Question: What was the most revered award that Doctor Who has won?

Answer: Best Drama Series

Answer: Best Drama Series

Answer: Best Drama Series


Question: How many BAFTA TV awards has Doctor Who won?

Answer: five

Answer: 25

Answer: five

Answer: five


Question: How many BAFTA Cymru Awards has Doctor Who received?

Answer: 25

Answer: 25

Answer: 25

Answer: 25


Question: In what year was Doctor Who rated the third greatest show of the 2000's?

Answer: 2009

Answer: 2009

Answer: 2009

Answer: 2009


Question: A Doctor Who show featuring Vincent Van Gogh was recognized by what award?

Answer: a Mind Award at the 2010 Mind Mental Health Media Awards

Answer: Mind Award

Answer: Mind Award

Answer: Mind Award


Question: How many times has Doctor Who won the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation?

Answer: six

Answer: six

Answer: six


Question: How many awards has Doctor Who been nominated for, over the years?

Answer: over 200

Answer: over 200

Answer: over 200


Question: How many awards has Doctor Who won?

Answer: over a hundred

Answer: over a hundred

Answer: over a hundred


Question: What Doctor Who actor won a Best Actor award in 2012?

Answer: Matt Smith

Answer: Matt Smith

Answer: Matt Smith


Question: What Doctor Who episode won a Hugo Award in 2010?

Answer: The Waters of Mars

Answer: The Waters of Mars

Answer: The Waters of Mars


Question: Which comedian did a parody where a Dalek appears?

Answer: Spike Milligan

Answer: Spike Milligan

Answer: Spike Milligan


Question: Who often plays the Fourth Doctor in comedy parodies?

Answer: Jon Culshaw

Answer: Jon Culshaw

Answer: Jon Culshaw


Question: What weapon does Spike Milligan use against a Dalek?

Answer: a soap sponge

Answer: a soap sponge

Answer: soap sponge


Question: Who is parodied on programs such as Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons?

Answer: Doctor Who fandom

Answer: Doctor Who

Answer: Doctor Who


Question: What series has an actor doing an impression of the Fourth Doctor?

Answer: BBC Dead Ringers

Answer: Dead Ringers

Answer: Dead Ringers


Question: What kind of university is the University of Chicago?

Answer: a private research university

Answer: private research

Answer: private research university

Answer: private research university


Question: When was the University of Chicago established?

Answer: 1890

Answer: 1890

Answer: 1890

Answer: 1890


Question: How many professional schools does the University of Chicago have?

Answer: seven

Answer: seven

Answer: seven

Answer: seven


Question: How many academic research divisions does the University of Chicago have?

Answer: four

Answer: four

Answer: four

Answer: four


Question: How many students does the University of Chicago have enlisted?

Answer: 5,000

Answer: around 15,000

Answer: 15,000

Answer: 15,000


Question: University of Chicago scholars played a major part in what development?

Answer: various academic disciplines

Answer: various academic disciplines

Answer: the world's first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction

Answer: the world's first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction


Question: Who helped develop the first man-made self-sustaining nuclear reaction?

Answer: Chicago's physics department

Answer: Chicago's physics department

Answer: Chicago's physics department

Answer: Chicago's physics department


Question: Where is the first man-made self-sustaining nuclear reaction located?

Answer: beneath the university's Stagg Field

Answer: Stagg Field

Answer: beneath the university's Stagg Field

Answer: beneath the university's Stagg Field


Question: What is the name of the largest university press in the U.S?

Answer: University of Chicago Press

Answer: University of Chicago Press

Answer: University of Chicago Press

Answer: University of Chicago Press


Question: In what year will the Barack Obama Presidential Center be finished?

Answer: 2020

Answer: 2020

Answer: 2020

Answer: 2020


Question: What society founded the University of Chicago?

Answer: the American Baptist Education Society

Answer: American Baptist Education Society

Answer: American Baptist Education Society

Answer: American Baptist Education Society


Question: What person helped establish the school with a donation?

Answer: John D. Rockefeller

Answer: John D. Rockefeller

Answer: John D. Rockefeller

Answer: John D. Rockefeller


Question: Who was the first president of the University of Chicago?

Answer: William Rainey Harper

Answer: William Rainey Harper

Answer: William Rainey Harper

Answer: William Rainey Harper


Question: What year was the university's first president given his position?

Answer: 1891

Answer: 1891

Answer: 1891

Answer: 1891


Question: What year was the first class taught at the University of Chicago?

Answer: 1892

Answer: 1892

Answer: 1892

Answer: 1892


Question: Who donated property to the University of Chicago?

Answer: Marshall Field

Answer: Marshall Field

Answer: Marshall Field

Answer: Marshall Field


Question: Who helped pay for the university's first building structure?

Answer: Silas B. Cobb

Answer: Silas B. Cobb

Answer: Silas B. Cobb

Answer: Silas B. Cobb


Question: What was the name of the first building built on campus grounds?

Answer: Cobb Lecture Hall

Answer: Cobb Lecture Hall

Answer: Cobb Lecture Hall

Answer: Cobb Lecture Hall


Question: How much did Silas B. Cobb pledge to the university?

Answer: $100,000

Answer: $100,000

Answer: $100,000

Answer: $100,000


Question: What is the name of the donor who helped establish the Hutchinson Commons?

Answer: Charles L. Hutchinson

Answer: Charles L. Hutchinson

Answer: Charles L. Hutchinson

Answer: Charles L. Hutchinson


Question: In 1890, who did the university decide to team up with?

Answer: several regional colleges and universities

Answer: Des Moines College, Kalamazoo College, Butler University, and Stetson University

Answer: Des Moines College, Kalamazoo College, Butler University, and Stetson University

Answer: Des Moines College, Kalamazoo College, Butler University, and Stetson University


Question: What year did the university team up with Shimer College?

Answer: 1896

Answer: 1896

Answer: 1896

Answer: 1896


Question: The university agreed to grant a degree to any graduate of affiliate schoos that did what?

Answer: made a grade of A for all four years

Answer: made a grade of A for all four years, and on any other graduate who took twelve weeks additional study at the University of Chicago

Answer: made a grade of A for all four years

Answer: made a grade of A for all four years


Question: Who disliked the affiliate program?

Answer: passed

Answer: Several University of Chicago professors

Answer: Several University of Chicago professors


Question: In what year did the affiliate program end?

Answer: 1910

Answer: 1910

Answer: Several University of Chicago professors

Answer: 1910


Question: Who was the university's 5th president?

Answer: Robert Maynard Hutchins

Answer: Robert Maynard Hutchins

Answer: Robert Maynard Hutchins

Answer: Robert Maynard Hutchins


Question: What was the name given to the undergraduate college's liberal-arts curriculum?

Answer: the Common Core

Answer: Common Core

Answer: Common Core

Answer: Common Core


Question: Why did the 5th president of the university decide to get rid of the football program?

Answer: to emphasize academics over athletics

Answer: emphasize academics

Answer: an attempt to emphasize academics over athletics

Answer: to emphasize academics over athletics,


Question: How long did the 5th president's tenure last?

Answer: 24-year tenure

Answer: 24-year

Answer: 24-year tenure.

Answer: 24-year


Question: In what year was the university's 5th president granted his position?

Answer: 1929

Answer: 1929

Answer: 1929

Answer: 1929


Question: In what year did the university first see a drop in applications?

Answer: 1950s

Answer: early 1950s

Answer: the early 1950s

Answer: the early 1950s


Question: Why did the university see a drop in applicants?

Answer: a result of increasing crime and poverty

Answer: increasing crime and poverty in the Hyde Park neighborhood

Answer: increasing crime and poverty in the Hyde Park neighborhood

Answer: increasing crime and poverty in the Hyde Park neighborhood


Question: When were Shimer College students allowed to transfer to the University of Chicago?

Answer: after their second year

Answer: early 1950s

Answer: after their second year

Answer: after their second year


Question: The urban renewal project was intended to help the residents of what neighborhood?

Answer: Hyde Park

Answer: Hyde Park

Answer: Hyde Park

Answer: Hyde Park


Question: What did the early entrant program do for potential students?

Answer: allowed very young students to attend college

Answer: allowed very young students to attend college

Answer: allowed very young students to attend college

Answer: allowed very young students to attend college


Question: In what year did student decide to occupy the president's office?

Answer: 1962

Answer: 1962

Answer: 1962

Answer: 1962


Question: What made the student decide to occupy the president's office in protest?

Answer: the university's off-campus rental policies.

Answer: the university's off-campus rental policies

Answer: the university's off-campus rental policies

Answer: the university's off-campus rental policies


Question: In what year was the Kalven Report issued?

Answer: 1967

Answer: 1967

Answer: 1967

Answer: 1967


Question: How many pages was the Kalven Report statement?

Answer: a two-page statement

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two


Question: What policy did the Kelven Report contain?

Answer: social and political action

Answer: social and political action

Answer: social and political action

Answer: social and political action


Question: When did the university decide to start multimillion-dollar expansion projects?

Answer: mid-2000s

Answer: mid-2000s

Answer: mid-2000s

Answer: the mid-2000s


Question: What institute did the university announced to everyone in 2008?

Answer: Milton Friedman Institute

Answer: Milton Friedman Institute

Answer: Milton Friedman Institute

Answer: Milton Friedman Institute


Question: How much did the Milton Friedman Institute roughly cost?

Answer: around $200 million

Answer: $200 million

Answer: $200 million

Answer: $200 million


Question: What buildings held the Milton Friedman Institute?

Answer: the Chicago Theological Seminary

Answer: Chicago Theological Seminary

Answer: Chicago Theological Seminary

Answer: Chicago Theological Seminary


Question: Who decide to make a very large donation to the university's Booth School of Business?

Answer: David G. Booth

Answer: David G. Booth

Answer: David G. Booth

Answer: David G. Booth


Question: What are the first buildings the university built knows as today?

Answer: the Main Quadrangles

Answer: Main Quadrangles

Answer: the Main Quadrangles

Answer: the Main Quadrangles


Question: How many quadrangles does the Main Quadrangles have?

