National History Bee
2012-2013 Online Regional Qualifying Exam
What ancient ruler developed the legal code that included such laws as "an eye for an eye?"
a) Darius I
b) Hammurabi
c) Nebuchadnezzar
d) Sargon
e) Babar the Magnificent
Correct Awnser : b
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau are all famous examples of what?
a) French Revolution Battles
b) South African Politicians
c) WWII Concentration Camps
d) Korean War Fighter Pilots
e) Brazilian River Systems
Correct Awnser : c
What was the document that governed the Plymouth Colony?
a) Constitution
b) Declaration of Independence
c) Bill of Rights
d) Articles of Confederation
e) Mayflower Compact
Correct Awnser : e
Teddy Roosevelt won a Nobel Prize for helping to bring peace between what two nations via the Treaty of
Portsmouth?
a) Britain and South Africa
b) Russia and Japan
c) Norway and Sweden
d) Spain and Portugal
e) Egypt and Israel
Correct Awnser : b
Which President delivered the "Infamy Speech" one day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
a) Herbert Hoover
b) Franklin D. Roosevelt
c) Harry Truman
d) Dwight Eisenhower
e) John F. Kennedy
Correct Awnser : b
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Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech was given during which of the following events?
a) Woodstock Festival
b) Founding of the NAACP
c) 1963 March on Washington
d) John F. Kennedy's funeral
e) Brown v. Board trial
Correct Awnser : c
What term is used for Spanish explorers such as Francisco Pizarro who colonized much of the New World in
the 16th and 17th centuries?
a) Conquistadors
b) Zapatistas
c) Muchachos
d) Toreodors
e) Inquisitors
Correct Awnser : a
Which of the following is the 19th century belief that the U.S. should expand westward across the continent?
a) Great Train Initiative
b) Underground Railroad
c) California Compromise
d) Popular Sovereignty
e) Manifest Destiny
Correct Awnser : e
Which prominent female founded the American Red Cross?
a) Betsy Ross
b) Janet Reno
c) Clara Barton
d) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
e) Rosa Parks
Correct Awnser : c
What Russian Czar was murdered alongside his family as a result of the Russian Revolution in 1918?
a) Catherine the Great
b) Vlad the Impaler
c) Michael IV
d) Ivan the Terrible
e) Nicholas II
Correct Awnser : e
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What island in New York processed millions of American immigrants in the late
19th and early 20th centuries?
a) Ellis Island
b) Freedom Island
c) Seward Island
d) Hudson Island
e) Statue of Liberty Island
Correct Awnser : a
Which war saw the Battle of the Bulge as well as the use of atomic bombs?
a) Crimean War
b) World War II
c) Korean War
d) Iraq War
e) Black War
Correct Awnser : b
Who led Britain during much of World War II and famously gave the "Iron Curtain" Speech?
a) Robert Peel
b) Winston Churchill
c) Margaret Thatcher
d) William Gladstone
e) Neville Chamberlain
Correct Awnser : b
Queen Victoria ruled Britain during much of which century?
a) 1500s
b) 1600s
c) 1700s
d) 1800s
e) 1900s
Correct Awnser : d
Which Empire conquered Constantinople in 1453?
a) French
b) Han
c) Ottoman
d) British
e) Mali
Correct Awnser : c
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Which artifact was discovered in the Nile Delta in 1799 and led to the modern translation of
Egyptian hieroglyphs?
a) Rosetta Stone
b) Elgin Marbles
c) Lighthouse of Alexandria
d) Dome of the Rock
e) Pharaoh's Book
Correct Awnser : a
Eight communist states originally signed what 1955 agreement as a response to the creation of NATO?
a) Axis of Evil
b) Marxist Coalition
c) Warsaw Pact
d) The Commune
e) Alliance of Communist Brothers
Correct Awnser : c
The 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed assault on what island nation?
a) Greenland
b) Australia
c) Jamiaca
d) Cuba
e) Crete
Correct Awnser : d
What military leader during the English Civil War served as Lord Protector of England from 1653
to 1658?
