Intramural Bee – Written Test SAMPLE
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1.
The Cayuga, Seneca, and Mohawk were part of what Native American confederacy of upstate New York?
a. Mohicans
d. Powhatan
b. Iroquois
e. Wampanoag
c. Shawnee
2. Pocahontas supposedly saved the life of what captured leader of the Virginia colony in December 1607?
a. John Rolfe
d. Patrick Henry
3.
c. Golden Hind
b. England
e. Sweden
c. Spain
Founder of Philadelphia, William Penn, belonged to what religious group, known as the Society of Friends?
a. Baptists
d. Methodists
6.
b. Susan Constant
e. Half Moon
The first European settlement on Manhattan island was built by the West India Company of which nation?
a. The Netherlands
d. France
5.
c. Edward Wingfield
William Bradford signed a "compact" aboard what ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth?
a. Speedwell
d. Mayflower
4.
b. Christopher Newport
e. John Smith
b. Mennonites
e. Puritans
c. Quakers
The 1741 sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was written by what Great Awakening preacher?
a. George Whitefield
d. Charles Chauncy
b. William Miller
e. George Fox
c. Jonathan Edwards
7. A 1765 congress met in New York to protest what tax passed by the British Parliament?
a. Stamp Act
d. Navigation Act
b. Intolerable Act
e. Sugar Act
c. Molasses Act
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8.
What battle fought in New York resulted in France's alliance with the American colonists?
a. Battle of Bunker Hill
d. Battle of Saratoga
9.
b. Battle of Germantown
e. Battle of Monmouth
c. Battle of Guilford Courthouse
What plantation outside Charlottesville, Virginia, was the home of Thomas Jefferson?
a. Ashland
d. Mount Vernon
b. Monticello
e. Montpelier
c. Green Spring
10. Alexander Hamilton was a leader of what party that opposed the Democratic-Republicans?
a. Whig Party
d. Federalist Party
b. Constitutional Union Party
e. American Party
c. Anti-Masonic Party
11. Meriwether Lewis and what man jointly led an expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase?
a. Zebulon Pike
d. Stephen Long
b. William Clark
e. John C. Fremont
c. Kit Carson
12. Andrew Jackson won what War of 1812 battle which was fought after the treaty for the war was signed?
a. Battle of Horseshoe Bend
d. Battle of New Orleans
b. Battle of Fort McHenry
e. Battle of Lundy's Lane
c. Battle of Buena Vista
13. What free state was admitted to the Union in 1820 under the Missouri Compromise?
a. Iowa
d. Vermont
b. Maine
e. Michigan
c. Wisconsin
14. Which abolitionist hoped to inspire a slave revolt by raiding the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859?
a. William Lloyd Garrison
d. John Brown
b. Frederick Douglass
e. William Wilberforce
c. Elijah Lovejoy
15. President Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation five days after what battle that ended the
Confederate invasion of Maryland?
a. Battle of Antietam
d. Battle of the Wilderness
b. Battle of Chancellorsville
e. Second Battle of Bull Run
c. Battle of Gettysburg
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16. What Union general promised to "make Georgia howl" on his 1864 March to the Sea?
a. Ulysses S. Grant
d. William Tecumseh Sherman
b. Philip Sheridan
e. George G. Meade
c. George McClellan
17. What Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln was derided for his "folly" in negotiating the purchase of Alaska?
a. Salmon P. Chase
d. Edwin Stanton
b. William Seward
e. Andrew Johnson
c. Daniel Webster
18. What activist arrested for voting in the election of 1872 appeared on a 20th-century dollar coin?
a. Lucretia Mott
d. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b. Susan B. Anthony
e. Lucy Stone
c. Sojourner Truth
19. Geronimo was a leader of what Native American people's resistance to the U.S. Army?
a. Pueblo
d. Modoc
b. Apache
e. Cheyenne
c. Sioux
20. The Rough Riders stormed the San Juan Heights during which 19th-century war?
a. Civil War
d. Black Hawk War
b. Mexican War
e. Spanish-American War
c. French and Indian War
21. Around which two rivers did civilization first develop in Mesopotamia?
a. Tigris and Euphrates
d. Tigris and Indus
b. Nile and Amazon
e. Yangtze and Yellow
c. Nile and Danube
22. Due to a process dating back to the 2nd century BC, which country is credited with inventing paper?
a. China
d. Japan
b. India
e. Zimbabwe
c. Egypt
23. Which Greek god of music, the sun, and poetry was the twin brother of the goddess Artemis?
a. Zeus
d. Hades
b. Poseidon
e. Orpheus
c. Apollo
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24. Which of the following was a Roman emperor, famous for building a wall in Great Britain?
