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What technique was quite popular for art during the Renaissance?
Realism
Abstract
Chiaroscuro
Watercolour
2
What is another term that is sometimes used in reference to the Renaissance?
The Entitlement
Dark Ages
The New World
Independent Era
3
Who was known as one of the most famous ‘conductors’ on the ‘Underground Railroad’?
Margaret Garner
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
Anna J. Cooper
4
The USSR and the United States faced a global stalemate during what infamous conflict?
World War II
Cold War
Gulf War
Red Dawn
5
Who penned the majority of the United States' Declaration of Independence?
James Madison
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
6
What country was at the center of world culture during the Renaissance?
USA
Italy
England
France
7
What is the oldest existing Egyptian monument?
The Great Sphinx
Abu Simbel
The Great Pyramid
Colossus of Rhodes
8
What was the 'Underground railroad' in the US in the 19th century?
an actual underground railroad used for smuggling drugs to Canada
a set of secret routes used by enslaved Afro-Americans to escape slavery
9
Who was the first man to step foot on the moon?
Harry Truman
John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
Harry Truman
10
Nazi officials who survived the war stood trial at
Nuremberg
Munich
Berlin
Versailles
11
The RAF prevented a German invasion of Britain. What does “RAF” mean?
Regular Army Faction
Readily-Accessible Fortification
Restricted Artillery Force
Royal Air Force
12
What idea was proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus?
Democracy
Judge and Jury
Naval warfare
A heliocentric system
13
How was the ancient Roman city of Pompeii destroyed?
volcano
battle
hurricane
tsunami
14
How did Adolf Hitler die?
heart attack
suicide
assassination
execution by hanging
15
During Operation Neptune, informally known as D-Day, Allied troops invaded:
Normandy
The Sudetenland
Potomac
The Rhineland
16
What did the "Vitruvian Man" show?
Human skeleton
Human proportions
A landscape
A diagram of the solar system
17
The rise and fall of the _____ Empire is one of the most consequential events of ancient history.
Mayan
Roman
British
American
18
Which city had a rivalry with Florence?
Venice
Rome
Paris
London
19
Which general led the Free French military after his country fell to the Germans?
Alfred Dreyfus
Jacques Chirac
Charles de Gaule
Perre Trudeau
20
Mongol armies attacking the Crimean city of Caffa in 1344 spread the plague into the town by ...
catapulting plague corpses into the town
letting loose flea-infested black rats
accidentally because of fleas that came with them
selling bales of cloth infested with fleas
21
Which pandemic was the worst in history?
Spanish Flu / The 1918 influenza
The Black Death/Bubonic Plague (1346-1353)
HIV/AID pandemic (2005-2012)
Third Cholera Pandemic (1852–1860)
22
What US president led the country through the Civil War?
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
23
What does the word "Renaissance" mean?
Innovation
Enlightenment
Artistic
Rebirth
24
What was the name of the secret American effort to create the atom bomb?
Gallipoli
The Manhattan Project
Area 51
Operation Downfall
25
What is the only country to have ever used an atomic bomb on an enemy?
USA
Japan
Russia
Germany
26
What do scholars ascribe as the Maya’s most impressive development?
stone working
their practice of healing
math and astronomy
societal hierarchy
27
The group of men that drafted the Declaration of Independence are
Famous Fathers
Forerunners
Founding Fathers
Freedom Fathers
28
Which country did the United States defeat in the Battle of Midway?
Japan
Germany
France
Italy
29
Which family famously supported many artists and scientists during the Renaissance?
The Michelangelo Family
The Gaddi Family
The Medici Family
The da Vinci Family
30
What great event occurred during 1400-1650 in Europe?
The Great Depression
The Great Plague
The Renaissance
The French Revolution
31
In 1896, which country revived the Olympic Games?
Greece
Canada
USA
Italy
32
What is a Renaissance Man?
Someone who challanges others
A person with many skills
A person who loves debates
An artist
33
Which United States president did not serve in the Second World War?
Bill Clinton
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
34
Which country fell under Soviet influence after the war?
Ukraine
Croatia
Poland
Denmark
35
Who is known to be the "Father of the Renaissance"?
Giovanni de Medici
Leonardo da Vinci
Petrarch
El Greco
36
The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution shook which country to its core?
France
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Russia
37
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Sandro Botticelli
Raphael
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
38
How many times did the plague return before 1405?
10
6
It didn't return.
one
39
What proportion of the population do most historians believe that Black Death killed?
50%
30%
75%
25%
40
Islam is the most prevalent religion in the Middle East. What country houses the ancient and sacred city of Mecca?
Iraq
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Syria
41
In the second outbreak of the plague how did doctors help patients recover?
They gave plague patients crushed emeralds
They fumigated plague patients' houses with herbs
They gave them gin
They burst their buboes
42
Who ruled the Soviet Union during World War II?
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Khrushchev
Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
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What British King is known for killing or divorcing 4 of his 6 wives?
King George III
King William IV
King Edward VIII
King Henry VIII
