Academic Team
Fast Facts
Social Studies Vol. 1
What Every GREAT Quick Recall
Player Should Know!
1
The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry)..
Founded Germany (First Reich) ......
Amendment 18 deals with...
Aviation......
Positivism or Sociology......
Skepticism ......
Pantheism ......
Sikhism.....
Atheism ......
History....
Largest sea battle in World War II
Amendment 25 deals with...
Largest sea battle in World War I
Burned Washington DC in War of 1812
Largest air battle of World War II
Modern education......
Girl scouts......
Christian Science Movement....
Women’s’ Suffrage Movement......
Salvation Army......
Behaviorism or Operant Conditioning......
Imprinting......
Pragmaticism......
N.A.A.C.P......
Amendment 27 deals with...
Hierarchy of questioning....
Hierarchy of needs…
Oliver Hudson Kelley
Henry I
Prohibition
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Auguste Comte
David Hume
Baruch Spinoza
Guru Nanak
Thomas Paine
Herodutus
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Presidential Succession
Battle of Jutland
General Robert Ross (British)
Battle of Midway
John Dewey
Juliette Low
Mary Baker Eddy
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Catherine and William Booth
B.F. Skinner
Konrad Lorenz
John Dewey
W.E.B. Du Bois
Limits on Congressional Raises
Jean Piaget
Abraham Maslow
Taxonomy of knowledge...
A. F. L. (American Federation of Labor)
C. I. O. (Congress of Industrial Organizations)
A. F. L. - C. I. O.
Psychoanalysis......
Atomic Bomb (Manhattan Project)...
Hydrogen Bomb......
Phenomenology......
Birth control movement ....
Ku Klux Klan......
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Jazz......
Navy......
Economics (wrote Wealth of Nations)
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
First African American Governor
Created Uncle Sam......
Basketball......
Baseball......
Hull House......
Article I (the Preamble) deals with...
Founder of modern ethology (the study of comparative animal behavior)
Classical Conditioning (conditioned reflex)
Experimental Psychology...
Gestalt Psychology (Individuals)
Existentialism......
Modern calendar......
Benjamin Bloom
Samuel Gompers
John L. Lewis
George Meany
Sigmund Freud
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Edward Teller
Edmund Husserl
Margaret Sanger
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Roger Baldwin
W.C. Handy
John Paul Jones
Adam Smith
Frances Willard
Douglas Wilder (governor of Virginia)
James Flagg
Dr. James Naismith
Abner Doubleday
Jane Adams
The Legislature
Konrad Lorenz
Ivan Pavlov
Wilhelm Wundt
Max Wertheimer
Soren Kierkegaard
Pope Gregory XIII
Opposed Freud and gave us alternative theory of the libido - will to live was stronger than sexual drive -- he gave us the words introverts and extroverts
First Female Doctor
First Computer Programmer
Last Major Civil War Battle
Founded Boys Scouts of America
First Organization for maintaining World Peace
Established the League of Nations
Founded Fast Food Industry (McDonalds)
Founded Pakistan
First American killed in Vietnam
Founded Zionism (in Israel)
Last Queen of Hawaii
Article 2 (Preamble) deals with...
Founded Oceanography
Largest River in the World
Founded Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
Battle where Stonewall Jackson got his nickname
Confederate general who said, “There is
Jackson, standing like a stone wall!”
Founded African Methodist Episcopal Church
Founded and led Tuskegee Airman - a unit of black airmen that fought in World War II
Longest River in World (Africa)
Founder and First President of Czechoslovakia
Founded Utah
Discovered the Pacific Ocean
Carl Jung
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
Augusta Ada Byron
Battle of Perryville (Kentucky)
Robert Baden-Powell
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points
Ray Kroc
Mohammed Jinnah
Robert Capa
Theodor Herzl
Queen Liliuokalani
The Executive Department
Matthew Maury
Amazon River (in South America)
Booker T. Washington
First Battle of Bull Run
Bernard Elliott Bee
Richard Allen
Gen. Benjamin Davis Jr.
Nile River
Tomas Masaryk
Brigham Young
Vasco Balboa
Only U.S. President from Kentucky
Oldest Town in Kentucky
First Governor of Kentucky
Founded Reform Party
Founded first American Bank - Bank of North America
Invented Telegraph
Gave us Arizona and New Mexico
First ship to sail around the world
Founded American Red Cross
Article 3 (Preamble) deals with...