a. Alexander
d. Socrates
b. Vergil
e. Attila the Hun
c. Hadrian
25. After the Western Roman Empire fell, which empire, based at Constantinople, became more prominent?
a. Mogul
d. Celtic
b. Byzantine
e. Incan
c. Persian
26. Which title was used by early Muslim rulers who spread Islam throughout much of the Middle East?
a. Consul
d. Caliph
b. Satrap
e. Kitab
c. Viceroy
27. Which South American civilization developed in the Andes Mountains until it was crushed by Pizarro?
a. Aztec
d. Toltec
b. Mayan
e. Incan
c. Olmec
28. Which city was founded in the middle of a lagoon by refugees fleeing marauding barbarian tribes?
a. Paris
d. Moscow
b. Tehran
e. Atlanta
c. Venice
29. Japanese author Lady Murasaki is most famous for which work of literature?
a. Hamlet
b. Memoirs of a Geisha
b. The Tale of Genji
e. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
c. The Emperor Jones
30. Which of the following languages did NOT derive from Proto Indo-European?
a. Latin
d. Hebrew
b. Sanskrit
e. Armenian
c. Greek
31. Which man won the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and was soon thereafter declared King of England?
a. Charles the Bald
d. Suleiman the Magnificent
b. Dennis the Dull
e. Sebastian of Switzerland
c. William the Conqueror
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32. In what present-day country would you find the former Viking settlement of Vinland?
a. Denmark
d. Norway
b. Iceland
e. Burundi
c. Canada
33. Which Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
a. Raphael
d. Michelangelo
b. Leonardo da Vinci
e. Giotto
c. Donatello
34. Which explorer led the first European expedition to reach the southern tip of Africa?
a. Vasco de Gama
d. Bartholomeu Dias
b. Prester John
e. Christopher Columbus
c. Marco Polo
35. Which Chinese dynasty, whose name is used to refer to the largest ethnic group in China today, ruled at the time
of Jesus Christ’s birth?
a. Han
d. Ming
b. Qing
e. Mongol
c. Manchu
36. Which queen of England supported Francis Drake and saw her navy defeat the Spanish Armada?
a. Anne
d. Elizabeth I
b. Victoria
e. Elizabeth II
c. Mary
37. Which 17th century war began with the Defenestration of Prague and devastated much of present-day Germany?
a. Six Day War
d. Eighty Years War
b. Seven Years War
e. Hundred Year War
c. Thirty Years War
38. What is Martin Luther famous for?
a. Inventing the printing press
d. His epic invasion of Latvia
b. Discovering Brazil
c. Become the first German pope
e. Beginning the Protestant Reformation
39. Which building did the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan build for his wife?
a. Angkor Wat
d. Taj Mahal
b. Peace Pagoda
e. Shea Stadium
c. Kaaba
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40. Which tsar founded a city on an arm of the Baltic Sea and helped westernize Russia?
a. Ivan the Terrible
d. Alexander III
b. Boris Godunov
e. Nicholas II
c. Peter the Great
41. Which ruler of Austria found her claim to the throne under threat during the War of the Austrian Succession?
a. Catherine the Great
d. Maria Theresa
b. Catherine of Aragon
e. Marie Antoinette
c. Maria Montessori
42. Which German philosopher wrote the controversial works Beyond Good and Evil & Thus Spake Zarathustra?
a. Immanuel Kant
d. Gottfried Leibniz
b. Thomas Hobbes
e. Friedrich Nietzsche
c. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
43. On which continent was Simon Bolivar most active in campaigning for independence from Spain?
a. Australia
d. South America
b. Asia
e. Europe
c. Africa
44. Which British novelist chronicled the oppressive conditions of the Industrial Revolution in works such as Oliver
Twist and Hard Times?
a. William Shakespeare
d. Charles Darwin
b. John Milton
e. Charles Dickens
c. Jeremy Bentham
45. Which African people defeated British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana during a 19th century war?
a. Masai
d. Kikuyus
b. Ethiopians
e. Liberians
c. Zulus
46. John D. Rockefeller founded what corporation whose monopolistic practices were denounced by muckrakers?
a. U.S. Steel
d. Standard Oil
b. Northern Securities
e. Pennsylvania Railroad
c. AT&T
47. What British ocean liner was sunk by a German submarine, hastening American entry into World War I?
a. Olympic
d. Mauretania
b. Lusitania
e. Sussex
c. Titanic
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48. Which Republican president's administration was marred by the Teapot Dome scandal?
a. Warren G. Harding
d. Herbert Hoover
b. William Howard Taft
e. Ulysses S. Grant
c. Woodrow Wilson
49. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealed Prohibition?