Answer: six

Answer: six quadrangles

Answer: six

Answer: six


Question: Who helped designed the Main Quadrangles?

Answer: Cobb, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, Holabird & Roche,

Answer: Henry Ives Cobb

Answer: Cobb, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, Holabird & Roche, and other architectural firms

Answer: Cobb, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, Holabird & Roche, and other architectural firms


Question: The Mitchell Tower is designed to look like what Oxford tower?

Answer: Oxford's Magdalen Tower

Answer: Magdalen Tower

Answer: Magdalen Tower

Answer: Magdalen Tower


Question: Hutchinson Hall was designed to look like what Oxford hall?

Answer: Christ Church Hall

Answer: Christ Church Hall

Answer: Christ Church Hall

Answer: Christ Church Hall


Question: During what decade did the campus start to look more modern?

Answer: the 1940s

Answer: After the 1940s


Question: Who was assigned to design a second master plan?

Answer: Eero Saarinen

Answer: Eero Saarinen

Answer: Eero Saarinen


Question: What administration did Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designa buiding?

Answer: School of Social Service Administration

Answer: School of Social Service Administration

Answer: the university's School of Social Service Administration


Question: What public policy school found it's home in the building that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed?

Answer: Harris School of Public Policy Studies

Answer: Harris School of Public Policy Studies

Answer: the Harris School of Public Policy Studies


Question: When was the Gerald Ratner Athletics Center constructed?

Answer: 2003

Answer: 2003


Question: What other locations can the Booth School of Business be found?

Answer: Singapore, London, and the downtown Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago

Answer: Singapore, London, and the downtown Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago

Answer: Singapore, London, and the downtown Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago


Question: The Center in Paris is located near what river?

Answer: Seine

Answer: Seine

Answer: the Seine


Question: The university established a center in Beijing in what year?

Answer: 2010

Answer: 2010

Answer: 2010


Question: The university's center in Beijing is located next to what school's campus?

Answer: Renmin University

Answer: Renmin University

Answer: Renmin University


Question: What year did the university open a center in Hong Kong?

Answer: 2015

Answer: 2015

Answer: 2015


Question: Who runs the University of Chicago?

Answer: a board of trustees

Answer: board of trustees

Answer: The Board of Trustees


Question: How many people belong to the university's Board of Trustees?

Answer: 50

Answer: 50

Answer: 50


Question: How many Vice Presidents are in the Board of Trustees?

Answer: fourteen

Answer: fourteen

Answer: fourteen


Question: What is the name of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees?

Answer: Andrew Alper

Answer: Andrew Alper

Answer: Andrew Alper


Question: Who took Isaacs place as Provost in 2016?

Answer: Robert Zimmer

Answer: Daniel Diermeier

Answer: Daniel Diermeier


Question: Who is the university accredited by?

Answer: The Higher Learning Commission

Answer: The Higher Learning Commission

Answer: The Higher Learning Commission


Question: The academic body of the university is made up of how many divisions of graduate?

Answer: four

Answer: four

Answer: four


Question: The academic body of the university is made up of how many professional schools?

Answer: seven

Answer: seven

Answer: seven


Question: How many academic majors does the university grant in total?

Answer: 50

Answer: 50

Answer: 50


Question: How many academic minors does the university grant in total?

Answer: 28

Answer: 28

Answer: 28


Question: How many divisions make up the academics of the university?

Answer: five

Answer: five

Answer: five


Question: What division offers more then one branch of studies that don't fit in with the other four?

Answer: the New Collegiate Division

Answer: New Collegiate Division

Answer: New Collegiate Division


Question: What is the name of the university's core curriculum?

Answer: the Common Core

Answer: Common Core

Answer: Common Core


Question: During 2012-2013, how many student were able to take the Core classes at a single time?

Answer: 17

Answer: 17

Answer: 17


Question: UChicago claims to have what kind of learning experience compared to other universities?

Answer: the most rigorous, intense

Answer: the most rigorous, intense


Question: What guide states the Univeristy of Chicago is known for their heavy workload and academic difficulty?

Answer: Uni in the USA

Answer: Uni in the USA

Answer: Uni in the USA


Question: What is the name of the private day school for K-12 students the university runs?

Answer: University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

Answer: University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

Answer: University of Chicago Laboratory Schools


Question: What is the name of the residential treatment program the university runs?

Answer: the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School

Answer: Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School

Answer: the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School


Question: How many public charter schools does the university run?

Answer: four

Answer: four

Answer: four


Question: What does the Urban Education Institute help run?

Answer: four public charter schools

Answer: four public charter schools

Answer: public charter schools on the South Side of Chicago


Question: Where is the Hyde Park Day School located?

Answer: the University of Chicago campus

Answer: University of Chicago campus

Answer: the University of Chicago campus


Question: The University of Chicago Library system has how many libraries in total?

Answer: six

Answer: six

Answer: six


Question: How man volumes does the The University of Chicago Library system hold?

Answer: 9.8 million

Answer: 9.8 million

Answer: 9.8 million


Question: What is the name given to the university's main library?

Answer: the Regenstein Library

Answer: Regenstein Library

Answer: the Regenstein Library


Question: In what year was the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library constructed?

Answer: 2011

Answer: 2011

Answer: 2011


Question: How many volumes does the John Crerar Library roughly hold?

Answer: more than 1.3 million

Answer: 1.3 million

Answer: more than 1.3 million


Question: How many research institutes does the university run on campus?

Answer: 12

Answer: 12

Answer: 12


Question: How many research centers does the university run on campus?

Answer: 113

Answer: 113

Answer: 113


Question: What is the name of the museum and research center for Near Eastern studies, that is owned by the university?

Answer: the Oriental Institute

Answer: Oriental Institute

Answer: the Oriental Institute


Question: What lab does the university have a joint stake in?

Answer: Fermilab

Answer: Fermilab

Answer: Fermilab


Question: Where is the Apache Point Observatory located?

Answer: Sunspot, New Mexico

Answer: Sunspot, New Mexico

Answer: Sunspot, New Mexico


Question: What role in economics did the university play a major part in?

Answer: shaping ideas about the free market

Answer: shaping ideas about the free market

Answer: shaping ideas about the free market


Question: What was the name of the first self-sustained man-made nuclear reaction?

Answer: Chicago Pile-1

Answer: Chicago Pile-1


Question: What was the name of the experiment that tested how life originated?

Answer: Miller–Urey experiment

Answer: Miller–Urey experiment

Answer: Chicago Pile-1


Question: When was REM sleep discovered?

Answer: 1953

Answer: 1953

Answer: 1953


Question: Since what year did the university offer a doctorate in music composition?

Answer: 1933

Answer: 1933

Answer: 1933


Question: Since what year did the university offer a doctorate in Cinema & Media studies?

Answer: 2000

Answer: 2000

Answer: 2000


Question: When did the university start having a bachelor's degree program in Cinema & Media studies?

Answer: 1996

Answer: 1996

Answer: 1996


Question: When did the university start having a bachelor's degree program in theater & performance studies?

Answer: 2002

Answer: 2002

Answer: 2002


Question: Around roughly how many students enroll yearly in creative and performing arts classes?

Answer: Several thousand

Answer: Several thousand

Answer: Several thousand


Question: In the fall quarter of 2014, how many students signed up for the college?

Answer: 5,792

Answer: 5,792

Answer: 5,792


Question: In the fall quarter of 2014, how many students signed up for the university's four graduate divisions?

Answer: 3,468

Answer: 3,468

Answer: 3,468


Question: In the fall quarter of 2014, how many students signed up for the university's professional schools?

Answer: 5,984

Answer: 5,984

Answer: 5,984


Question: In the fall quarter of 2014, how many students signed up for the university's  in total?

Answer: 15,244

Answer: 15,244

Answer: 15,244


Question: Who made up 19% of the student body in the 2012 Spring Quarter?

Answer: international students

Answer: international students

Answer: international students


Question: The Maroons are apart of what association?

Answer: the University Athletic Association

Answer: University Athletic Association (UAA)

Answer: University Athletic Association (UAA)


Question: The Maroons compete in what league division?

Answer: NCAA's Division III

Answer: NCAA's Division III


Question: The university was a founding force behind what conference?

Answer: the Big Ten Conference

Answer: Big Ten Conference

Answer: the Big Ten Conference


Question: What player first won the Heisman Trophy for the university?

Answer: Jay Berwanger

Answer: Jay Berwanger

Answer: Jay Berwanger


Question: Why did the university eventually leave the conference?

Answer: Robert Maynard Hutchins de-emphasized varsity athletics

Answer: University President Robert Maynard Hutchins de-emphasized varsity athletics

Answer: University President Robert Maynard Hutchins de-emphasized varsity athletics in 1939


Question: Roughly how many clubs are ran at the university?

Answer: over 400

Answer: over 400

Answer: over 400


Question: What is the name of the organization in charge of running the clubs at the university?

Answer: Recognized Student Organizations

Answer: Recognized Student Organizations (RSOs)


Question: What club won 118 tournaments and 15 national championships?

Answer: the University of Chicago College Bowl Team

Answer: University of Chicago College Bowl Team

Answer: University of Chicago College Bowl Team


Question: What is the name of the country's longest continuously running student film society?

Answer: Doc Films

Answer: Doc Films

Answer: Doc Films


Question: What is the name of the student improvisational theater troupe?

Answer: Off-Off Campus

Answer: Off-Off Campus

Answer: Off-Off Campus


Question: Who makes up the Student Government?

Answer: graduate and undergraduate students

Answer: graduate and undergraduate students

Answer: graduate and undergraduate students elected to represent members from their respective academic unit


Question: Who leads the Student Government?

Answer: an Executive Committee

Answer: Executive Committee

Answer: an Executive Committee


Question: How many vice presidents are on the Student Board?

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two


Question: Roughly how much is the Student Government's budget?

Answer: greater than $2 million

Answer: $2 million

Answer: greater than $2 million


Question: How many fraternities are apart of the university?

Answer: fifteen

Answer: fifteen

Answer: fifteen


Question: How many sororities are apart of the university?

