Loaded Questions 2/28/22 - World History
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1. While on a 1966 trip to China, the government of what first president of Ghana was overthrown by the National Liberation Council, stemming from the national cocoa board refusing to raise prices after crop failure?
2. In the Indiana caste system, what caste is at the top, consisting of priests and the academic class? This rank is above Kshatriyas, which are rulers and administrators.
3. The Thermidorian Reaction was a reaction to what group, led by Robespierre from 1793 to 1794, which carried out policy using the Jacobin club?
4. Santa Anna led resistance against what man, who served as the first emperor of Mexico from 1822 to 1823? Before his emperorship, he led the Creole Revolt and answered the "Cry of Dolores" by Father Hidalgo in 1810 by leading the Army of the Three Guarantees.
5. Name the two politicians that received the most number of votes in the 1990 Peruvian general election for president.
6. What founder of the Women's Social and Political Union is considered one of the most prominent British suffrage advocates? She led hunger strikes is prison, which led to Parliament to pass the Cat and Mouse Act, which released hunger strikers from jail, get better, and then arrest them again. The UK granted women voting rights in 1918.
7. Oracle bones are found at the excavations of the ruins of Yin, near modern day Anyang, dating to what first Chinese dynasty, from 1600 to 1046 BC?
8. What Dutch explorer first discovered New Zealand in 1642 on his ship the Heemskerck? While exploring Golden Bay, he was attacked by Maori canoes.
9. What do the letters ICAN represent in the name of the organization that won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize?
10. Caning was famously a punishment issued during the leadership of what first Prime Minister of Singapore, from 1959 to 1990?
11. What ancient Lebanese people who built Petra has a name that means "the men who dig for water"? This kingdom encompassed Hegra and Damascus at its height.
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1. While on a 1966 trip to China, the government of what first president of Ghana was overthrown by the National Liberation Council, stemming from the national cocoa board refusing to raise prices after crop failure? Kwame Nkrumah
2. In the Indiana caste system, what caste is at the top, consisting of priests and the academic class? This rank is above Kshatriyas, which are rulers and administrators. Brahmins
3. The Thermidorian Reaction was a reaction to what group, led by Robespierre from 1793 to 1794, which carried out policy using the Jacobin club? Committee of Public Safety
4. Santa Anna led resistance against what man, who served as the first emperor of Mexico from 1822 to 1823? Before his emperorship, he led the Creole Revolt and answered the "Cry of Dolores" by Father Hidalgo in 1810 by leading the Army of the Three Guarantees. Agustin de Iturbide
5. Name the two politicians that received the most number of votes in the 1990 Peruvian general election for president. Alberto Fujimori, Mario Vargas Llosa
6. What founder of the Women's Social and Political Union is considered one of the most prominent British suffrage advocates? She led hunger strikes is prison, which led to Parliament to pass the Cat and Mouse Act, which released hunger strikers from jail, get better, and then arrest them again. The UK granted women voting rights in 1918. Emmaline Pankhurst
7. Oracle bones are found at the excavations of the ruins of Yin, near modern day Anyang, dating to what first Chinese dynasty, from 1600 to 1046 BC? Shang
8. What Dutch explorer first discovered New Zealand in 1642 on his ship the Heemskerck? While exploring Golden Bay, he was attacked by Maori canoes. Abel Tasman
9. What do the letters ICAN represent in the name of the organization that won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize? International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
10. Caning was famously a punishment issued during the leadership of what first Prime Minister of Singapore, from 1959 to 1990? Lee Kuan Yew
11. What ancient Lebanese people who built Petra has a name that means "the men who dig for water"? This kingdom encompassed Hegra and Damascus at its height. Nabataeans