MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS II

1.  In a recent episode of the TV show "Castle," one of the characters suffered from "hyperosmia."
What is this condition?                        

2. What Catholic religious order built the "Alamo," and other missions in Texas?

3.  What city was the territorial capital and first state capital of Oklahoma?

4.  What is the Periodic Table symbol for the element copper?

5.  Who was the 15th President of  the U.S.?

6.  What Amendment to the Constitution protects against unreasonable searches and seizures?

7.  Who was the last President of the U.S. who was not nominated by the Republican or Democratic parties?

8. The metric measure "tonne" is equivalent to how many U.S. pounds?

9. The Roman numeral "D" stands for what number?

10.  Besides, Centigrade and Fahrenheit, was is the other widely used measure of temperature?

ANSWERS TO MISCELLANEOUS II

ANSWERS TO MISCELLANEOUS I

1.  Heightened sense of smell

2.  Franciscans

3.  Guthrie

4.  Cu

5.  James Buchanan

6.  Fourth Amendment

7.  Millard Fillmore (Whig)

8.  2,204.62 pounds

9.  500

10.  Kelvin (K)

WORLD HISTORY IV QUESTIONS

WORLD HISTORY IV QUESTIONS

         
  

  
               

  1.   In what year did the English defeat the Spanish Armada?
 
  2.  In 1607, the Mayflower was headed for Virginia, but mistakenly landed where? 

  3.  In 1520, what Spanish Conquistador conquered the Aztecs in Mexico?

  4.  In 1532, what Spanish Conquistador conquered the Incas in Peru?

   5.  The “Age of Reason” is also known as what?

   6.  In 1611 a new version of the Bible was created that was less congenial to Puritanism more congenial to the King.  What was this version called?         

   7.    The English Bill of Rights took effect in what year?       

   8.  Revolutionary fervor in the U.S. was fueled by what document written by Thomas Payne?

  9.  Who was the leader of the radical, violent Jacobins during the French Revolution?

WORLD HISTORY IV ANSWERS

WORLD HISTORY IV ANSWERS

WORLD HISTORY IV ANSWERS

1.  1588

2.  Cade Cod, Mass.

3.  Hernan Cortez

4.  Franiscco Pizarro

5.  The Enlightenment

6.  The King James version

7.  1689

8.  ”Common Sense”

9.  Robespierre

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY II, QUESTIONS 10/24 TO 10/30

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY II QUESTIONS 10/24-10/30

10/24

1.  1901, The first person to go over  Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive was a woman.  What was her name?

2.  1929, what is this date when the  American stock market crashed disastrously referred to

3. 1989,What is the  name of the disgraced American TV preacher who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for fraud?

10/25

4.  1920, King Alexander of Greece died of blood poisoning after being bitten by what animal?

5.  1962 What American author who won a  1940 Pulitzer Prize for his book The Grapes of Wrath was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

6.  1983. American invaded what tiny island nation?

10/26/

7.  1881, What famous event occurred in Tomstone AZ.?

10/27

8.  1659, Four members of what religious group were hanged in Boston because of their religious beliefs and social customs?

10/28

9.  1831, Who invented the electric generator which turned mechanical energy into electricity?

10/29

10.  What two countries united to form the new nation of Tanzania?

10/30

11.  In the “Rumble in the Jungle,” Muhammed Ali knocked out what other fighter?

THIS WEEK ON HISTORY II 10/24-10/30 ANSWERS

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY ANSWERS II  10/24 TO 10/30

1.  Annie Edson Taylor

2.  Black Thursday

3. Jim Baker

4.  His pet monkey

5.  John Steinbeck

6.  Grenada

7.  Gunfight at the OK Corral

8.  Quakers (Society of Friends)

9.  Michael Faraday

10.  Tanganyika and Zanzibar

11.  Geogre Foreman

WORLD HISTORY III QUESTIONS

WORLD HISTORY III QUESTIONS

1.   What was Michelangelo’s (1475-1564) last name? 

 2.  Who created/invented calculus?

 3.  Who invented the mechanical printing press (around 1440 A.D.)? 

 4.  Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was a master of many  fields, including painting.  Which painting is Da Vinci’s “masterpiece?”

 5.  What was Philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli’s (1469-1527) most famous book? 

 6.  During the 1500’s-1600’s, what 3 astronomers revolutionized the field?

 7.  What famous Renaissance writer stressed that science must be based on observation and mathematics? 

 8.  In reaction to the Renaissance and Reformation, the Catholic Church set up brutal inquisitions.  The most notorious was in what country ? 

9.  The famous Taj Mahal was built in the 1600’on orders from whom? 

10.  Who is credited with starting the Reformation?