Answer: seven

Answer: seven

Answer: seven


Question: What is the name of the co-ed community service fraternity?

Answer: Alpha Phi Omega

Answer: Alpha Phi Omega

Answer: Alpha Phi Omega


Question: How many sororities belong to the National Panhellenic Conference?

Answer: Alpha Phi Omega

Answer: Four

Answer: Four


Question: How many fraternities form the University of Chicago Interfraternity Council?

Answer: ten

Answer: ten

Answer: ten


Question: In what month is the university's scavenger hunt?

Answer: May

Answer: May

Answer: May


Question: In what year did the scavenger hunt begin?

Answer: 1987

Answer: 1987

Answer: 1987


Question: What does FOTA stand for?

Answer: Festival of the Arts

Answer: Festival of the Arts

Answer: Festival of the Arts


Question: What is the name of the winter festival held in January that is based on fitness?

Answer: Kuviasungnerk/Kangeiko

Answer: Kuviasungnerk/Kangeiko

Answer: Kuviasungnerk/Kangeiko


Question: What is the name of the university's summer festival?

Answer: Summer Breeze

Answer: Summer Breeze

Answer: Summer Breeze


Question: What Microsoft CEO is also an alumni of the University of Chicago?

Answer: Satya Nadella

Answer: Satya Nadella

Answer: Satya Nadella


Question: Who was the founder of the Oracle Corporation?

Answer: Larry Ellison

Answer: Larry Ellison

Answer: Larry Ellison


Question: Who is the third riches man in America?

Answer: Larry Ellison

Answer: Larry Ellison

Answer: Larry Ellison


Question: What Goldman Sachs CEO is also an alumni of the University of Chicago?

Answer: Jon Corzine

Answer: Jon Corzine

Answer: Jon Corzine


Question: Who founded McKinsey & Company?

Answer: James O. McKinsey

Answer: James O. McKinsey

Answer: James O. McKinsey


Question: Who is the founder of modern community organizing?

Answer: Saul Alinsky

Answer: Saul Alinsky

Answer: Saul Alinsky


Question: What alumni was also Obama's campaign adviser?

Answer: David Axelrod

Answer: David Axelrod

Answer: David Axelrod


Question: What alumni was also an Attorney General and a federal judge?

Answer: Robert Bork

Answer: Robert Bork

Answer: Robert Bork


Question: What alumni is also the Governor of the Bank of Japan?

Answer: Masaaki Shirakawa

Answer: Masaaki Shirakawa

Answer: Masaaki Shirakawa


Question: What prohibition agent was also an alumni at the university?

Answer: Eliot Ness

Answer: Eliot Ness

Answer: Eliot Ness


Question: What alumni wrote "The Closing of the American Mind"?

Answer: Allan Bloom

Answer: Allan Bloom

Answer: Allan Bloom


Question: What is the name of the American writer and satirist who is also a university alumni?

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut


Question: What alumni member also write the bestseller Before I Fall?

Answer: Lauren Oliver

Answer: Lauren Oliver

Answer: Lauren Oliver


Question: What alumni wrote "The Good War"?

Answer: Studs Terkel

Answer: Studs Terkel

Answer: Studs Terkel


Question: What is the name of the Pulitzer Prize novelist who was also a university alumni?

Answer: Philip Roth

Answer: Philip Roth

Answer: Philip Roth


Question: What minimalist composer is also a university graduate?

Answer: Philip Glass

Answer: Philip Glass

Answer: Philip Glass


Question: What is the name of the Bungie Inc. founder who is also a university graduate?

Answer: Alex Seropian

Answer: Alex Seropian

Answer: Alex Seropian


Question: What video game series did Alex Seropian make?

Answer: Halo

Answer: Halo

Answer: Halo


Question: What American actor is also a university graduate?

Answer: Ed Asner

Answer: Ed Asner

Answer: Ed Asner


Question: What comedian is also a university graduate?

Answer: Mike Nichols

Answer: Mike Nichols

Answer: Mike Nichols


Question: What astronomers is also a university alumni member?

Answer: Carl Sagan

Answer: Carl Sagan

Answer: Carl Sagan


Question: What NASA astronaut is also a university alumni member?

Answer: John M. Grunsfeld

Answer: John M. Grunsfeld

Answer: John M. Grunsfeld


Question: What popular environmentalist is also a university alumni member?

Answer: David Suzuki,

Answer: David Suzuki

Answer: David Suzuki


Question: Who developed the lithium-ion battery?

Answer: John B. Goodenough

Answer: John B. Goodenough

Answer: John B. Goodenough


Question: What geochemist developed the uranium-lead dating method into lead-lead dating?

Answer: Clair Cameron Patterson

Answer: Clair Cameron Patterson

Answer: Clair Cameron Patterson


Question: What Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner is also a university alumni member?

Answer: Milton Friedman

Answer: Milton Friedman

Answer: Milton Friedman


Question: What British Prime minister advisor is also a university alumni member?

Answer: George Stigler

Answer: George Stigler

Answer: George Stigler


Question: Who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences?

Answer: Paul Samuelson

Answer: Paul Samuelson

Answer: Paul Samuelson


Question: What university alumni member was known for his work on portfolio theory?

Answer: Eugene Fama

Answer: Eugene Fama

Answer: Eugene Fama


Question: What anthropologists are also university alumni members?

Answer: David Graeber and Donald Johanson

Answer: David Graeber

Answer: David Graeber and Donald Johanson


Question: What chess grandmaster is also a university alumni?

Answer: Samuel Reshevsky

Answer: Samuel Reshevsky

Answer: Samuel Reshevsky


Question: What conservative international relations scholar is also a university alumni?

Answer: Samuel P. Huntington

Answer: Samuel P. Huntington

Answer: Samuel P. Huntington


Question: Who calculated the speed of light?

Answer: A. A. Michelson

Answer: A. A. Michelson

Answer: A. A. Michelson


Question: Who discovered the Compton Effect?

Answer: Arthur H. Compton

Answer: Robert A. Millikan

Answer: Arthur H. Compton


Question: Who invented the first nuclear reactor?

Answer: Enrico Fermi

Answer: Enrico Fermi

Answer: Enrico Fermi


Question: Who is also known at the father of the hydrogen bomb?

Answer: Edward Teller

Answer: Edward Teller

Answer: Edward Teller


Question: Who was the second female Nobel laureate ?

Answer: Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Answer: Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Answer: Maria Goeppert-Mayer


Question: What Egyptologist was also apart of the university's faculty?

Answer: James Henry Breasted

Answer: James Henry Breasted

Answer: James Henry Breasted


Question: What mathematician was also apart of the university's faculty?

Answer: Alberto Calderón

Answer: Alberto Calderón

Answer: Alberto Calderón


Question: What meteorologist was also apart of the university's faculty?

Answer: Ted Fujita

Answer: Ted Fujita

Answer: Ted Fujita


Question: Who developed the actinide concept?

Answer: Yuan T. Lee

Answer: Yuan T. Lee

Answer: Glenn T. Seaborg


Question: What cancer researchers were also apart of the university's faculty?

Answer: Charles Brenton Huggins and Janet Rowley

Answer: Charles Brenton Huggins and Janet Rowley

Answer: Charles Brenton Huggins and Janet Rowley


Question: Who is the governor of India's central bank?

Answer: Raghuram Rajan

Answer: Raghuram Rajan

Answer: Raghuram Rajan


Question: Hank Paulson is the former Chairman and CEO of what banking firm?

Answer: Goldman Sachs

Answer: Goldman Sachs

Answer: Goldman Sachs


Question: What Shakespeare scholar is currently on the university's faculty?

Answer: David Bevington

Answer: David Bevington

Answer: John Mearsheimer and Robert Pape


Question: What well known political scientists are currently on the university's faculty?

Answer: John Mearsheimer and Robert Pape

Answer: John Mearsheimer and Robert Pape


Question: What paleontologists are currently on the university's faculty?

Answer: Neil Shubin and Paul Sereno

Answer: Neil Shubin and Paul Sereno

Answer: Neil Shubin and Paul Sereno


Question: What is the Chinese name for the Yuan dynasty?

Answer: Yuán Cháo

Answer: Yuán Cháo

Answer: 元朝


Question: What is the Yuan dynasty's official name?

Answer: the Great Yuan

Answer: the Great Yuan

Answer: the Great Yuan


Question: Who started the Yuan dynasty?

Answer: Kublai Khan

Answer: Kublai Khan

Answer: Kublai Khan


Question: Who led the Mongolian Borjigin clan?

Answer: Kublai Khan

Answer: Kublai Khan

Answer: Kublai Khan


Question: When did Khan formally declare the Yuan dynasty?

Answer: 1271

Answer: 1271

Answer: 1271


Question: What non-Chinese empire did the Yuan dynasty succeed?

Answer: Mongol Empire

Answer: Mongol Empire

Answer: Mongol Empire


Question: What dynasty came before the Yuan?

Answer: Song dynasty

Answer: Mongol Empire

Answer: the Song dynasty


Question: What dynasty came after the Yuan?

Answer: Ming dynasty

Answer: Ming dynasty

Answer: the Ming dynasty


Question: Who was Kublai Khan's grandfather?

Answer: Genghis Khan

Answer: Genghis Khan

Answer: Genghis Khan


Question: When did Khan establish the Great Yuan?

Answer: 1271

Answer: 1271

Answer: 1271


Question: What writing inspired the name Great Yuan?

Answer: the Commentaries on the Classic of Changes (I Ching)

Answer: the Commentaries on the Classic of Changes


Question: What was the Yuan dynasty called in Mongolian?

Answer: Dai Ön Ulus, also rendered as Ikh Yuan Üls or Yekhe Yuan Ulus

Answer: Dai Ön Ulus

Answer: Dai Ön Ulus


Question: What does Yeke Mongghul Ulus mean?

Answer: Great Mongol State

Answer: Great Mongol State

Answer: Great Mongol State


Question: What nominal title did Yuan emperors have?

Answer: Great Khan

Answer: Great Khan

Answer: Great Khan


Question: Which tribes did Genghis Khan unite?

