• 1. 
    Who was the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress?

  • Carol Moseley Braun
  • Toni Cade Bambara
  • Cynthia McKinney
  • Shirley Chisholm
  • 2. 
    Who was Emiliano Zapata?

  • a physicist
  • a baseball player
  • a musician
  • a revolutionary
  • 3. 
    Which peasant girl led the French army at Orléans during the Hundred Years’ War?

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Joan of Arc
  • Mathilde of Flanders
  • Elizabeth I
  • 4. 
    Which Siberian peasant and mystic had a curious ability to heal the son of Emperor Nicholas II, which made him an influential favourite at the court?

  • Mikhail Borodin
  • L. Martov
  • Grigori Rasputin
  • Vladimir Purishkevich
  • 5. 
    Who was the wartime nurse known as the “Lady with the Lamp"?

  • Mother Theresa
  • Edith Cavell
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Flora Macdonald
  • 6. 
    Which radical leader of the French Revolution was assassinated in his bath?

  • Robespierre
  • Jean-Paul Marat
  • Georges Danton
  • Marquis de Lafayette
  • 7. 
    Which U.S. president won the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his heroism during World War II?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Donald Trump
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 8. 
    Which American writer was buried with Bolshevik leaders beside the Kremlin wall in Moscow?

  • Upton Sinclair
  • John Reed
  • John Steinbeck
  • Sinclair Lewis
  • 9. 
    Who assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?

  • Jack Ruby
  • John Wilkes Booth
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Leon Czolgosz
  • 10. 
    Which Roman leader’s failed revolt led to 6,000 of his followers being crucified?

  • Catiline
  • Brutus
  • Spartacus
  • Nero
  • 11. 
    Which staunch Puritan and principal secretary of Queen Elizabeth I uncovered a conspiracy against the queen involving Mary, Queen of Scots?

  • Robert Catesby
  • Nicholas Throckmorton
  • John Wright
  • Francis Walsingham
  • 12. 
    Which leader endured a long prison term and later became his country’s president and a Nobel Prize winner?

  • Nelson Mandela
  • Jonas Savimbi
  • Desmond Tutu
  • Jimmy Carter
  • 13. 
    Which American labour activist led a five-year strike against grape growers and a nationwide boycott of grapes?

  • Samuel Gompers
  • Cesar Chavez
  • Che Guevara
  • George Meany
  • 14. 
    Which archbishop of Canterbury was burned at the stake for heresy?

  • John Kempe
  • Robert Runcie
  • Thomas Cranmer
  • John Bird Sumner
  • 15. 
    What was the first U.S. military decoration, instituted by George Washington in 1782 as an award for bravery in action but now awarded to those wounded or killed in service of their country?

  • Sacred Heart
  • Iron Cross
  • George Cross
  • Purple Heart
  • 16. 
    Who established the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation?

  • Harlan Fiske Stone
  • J. Edgar Hoover
  • Jean-Jules Jusserand
  • Charles Joseph Bonaparte
  • 17. 
    Who was the foremost figure of the woman suffrage movement in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

  • Germaine Greer
  • Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Martha Washington
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • 18. 
    Which American political leader is known for saying “Give me liberty or give me death”?

  • Patrick Henry
  • Richard Henry Lee
  • George Washington
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • 19. 
    What was Oliver Cromwell’s title at the time he ruled England?

  • commander in chief
  • chancellor
  • lord protector
  • supreme commander
  • 20. 
    Which Christian saint wrote an account of her suffering that was influential for centuries after?

  • Catherine of Siena
  • Hildegard
  • Mary
  • Perpetua
  • 21. 
    Which religious festival celebrates the victory of Judas Maccabeus over Antiochus IV Epiphanes?

  • Passover
  • Purim
  • Hanukkah
  • Shavuot
  • 22. 
    Which philosopher is known for the observation that human life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”?

  • John Locke
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • 23. 
    Which military leader was known as the “Little Corporal”?

  • George Washington
  • Napoléon Bonaparte
  • John Pershing
  • Genghis Khan
  • 24. 
    Holiday trips in Latin America inspired which Latin American leader to support violent revolution?

  • Che Guevara
  • Jacobo Arbenz
  • Juan Perón
  • Fidel Castro
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