Founded Socialist Party in U.S. and ran for presidency from prison; also founded
I.W.W. (International Workers of the World)
Famous charter drawn up against King
John I
First Tudor Monarch in England
First Stuart King of England
First President elected in Hungary
First Christian King in Hungary
Designed First skyscraper Homes Insurance Building (Chicago)
Wrote work that inspired our U.S. Government’s System (3 Branches exec., jud., and legis.)
First woman to reach North Pole (on foot)
Founded Greenland
First to reach South Pole
Founded first steel company in USA and used the Bessemer Process to make steel
Bought Carnegie Steel in 1901 to form US Steel
First to FLY over the South Pole
Zachary Taylor (12th President)
Harrodsburg
Isaac Shelby
Ross Perot
Robert Morris
Samuel Morse
Gadsden Purchase
Vittoria (Magellan’s ship)
Clara Barton
The Judicial Department
Eugene V. Debbs
Magna Carta (1215)
Henry VII
James I
Arpad Goncz
Stephen
William L. Jenney
Montisquieu
Ann Bancroft
Eric the Red
Roald Amundsen
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Richard E. Byrd
He owned the Pullman Company (first OIL company)
Imaginary line in America that divided land between Spain and Portugal
1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain that established the “Line of Demarcation” in America
Gave us Texas
Founded (Started) British Imperialism
First Computer (built by Grace Hopper and Howard Aiken)
First Billion Dollar Corporation (Andrew Carnegie)
Founded U S Steel (later consolidated with)
Founded Standard Oil - government passes Sherman Anti-Trust Act to stop his monopoly
He drilled the first oil well in the U.S.
Location of the first oil well...
Article 6 (Preamble) deals with...
Founded First American Monopoly -American Fur Company
Founded INTEL Corporation
Founded MICROSOFT
World’s First Civilization
First Black Female to hold a CABINET Position
First country to outlaw slavery
First U.S. Secretary of Treasury
Commanded the Texas forces against the Mexicans at the Alamo
First man killed in Boston Massacre
Famous British General of War of 1812, called the “Hero of Upper Canada”
Andrew Carnegie
Line of Demarcation
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Benjamin Disraeli
MARK I
United States Steel Corporation
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Edwin Drake
Titusville, Pennsylvania
Role of National Government
John J. Astor
Robert Noyce
Bill Gates (and Paul Allen)
Mesopotamia
Patricia Harris
France
Alexander Hamilton
William B. Travis
Crispus Attucks (an escaped slave from the South)
General Isaac Brock
Oldest American University
Oldest European University
Founded First Anti-Slavery Newspaper called The Liberator
Founded KODAK
Unified Russia into one country
First Romanov Czar of Russia
Last Czar of Russia (he was a Romanov)
Founded General Motors Corporation
First Christian emperor of Russia
Last Rurik to rule Russia
First Empress of Russia
Article 7 (Preamble) deals with...
First to reach the North Pole
Made First solo flight over North Pole
Lowest spot in the oceans (in Pacific)
Founded Greek philosophy (he even believed that magnets had souls)
First known Greek philosopher and scientist
First great philosopher who, because he was “accused” of corrupting the youth of Athens was forced to drink hemlock unless he renounced his claims; he didn’t, drank hemlock, and died
Method of teaching by asking questions
Founded Quakers or Society of Friends
Founded metaphysics - a part of philosophy that seeks to explain our existence
Founded Judaism
Founded anthropology
Founded and First Ruler of China
Harvard
University of Bologna (Italy)
William Lloyd Garrison
George Eastman
Peter I (Peter the Great)
Michael
Nicholas II
William Durant
Vladimir I
Fedor I
Catherine I (Romanov) – later was Catherine II or Catherine the Great
Ratification
Robert E. Peary
Charles Blair
Mariana Trench (lowest explored part of this trench is “Challenger Deep”)
Thales
Thales
Socrates
Socratic Method
George Fox
Heraclitus
Akibu ben Joseph
Johann Blumenbach
Kublai Khan (Mongol)
Founder of Humanism - living according to our desires and needs only
First Mongol Emperor of India
Founded Israel
Founded Plymouth Colony and was Captain of the Mayflower
Founded Stoicism - branch of philosophy that states that nature is governed by laws
