1789?

Accepted Answer

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Question 12

Otto von Bismarck’s selective editing and publishing of the “Ems Dispatch” provoked what war?

Accepted Answer

Franco-Prussian War

Question 13

This civilization controlled most of Anatolia and the northern Levant during the 14th-13th centuries, BCE.

Accepted Answer

Hittites

Question 14

Arthur Griffiths created which Irish Republican group in 1899 to counter British control in Ireland?

Accepted Answer

Sinn Fein

Question 15

What amendment to the US Constitution repealed Prohibition in 1933?

Accepted Answer

21st

Question 16

Andrew Jackson's portrait first appeared on US currency on the $20 bill?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Who provided the report that outlined the process of granting a Canadian "Responsible Government" in the 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Lord Durham

Question 18

This Old Testament book records the mass migration of Jewish slaves from the kingdom of Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Exodus

Question 19

What Babylonian law code is one of the oldest known legal texts, discovered and translated in 1902?

Accepted Answer

Code of Hammurabi

Question 20

Attorney Thurgood Marshall argued this landmark 1954 Supreme Court Case

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 21

The advocate for equal political rights for women in France during the Revolution was:

Accepted Answer

Olympe de Gouges

Question 22

What was the name of the agreement between the Austria and Hungary in 1867 that established the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

Accepted Answer

Ausgleich/Compromise of 1867

Question 23

She was James II's daughter who Parliament "invited" to become Queen in 1688 establishing a Constitutional Monarchy?

Accepted Answer

Mary II

Question 24

Which of these nations did NOT grant women's suffrage directly following WWI?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 25

What sect of Islam arose from those who supported Ali's succession to Muhammad, as well as that of Ali's sons?

Accepted Answer

Shi'a

Question 26

Which Athenian man was killed by a plague in 429BCE, due to his strategy of congregating Attica residents behind walls?

Accepted Answer

Pericles

Question 27

This capital of Nabatean Arabia became famous when its temple “Al-Khazneh” was in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Accepted Answer

Petra

Question 28

The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the United States?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

What year did Mao Zedong launch the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution?

Accepted Answer

1966

Question 30

Which Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified in 1920 by a one-vote margin?

Accepted Answer

19th

Question 31

He was the Napoleonic marshal who had "Death to Kings" tattooed on his body, but later became a king.

Accepted Answer

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

Question 32

Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the Armed Forces

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

What Iranian Prime Minister nationalized his country's oil in 1951, resulting in a conflict with Great Britain?

Accepted Answer

Mohammed Mosaddegh

Question 34

What was the name of the 1887 Congressional Act that forced assimilation on Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

Dawes Severalty Act

Quiz Bowl 2021!

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Quiz Bowl 2021!

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