a) Neville Chamberlain
b) John Wycliffe
c) Edward the Black
d) Bonnie Prince Charlie
e) Oliver Cromwell
Correct Awnser : e
"Glasnost" and "Perestroika" were reforms established by Mikhail Gorbachev in which
country?
a) Mexico
b) Israel
c) Germany
d) Soviet Union
e) Denmark
Correct Awnser : d
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Which Native American woman married John Rolfe and allegedly saved John
Smith's life?
a) Ada Deer
b) Sacagawea
c) Tecumseh
d) Pocahontas
e) Sarah Winnemucca
Correct Awnser : d
The notorious Salem, Massachusetts trials in the late 1600s primarily involved
accusations of what?
a) Drunkenness
b) Treason
c) Witchcraft
d) Theft
e) Adultery
Correct Awnser : c
What was the first military engagement in the Revolutionary War?
a) Lexington and Concord
b) Yorktown
c) Gettysburg
d) Fort Ticonderoga
e) March to the Sea
Correct Awnser : a
Eli Whitney invented which device?
a) Telegraph
b) Telephone
c) Mechanical Repear
d) Cotton Gin
e) Tobacco Hinge
Correct Awnser : d
Which future President led the siege of Vicksburg during the Civil War?
a) John Pemberton
b) Jefferson Davis
c) William Sherman
d) Ulysses S. Grant
e) Robert E. Lee
Correct Awnser : d
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Which President sent federal troops to enforce desegregation of Little Rock Central High School?
a) Franklin Roosevelt
b) Woodrow Wilson
c) Abraham Lincoln
d) Ronald Reagan
e) Dwight Eisenhower
Correct Awnser : e
Which group of people was granted the right to vote by the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment to the
Constitution?
a) Residents of Washington, DC
b) Criminals
c) Land-Owners
d) 18 Year Olds
e) Women
Correct Awnser : e
Japanese Americans were relocated where during World War II?
a) Concentration Camps
b) Internment Camps
c) Native American lands
d) Australia
e) Alaska
Correct Awnser : b
Which of the following was not a characteristic of Reconstruction?
a) Passage of the 13th and 14th Amendments
b) Broader equality for African-Americans
c) Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
d) Military Control of Southern States
e) Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
Correct Awnser : c
The actions of which person inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
a) Martin Luther King Jr.
b) Mary Louise Smith
c) Richard Nixon
d) Rosa Parks
e) Ralph Abernathy
Correct Awnser : d
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Which President commissioned the expedition of Lewis and Clark?
a) John Adams
b) Thomas Jefferson
c) James Madison
d) Andrew Jackson
e) Zachary Taylor
Correct Awnser : b
Brigham Young and Joseph Smith were leaders of which group of people?
a) Mormons
b) Native Americans
c) Baptists
d) Gold Miners
e) Michiganders
Correct Awnser : a
Which Space Shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launching on January 28th, 1986?
a) Apollo 11
b) Enterprise
c) Atlantis
d) Discovery
e) Challenger
Correct Awnser : e
The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the end of what type of government in the Soviet Union?
a) Socialism
b) Communism
c) Monarchy
d) Capitalism
e) Democracy
Correct Awnser : b
What island off the coast of Chile is well-known for its large Moai head statues?
a) Binga Island
b) Rococo Island
c) Easter Island
d) Banana Island
e) Galen Island
Correct Awnser : c
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Martin Luther and his Nintety-Five Theses prompted the start of which religious movement?
a) Modern Spiritual Revival
b) Protestant Reformation
c) Catholic Counter-Reformation
d) Second Great Awakening
e) Crusades
Correct Awnser : b
Which country's monarchs sent Christopher Columbus on his trip across the Atlantic?
a) Italy
b) France
c) England
d) Portugal
e) Spain
Correct Awnser : e
Edward Jenner and Jonas Salk were both known for creating types of what?
a) Oscar-winning Dramas
b) Transportation Devices
c) Pasta Dishes
d) Sports
e) Disease Vaccinations
Correct Awnser : e
The Boxer Rebellion took place in which nation?
a) Colombia
b) Yugoslavia
c) Nigeria
d) China
e) India
Correct Awnser : d
Mahatma Gandhi led which country to Independence in the 1940s?