Gave us a paradox that says if you get half closer to something repeatedly you will never theoretically reach it (founded concept of limit); he also formulated a paradox dealing with Achilles and a tortoise: Achilles runs ten times faster than the tortoise but the tortoise has a head-start of ten units so Achilles will, theoretically, never pass the tortoise
First President of Turkey
Founded Jamestown
Founded Roanoke Island (Lost Colony)
First Governor of Roanoke Island who sailed of Virginia Dare) back to England for supplies and, when he returned, the colonists had vanished
Boy born at sea while on the Mayflower
Boy born on the Mayflower while it was in harbor, off the coast of Cape Cod
Two leaders of the Pilgrims who established the Plymouth Colony
Wrote History of Plymouth Plantation
Ship that originally planned to sail to America with the Mayflower, but was found unseaworthy
“Plantation covenant” signed on November 21, 1620 by all 41 of the men aboard the Mayflower
First Sociologist
Designed City Hall in New York
Petrarch
Baber
Golda Meir
John Carver
Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Elea
Kemal Attaturk
John Smith
Sir Walter Raleigh
John White (father of Virginia Dare)
Oceanus Hopkins
Peregrine White
William Bradford and William Brewster
William Bradford
Speedwell
Mayflower Compact
Emile Durkheim
Pierre L’Enfant
Planned the city of Washington DC- dismissed by George Washington (reasons unknown)
After Lincoln was assassinated, his body lay in the rotunda of this building as tens of thousands of Americans joined in a mournful farewell
Built Washington DC from memory of Pierre L’ Enfant’s Plans and built first American Clock
First Kentuckian Justice on Supreme Court
First ruler of Sweden
Current ruler of Sweden
First Democratic Presidential Candidate and our first Democratic President
Liberty Party’s First Candidate for President
Independent Party’s First Presidential Candidate
First and Second (Last) Progressive Party’s Candidates to run for President
Only Progressive Party President
First Anti-Federalist President
First Whig President
First Republican Presidential Candidate - was beaten by Democrat James Buchanan (15th)
DixieCrats only Presidential Candidate – beaten in 1948 by Harry S Truman (33rd President)
Party in the 1850’s that opposed immigration and Roman Catholicism
Largest Dam (on Yangtzee River in China)
First Black Female U.S. Senator....
Pope that abolished the Jesuits
He re-established the Jesuits
Governor of New Netherlands....
Pierre L’Enfant
New York’s City Hall
Benjamin Banneker
Fredrick Vinson
Gustavus I
Charles VI (Gustavus Dynasty)
Andrew Jackson (7th President)
James G. Birney
George C. Wallace
Robert LaFollette (first) and Henry C. Wallace (second)
Theodore Roosevelt (26th President)
Thomas Jefferson (3rd President)
William Henry Harrison (9th President)
John C. Freemont
Strom Thurmond
American Party or Know-Nothing Party
Three Gorges Dam
Carol Moseley Braun
Pope Clement XIV
Pope Pius VII
Peter Minuit
Unified Italy....
Famous German Port....
Amendment 2 (Bill of Rights) deals with...
Famous Russian Port....
First Victim of Cold War, a Baptist missionary killed by Chinese Communists in 1945
Anticommunist organization founded in US by Robert Welch; it is organized into local chapters and has campaigned for US withdrawal from the United Nations, repeal of the income tax and social security laws, and other right-wing causes
Founded John Birch Society
First English Child Born in America
Only Medal of Honor awarded that was not war related
President that awarded Charles Lindbergh this medal
First woman to cross Atlantic- did it on May 21, 1932...
First Stuart King of Scotland....
Amendment 2 (Bill of Rights) deals with...
Built First hospital in South Africa
First to translate Bible into English
New Deal ……
Square Deal ......
Fair Deal......
Great Society ......
New Frontier (Passed Alliance for Progress)
Designed Vietnam War Memorial
Lead Gunpowder Plot of 1605- tried to assassinate King James I
First King of France
Count Cavour under Victor Emmanuel II
Hamburg
Right to Bear Arms
Kiev
John Birch
John Birch Society
Robert Welch, Jr.
Virginia Dare
Charles Lindbergh
Calvin Coolidge
Amelia Earheart
Robert II
Quartering of Troops
Albert Schweitzer
John Wycliffe
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Maya Lin
Guy Fawkes
Pharamond
First Carolinian King of France and father of Charlemagne
Amendment 4 (Bill of Rights) deals with...
