Super quiz

Subject: HISTORY

(e.g., Who did President Trump select as his vice president? Answer: Mike Pence.)

Freshman level

1. Who surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865?

2. In 2014. Janet Yellen became the first woman to hold this position.

3. Thurgood Marshall is recognized as the first what?

Graduate level

4. What parent company owned the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary?

5. Who were the opponents during the Punic Wars?

6. This broadcast journalist was called “the most trusted man in America.”

Ph.D. level

7. Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus is better known as ___.

8. This explorer claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France.

9. He named his revolutionary group the 26th of July Movement.

Answers:

1. Robert E. Lee.

2. Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve.

3. African-American member of the Supreme Court.

4. Cunard Line.

5. Rome and Carthage.

6. Walter Cronkite.

7. Caligula.

8. La Salle (Robert de La Salle).

9. Fidel Castro.