2023 International History Olympiad - Hexathlon Answer Key

Audio Exam Answers Tiebreaker – 1,366 words

Section 1
1. (name) – Sojourner Truth 6. (group) – Union Army (accept United States Army)

2. (cause) – women’s rights (accept equivalents) 7. (conflict) – American Civil War

3. (language) – Dutch 8. (person) – Abraham Lincoln

4. (institution) – slavery 9. (person) – Oprah Winfrey

5. (religion) – Christianity 10. (program) – daytime talk show

Section 2
1. (person) – Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi 6. (specific philosophy) – satyagraha

2. (city) – New Delhi, India 7. (campaign) – Quit India

3. (position) – lawyer (accept equivalents) 8. (good) – salt

4. (country) – South Africa 9. (year) – 1947

5. (group) – Indian National Congress 10. (person) – Nathuram Godse

Section 3
1. (person) – King George VI 6. (condition) – stutter

2. (person) – Neville Chamberlain 7. (film) – The King’s Speech

3. (country) – Nazi Germany 8. (actor) – Colin Firth

4. (country) – Poland 9. (award) – Best Actor

5. (conflict) – World War II 10. (award) – Best Picture

Section 4
1. (time of day) – midnight 6. (position) – president

2. (country) – Ghana 7. (cause) – Pan-Africanism

3. (country) – United Kingdom (accept Great Britain) 8. (organization) – Organization of African Unity

4. (person) – Kwame Nkrumah 9. (person) – Jawaharlal Nehru

5. (position) – prime minister 10. (country) – India

Section 5
1. (type of speech) – inaugural address 6. (event) – Cuban Missile Crisis

2. (person) – John Fitzgerald Kennedy (accept JFK) 7. (place) – Rice University

3. (person) – Richard Nixon 8. (place) – Moon

4. (conflict) – Cold War 9. (city) – Dallas, Texas

5. (event) – Bay of Pigs invasion 10. (person) – Lyndon Baines Johnson

2023 Hexathlon Map Exam Key

Section 1
1. Carthage 8. Cannae

2. Numidia 9. Athens

3. Saguntum 10. Pergamon

4. Gauls 11. Seleucid Empire

5. Lake Trasimene 12. Jerusalem

6. Rome 13. Ptolemy

7. Illyria 14. Alexandria

Section 2
1. Liberia 7. Darfur

2. Ghana 8. Ethiopia

3. Dahomey 9. Belgium

4. Lagos 10. Tanganyika

5. Mansa Musa 11. Madagascar

6. Libya 12. Cecil Rhodes

Section 3
1. Dolores 7. Suriname

2. Mexico City 8. Christ the Redeemer

3. British Honduras 9. Potosi

4. Haiti 10. Stanley

5. Dominican Republic 11. War of the Pacific

6. petroleum or oil 12. Machu Picchu

Section 4
1. Franz Joseph I 7. Mt. Everest

2. Hanseatic League 8. Srivijaya Empire

3. Ottomans 9. Shanghai

4. Baghdad 10. Genghis Khan

5. Kuwait 11. Iwo Jima

6. Kashmir 12. John Moresby

2023 Hexathlon Picture Exam Key Tiebreaker – 1,626,000 m2

Section 1
1. (building) – Pantheon 6. (civilization) – Ancient Greeks

2. (city) – Rome 7. (function) – Christian church (DO NOT accept temple)

3. (person) – Marcus Agrippa 8. (person) – Victor Emmanuel II

4. (emperor) – Hadrian 9. (country) – Italy

5. (type of column) – Corinthian 10. (material) – concrete

Section 2
1. (location) – Robben Island 6. (policy) – apartheid

2. (country) – South Africa 7. (person) – F.W. de Klerk

3. (city) – Cape Town 8. (political party) – African National Congress (or ANC)

4. (person) – Nelson Mandela 9. (person) – Jacob Zuma

5. (type of prize) – Peace 10. (organization) – United Nations (accept UNESCO)

Section 3
1. (party) – Nazi (accept National Socialist) 6. (person) – Albert Speer

2. (city) – Nuremberg 7. (venue name) – Light

3. (person) – Adolf Hitler 8. (person) – Leni Riefenstahl

4. (person) – Joseph Goebbels 9. (city) – Berlin

5. (position) – Propaganda 10. (person) – Jesse Owens

Section 4
1. (person) – George W. Bush 6. (country) – Iran (accept countries in any order)

2. (type of speech) – State of the Union 7. (country) – Iraq (accept countries in any order)

3. (event) – September 11 (accept 9/11) 8. (country) – North Korea (accept countries in any order)

4. (place) – World Trade Center 9. (term) – ‘axis of evil’

5. (place) The Pentagon 10. (person) – Colin Powell

Section 5
1. (site) – Angkor Wat 6. (century) – 12th

2. (town) – Krong Siem Reap 7. (king) – Suryavarman II

3. (country) - Cambodia 8. (empire) – Khmer

4. (religion) - Hinduism 9. (religion) – Buddhist (accept appropriate word forms)