Answer: Mongol and Turkic tribes

Answer: Mongol and Turkic tribes

Answer: the Mongol and Turkic tribes


Question: When did Genghis Khan become Great Khan?

Answer: 1206

Answer: 1206

Answer: 1206


Question: Who was Genghis's 3rd son?

Answer: Ögedei Khan

Answer: Ögedei Khan

Answer: Ögedei Khan


Question: When did Mongke Khan become Great Khan?

Answer: 1251

Answer: 1251

Answer: 1251


Question: What was Kublai Khan's relation to Ogedei Khan?

Answer: nephew

Answer: nephew

Answer: nephew


Question: Who did the Han Chinese want to help the Mongols fight?

Answer: the Jin

Answer: Jin

Answer: the Jin


Question: What Khitan leader defected to the Mongols?

Answer: Xiao Zhala

Answer: Xiao Zhala

Answer: Xiao Zhala


Question: What Han Chinese leader defected to the Mongols?

Answer: Shi Tianze, Liu Heima

Answer: Shi Tianze, Liu Heima

Answer: Shi Tianze, Liu Heima


Question: How many soldiers were in each Tumen?

Answer: 10,000

Answer: 10,000

Answer: 10,000


Question: How many Khitan Tumens were there?

Answer: 3

Answer: three


Question: What ethnicity was Shi Tianze?

Answer: Han Chinese

Answer: Han Chinese

Answer: Han Chinese


Question: In what dynasty did Tianze live?

Answer: Jin dynasty

Answer: Jin dynasty

Answer: Jin


Question: What kind of interethnic marriage became common in the Jin dynasty?

Answer: between Han and Jurchen

Answer: marriage between Han and Jurchen

Answer: Han and Jurchen


Question: Who was Shi Tianze's father?

Answer: Shi Bingzhi

Answer: Shi Bingzhi

Answer: Shi Bingzhi


Question: What dynasty did Zhang Rhou help attack?

Answer: Song dynasty

Answer: Song dynasty

Answer: the Song dynasty


Question: Who led a Mongol attack on the Song dynasty?

Answer: Möngke Khan

Answer: Möngke Khan

Answer: Möngke Khan


Question: Where did Mongke Khan attack the Song dynasty?

Answer: southern China

Answer: southern China

Answer: in southern China


Question: When did Mongke Khan die?

Answer: 1259

Answer: 1259

Answer: in 1259


Question: Who challenged Kublai Khan's right to succeed Mongke Khan?

Answer: Ariq Böke

Answer: Ariq Böke

Answer: Ariq Böke


Question: What Chinese era name did Kublai adopt?

Answer: Zhongtong

Answer: Zhongtong. Ariq Böke

Answer: Zhongtong


Question: Who was Kaidu's grandfather?

Answer: Ogedei

Answer: Ogedei

Answer: Ogedei


Question: Where did the Song dynasty continue to cause problems for Kublai?

Answer: south

Answer: the south

Answer: the western frontier


Question: Who did Kublai make the ruler of Korea?

Answer: Wonjong

Answer: prince Wonjong

Answer: prince Wonjong


Question: Where did Korea border Kublai's territory?

Answer: northeast

Answer: northeast

Answer: the northeast


Question: When did Li Tan lead a revolt?

Answer: 1262

Answer: 1262

Answer: 1262


Question: What did Kublai's government have to balance between?

Answer: preserving Mongol interests in China and satisfying the demands of his Chinese subjects

Answer: preserving Mongol interests in China and satisfying the demands of his Chinese subjects

Answer: preserving Mongol interests in China and satisfying the demands of his Chinese subjects


Question: What administrative division did Kublai leave unmodified?

Answer: local administrative structure of past Chinese dynasties

Answer: local administrative structure

Answer: local


Question: Who would have been the lowest-ranked class?

Answer: Han Chinese

Answer: Han Chinese

Answer: the Han Chinese


Question: How many societal class divisions were in the plan Kublai rejected?

Answer: three, later four

Answer: four

Answer: three


Question: What natural resources did the Chinese government have a monopoly on?

Answer: salt and iron

Answer: salt and iron

Answer: salt and iron


Question: Where had the Mongol capital been before Kublai moved it?

Answer: Karakorum

Answer: Karakorum

Answer: Karakorum


Question: Where did Kublai move the Mongol capital to?

Answer: Khanbaliq

Answer: Khanbaliq

Answer: Khanbaliq


Question: When did Kublai move the Mongol capital?

Answer: 1264

Answer: 1264

Answer: 1264


Question: What city later became Beijing?

Answer: Zhongdu

Answer: Zhongdu

Answer: Zhongdu


Question: What rituals did Kublai follow to help his image?

Answer: Confucian propriety and ancestor veneration

Answer: Confucian propriety and ancestor veneration

Answer: Confucian propriety and ancestor veneration


Question: What kinds of growth did Kublai encourage?

Answer: commercial, scientific, and cultural

Answer: commercial, scientific, and cultural

Answer: commercial, scientific, and cultural


Question: What does 'Pax Mongolica' mean?

Answer: Mongol peace

Answer: Mongol peace

Answer: Mongol peace


Question: Where did the Grand Canal start?

Answer: southern China

Answer: southern China

Answer: southern China


Question: Where did Kublai extend the Grand Canal to?

Answer: Daidu in the north

Answer: Daidu

Answer: Daidu


Question: Who described Kublai's China to Europe?

Answer: Marco Polo

Answer: Marco Polo

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: Who did Duke Yansheng Kong Duanyou flee with?

Answer: the Song Emperor

Answer: Song Emperor

Answer: the Song Emperor to Quzhou


Question: When did the Jin dynasty begin?

Answer: 1115

Answer: 1115

Answer: 1115


Question: When did the Jin dynasty end?

Answer: 1234

Answer: 1234

Answer: 1234


Question: Who was appointed as the replacement for Duke Yansheng Kong Duanyou?

Answer: Kong Duancao

Answer: Kong Duancao

Answer: Kong Duancao


Question: How many people in Quzhou are descended from Confucius?

Answer: 30,000

Answer: 30,000

Answer: 30,000


Question: Where did Kublai build his administration's strength?

Answer: northern China

Answer: northern China

Answer: northern China


Question: When did Kublai attack Xiangyang?

Answer: between 1268 and 1273

Answer: between 1268 and 1273

Answer: between 1268 and 1273


Question: What area was Kublai trying to capture by attacking Xiangyang?

Answer: Yangzi River basin

Answer: Yangzi River basin

Answer: the Song dynasty


Question: What was the Song dynasty's capital?

Answer: Hangzhou

Answer: Hangzhou

Answer: Hangzhou


Question: How did the final Song emperor die?

Answer: drowned

Answer: drowned

Answer: drowned


Question: When was Kublai's administration running out of money?

Answer: after 1279

Answer: after 1279

Answer: after 1279


Question: What interfered with Kublai's second invasion of Japan?

Answer: an inauspicious typhoon

Answer: inauspicious typhoon

Answer: inauspicious typhoon


Question: Where did the Tran dynasty rule?

Answer: Annam (Dai Viet)

Answer: Annam

Answer: Annam


Question: In what battle were the Mongols defeated by the Tran?

Answer: Battle of Bạch Đằng

Answer: Battle of Bạch Đằng

Answer: the Battle of Bạch Đằng


Question: When were the Mongols defeated by the Tran?

Answer: 1288

Answer: 1288

Answer: 1288


Question: When was Dali conquered by the Yuan?

Answer: 1253

Answer: 1253

Answer: 1253


Question: Who had Kublai wanted to succeed him?

Answer: his eldest son, Zhenjin

Answer: Zhenjin

Answer: Zhenjin


Question: When did Zhenjin die?

Answer: before Kublai in 1285

Answer: 1285

Answer: 1285


Question: What was Temur Khan's Chinese-style name?

Answer: Emperor Chengzong

Answer: Emperor Chengzong

Answer: Emperor Chengzong


Question: When did Temur rule?

Answer: 1294 to 1307

Answer: 1294 to 1307

Answer: from 1294 to 1307


Question: Who was the 4th to rule the Yuan dynasty?

Answer: Buyantu Khan

Answer: Buyantu Khan

Answer: Buyantu Khan


Question: What did the Mongol elites wish Buyantu didn't do?

Answer: actively support and adopt mainstream Chinese culture

Answer: actively support and adopt mainstream Chinese culture

Answer: adopt mainstream Chinese culture


Question: Who mentored Buyantu?

Answer: Li Meng

Answer: Li Meng

Answer: Li Meng


Question: What government department did Buyantu shut down?

Answer: the Department of State Affairs

Answer: Department of State Affairs

Answer: the Department of State Affairs


Question: When did Buyantu resume testing potential government employees?

Answer: 1313

Answer: 1313

Answer: 1313


Question: Who was Ayurbarwada's son?

Answer: Gegeen Khan

Answer: Gegeen Khan

Answer: Gegeen Khan


Question: When was Geegen the emperor?

Answer: 1321 to 1323

Answer: 1321 to 1323

Answer: from 1321 to 1323


Question: Who did Gegeen appoint as grand chancellor?

Answer: Baiju

Answer: Baiju

Answer: Baiju


Question: What did 'Da Yuan Tong Zhi' mean?

Answer: "the comprehensive institutions of the Great Yuan"

Answer: the comprehensive institutions of the Great Yuan

Answer: the comprehensive institutions of the Great Yuan


Question: How many rival princes were involved in assassinating Gegeen?

Answer: five

Answer: five

Answer: five


Question: Where did Yesun Temur die?

Answer: Shangdu

Answer: Shangdu

Answer: Shangdu


Question: What was the civil war against Ragibagh also called?

Answer: the War of the Two Capitals

Answer: War of the Two Capitals

Answer: the War of the Two Capitals


Question: How long after a banquet with Tugh Temur did Kusala die?

Answer: four days

Answer: four days

Answer: four days


Question: Who was thought to have killed Tugh Temur?

Answer: El Temür

Answer: El Temür


Question: Who took the throne after Kusala's death?