a) Japan
b) Canada
c) Saudi Arabia
d) Portugal
e) India
Correct Awnser : e
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What pivotal Supreme Court case desegregated schools in the United States in 1954?
a) Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka Kansas
b) Plessy vs. Ferguson
c) Roe vs. Wade
d) Marbury vs. Madison
e) Schenk vs. United States
Correct Awnser : a
Jimmy Hoffa was the head of what kind of organization in the 1950s?
a) state legislature
b) prison
c) labor union
d) mining company
e) manufacturing corporation
Correct Awnser : c
Who is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms?
a) Benjamin Harrison
b) Rutherford B. Hayes
c) Martin Van Buren
d) Grover Cleveland
e) Franklin Roosevelt
Correct Awnser : d
Leon Czolgosz is known for assassinating what US President in Buffalo in 1901?
a) James Garfield
b) William McKinley
c) Teddy Roosevelt
d) William Howard Taft
e) Chester A. Arthur
Correct Awnser : b
Which early 20th century Amendment to the Constitution, partnered with the Volstead Act, led to bootlegging
and an increase in corruption and organized crime?
a) 2nd Amendment
b) 13th Amendment
c) 18th Amendment
d) 24th Amendment
e) 43rd Amendment
Correct Awnser : c
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Name the British commander who surrendered to the Continental Army at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781?
a) Benedict Arnold
b) Lord Charles Cornwallis
c) Sir William Howe
d) George Rodney
e) Bannister Tarleton
Correct Awnser : b
What NASA mission was the first to land on the moon in July 1969?
a) Apollo 4
b) Apollo 11
c) Mercury 7
d) Gemini 10
e) Gemini 365
Correct Awnser : b
What American novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to expose the horrors of slavery?
a) The Whipping Post
b) There and Back Again
c) Birmingham Blues
d) Uncle Tom's Cabin
e) East of Eden
Correct Awnser : d
What Chairman of the Chinese Communist party estbalished the Great Leap Forward and wrote the Little Red
Book?
a) Shah Jahan
b) Mao Zedong
c) Hirohito
d) Chang Kai-Shek
e) Attilla the Hun
Correct Awnser : b
The Opium Wars were a series of conflicts primarily between which two nations?
a) Egypt and Israel
b) Russia and Kenya
c) United States and Canada
d) Panama and France
e) Britain and China
Correct Awnser : e
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The sinking of what ocean liner in 1915 eventually led to the entry of the United States into World War I?
a) Andrea Doria
b) Lusitania
c) Queen Mary
d) Titanic
e) U.S.S. Maine
Correct Awnser : b
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
a) Benjamin Franklin
b) Thomas Jefferson
c) George Washington
d) Ronald Reagan
e) Andrew Jackson
Correct Awnser : b
What French military commander was an instrumental help to the Americans during the War for
Independence?
a) Thaddeus Kosciusko
b) Marquis de Lafayette
c) Casmir Pulaski
d) Baron von Steuben
e) Baron von Stein
Correct Awnser : b
What time period was characterized by massive railroad and canal expansion in the
United States?
a) early 1600s
b) early 1700s
c) early 1800s
d) early 1900s
e) late 1900s
Correct Awnser : c
What president outlined the Fourteen Points and proposed the creation of the League of Nations after World
War I?
a) Andrew Johnson
b) Theodore Roosevelt
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) Calvin Coolidge
e) Herbert Hoover
Correct Awnser : c
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Which of the following events happened during the presidency of George Washington?
a) passage of the Glass Act
b) Gunpowder Plot
c) signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
d) Whisky Rebellion
e) death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Correct Awnser : d
The Golden Spike of Promontory, Utah celebrated the 1869 completion of what?
a) US-Mexican Border
b) Erie Canal
c) Transcontinental Railroad
d) Mt. Rushmore
e) Great Wall of China
Correct Awnser : c
The Iran-Contra Affair, the ending of the Cold War, and the development of Supply-Side Economics all
occurred during which President of the 1980s?
a) John Kennedy
b) Richard Nixon
c) Gerald Ford
d) Ronald Reagan
e) Bill Clinton
Correct Awnser : d
Who served as the first Vice President of the United States?