5. (god) - Vishnu 10. (mountain) – Mount Meru

2023 Hexathlon Crossword Key
Across Down
1. Edward the Black Prince and Joan of Arc were successful 1. Common name for a king of England
commanders during this conflict. ANS: HENRY
ANS: HUNDREDYEARSWAR
2. First name of US First Lady between 1981 and 1989
7. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew this northern Indian dynasty in ANS: NANCY
the 4th century BCE
ANS: NANDA 3. Via Appia was one of these
ANS: ROAD
8. The Xinhai Revolution ended its last imperial dynasty
ANS: CHINA 4. Last name of Nixon White House Counsel John or actor James
who died tragically in 1955
10. Title of a 2017 Christopher Nolan film and the starting point for ANS: DEAN
Operation Dynamo in World War II
ANS: DUNKIRK 5. Emperor Ashoka issued ‘Major’ and ‘Minor’ edicts inscribed on
this
13. This toy has existed for over 2500 years ANS: ROCK
ANS: YOYO
6. Movement that opposed the Red Bolsheviks
16. French philosopher and mathematician Descartes ANS: WHITE
ANS: RENE
9. Nickname of the 16th US president
18. Toubkal in Morocco is this range’s highest peak ANS: ABE
ANS: ATLAS
11. Loyalist paramilitary formed in 1971 in Northern Ireland during
20. Egyptian territory occupied by Israel after the Six-Day War the Troubles
ANS: SINAI ANS: UDA

22. Legendary American frontiersman who blazed the Wilderness 12. Major opponent of 11 Down; sought to end British rule in
Road into Kentucky Northern Ireland
ANS: BOONE ANS: IRA

23. First president of Indonesia 14. Site of the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific Theater of
ANS: SUKARNO WW2 and of Kadena Air Force Base
ANS: OKINAWA
24. Modern European city referred to as ‘Lutetia’ in Caesar’s The
Gallic Wars 15. Clan of Nobunaga, the first ‘Great Unifier’ of Japan
ANS: PARIS ANS: ODA

26. UK Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007 16. Studio of King Kong and Citizen Kane, partly owned by Joseph
ANS: BLAIR P. Kennedy
ANS: RKO
28. Tadeusz Koś ciuszko and Józef Piłsudski for example
ANS: POLES 17. Site of a 1937 massacre of Chinese civilians by the Imperial
Japanese Army
29. Nickname of US president Kennedy, or first name of authors ANS: NANJING (accept NANKING)
London or Kerouac
ANS: JACK 19. Site of Edo Castle
ANS: TOKYO
31. Serpentine race in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions, or a 3rd
and 4th century dynasty in north central India 21. Successor to 35 Across; continuously occupied for nearly 23
ANS: NAGA years
ANS: ISS
32. French royal house ‘restored’ between 1814 and 1830
ANS: BOURBON 22. First name of 2016 Nobel Literature Prize winner Dylan or
reggae singer Marley
35. Russian space station that predated 21 Down ANS: BOB
ANS: MIR
25. Used for writing on papyrus in Ancient Egypt as early as the 26th
36. One of 5 beach landing sites on D-Day or Nebraska city century BCE
ANS: OMAHA ANS: INK

39. Voivode of Moldavia in the 15th century who defeated Matthias 27. First name of Cambodian general and two-time prime minister
Corvinus at the Battle of Baia Nol, who fled to the US in 1975
ANS: STEPHENTHEGREAT ANS: LON

28. Yasser Arafat was chairman of this group from 1969 to 2004
ANS: PLO

29. Name of two Stuart monarchs of England

ANS: JAMES

30. Pioneering Polish-French physicist and two-time winner of the

Nobel Prize
ANS: CURIE

32. Composer of the Brandenburg Concertos and Goldberg

Variations
ANS: BACH

33. US presidents George H.W. and George W.

ANS: BUSH

34. Internet country code for Norway

ANS: NO

37. Term to describe pilots like Manfred von Richthofen, Adolphe

Pégoud, and Eddie Rickenbacker
ANS: ACE

38. Abbreviation for multilateral treaty that regulates trade in

conventional weapons or an American telecommunications
company
ANS: ATT

2023 Hexathlon Multiple Choice Answer Key

1. A 21. D
2. A 22. D
3. D 23. D
4. D 24. C
5. A 25. C
6. C 26. B
7. A 27. B
8. B 28. B
9. B 29. D
10. C 30. B
11. B 31. C
12. D 32. C
13. A 33. D
14. B 34. C
15. A 35. A
16. A 36. B
17. B 37. C
18. D 38. C
19. D 39. B
20. A 40. B
2023 Hexathlon 4321 Answers

1. ANS: Mormons (accept Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

2. ANS: Vicksburg
3. ANS: Marbury v. Madison
4. ANS: Clement Attlee
5. ANS: Scotland
6. ANS: Malta
7. ANS: Kyiv (accept Kiev)
8. ANS: Yugoslavia
9. ANS: Tang Dynasty
10. ANS: Meiji Restoration
11. ANS: Ho Chi Minh
12. ANS: Mehmed (accept Mehmet)
13. ANS: Armenians
14. ANS: Uruguay
15. ANS: Inca Empire (accept Incan Empire; or Tawantinsuyu)
16. ANS: Quebec
17. ANS: Great Zimbabwe
18. ANS: Muammar Gaddafi (or Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi)
19. ANS: Roman Walls
20. ANS: Australian Aboriginals