What was the name of the 1858–1859 gold rush centered on present-day Denver and the Colorado Front Range?
Answer
Pike's Peak Gold Rush
89685 Intermediate Trivia Questions
89685 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which 1877 strike became the first nationwide labor stoppage in U.S. history?
Answer
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Which 1874 battle in the Texas Panhandle was a major defeat for the Comanche, Kiowa, and allied Plains peoples?
Answer
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
What was the name of the 1868 treaty that created a reservation for the Lakota in present-day South Dakota?
Answer
Treaty of Fort Laramie
At which Montana site did Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce surrender in 1877?
Answer
Bear Paw Mountain
Which 1864 Colorado event became one of the most notorious attacks on Cheyenne and Arapaho people?
Answer
Sand Creek massacre
Which 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case struck down state poll taxes in elections?
Answer
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections
Which federal court case ended legal segregation on Montgomery buses in 1956?
Answer
Browder v. Gayle
Which federal agency did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 create to investigate voting discrimination?
Answer
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Which civil rights group organized the 1964 Freedom Summer voter-registration campaign in Mississippi?
Answer
Council of Federated Organizations
Which Viking-era seafarer told King Alfred about sailing around the North Cape?
Answer
Ohthere of Hålogaland
Which Norse poet and historian wrote Heimskringla, a history of Norway’s kings?
Answer
Snorri Sturluson
Which Viking-era Norwegian town was known in Old Norse as Niðaróss?
Answer
Trondheim
Which Viking settlement in Greenland was known as the Western Settlement?
Answer
Vestribyggð
On what date did Apollo 16 launch from Kennedy Space Center for its lunar mission?
Answer
April 16, 1972
Who was Apollo 14's lunar module pilot during its landing in the Fra Mauro region?
Answer
Edgar Mitchell
Who piloted Apollo 16’s command module while two crewmates worked on the lunar surface?
Answer
Thomas Mattingly
What was Apollo 15’s lunar rover officially called?
Answer
Lunar Roving Vehicle
Who was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 16?
Answer
Charles Duke
What was the name of Apollo 10’s command module?
Answer
Charlie Brown
Which Berlin Wall crossing was known as Checkpoint Bravo?
Answer
Dreilinden
What force guarded the Berlin Wall for East Germany?
Answer
Grenztruppen of the GDR
Who was West Berlin’s mayor when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961?
Answer
Willy Brandt
Which major Berlin railway station was divided by the Berlin Wall and became a crossing point between East and West?
Answer
Friedrichstraße station
Which Berlin church was demolished by East German authorities in 1985 because it stood in the Wall’s border strip?
Answer
Church of Reconciliation
Which museum opened in 1963 to document escape attempts across the Berlin Wall?
Answer
Checkpoint Charlie Museum
Which Soviet leader was in power when the Berlin Wall opened in November 1989?
Answer
Mikhail Gorbachev
Which East German border crossing connected West Berlin with East Germany near the A2 autobahn?
Answer
Checkpoint Alpha
Which Nazi camp was the main destination for deportees from the Drancy camp in France?
Answer
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Which Nazi official coordinated the deportation of European Jews during the Holocaust?
Answer
Adolf Eichmann
Which 1944 diary was written by Anne Frank while she hid from Nazi persecution in Amsterdam?
Answer
The Diary of a Young Girl