Question: Which constellation lies between the Centaur's foot and the Southern ecliptic pole?
Answer: Chamaeleon

Question: What city built the first underground train network?
Answer: London

Question: What city ceased to be the capital of Japan?
Answer: Kyoto

Question: What canal opened in Egypt?
Answer: Suez Canal

Question: Who had a tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare?
Answer: Alice

Question: What company technically owned about 1/3 of the area of Canada?
Answer: Hudson's Bay Company

Question: What service used horses to carry mail across the American west?
Answer: Pony Express

Question: What country was unified under King Victor Emmanuel II?
Answer: Italy

Question: What derogatory term applied to Yankees who moved to the South for business reasons?
Answer: Carpetbagger

Question: What did the U.S. buy from Russia for just two cents an acre?
Answer: Alaska

Question: What mountain on the Swiss / Italian border was climbed for the first time?
Answer: The Matterhorn

Question: What was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War?
Answer: Battle of Gettysburg

Question: In what country did 20 million die after a man proclaimed himself as the brother of Jesus?
Answer: China

Question: What railroad was completed by a golden spike in Utah?
Answer: Transcontinental Railroad

Question: What South American country lost 60% of its population in a devastating war?
Answer: Paraguay

Question: Who invented the practical light bulb?
Answer: Thomas Edison

Question: What sound-playing device was invented by the same person?
Answer: Phonograph

Question: What period of history in the American South came to an end?
Answer: Reconstruction

Question: What became the world's first national park?
Answer: Yellowstone

Question: What city was briefly ruled by a socialist "commune" of the people?
Answer: Paris

Question: What kingdom, led by Otto von Bismarck, united Germany under its leadership?
Answer: Prussia

Question: What Jewish-born Prime Minister led the United Kingdom?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: What art movement was exemplified by Claude Monet?
Answer: Impressionism

Question: What native kingdom did Britain fight a war against in modern-day South Africa?
Answer: Zulu Kingdom

Question: Who did H.M. Stanley presumably find in the Africa wilderness?
Answer: Dr. David Livingstone

Question: Who was W.S. Gilbert's songwriting partner?
Answer: Arthur Sullivan

Question: What artist lost an ear?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

Question: What statue was given to the United States by France?
Answer: Statue of Liberty

Question: What tower, built for the World's Fair, became the tallest man-made structure?
Answer: Eiffel Tower

Question: What serial killer killed prostitutes in Whitechapel, London?
Answer: Jack the Ripper

Question: What Paris cabaret was famous for the can-can?
Answer: Moulin Rouge

Question: In what city was the world's first skycraper built?
Answer: Chicago

Question: What character made his first appearance in the story "A Study in Scarlet"?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question: What became the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What author wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?
Answer: Mark Twain

Question: What U.S. state was opened up to a land rush?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: What Apache leader finally surrended after 30 years of fighting?
Answer: Geronimo

Question: What Indonesian volcano erupted - killing thousands and lowering temperatures worldwide?
Answer: Krakatoa

Question: What was invented by Karl Benz?
Answer: Automobile

Question: In what country did "bushranger" Ned Kelly meet his end?
Answer: Australia

Question: What "nerve tonic" was created by John Pemberton of Atlanta, Georgia?
Answer: Coca Cola

Question: What was Western showman William Cody better known as?
Answer: Buffalo Bill

Question: What city was the Eastern terminus of the Orient Express?
Answer: Constantinople

Question: What character was created by Bram Stoker?
Answer: Dracula

Question: What style of dance was invented in Argentina and Uruguay?
Answer: Tango

Question: What Christmas ballet was written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky?
Answer: The Nutcracker

Question: What type of baskets were originally used in basketball?
Answer: Peach Baskets

Question: What woman was accused of killing her parents with an axe?
Answer: Lizzie Borden

Question: What famous hotel in Paris opened? ( The only reason not to stay there was if you couldn't afford it )
Answer: Hôtel Ritz

Question: What future President led a group of soldiers called the Rough Riders?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question: To what Pacific island did Paul Gauguin move?
Answer: Tahiti

Question: What composer wrote his most famous march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" ?
Answer: John Philip Sousa

Question: What crime was Alfred Dreyfus accused of committing?
Answer: Espionage

Question: What gold rush happened in Canada?
Answer: Klondike Gold Rush

Question: What new invention was first tested near Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina?
Answer: Airplane

Question: What queen died after a reign of 63 years?
Answer: Queen Victoria

Question: Fill in the blank: Speak softly, and carry a big _____?
Answer: Stick

Question: What art movement was started by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso?
Answer: Cubism

Question: What American city was struck by a major earthquake?
Answer: San Francisco

Question: On what river was the Aswan Dam built?
Answer: Nile

Question: What tire company created a restaurant guide in an effort to promote driving?
Answer: Michelin

Question: What civil rights organization was founded by W.E.B. DuBois?
Answer: Naacp

Question: What destination was almost reached by explorer Robert Peary?
Answer: The North Pole

Question: What theory of spacetime was formulated by Albert Einstein?
Answer: Special Relativity

Question: What musical genre was exemplified by Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer"?
Answer: Ragtime

Question: Who was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz?
Answer: William McKinley

Question: Who began writing "In Search of Lost Time"?
Answer: Marcel Proust

Question: What city was devastated by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
Answer: Naples

Question: What style of variety show was popular?
Answer: Vaudeville

Question: In what modern-day country was the Second Boer War fought?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Who wrote the novel "Kim"?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: What ship famously sank after hitting an iceberg?
Answer: RMS Titanic

Question: What epidemic killed more than 3% of the world's population?
Answer: Spanish Flu

Question: What group of people were the victims of genocide in the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: Armenians

Question: What communist faction came to power in Russia?
Answer: Bolshevik

Question: Who was President of the United States for most of the decade?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: What ballet by Igor Stravinsky shocked audiences when it premiered in 1913?
Answer: The Rite of Spring

Question: What Native American athlete won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon?
Answer: Jim Thorpe

Question: What movie by D.W. Griffith glorified the Ku Klux Klan?
Answer: The Birth of a Nation

Question: What yellow-brown chemical weapon was used?
Answer: Mustard Gas

Question: What oil baron became the first billionaire?
Answer: John D. Rockefeller

Question: What Frenchwoman won a Nobel Prize for chemistry?
Answer: Marie Curie

Question: What was the nickname of pilot Manfred von Richthofen?
Answer: The Red Baron

Question: What British adventurer fought in the Arab Revolt?
Answer: T.E. Lawrence

Question: Who was Chicago's most notorious gangster?
Answer: Al Capone

Question: Who flew the Spirit of St. Louis?
Answer: Charles Lindbergh

Question: What was F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel?
Answer: The Great Gatsby

Question: What escape artist died after being punched in the stomach?
Answer: Harry Houdini

Question: What trumpeter was known as "Satchmo"?
Answer: Louis Armstrong