Answer: Tugh Temür

Answer: Tugh Temür

Answer: Tugh Temür


Question: What was Tugh Temur known for?

Answer: his cultural contribution

Answer: his cultural contribution

Answer: his cultural contribution


Question: What academy did Tugh Temur found?

Answer: Academy of the Pavilion of the Star of Literature

Answer: Academy of the Pavilion of the Star of Literature

Answer: Academy of the Pavilion of the Star of Literature


Question: When did Tugh Temur found his academy?

Answer: spring of 1329

Answer: 1329

Answer: the spring of 1329


Question: What was the most notable publication of Tugh's academy?

Answer: Jingshi Dadian

Answer: Jingshi Dadian

Answer: Jingshi Dadian


Question: What religions did Tugh Temur follow?

Answer: supported Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism and also devoted himself in Buddhism

Answer: Buddhism

Answer: Neo-Confucianism and also devoted himself in Buddhism


Question: When did Tugh Temur die?

Answer: 1332

Answer: 1332

Answer: 1332


Question: What Chinese-style name did Rinchinbal use?

Answer: Emperor Ningzong

Answer: Emperor Ningzong

Answer: Emperor Ningzong


Question: How old was Toghun Temur when he became emperor?

Answer: 13

Answer: 13

Answer: 13


Question: How many successors of Kublai was Toghun the last of?

Answer: nine

Answer: nine

Answer: nine


Question: Which dynasties' histories were officially documented during Toghun's reign?

Answer: Liao, Jin, and Song

Answer: Liao, Jin, and Song

Answer: the Liao, Jin, and Song


Question: What problems did the Yuan dynasty have near its end?

Answer: struggle, famine, and bitterness

Answer: struggle, famine, and bitterness

Answer: struggle, famine, and bitterness


Question: Why did Kublai's successors lose control of the rest of the Mongol empire?

Answer: Mongols beyond the Middle Kingdom saw them as too Chinese

Answer: saw them as too Chinese


Question: Who were later Yuan emperors isolated from?

Answer: both the army and the populace

Answer: army and the populace

Answer: the army and the populace


Question: What were the Yuan armies too weak to stop?

Answer: Outlaws ravaged the country

Answer: Outlaws

Answer: Outlaws


Question: What were later Yuan emperors disinterested in?

Answer: administration

Answer: administration

Answer: administration


Question: When did the Yuan people suffer a series of natural disasters?

Answer: From the late 1340s onwards

Answer: 1340s onwards

Answer: the late 1340s


Question: What uprising began in 1351?

Answer: the Red Turban Rebellion

Answer: Red Turban Rebellion

Answer: Red Turban Rebellion


Question: Why did Toghun Temur dismiss Toghtogha?

Answer: fear of betrayal

Answer: fear of betrayal

Answer: fear of betrayal


Question: Who had Toghtogha tried to defeat?

Answer: the Red Turban rebels

Answer: Red Turban rebels

Answer: the Red Turban rebels


Question: When was the Ming dynasty in power?

Answer: 1368–1644

Answer: 1368–1644

Answer: 1368–1644


Question: What encouraged trade under the Yuan?

Answer: The political unity of China and much of central Asia

Answer: political unity of China and much of central Asia

Answer: political unity


Question: What encouraged cultural exchange under the Yuan?

Answer: The Mongols' extensive West Asian and European contacts

Answer: The Mongols' extensive West Asian and European contacts


Question: What was the Yuan's Persian ally?

Answer: the Ilkhanate

Answer: Ilkhanate


Question: What crops were introduced or popularized in the Yuan?

Answer: carrots, turnips, new varieties of lemons, eggplants, and melons, high-quality granulated sugar, and cotton

Answer: carrots, turnips, new varieties of lemons, eggplants, and melons, high-quality granulated sugar, and cotton

Answer: carrots, turnips, new varieties of lemons, eggplants, and melons, high-quality granulated sugar, and cotton


Question: What type of musical instruments did the Yuan bring to China?

Answer: Western

Answer: Western

Answer: Western


Question: Besides Confucianism, Buddhism, and Islam, what religions were tolerated during the Yuan?

Answer: Nestorianism and Roman Catholicism

Answer: Nestorianism and Roman Catholicism

Answer: Nestorianism and Roman Catholicism


Question: What religion did the Yuan discourage, to support Buddhism?

Answer: Taoism

Answer: Taoism

Answer: Taoism


Question: What type of practices did the Yuan reintroduce in government?

Answer: Confucian

Answer: Confucian governmental practices and examinations

Answer: Confucian


Question: What fields of study were advanced during the Yuan?

Answer: travel literature, cartography, geography, and scientific education

Answer: travel literature, cartography, geography, and scientific education

Answer: literature, cartography, geography, and scientific education


Question: Who was the first known European to visit China and return?

Answer: Marco Polo

Answer: Marco Polo

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: What did Polo call the Yuan capital?

Answer: Cambaluc

Answer: Cambaluc

Answer: Cambaluc


Question: What was the English title of Polo's book?

Answer: Travels of Marco Polo

Answer: Travels of Marco Polo

Answer: the Travels of Marco Polo


Question: What was the Italian title of Polo's book?

Answer: Il milione

Answer: Il milione

Answer: Il milione


Question: How did some suspect that Polo learned about China instead of by actually visiting it?

Answer: through contact with Persian traders

Answer: through contact with Persian traders

Answer: through contact with Persian traders


Question: What astronomer worked for Kublai?

Answer: Guo Shoujing

Answer: Guo Shoujing

Answer: Guo Shoujing


Question: How accurate did Guo make the reformed lunisolar calendar?

Answer: 26 seconds off the modern Gregorian calendar

Answer: 365.2425 days of the year

Answer: 365.2425 days of the year


Question: What did Kublai do to prevent famines?

Answer: granaries were ordered built throughout the empire

Answer: granaries were ordered built throughout the empire

Answer: granaries were ordered built


Question: What city did the Grand Canal reach during the Yuan?

Answer: Beijing

Answer: Beijing

Answer: Beijing


Question: What major crop was brought to China from the west?

Answer: sorghum

Answer: sorghum

Answer: sorghum


Question: The Yuan was the first time all of China was ruled by whom?

Answer: non-native Chinese people

Answer: non-native Chinese people

Answer: non-native Chinese


Question: What did Mongols worship?

Answer: the Eternal Heaven

Answer: Eternal Heaven

Answer: the Eternal Heaven


Question: What legitimate dynasty came before the Yuan?

Answer: Song

Answer: Song dynasty

Answer: the Song dynasty


Question: What legitimate dynasty came after the Yuan?

Answer: Ming

Answer: Ming dynasty

Answer: the Ming dynasty


Question: Some Chinese considered the Yuan a legitimate dynasty, but what did other Chinese think it was?

Answer: a period of foreign domination

Answer: continuation of the Mongol Empire

Answer: a period of foreign domination


Question: What cultures were part of Kublai's administration?

Answer: Han Chinese, Khitans, Jurchens, Mongols, and Tibetan Buddhists

Answer: Han Chinese, Khitans, Jurchens, Mongols, and Tibetan Buddhists.

Answer: the Han Chinese, Khitans, Jurchens, Mongols, and Tibetan Buddhists


Question: What dynasties inspired the Chinese-like elements of Kublai's government?

Answer: Tang, Song, as well as Khitan Liao and Jurchen Jin dynasties

Answer: native Chinese dynasties

Answer: Tang, Song, as well as Khitan Liao and Jurchen Jin dynasties


Question: Who were two of Kublai's Chinese advisers?

Answer: Liu Bingzhong and Yao Shu

Answer: Liu Bingzhong and Yao Shu

Answer: Liu Bingzhong and Yao Shu


Question: What kind of division of power did Kublai's government have?

Answer: tripartite

Answer: tripartite division

Answer: tripartite


Question: What were the three parts of Kublai's government?

Answer: civil, military, and censorial offices

Answer: civil, military, and censorial

Answer: civil, military, and censorial offices


Question: Who had military control during the Yuan?

Answer: the Privy Council

Answer: Privy Council

Answer: the Privy Council


Question: When had the Six Ministries existed?

Answer: since the Sui and Tang dynasties

Answer: Sui and Tang dynasties

Answer: since the Sui and Tang dynasties


Question: Who were exempt from the Ministry of Justice?

Answer: Mongols and Semuren

Answer: Mongols and Semuren

Answer: Mongols and Semuren


Question: Who had no real military power during the Yuan?

Answer: the Ministry of War

Answer: Ministry of War

Answer: the Ministry of War


Question: When was Phags-pa script invented?

Answer: 1269

Answer: 1269

Answer: 1269


Question: Which languages used the Phags-pa script?

Answer: Mongolian, Tibetan, and Chinese

Answer: Mongolian, Tibetan, and Chinese

Answer: Mongolian, Tibetan, and Chinese


Question: How well did the Mongol Emperors know Chinese?

Answer: could not master written Chinese, but they could generally converse well

Answer: could not master written Chinese, but they could generally converse well

Answer: well


Question: The mother of which emperor was a concubine?

Answer: Tugh Temur

Answer: Tugh Temur

Answer: Tugh Temur


Question: What was Tugh's Chinese-style name?

Answer: Emperor Wenzong

Answer: Emperor Wenzong

Answer: Wenzong


Question: By what year was selling children into slavery common among the Mongols?

Answer: 1290

Answer: 1290

Answer: 1290


Question: When did Kublai ban the international Mongol slave trade?

Answer: 1291

Answer: 1291

Answer: 1291


Question: How were the Mongol garrison families earning money?

Answer: income from the harvests of their Chinese tenants

Answer: harvests of their Chinese tenants

Answer: harvests of their Chinese tenants


Question: What type of arts flourished in the Yuan?

Answer: painting, mathematics, calligraphy, poetry, and theater

Answer: painting, mathematics, calligraphy, poetry, and theater

Answer: painting, mathematics, calligraphy, poetry, and theater


Question: Which arts were often practiced together by the same artists?

