1. Who was the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress?
2. Who was Emiliano Zapata?
3. Which peasant girl led the French army at Orléans during the Hundred Years’ War?
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?
5. Who was the wartime nurse known as the “Lady with the Lamp"?
6. Which radical leader of the French Revolution was assassinated in his bath?
7. Which U.S. president won the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his heroism during World War II?
8. Which American writer was buried with Bolshevik leaders beside the Kremlin wall in Moscow?
9. Who assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?
10. Which Roman leader’s failed revolt led to 6,000 of his followers being crucified?
11. Which staunch Puritan and principal secretary of Queen Elizabeth I uncovered a conspiracy against the queen involving Mary, Queen of Scots?
12. Which leader endured a long prison term and later became his country’s president and a Nobel Prize winner?
13. Which American labour activist led a five-year strike against grape growers and a nationwide boycott of grapes?
14. Which archbishop of Canterbury was burned at the stake for heresy?
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?
16. Who established the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation?
17. Who was the foremost figure of the woman suffrage movement in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
18. Which American political leader is known for saying “Give me liberty or give me death”?
19. What was Oliver Cromwell’s title at the time he ruled England?
20. Which Christian saint wrote an account of her suffering that was influential for centuries after?
21. Which religious festival celebrates the victory of Judas Maccabeus over Antiochus IV Epiphanes?
22. Which philosopher is known for the observation that human life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”?
23. Which military leader was known as the “Little Corporal”?
24. Holiday trips in Latin America inspired which Latin American leader to support violent revolution?