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Leader of Italy during WWII?
Who invented the radio?
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Who invented the radio?
Watt
Marconi
Morse
Diderot
2
Leader of Italy during WWII?
Stalin
Hitler
Mussolini
HIrohito
3
Leader of the US Continental Army?
Washington
Madison
Benedict Arnold
Jefferson
4
Reforms during the end of the industrial revolution included?
labor unions legalized
working class gained right to vote
better working conditions
all of the above
5
Prophet of Laissez Faire economics?
Adam Smith
George Smith
Bob Smith
Danny Smith
6
People who fled revolutionary France during the Reign of Terror?
emigres
emigrants
border hoppers
Immigrants
7
Who invented the process that purifies iron ore to make steel?
Thomas Edison
John Dalton
Louis Pasteur
Henry Bessemer
8
When businesses are owned by many investors who buy shares of stock they are formed giant ___?
enterprises
stock holders
corporations
cartels
9
Who did Germany sign the Pact of Steel with?
Italy
Russia
France
Britain
10
Taliban took control in the 1970's in which nation?
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Afghanistan
Iran
11
What percent of the population was in the third estate in France at the time of the Revolution?
100
98
50
10
12
Genocide in Rwanda in the 1990's happened between what two groups?
Tutsis and Maoris
Hutus and Tutsis
Zulu and Boers
Dutch and Afrikaans
13
Nazi stands for?
Nationalist Congress Party
None of the above
German Workers Unite
National German Socialist Workers Party
14
What land did France loose after the Franco Prussian war causing bitterness and resent?
Saxony
Alsace/Lorraine
Weternburg/Alsace
Bavaria
15
India gained independence in what year?
1947
1901
1776
1976
16
Father of "Modern Egypt?"
Menelik II
Mohammad Ahmad
Mohammad Ali
Osama Bin laden
17
When was Germany unified?
1880
1870
1871
1890
18
Bolshevik means what?
majority
dance party
death to capitalists
minority
19
Grand, complex, and oranate style of art, architecture and music?
rococo
classical
baroque
hip hop
20
Thought that absolute government was necessary because people were cruel, greedy and selfish?
Hobbes
Locke
Voltaire
Rousseau
21
Who founded the Salvation Army?
FDR
Susan B. Anthony
William and Catherine Booth
Winston Churchill
22
The Boer War was fought over?
oil
political conflict
gold and diamonds on Zulu land
rubber
23
Who fought for women's rights during the Enlightenment?
Wollstonecraft
Montesquieu
Diderot
Locke
24
Invented the first steamboat?
Adam Smith
Robert Fulton
James Watt
George Stephenson
25
Abdicate means what?
to take over another nation
step down from power
lead a revolt
to vote
26
Inventor of the seed drill
Thomas Hobbes
James Watt
Jethro Tull
John Deere
27
Which country discovered the Congo and its riches triggering the scramble for Africa?
Germany
Britain
Belgium
Dutch
28
Revolutionary pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that helped to incite the American Revolution?
Of Common Men
Common Sense
Spirit of Laws
Declaration of Independence
29
Leader of the National Guard during the French Revolution?
Robesspierre
Marquis de Lafayette
George Washington
Napoleon
30
The German airforce is called the?
luftwaffe
kulturkumpf
Deustchland
blitzkrieg
31
Who invented dynamite?
Alfred Whitney
Nobel Alfred
Alfred Nobel
Rasputin
32
Major famine due to blight where causes millions to die or emigrate to the USA?
Russia
Britain
Cambodia
Ireland
33
The "mad monk", killed for his influence over the tsarina?
Nicholas I
Nicholas II
Rasputin
Alexander I
34
Final battle of the American Revolution where the British surrendered to Washington?
Saratoga
Charlestown
Yorktown
Trenton
35
During which Revolution did Bolsheviks seize power from the provisional government in Russia?
March Revolution
None of these
Bloody Sunday
November Revolution
36
Leader of the Congress Party who fought for Indian Independence?
All of the above
Gandhi
Biko
Mandela
37
Who wrote the Origin of the Species?
None of the above
Henry Bessemer
Joseph Lister
John Dalton
38
"Peasant Emperor" of Austria who ebraced the Enlightenment reform?
Menelik II
Frederick the Great
Joseph II
Catherine II
39
Demilitarized zone/Parallel between North and South Korea?
none exists
3rd parallel
28th parallel
38th parallel
40
What nation was eventually set up as a safe haven for the Jewish population?
Israel
Palestine
Lebanon
Iraq
41
Who invented anesthesia?
Robert Koch
William Morton
Henry Bessemer
Lister
42
What battle caused irreplaceable Nazi losses putting the USSR on the offensive?
Battle of the Bulge
El Alamein
Stalingrad
Leningrad
43
In the USSR under Stalin this agricultural policy failed causing the "Terror Famine"?
killing fields
collectivization
gulags
crop rotation
44
The Battle of ______ destroyed Japanese aircraft carriers, putting the US on the offensive...
Midway
Hiroshima
Iwo Jima
Caroline Islands
45
Mass genocide in the Ottoman Empire during WWI occurred against what group of people?
Greeks
Slavs
Communists
Armenians
46
Hindu custom where a widow must throw herself onto her husbands funeral pyre?
none of the above
sati
burkah
purdah
47
Commodore who led an expedition ultimately forcing Japan to open their doors to western trade?
Caleb Cushing
Donald Trump
Matthew Perry
Tojo Hideko
48
Government of France following the king's abdication and the storming of the Bastille?
National Guard
Tricolor
Plebiscite
National Assembly
49
Who tried to create a perfect utopian society in Scotland?
John Mill
Robert Owen
Jeremy Bentham
Karl Marx
50
What revolution caused the Enlightenment?
Scientific
Agricultural
All of the above
Industrial
51
The USSR stands for?
United Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
Union of Soviet Socialism Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
52
The "new calvary" of WWI that failed to break the stalemate?
planes
flamethrowers
tanks
grenades
53
Discovered modern germ theory
Florence Nightingale
Joseph Lister
Samuel
Robert Koch
54
The developing area of the world post WWII was referred to as what?
All of the above
Second World
Third World
1st World
55
Ethiopian king who modernized the nation allowing their independence during the scramble?
Erwin Rommel
Menelik II
Haille Selassie
Komo Kenyatta
56
Event where Indian soldiers revolted against British rule due to unethical religious policies?
None Great leap Forward
Sepoy Rebellion
Taiping Rebellion
Boxer Uprising
57
Czar who abolished serfdom in Russia?
Nicholas II
Alexander II
Nicholas I
Alexander I
58
Led a slave revolt in Haiti against French colonial rule?
El Grito
Jose Morelos
Simon Bolivar
Toussaint L'Ouverture
59
Leader of the United States during WWI?
Truman
FDR
Dick Cheney
Wilson
60
What amendment banned alcohol during the Prohibition era?
16th
20th
25th
18th