Louis XIII’s Minister or Cardinal
French Calvinist Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries
Wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion
Religious and political civil wars fought in Francefrom 1562 to 1598
Leader of the Huguenots in the French Wars of Religion
Established legal toleration of Calvinism in Roman Catholic France and ended the Wars of Religion
Mass killing of French Protestants (Huguenots) by Catholics
Date St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre began
Authorized the Edict of Nantes on April 13, 1598
Ordered the death of all Huguenots
Catherine de Medicis’ son who, at his mother’s instigation, gave the order for the death of all Huguenot leaders
Catherine de Medicis’ famous daughter
Wife of Henry IV or Henry of Navarre
Henry IV and Marie de Medici’s famous child
Wife of Louis XIII
Anne of Austria’s father
The hated cardinal of Louis XIII who actually ruled France
Regent that ruled France after Louis XIII’s death in 1643
Louis XIV’s Minister
Louis XIV’s nickname
Pepin III (or Pepin the Short) (751-768)
Search and Seizure
Cardinal Richelieu
Huguenots
John Calvin
Wars of Religion
Gaspard de Coligny
Edict of Nantes
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
August 24, 1572
King Henry IV
Catherine de Medicis
King Charles IX
Marie de Medici
Marie de Medici
Louis XIII
Anne of Austria
King Phillip III or Spain
Cardinal Richelieu
Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin
Cardinal Mazarin
The Sun King
French Minister of finance under Louis XIV who was a leading exponent of French mercantilism
Series of attacks against the crown that made Louis XIV realize as a child that he needed to be a great leader
Wife of Louis XIV
Youngest King of France
French judge-administrator who wanted to succeed Cardinal Mazarin as chief minister; his irregular financial methods and personal loans from the treasury helped Colbert to discredit him and Louis XIV imprisoned him
Series of major revolts in France from 1648-1653 during the minority of Louis XIV
Name given to the First Fronde
Name given to the Second Fronde
Louis XV’s famous foreign policy
Derogatory name for French Protestants
Louis XV’s famous prime minister and also Louis XV’s tutor when he was younger
Three wars that Louis XV involved France in
Louis XV’s famous prophecy
Meaning of the word “deluge”
Famous 1733-1735 War
Outcome of the War of Polish Succession
Famous 1740-1748 War
1756-1763 war in which France lost all its possessions
Louis XVI’s wife
Mother and Father of Marie Antoinette
Amendment 5 (Bill of Rights) deals with...
Famous 1789-1799 “civil war” in France
Jean Baptiste Colbert
The Fronde
Maria Theresa
Louis XIV
Nicolas Fouquet
The Fronde
Parliamentary Fronde
Princely Fronde
Secret Diplomacy
Huguenots
Andre Fleury
War of Polish Succession, War of Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years War
“After me, the deluge.”
Downfall
War of Polish Succession
Poland loses Lorraine to France
War of Austrian Succession
Seven Years War
Marie Antoinette
Maria Theresa (Sutria) and Francis I (Holy Roman Emperor)
Rights of Accused Persons
French Revolution
First Capetian King of France
First Valois King of France
First Bourbon King of France
Ruler of the First Empire of France
Defeated Napoleon I and Restored Bourbons
Only Ruler of France from the House of Orleans (1830 - 1848)
Famous 1950’s President of France
Amendment 6 (Bill of Rights) deals with...
President of France Until 1994
Current President of France
First Habsburg to be Crowned Holy Roman Emperor and also King of Germany in 1400’s
First King of Prussia
Last Danish King to rule Norway
King of Iraq before Sadam Hussein
Famous Louisiana Senator who was assassinated in 1961.....
Leader of Aztecs (Mexico)
Greatest Mayan City (Mesoamerica)
Greatest Aztec City
Amendment 7 (Bill of Rights) deals with...
Greatest Incan City (Peru)
Defeated Aztecs (Mexico)
Defeated Mayans
Defeated Incas
First state to abolish slavery
First Roman Emperor
Hugh Capet (987-996)
Phillip VI (1328-1350)
Henry IV of Navarre (1589-1610); Followed by Louis XIII, XIV, XV, and XVI who ruled throughout 1600’s and 1700’s
Napoleon I (Ruled from 1804-1815)
Louis XVIII (1814-1824)
Louis Philippe
Charles de Gaulle
Right to Speedy Public Trial
Francois Mitterrand
Jacques Chirac
Fredrick III
Fredrick I
Fredrick VI (1784-1808)
King Fisol
Huey P. Long
Montezuma
Tikal
Tenochtitlan (oldest city in the world)
Trial by Jury in Civil Cases
Machu Picchu (Capital was Cuzco)
Hernando Cortez
Francisco de Montejo
Francisco Pissarro
Vermont
Octavian
Founded Rome
Printing From Moveable Type
First Tang Emperor in China
First Sung Emperor in China
First Sui Emperor in China
Founded Islam
Founded Texas
Amendment 9 (Bill of Rights) deals with...
Founded Pennsylvania
Founded Georgia
Founded Modern Warfare
Founded Ottoman Empire
Leaders of the Protestant Reformation:
Germany
SwitzerlandFranceScotland England
Founded First U. S. Textile Mill
Founded Baptist Movement