Academic Team Trivia 2

  1. What Carthaginian leader’s soldiers killed 80,000 Romans in a three-hour battle, in 216 B.C.?
  1. Who survived an assassination attempt by a man claiming to be to be King Richard, in 1835?
  1. Whose tomb was meticulously recreated in the pyramid-shaped Luxor casino in Las Vegas?
  1. What postmaster founded the Pennsylvania Gazette and then banned competing newspapers from using the mail system?
  1. What Mississippi city was dubbed “The Gibraltar of the Confederacy” during the Civil War?
  1. What African region, which means “the West”, includes Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.
  1. What Latino guerrilla reportedly heckled his executioner with: “Shoot, coward, you’re only going to kill a man”?
  1. What did the body of water Balboa named El Mar de Sur, or “The South Sea,” come to be called?
  1. Whose response to a 1958 FBI report documenting the existence of the Mafia in the U.S. was the simple one word statement: “Baloney”?
  1. What U.S. President was the first American to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
  1. Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are associated with Nebuchadnezzar?
  1. What network of dirt roads and trails carried supplies from North Vietnam to the Vietcong?
  1. Who was the yougest President in U.S. history?

  1. Hannibal’s. Fought 80,000 men, with an army of 50,000. Hanibal destroys Romans by encircling with cavalry. Capua became Hannibal's capital in Italy. The successful commander was thirty years old when he entered Capua, seated on his last surviving elephant.
  1. Andrew Jackson. Richard Lawrence, a deranged housepainter, attempted to kill the president. Told interrogators that he was King Richard III. When Lawrence attacked, the ammo fell out of his primary gun before he shot. He grabbed his back up weapon and the ammo also slid out.
  1. Tutankhamen. Tut’s tomb was the most famous tomb, not for the King’s greatness or power, but because it is most intact tomb. While rebuilt in Luxor, tomb is not in a Pyramid in Egypt.
  1. Ben Franklin. The Pennsylvania Gazette was banned from delivery by previous postmaster, Andrew Bradford due to Bradford’s competition with the Gazette. Franklin bribes the riders to carry his paper. When Bradford is ousted, Franklin takes his place and tables are turned.
  1. Vicksburg. Located on a high bluff overlooking a horseshoe-shaped bend in the river which made it almost impossible to approach by ship. Jefferson Davis: "Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together." Blocked Union navigation down the Mississippi.
  1. Maghreb. Many port cities, once controlled by Phoenicians, then Romans. Later under Arab control Islam is dominant as are trades of gold, Ivory, and slaves from Sahel. Part of Ottoman Empire, then ruled by France and Spain.
  1. Che Guevara. Argentinian Marxist revolutionary, major player in Cuban Revolution. Partly responsible for Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis. Left Cuba to help revolutions in Congo and Bolivia. Time named Top 100 most influential of all time. Executed in Bolivia.
  1. Pacific Ocean. Spanish explorer, founded settlement in Colombia, first permanent on mainland Americas. Trekked across isthmus of Panama in 1513. Magellan renamed Pacific Ocean due to its calm waters.
  1. J. Edgar Hoover. First director of the FBI. Used office to harass activists and compile info on politicians and use illegal methods to obtain evidence. Long 40+ years as controversial director of FBI. Denied the existence of Mafia even in the face of evidence to contrary.
  1. Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy offered mediation, summoning representatives of both Russia and Japan to Portsmouth, New Hampshire in the summer of 1905. Due to his work in bringing an end to this war fought in East China, Teddy Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906.
  1. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Built by Chaldean king, Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC to please his wife, Amytis of Media, who longed for the plants of her homeland, Persia.
  1. Ho Chi Minh Trail. This complex maze of truck routes, paths for foot and bicycle traffic, and river transportation systemswas named after North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh by America. Travels through Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
  1. Teddy Roosevelt. JFK was the youngest president (43) to be elected, Roosevelt (42) was the youngest president. He was not elected, but gained his presidency upon death of McKinley.