Hist217 Quiz 5
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August 6, 2024
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Essay for Context
This assignment to be submitted by latest 11/03. Based on the essay given in textbook
chapter 5, answer these questions carefully.
Questions
1. Category: COLONIAL AMERICA
Question: In 1562 these French Protestants constructed Charlesfort on Parris Island,
South Carolina
Answer: the Huguenots
2. Category: AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES
Question: In 1778 this frontiersman & his band captured the British settlements of
Kaskaskia & Cahokia
Answer: George Rogers Clark
3. Category: NATIONAL FORESTS
Question: This South Dakota national forest surrounds Jewel Cave National Monument
& Mount Rushmore
Answer: Black Hills National Forest
4. Category: STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
Question: He rode west with Melchior & Balthasar
Answer: Gaspar
5. Category: POP MUSIC
Question: In 1997 Babyface tied this performer’s 1983 record of 12 Grammy nominations
in one year
Answer: Michael Jackson
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6. Category: ”HOW”s
Question: Stew with clams, potatoes & onions
Answer: chowder
7. Category: IT’S ”TEA” TIME
Question: Officially, the Disneyland ride often called ”The Teacups” is named for this
loony fictional festivity
Answer: the Mad Hatter’s tea party
8. Category: 19th CENTURY AMERICA
Question: Despite the 1837 capture of Osceola, the 2nd war named for this Indian tribe
lasted nearly 6 more years
Answer: Seminole
9. Category: THE SECOND...
Question: ...U.S. manned space program
Answer: the Gemini program
10. Category: CHARACTER REFERENCE
Question: Beatty is the captain of the firemen in this futuristic novel that’s been inflaming
readers since June 1953
Answer: Fahrenheit 451
11. Category: INTERNATIONAL BOOKS & AUTHORS
Question: Moses Isegawa’s 2000 novel ”Abyssinian Chronicles” is set partly in Kampala
in this, his native country
Answer: Uganda
12. Category: ”EAU” K
Question: It means ”water of” a certain German city
Answer: eau de Cologne
13. Category: SHAKESPEARE
Question: Expression ”O brave new world” comes from this last play Shakespeare wrote
alone
Answer: The Tempest
14. Category: TEEN CUISINE
Question: Some teens go crazy for Craisins, which are these Ocean Spray items, sweetened
& dried
Answer: cranberries
15. Category: ECONOMICS
Question: Joseph Schumpeter said this system is maintained by the ”creative destruction”
of innovators & entrepreneurs
Answer: capitalism
16. Category: WHAT WILL YOU BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Question: An old proverb says that from the little item seen <a href=”http://www.j-
archive.com/media/2011-07-06 J 25.jpg” target=” blank”>here</a> here grow great ones
of these trees
Answer: an oak
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17. Category: FORWARDS & BACK WORDS
Question: Shrek & ”therefore” (follows ”cogito”)
Answer: ogre & ergo
18. Category: FROST/NIXON
Question: In November 2008 Jefferson county native Jay Nixon was elected this state’s
governor
Answer: Missouri
19. Category: THINGS I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES
Question: A proper villain doesn’t simply try to shoot this British spy; he attacks him
with sharks, spiders or lasers
Answer: James Bond
20. Category: I NEED SOME COFFEE!
Question: If you know your java, you know this is the top coffee-growing country in Asia
Answer: Indonesia