Answer: painting, poetry, and calligraphy

Answer: painting, poetry, and calligraphy

Answer: painting, poetry, and calligraphy


Question: What dynasty shared artistic inspiration with the Yuan?

Answer: Song

Answer: Song

Answer: the Song dynasty


Question: What form of poetry was developed in the Yuan?

Answer: the qu

Answer: the qu

Answer: qu


Question: What was a popular type of variety show during the Yuan?

Answer: zaju

Answer: zaju

Answer: zaju


Question: Which khanates had converted to Islam?

Answer: western

Answer: Yuan dynasty

Answer: western


Question: Which religion did Kublai prefer?

Answer: Buddhism, especially the Tibetan variants

Answer: Buddhism

Answer: Buddhism


Question: What was the Yuan's unofficial state religion?

Answer: Tibetan Buddhism

Answer: Tibetan Buddhism

Answer: Tibetan Buddhism


Question: What government agency supervised Buddhist monks?

Answer: Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs

Answer: Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs

Answer: the Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs


Question: What was Kublai's favorite sect of Tibetan Buddhism?

Answer: Sakya

Answer: Sakya sect

Answer: Sakya sect


Question: When was Zhu Shijie born?

Answer: 1249

Answer: 1249

Answer: 1249


Question: When did Zhu Shijie die?

Answer: 1314

Answer: 1314

Answer: 1314


Question: What modern math concept did Zhu Shijie do work similar to?

Answer: matrices

Answer: matrices

Answer: matrices


Question: What type of math was advanced during the Yuan?

Answer: polynomial algebra

Answer: polynomial algebra

Answer: polynomial algebra


Question: When did Zhu publish 'Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns'?

Answer: 1303

Answer: 1303

Answer: 1303


Question: What did Guo Shoujing do for calendars?

Answer: applied mathematics to the construction of calendars

Answer: applied mathematics

Answer: applied mathematics


Question: What did Gou use for astronomy?

Answer: a cubic interpolation formula

Answer: cubic interpolation formula

Answer: derived a cubic interpolation formula


Question: What was the Chinese name of Gou's calendar?

Answer: Shoushi Li

Answer: 授時暦

Answer: 授時暦


Question: What was the English name of Gou's calendar?

Answer: Calendar for Fixing the Seasons

Answer: Calendar for Fixing the Seasons

Answer: Calendar for Fixing the Seasons


Question: When did Gou's calendar become the official calendar of the Yuan?

Answer: 1281

Answer: 1281

Answer: 1281


Question: Who were otachi?

Answer: non-Mongol physicians

Answer: non-Mongol physicians

Answer: non-Mongol physicians


Question: What type of medicine did otachi focus on?

Answer: herbal remedies

Answer: herbal

Answer: herbal remedies


Question: What type of medicine did Mongol shamans use?

Answer: spiritual cures

Answer: spiritual

Answer: spiritual


Question: What department did Kublai create to train doctors?

Answer: Imperial Academy of Medicine

Answer: Imperial Academy of Medicine

Answer: Imperial Academy of Medicine


Question: Why did Confucians like the medical field?

Answer: it ensured a high income and medical ethics were compatible with Confucian virtues

Answer: it ensured a high income and medical ethics were compatible with Confucian virtues

Answer: it ensured a high income and medical ethics were compatible with Confucian virtues


Question: How many schools of medicine were recognized in China?

Answer: four

Answer: Four

Answer: Four


Question: How did the Yuan come to have the 4 schools of medicine?

Answer: inherited from the Jin dynasty

Answer: inherited from the Jin dynasty

Answer: inherited from the Jin dynasty


Question: How did Chinese medicine spread?

Answer: Chinese physicians were brought along military campaigns by the Mongols

Answer: to other parts of the empire

Answer: Under the Mongols


Question: What techniques did Chinese medicine include?

Answer: acupuncture, moxibustion, pulse diagnosis, and various herbal drugs and elixirs

Answer: acupuncture, moxibustion, pulse diagnosis, and various herbal drugs and elixirs

Answer: acupuncture, moxibustion, pulse diagnosis, and various herbal drugs


Question: When did Wei Yilin die?

Answer: 1347

Answer: 1347

Answer: 1347


Question: What was huihui?

Answer: Muslim medicine

Answer: Muslim medicine

Answer: Muslim medicine


Question: Who founded the Office of Western Medicine?

Answer: Jesus the Interpreter

Answer: Jesus the Interpreter

Answer: Jesus the Interpreter


Question: When was the Office of Western Medicine founded?

Answer: 1263

Answer: 1263

Answer: 1263


Question: What aspect of Western medicine did the Chinese dislike?

Answer: its humoral system

Answer: its humoral system

Answer: humoral system


Question: What philosophies underlay Chinese medicine?

Answer: yin-yang and wuxing

Answer: yin-yang and wuxing

Answer: yin-yang and wuxing philosophy


Question: How did the Mongols acquire Chinese printing technology?

Answer: through Kingdom of Qocho and Tibetan intermediaries

Answer: through Kingdom of Qocho and Tibetan intermediaries

Answer: through Kingdom of Qocho and Tibetan intermediaries


Question: Who wrote the Nong Shu?

Answer: Wang Zhen

Answer: Wang Zhen

Answer: Wang Zhen


Question: When was earthenware movable type invented?

Answer: in the 12th century

Answer: 12th century

Answer: the 12th century


Question: Who was Ogedei's wife?

Answer: Töregene Khatun

Answer: Töregene Khatun

Answer: Töregene Khatun


Question: When was the Imperial Library Directorate established?

Answer: 1273

Answer: 1273

Answer: In 1273


Question: What was the Yuan's paper money called?

Answer: chao

Answer: chao

Answer: the chao


Question: What were chao made out of?

Answer: bark of mulberry trees

Answer: bark of mulberry trees

Answer: bark of mulberry trees


Question: When did the Yuan begin using bronze printing plates for its money?

Answer: 1275

Answer: 1275

Answer: 1275


Question: What had the Yuan used to print its money before bronze plates?

Answer: woodblocks

Answer: woodblocks

Answer: woodblocks


Question: When did the Il-khanate experiment with paper money?

Answer: 1294

Answer: 1294

Answer: 1294


Question: What Mongolian system did Kublai's government compromise with?

Answer: patrimonial feudalism

Answer: patrimonial feudalism

Answer: patrimonial feudalism


Question: What Chinese system did Kublai's government compromise with?

Answer: traditional Chinese autocratic-bureaucratic system

Answer: autocratic-bureaucratic

Answer: autocratic-bureaucratic system


Question: Who were the Semuren?

Answer: allied groups from Central Asia and the western end of the empire

Answer: various allied groups from Central Asia and the western end of the empire

Answer: various allied groups


Question: How did the unequal treatment of Chinese versus Mongols in the Yuan make the dynasty seem?

Answer: colonial

Answer: somewhat strong "colonial" coloration

Answer: colonial


Question: Where were Persians more successful compared to Chinese in the Yuan?

Answer: Ilkhanate

Answer: Ilkhanate

Answer: reaching the highest-post in the government


Question: Who did the Mongols bring to China as administrators?

Answer: Central Asian Muslims

Answer: Central Asian Muslims

Answer: Central Asian Muslims


Question: Who did the Mongols send to Bukhara as administrators?

Answer: Han Chinese and Khitans

Answer: Han Chinese and Khitans

Answer: Han Chinese and Khitans


Question: Where in Central Asia did the Han Chinese move?

Answer: Besh Baliq, Almaliq, and Samarqand

Answer: Besh Baliq, Almaliq, and Samarqand

Answer: Bukhara


Question: What types of work did the Han do in Central Asia?

Answer: artisans and farmers

Answer: artisans and farmers

Answer: artisans and farmers


Question: Who was made Governor of Samarqand?

Answer: a Qara-Khitay (Khitan

Answer: Ahai

Answer: Ahai


Question: What Yuan policies did Muslims dislike?

Answer: restricting Halal slaughter and other Islamic practices like circumcision

Answer: circumcision

Answer: restricting Halal slaughter and other Islamic practices like circumcision


Question: What Jewish practice did the Yuan ban?

Answer: Kosher butchering

Answer: Kosher butchering


Question: Who founded the Ming dynasty?

Answer: Zhu Yuanzhang

Answer: Zhu Yuanzhang

Answer: thanks


Question: What was the second meaning of a Chinese word for 'barracks'?

Answer: thanks

Answer: thanks

Answer: thanks


Question: Who revolted in the Ispah Rebellion?

Answer: Muslims in the semu class

Answer: Muslims in the semu class

Answer: Muslims in the semu class


Question: Who thought that the Yuan's social class system shouldn't be called social classes?

Answer: Frederick W. Mote

Answer: Frederick W. Mote

Answer: Frederick W. Mote


Question: What did Mote think the Yuan class system really represented?

Answer: degrees of privilege

Answer: degrees of privilege

Answer: degrees of privilege


Question: There were many Chinese with what unexpected status?

Answer: rich and well socially standing

Answer: rich and well

Answer: rich and well socially standing


Question: There were many Mongols with what unexpected status?

Answer: lived in poverty and were ill treated

Answer: poverty

Answer: poverty and were ill treated


Question: Which part of China had people ranked higher in the class system?

Answer: Northern

Answer: Northern Chinese

Answer: Northern


Question: Which part of China had people ranked lower in the class system?

Answer: Southern

Answer: Southern Chinese

Answer: southern


Question: Why were Southern Chinese ranked lower?

Answer: southern China withstood and fought to the last

Answer: because southern China withstood and fought to the last before caving in

Answer: withstood and fought to the last


Question: Why were Northern Chinese ranked higher?

Answer: The earlier they surrendered to the Mongols, the higher they were placed

Answer: The earlier they surrendered to the Mongols

Answer: they surrendered


Question: Who did the Yuan's increase in commerce help?

Answer: private southern Chinese manufacturers and merchants

Answer: private southern Chinese manufacturers and merchants

Answer: southern Chinese manufacturers and merchants


Question: Who did the Mongols give control of Korea?

Answer: Uighurs

Answer: Uighurs of the Kingdom of Qocho


Question: Who was the Uighur King of Qocho ranked above?

