ECO112 Annotated Bibliography Winter 2019 6

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1. Which actress married Michael Douglas in 2000?

a. !Catherine ZetaJones
b. Ruth Jones
c. Pam Ferris
d. Sara Sugarman

2. When was Elvis Presley born?


a. !January 8, 1935
b. July 18, 1940
c. December 13, 1931
d. April 17, 1938

3. Which celebrity announced his presidency in 2015?


a. Leonardo DiCaprio
b. Miley Cyrus
c. !Kanye West
d. Donald Trump

4. What was the name of Marilyn Monroe039;s first husband?


a. !James Dougherty
b. Joe Dimaggio
c. Kirk Douglas
d. Arthur Miller

5. Tupac Shakur died due to complications from being stabbed in 1996.


a. !False
b. True

6. In which of these TV shows did the chef Gordon Ramsay not appear?
a. Ramsay039;s Kitchen Nightmares
b. Hotel Hell
c. !Auction Hunters
d. Hell039;s Kitchen

7. What year was O.J. Simpson aquitted of his murder charges?


a. 1991
b. !1995
c. 1996
d. 1992

8. In 2014, this new top 100 rapper who featured in quot;Computersquot; and
quot;Body Dancequot; was arrested in a NYPD sting for murder.
a. DJ Snake
b. Swae Lee
c. !Bobby Shmurda
d. Young Thug

1. Whose 2016 presidential campaign slogan was quot;Make America Great Againquot;?
a. Marco Rubio
b. Bernie Sanders
c. !Donald Trump
d. Ted Cruz

2. There was a satirical candidate named quot;Deez Nutsquot; running in the 2016 US
presidential elections.
a. False
b. !True

3. Which Native American tribenation requires at least one half blood quantum
equivalent to one parent to be eligible for membership?
a. Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
b. Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
c. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
d. !Yomba Shoshone Tribe

4. The 2014 movie quot;The Raid 2: Berandalquot; was mainly filmed in which Asian
country?
a. Malaysia
b. !Indonesia
c. Brunei
d. Thailand

5. How many people are in the U.S. House of Representatives?


a. !435
b. 415
c. 50
d. 260

6. Denmark has a monarch.


a. !True
b. False

7. What is the name of Niccolograve; Machiavelli039;s work that argued effective


leaders needed to crush their opponents at all costs?
a. !The Prince
b. Love039;s Labours Lost
c. Will to Power
d. The Rape of Lucrece

8. Which of the following United States senators is known for performing a 24hour
long filibuster?
a. Chuck Schumer
b. !Strom Thurmond
c. John Barrasso
d. Roy Blunt

9. George Clinton, Vice President of the United States 18051812, is an ancestor of


President Bill Clinton.
a. !False
b. True
10. Who succeeded Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union?
a. Boris Yeltsin
b. Leonid Brezhnev
c. !Nikita Khrushchev
d. Mikhail Gorbachev

11. What was the personal nickname of the 40th Governor of the US State Louisiana,
Huey Long?
a. The Hoot Owl
b. The Champ
c. !The Kingfish
d. The Oracle

12. In June 2017, Saudi Arabia and Egypt broke off ties with which country over its
supposed support for terrorism?
a. !Qatar
b. Russia
c. United States of America
d. Bahrain

13. What are the first names of the first father and son pair that were both Prime
Ministers of Canada?
a. Brian and Pierre
b. John and Louis
c. !Justin and Pierre
d. Brian and Justin

1. Which king was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485?


a. Edward V
b. James I
c. Henry VII
d. !Richard III

2. What historical event was Tchaikovsky039;s 1812 Overture referencing?


a. The American War of 1812
b. !The Napoleonic Wars
c. The Russian Revolution
d. The Charge of the Light Brigade Crimean War

3. Spain was formed in 1469 with the marriage of Isabella I of Castile and
Ferdinand II of what other Iberian kingdom?
a. !Aragon
b. Leoacute;n
c. Navarre
d. Galicia

4. The Herero genocide was perpetrated in Africa by which of the following colonial
nations?
a. Belgium
b. Britain
c. !Germany
d. France

5. Which infamous European traitor was known as quot;the last person to enter
Parliament with honest intentionsquot;?
a. Francis Tresham
b. !Guy Fawkes
c. Robert Catesby
d. Everard Digby

6. United States President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during his presidential
motorcade in Atlanta, Georgia on November 22nd, 1963.
a. !False
b. True

7. Which of the following snipers has the highest amount of confirmed kills?
a. !Simo Hauml;yhauml;
b. Vasily Zaytsev
c. Craig Harrison
d. Chris Kyle

8. Who was the leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ?


a. !Josip Broz Tito
b. Karadjordje Petrovic
c. Aleskandar Petrovic
d. Milos Obilic

9. Which day did World War I begin?


a. April 28
b. January 28
c. June 28
d. !July 28

10. The Bohemian Revolt 16181620 started after Protestants in Prague did what to
their Catholic Lords Regents?
a. Insulted their mothers
b. Hung them.
c. !Threw them out of a window
d. Locked them in stockades

11. After his loss at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to
which island?
a. !St. Helena
b. Corsica
c. Elba
d. Canary

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