National History Bee Test Review

American billionaire Andrew Carnegie made most of his fortune by building a company that produced and sold what commodity?

• coal
• steel
• copper
• oil

In the 16th Century, the Ottomans ruled a vast empire from what modern-day nation?

• Turkey
• France
• Russia
• Spain

Which of these regions was united by the Mauryan Empire in the 4th Century BC?

• China 
• India
• Egypt
• West Africa

Free Soil, Whig, Know-Nothing and Bull Moose are all...

• Cities in California
• Baseball teams
• U.S. political parties
• Civil Rights protest groups

What name is given to the natural disaster that occurred in the Great Plains in the 1930s that saw the destruction of millions of acres of farmland?

• Dirt Drought
• Dust Bowl
• Great Burn
• Crop Crash

King Richard I and Saladin fought in what religious conflict?

• 100 Years War
• Third Crusade
• English Civil War
• Second Opium War

The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees which right?

• Right to bear arms
• Right to a jury trial
• Right to free speech
• Right to privacy

In 1955, Rosa Parks protested segregation by refusing to give up her seat on a bus in what city?

• Montgomery
• Charlotte
• Nashville
• Atlanta

The treaty that ended World War I was signed at what palace built by French king Louis XIV?

• Bastille
• Versailles
• Chartres
• Amiens

What it the traditional religion of Japan?

• Shinto
• Islam
• Hinduism
• Buddhism