Answer: the Karluk Kara-Khanid ruler

Answer: Karluk Kara-Khanid

Answer: the Karluk Kara-Khanid ruler


Question: Who was the Karluk Kara-Khanid ruler ranked above?

Answer: the Korean King

Answer: Korean King

Answer: the Korean King


Question: Why were the Uighurs ranked higher by the Mongols?

Answer: the Uighurs surrendered peacefully without violently resisting

Answer: Uighurs surrendered peacefully without violently resisting

Answer: surrendered peacefully without violently resisting


Question: What region of China is Hebei part of?

Answer: The Central Region

Answer: Central Region

Answer: Central


Question: Who governed the Central Region in the Yuan?

Answer: the Central Secretariat

Answer: Central Secretariat

Answer: the Central Secretariat


Question: Where was the Central Secretariat based?

Answer: Khanbaliq

Answer: Khanbaliq

Answer: Khanbaliq


Question: What modern city did Khanbaliq become?

Answer: Beijing

Answer: Beijing

Answer: Beijing


Question: What was the Chinese name for the Central Secretariat?

Answer: Zhongshu Sheng

Answer: Zhongshu Sheng

Answer: Zhongshu Sheng


Question: Where is Kenya located?

Answer: in Africa

Answer: Africa


Question: What is Kenya a founding member of?

Answer: East African Community

Answer: East African Community

Answer: East African Community


Question: What is the capitol of Kenya?

Answer: Nairobi

Answer: Nairobi

Answer: Nairobi


Question: What country boarders the south of Kenya?

Answer: Tanzania

Answer: Tanzania

Answer: Tanzania


Question: What was the population of Kenya in 2014?

Answer: 45 million people

Answer: 45 million people

Answer: approximately 45 million


Question: What type of climate does Kenya have?

Answer: a warm and humid tropical climate on its Indian Ocean coastline

Answer: warm and humid tropical climate

Answer: tropical


Question: How is the climate near the savannah grasslands?

Answer: The climate is cooler

Answer: cooler

Answer: cooler


Question: What mountain has snow on it all year round?

Answer: Mount Kenya

Answer: Mount Kenya,

Answer: Mount Kenya


Question: What regions do the north-eastern part of the country boarder?

Answer: Somalia and Ethiopia

Answer: Somalia and Ethiopia

Answer: Somalia and Ethiopia


Question: What is Kenya known for?

Answer: its safaris, diverse climate and geography, and expansive wildlife reserves and national parks

Answer: safaris, diverse climate and geography

Answer: safaris, diverse climate and geography, and expansive wildlife reserves


Question: How long has the African Great Lakes region been inhabited?

Answer: Lower Paleolithic period

Answer: since the Lower Paleolithic period

Answer: since the Lower Paleolithic period


Question: When did the Bantu expansion reach the area from West-Central Africa?

Answer: By the first millennium AD

Answer: By the first millennium AD

Answer: first millennium AD


Question: Where is 97% of the population located?

Answer: Bantu and Nilotic

Answer: Bantu and Nilotic

Answer: Bantu and Nilotic


Question: When did the exploration of the interior begin?

Answer: 19th century

Answer: 19th century

Answer: 19th century


Question: When did Kenya obtain independence?

Answer: December 1963

Answer: December 1963

Answer: December 1963


Question: What is the Republic of Kenya named after?

Answer: Mount Kenya

Answer: Mount Kenya

Answer: Mount Kenya


Question: What words to they think are linked to the work Kenya?

Answer: Kirinyaga, Kirenyaa and Kiinyaa

Answer: Kikuyu, Embu and Kamba

Answer: Kikuyu, Embu and Kamba


Question: What do the words Kirinyaga, Kirenyaa, and Kiinyaa mean?

Answer: God's resting place

Answer: God's resting place

Answer: God's resting place


Question: Ludwig Krapf recorded the name was what?

Answer: both Kenia and Kegnia

Answer: Kenia and Kegnia

Answer: Kenia and Kegnia


Question: What do some believe about this pronunciation?

Answer: a very precise notation of a correct African pronunciation

Answer: precise

Answer: precise


Question: Who was the Scottish geologist that named Mt Kenya as Mt Kenia?

Answer: Joseph Thompsons

Answer: Joseph Thompsons

Answer: Joseph Thompsons


Question: What year did Thompsons indicate Mt Kenya?

Answer: 1862

Answer: 1862

Answer: 1862


Question: What are the biggest game animals of Kenya called?

Answer: The "Big Five"

Answer: Big Five

Answer: Big Five


Question: What are the "Big Five" animals in Kenya?

Answer: lion, leopard, buffalo, rhinoceros, and elephant

Answer: lion, leopard, buffalo, rhinoceros, and elephant

Answer: lion, leopard, buffalo, rhinoceros, and elephant


Question: Where are these animals mostly located?

Answer: Masai Mara

Answer: national parks

Answer: Masai Mara


Question: When does the annual animal migration occur?

Answer: between June and September

Answer: June and September

Answer: between June and September


Question: How far do the wildebeest migrate searching for food and water?

Answer: 2,900 kilometres (1,802 mi)

Answer: 2,900 kilometres

Answer: 2,900 kilometres


Question: How long ago did primates inhabit Kenya?

Answer: more than 20 million years ago

Answer: 20 million years ago

Answer: 20 million years ago


Question: When did the ancestors of modern Homo sapiens inhabit Kenya?

Answer: in the Pleistocene epoch

Answer: Pleistocene epoch

Answer: Pleistocene epoch


Question: Who helped discover the Turkana Boy?

Answer: Richard Leakey

Answer: Kamoya Kimeu

Answer: Kamoya Kimeu


Question: How old was Turkana Boy?

Answer: .6-million-year-old

Answer: 1.6-million-year-old

Answer: 1.6-million-year-old


Question: Who was responsible for the preliminary archaeological research at Ologesailie and Hyrax Hill?

Answer: Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey

Answer: Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey

Answer: Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey


Question: Who build the major port city in Kenya?

Answer: The Swahili

Answer: Swahili

Answer: Swahili


Question: What is the name of the port city that was created?

Answer: Mombasa

Answer: Mombasa

Answer: Mombasa


Question: What voyager said that Mombasa was a great harbour and moored small crafts and great ships?

Answer: Duarte Barbosa

Answer: Duarte Barbosa

Answer: Duarte Barbosa


Question: Where do many merchants and explorers go?

Answer: the Kenyan Coast

Answer: Kenyan Coast

Answer: Kenyan Coast


Question: What is an important Swahili settlement along the coast?

Answer: City of Malindi

Answer: City of Malindi

Answer: City of Malindi


Question: When was the City of Malindi established?

Answer: 14th century

Answer: 14th century

Answer: 14th century


Question: When was the outbreak of World War I?

Answer: August 1914

Answer: August 1914

Answer: August 1914


Question: What two governors agreed to a truce to protect their young colonies?

Answer: governors of British East Africa (as the Protectorate was generally known) and German East Africa

Answer: British East Africa (as the Protectorate was generally known) and German East Africa

Answer: British East Africa (as the Protectorate was generally known) and German East Africa


Question: Who was in command of the German military forces?

Answer: Lt Col Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Answer: Lt Col Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Answer: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck


Question: How did von Lettow conduct his group?

Answer: effective guerrilla warfare campaign, living off the land, capturing British supplies, and remaining undefeated

Answer: guerrilla warfare campaign

Answer: guerrilla warfare


Question: Where did von Lettow surrender at?

Answer: Northern Rhodesia

Answer: Northern Rhodesia

Answer: Northern Rhodesia


Question: Where were the Kikuyu people located?

Answer: The central highlands

Answer: central highlands

Answer: central highlands


Question: How did the Kikuyu people live?

Answer: as itinerant farmers

Answer: itinerant farmers

Answer: itinerant farmers


Question: How did the settlers protect their interests?

Answer: banned the growing of coffee, introduced a hut tax, and the landless were granted less and less land in exchange for their labour

Answer: banned the growing of coffee, introduced a hut tax, and the landless were granted less and less land

Answer: banned the growing of coffee, introduced a hut tax, and the landless were granted less and less land


Question: How many white settlers were living in Kenya in the 1950's?

Answer: 80,000

Answer: 80,000

Answer: 80,000


Question: When was Waruhiu Itote captured?

Answer: 15 January 1954

Answer: 15 January 1954

Answer: 15 January 1954


Question: What did this help accomplish?

Answer: the subsequent interrogation led to a better understanding of the Mau Mau command structure

Answer: better understanding of the Mau Mau command structure

Answer: a better understanding of the Mau Mau command structure


Question: When did Operation Anvil open?

Answer: 24 April 1954

Answer: 24 April 1954

Answer: 24 April 1954


Question: How many of the Mau Mau did Home Gaurd kill?

Answer: 4,686 Mau Mau

Answer: 4,686

Answer: 4,686


Question: What was the most important governmental change to land tenure?

Answer: the Swynnerton Plan, which was used to both reward loyalists and punish Mau Mau.

Answer: Swynnerton Plan

Answer: Swynnerton Plan


Question: When was the first direct elections for native Kenyans?

Answer: 1957

Answer: 1957

Answer: 1957


Question: Who formed the government in Kenya?

Answer: Kenya African National Union (KANU) of Jomo Kenyatta

Answer: Kenya African National Union

Answer: Kenya African National Union


Question: When did the different colonies come together and form Kenya?

Answer: 12 December 1963

Answer: 12 December 1963

Answer: 8 October 1963


Question: When did Kenya become an independent country?

Answer: 1963

Answer: Kenya Independence Act

Answer: 1963


Question: What did Kenya name itself on December 12, 1964?

Answer: Republic of Kenya

Answer: Republic of Kenya

Answer: Republic of Kenya


Question: What is the mlolongo system?

Answer: where voters were supposed to line up behind their favoured candidates instead of a secret ballot

Answer: voters were supposed to line up behind their favoured candidates

Answer: voters were supposed to line up behind their favoured candidates


Question: What did mlolongo system lead to?