a. 14th Amendment
d. 19th Amendment
b. 16th Amendment
e. 21st Amendment
c. 18th Amendment
50. The Social Security Act and the FDIC were part of what policy intended to fight the Great Depression?
a. New Frontier
d. Square Deal
b. Great Society
e. New Freedom
c. New Deal
51. What American aviation pioneer disappeared en route to Howland Island while flying across the Pacific?
a. Richard Byrd
d. Eddie Rickenbacker
b. Amelia Earhart
e. Charles Lindbergh
c. Orville Wright
52. Which American general promised that "I shall return" after the Japanese conquest of the Philippines?
a. Omar Bradley
d. Dwight Eisenhower
b. George Patton
e. Douglas MacArthur
c. John Pershing
53. The Allied invasion of June 6, 1944 landed at five beaches in what region of northern France?
a. Pas-de-Calais
d. Normandy
b. Brittany
e. Gascony
c. Picardy
54. Which B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan?
a. Enola Gay
d. Bockscar
b. Lady Be Good
e. Memphis Belle
c. The Ruptured Duck
55. The European Recovery Program to rebuild after World War II was named for which U.S. Secretary of State?
a. Cordell Hull
d. George Marshall
b. Dean Acheson
e. John Foster Dulles
c. James Byrnes
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56. The "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was written by what civil rights activist?
a. Ralph Abernathy
d. Rosa Parks
b. Malcolm X
e. Medgar Evers
c. Martin Luther King, Jr.
57. On what island did the Soviet Union install nuclear missiles in 1962?
a. Hispaniola
d. Barbados
b. Cuba
e. Puerto Rico
c. Jamaica
58. Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein helped break what Nixon administration scandal?
a. Ballinger-Pinchot
d. Iran-Contra
b. Whitewater
e. Watergate
c. Credit Mobilier
59. What Republican president defeated Walter Mondale in the Election of 1984?
a. Gerald Ford
d. Bob Dole
b. Ronald Reagan
e. Jack Kemp
c. George H.W. Bush
60. What leader was captured in 2003 when American troops found him in a spider hole near his hometown of Tikrit?
a. Osama bin Laden
d. Mohammed Omar
b. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
e. Muammar Qaddafi
c. Saddam Hussein
61. Which two countries fought a war in the early 20th century that included the Battle of Tsushima Strait?
a. Russia and Japan
d. Japan and China
b. Korea and China
e. Japan and Korea
c. China and Vietnam
62. Which scientist discovered Polonium and Radium, but later died from radiation sickness?
a. Marie Curie
d. Niels Bohr
b. Albert Einstein
e. Edward Teller
c. Hans Castorp
63. Which treaty dealt with Germany’s need to pay reparations at the end of World War I?
a. Treaty of Ghent
d. Treaty of Verdun
b. Treaty of Dover
e. Treaty of Versailles
c. Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
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64. What man, inspired by Thoreau and Tolstoy, practiced non-violent resistance to British control of India?
a. Emperor Akbar
d. V.S. Naipaul
b. Manmohan Singh
e. Chandragupta Maurya
c. Mahatma Gandhi
65. In which city did the 1936 Summer Olympics take place, where Jesse Owens upstaged Adolf Hitler?
a. Munich
d. Warsaw
b. Paris
e. Berlin
c. Frankfurt
66. Which singer was not one of the Beatles?
a. Ringo Starr
d. Paul McCartney
b. Mick Jagger
e. John Lennon
c. George Harrison
67. Which rebel group waged a decades-long insurgency in Sri Lanka?
a. Jacksonville Jaguars
d. Colombo Cobras
b. Lhasa Lions
e. Tamil Tigers
c. Zanzibar Zebras
68. Which country, recently in the news due to a financial crisis, changed its currency from the drachma to the euro?
a. Spain
d. Finland
b. Italy
e. Greece
c. Ireland
69. Which woman became the first woman to be elected the head of state of an African country?
a. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
d. Wangari Maathai
b. Winnie Mandela
e. Zine el-Abidine ben Ali
c. Miriam Makeba
70. Which country won the 2010 soccer World Cup, defeating the Netherlands in the final?
a. China
d. Germany
b. USA
e. Spain
c. France
Tiebreaker Fill-in-the-Blanks
1. How long was the life of the Roman Empire (Augustus to Romulus Augustulus)?______503___________________
2. How many Union soldiers were killed at the Battle of Antietam? ___________________2108__________________
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ANSWER KEY
1. b
2. e
3. d
4. a
5. c
6. c
7. a
8. d
9. b
10. d
11. b
12. d
13. b
14. d
15. a
16. d
17. b
18. b
19. b
20. e
21. a
22. a
23. c
24. c
25. b
26. d
27. e
28. c
29. b
30. d
31. c
32. c
33. d
34. d
35. a
36. d
37. c
38. e
39. d
40. c
41. d
42. e
43. d
44. e
45. c
46. d
47. b
48. a
49. e
50. c
51. b
52. e
53. d
54. a
55. d
56. c
57. b
58. e
59. b
60. c
61. a
62. a
63. e
64. c
65. e
66. b
67. e
68. e
69. a
70. e
1. 503 years
2. 2108 men
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