a) Benjamin Franklin
b) John Adams
c) Thomas Jefferson
d) Alexander Hamilton
e) James Madison
Correct Awnser : b
Shays' Rebellion exposed the weakness of what American government document that was eventually replaced
by the Constitution?
a) Papers of Principle
b) Mayflower Compact
c) Articles of Confederation
d) Declaration of the Rights of Man
e) Union Plan of 1756
Correct Awnser : c
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What Roman General is famous for retiring to a small farm after defeating rival tribes in the 5th century BC?
a) Cincinnatus
b) Fabias Maximus
c) Ricimer
d) Titus Vinius
e) Julius Caesar
Correct Awnser : a
The WWII invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany in 1941 was known as Operation _____.
a) Overlord
b) Sea Lion
c) Torch
d) Downfall
e) Barbarossa
Correct Awnser : e
What historical region, bounded by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, is indicated in this map?
a) Abyssinia
b) Mallorca
c) Iberia
d) Mesopotamia
e) Patagonia
Correct Awnser : d
Which of these is most responsible for the dip in European
population in the 14th Century indicated in this graph?
a) Climate Change
b) Widespread Disease
c) Intense Warfare
d) Famine
e) Deadly Storms
Correct Awnser : b
This political cartoon from 1892 depicting English financier Cecil Rhodes is a commentary on what European
movement?
a) Imperialism
b) Progressivism
c) Catholicism
d) Mormonism
e) Existentialism
Correct Awnser : a
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This map depicts the spread of what religion by the year
750?
a) Buddhism
b) Mormonism
c) Islam
d) Shinto
e) Confuscianism
Correct Awnser : c
This pie chart depicts the percentage of casualties by nations in the Central Powers during what
conflict?
a) World War I
b) World War II
c) Cold War
d) Vietnam War
e) War of Spanish-Succession
Correct Awnser : a
The territory in green was added to the United States in…
a) 1583
b) 1776
c) 1803
d) 1895
e) 1949
Correct Awnser : c
The building shown here was the site of a major 1836 battle. In what present-day
US state is it located?
a) New Hampshire
b) Alaska
c) Iowa
d) Utah
e) Texas
Correct Awnser : e
The rise in the graph seen in the pink shaded region can most likely be credited
to…
a) Voyages of Columbus
b) Death of Abraham Lincoln
c) The Oregon Trail
d) September 11th Attacks
e) The Great Depression
Correct Awnser : e
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The inaccurate newspaper headline seen here is famously referring to a closely
contested…
a) Card Game
b) Boxing Match
c) Military Battle
d) Footrace
e) Presidential Election
Correct Awnser : e
This map shows European colonization of the Americas in 1750. What
European nation claimed the territory in green?
a) England
b) South Korea
c) Germany
d) Spain
e) Russia
Correct Awnser : d
The invasion of Normandy during World War II is also known as what day?
a) D-Day
b) Victory Day
c) Norman Conquest Day
d) V-J Day
e) Memorial Day
Correct Awnser : a
What historical figure famously "crossed the Rubicon" and was murdered on the Ides of March?
a) Abraham Lincoln
b) Julius Caesar
c) Atilla the Hun
d) Ronald Reagan
e) Alexander the Great
Correct Awnser : b
Alexander the Great was the leader of which kingdom?
a) Moldovan
b) Mongol
c) Mayan
d) Macedonian
e) Miluvian
Correct Awnser : d
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Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge in what country?
a) China
b) Cambodia
c) Czech Republic
d) Chile
e) Colombia
Correct Awnser : b
Who was the King of England during the American Revolution?
a) William III
b) George III
c) John
d) Richard II
e) Richard III
Correct Awnser : b
The Silk Road connected northern Africa and the Mediterranean with which other location?
a) Southern Africa
b) Central America
c) Australia
d) Scandinavia
e) Asia
Correct Awnser : e
Hernán Cortés conquered which empire?
a) Ottoman
b) Mayan
c) Mughal
d) Aztec
e) Roman
Correct Awnser : d
Which country is the home of Nelson Mandela and was once segregated with its policy of apartheid?
a) South Africa
b) Portugal
c) Congo
d) Japan
e) Australia
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