Answer: agitation for constitutional reform

Answer: widespread agitation for constitutional reform

Answer: widespread agitation for constitutional reform


Question: Who won the elections in 1992 and 1997?

Answer: Daniel arap Moi

Answer: Daniel arap Moi

Answer: Daniel arap Moi


Question: What kind of government does Kenya have?

Answer: a presidential representative democratic republic

Answer: presidential representative democratic republic

Answer: presidential representative democratic republic


Question: What titles are the President given?

Answer: the head of state and head of government

Answer: head of state and head of government

Answer: head of state and head of government


Question: Who is the executive power?

Answer: exercised by the government

Answer: government

Answer: government.


Question: Who is in control of legislative power?

Answer: both the government and the National Assembly and the Senate

Answer: government and the National Assembly and the Senate

Answer: both the government and the National Assembly and the Senate


Question: What branch is independant of the other branches?

Answer: The Judiciary

Answer: Judiciary

Answer: Judiciary


Question: Where does Kenya rang on the CPI scale?

Answer: low

Answer: low

Answer: low


Question: What does the CPI scale measure?

Answer: gauge the prevalence of public sector corruption in various countries

Answer: public sector corruption

Answer: public sector corruption


Question: Where is Kenya place on the scale in 2012?

Answer: 139th out of 176 total countries

Answer: 139th

Answer: 139th


Question: How does Kenya curb coruption?

Answer: the establishment of a new and independent Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission

Answer: Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission

Answer: establishment of a new and independent Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission


Question: What party is President Kibaki part of?

Answer: Party of National Unity

Answer: Party of National Unity

Answer: Party of National Unity


Question: Who did President Kibaki run against?

Answer: the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)

Answer: Kalonzo Musyoka

Answer: Orange Democratic Movement


Question: What led to protests and open discrediting of the ECK?

Answer: Kibaki closed the gap and then overtook his opponent by a substantial margin after votes from his stronghold arrived later

Answer: Kibaki closed the gap and then overtook his opponent

Answer: votes from his stronghold arrived later


Question: Who called themselves the "People's President"?

Answer: Odinga

Answer: Odinga

Answer: Odinga


Question: What did the government and civil society organisations start after the riots?

Answer: programmes to avoid similar disasters in the future

Answer: programmes

Answer: programmes


Question: What group initiated the community dialogues?

Answer: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission

Answer: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission

Answer: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission


Question: What group started peace meetings?

Answer: Evangelical Lutheran Church

Answer: Evangelical Lutheran Church

Answer: Evangelical Lutheran Church


Question: What was started after these new programs were in place?

Answer: Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation process

Answer: Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation

Answer: Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation process


Question: When did Kibaki and Odinga sing an agreement on the formation of government?

Answer: 28 February 2008

Answer: 28 February 2008

Answer: 28 February 2008


Question: What would be Odinga's role in the government?

Answer: Prime Minister

Answer: second Prime Minister

Answer: Prime Minister


Question: Where did the president appoint cabinet members from?

Answer: both PNU and ODM camps

Answer: PNU and ODM camps

Answer: PNU and ODM camps


Question: How was it determined how many from each camp would be appointed?

Answer: depending on each party's strength in Parliament

Answer: each party's strength in Parliament

Answer: each party's strength in Parliament


Question: How long would this coalition last?

Answer: until the end of the current Parliament or if either of the parties withdraws from the deal before then

Answer: end of the current Parliament

Answer: until the end of the current Parliament or if either of the parties withdraws from the deal before then


Question: What will the Prime Minister have power over?

Answer: PM will have power and authority to co-ordinate and supervise the functions of the Government

Answer: co-ordinate and supervise the functions of the Government

Answer: co-ordinate and supervise the functions of the Government


Question: Who brought together the former rivals at the signing ceremony?

Answer: Annan and his UN-backed panel and African Union chairman Jakaya Kikwete

Answer: Annan and his UN-backed panel and African Union chairman Jakaya Kikwete

Answer: Jakaya Kikwete


Question: Where was the signing held?

Answer: the steps of Nairobi's Harambee House

Answer: Nairobi's Harambee House

Answer: steps of Nairobi's Harambee House


Question: When did representatives start working on the finer details of the deal?

Answer: 29 February 2008

Answer: 29 February 2008

Answer: 29 February 2008


Question: What was the goal of the grand coalition?

Answer: the two political parties would share power equally

Answer: two political parties would share power equally

Answer: two political parties would share power equally


Question: What constitutional change was considered?

Answer: eliminate the position of Prime Minister and simultaneously reduce the powers of the President

Answer: eliminate the position of Prime Minister

Answer: eliminate the position of Prime Minister


Question: When was a vote help to ratify the change to the constitution?

Answer: August 2010

Answer: 4 August 2010

Answer: 4 August 2010


Question: What else did the new consitution change?

Answer: delegates more power to local governments and gives Kenyans a bill of rights

Answer: delegates more power to local governments and gives Kenyans a bill of rights

Answer: delegates more power to local governments and gives Kenyans a bill of rights


Question: When was the new constitution promulgated?

Answer: 27 August 2010

Answer: 27 August 2010

Answer: 27 August 2010


Question: What came into force after the new constitution was herald?

Answer: the Second Republic

Answer: Second Republic

Answer: Second Republic


Question: When did President Uhuru Kenyatta sign a Security Law Amendment Bill?

Answer: December 2014

Answer: December 2014

Answer: December 2014


Question: Why was this bill nessecary?

Answer: to guard against armed groups

Answer: guard against armed groups

Answer: guard against armed groups


Question: Who criticised the security bill?

Answer: Opposition politicians, human rights groups, and nine Western countries

Answer: Opposition politicians, human rights groups, and nine Western countries

Answer: Opposition politicians, human rights groups, and nine Western countries


Question: Why did so many not approve of the bill?

Answer: it infringed on democratic freedoms

Answer: infringed on democratic freedoms

Answer: arguing that it infringed on democratic freedoms


Question: Who warned of the potential impact?

Answer: of the United States, Britain, Germany and France

Answer: governments

Answer: governments of the United States, Britain, Germany and France


Question: What was the result of the 2007 election?

Answer: h International Criminal Court trial dates in 2013 for both President Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto

Answer: International Criminal Court trial dates

Answer: International Criminal Court trial dates


Question: Who decided not to come visit the country in 2013?

Answer: US President Barack Obama

Answer: US President Barack Obama

Answer: US President Barack Obama


Question: Where did Kenyatta visit at the invitation of the President?

Answer: China

Answer: China

Answer: China


Question: When did Obama finally visit Kenya?

Answer: In July 2015

Answer: July 2015

Answer: July 2015


Question: What kind of missions are the armed forces regularly deployed for?

Answer: in peacekeeping missions around the world

Answer: peacekeeping

Answer: peacekeeping


Question: What was part of the aftermath of the elections in 2007?

Answer: violence that subsequently engulfed the country

Answer: violence

Answer: violence


Question: What kind of allegations were brought after the 2007 election?

Answer: human rights violations

Answer: human rights violations

Answer: human rights violations


Question: What other forces were tainted by corruption allegations?

Answer: Kenya’s armed forces

Answer: Kenya’s armed forces

Answer: armed


Question: Why has the corruption not be in the public view?

Answer: Because the operations of the armed forces have been traditionally cloaked by the ubiquitous blanket of “state security”

Answer: state security

Answer: state security


Question: What were the claims of corruption in the armed forces?

Answer: credible claims of corruption were made with regard to recruitment  and procurement of Armoured Personnel Carriers

Answer: recruitment  and procurement of Armoured Personnel Carriers

Answer: recruitment  and procurement of Armoured Personnel Carriers


Question: What else was publically questioned?

Answer: , the wisdom and prudence of certain decisions of procurement

Answer: wisdom and prudence of certain decisions

Answer: wisdom and prudence of certain decisions of procurement


Question: What is Kenya's HDI?

Answer: 0.519, ranked 145 out of 186 in the world

Answer: 0.519

Answer: 0.519


Question: Who is the biggest and most advanced economy in east and central Africa?

Answer: Kenya

Answer: Kenya

Answer: Kenya


Question: How much does 17.7% of the population live on a day?

Answer: less than $1.25 a day

Answer: less than $1.25

Answer: less than $1.25


Question: What kind of market is Kenya considered?

Answer: a frontier market or occasionally an emerging market

Answer: frontier

Answer: frontier


Question: What was East and Central Africa's economy boosted by?

Answer: rapid expansion in telecommunication and financial activity

Answer: rapid expansion in telecommunication and financial activity

Answer: rapid expansion in telecommunication and financial activity


Question: What is an important catalyst of economic growth?

Answer: food security

Answer: food security

Answer: food security


Question: What is the smalled work force sector?

Answer: Industry and manufacturing

Answer: Industry and manufacturing

Answer: Industry and manufacturing


Question: What percent of the labor force work in agriculture?

Answer: 75% of the labour force

Answer: 75%

Answer: 75%


Question: How much does the services sector contribute to GDP?

Answer: 61%

Answer: 61%

Answer: 61%


Question: What is the service sector dominated by?

Answer: tourism

Answer: tourism

Answer: tourism


Question: Has the tourism sector had growth or reduction?

Answer: steady growth

Answer: growth

Answer: growth


Question: What attracts the tourists to Kenya?

Answer: the coastal beaches and the game reserves

Answer: coastal beaches and the game reserves,

Answer: coastal beaches and the game reserves


Question: Where is the largest number of tourist coming from?

Answer: Germany and the United Kingdom

Answer: Germany and the United Kingdom

Answer: Germany and the United Kingdom


Question: How much of the GDP was agriculture in 2005?

Answer: 24%

Answer: 24%

Answer: 24%


Question: What are the principal cash crops in Kenya?

Answer: tea, horticultural produce, and coffee

Answer: tea, horticultural produce, and coffee

Answer: tea, horticultural produce, and coffee


Question: What is the second largest contrubtor to Kenyas GDP?

Answer: Agriculture

Answer: Agriculture

Answer: Agriculture


Question: What can cause fluctuations in the production of corn?

Answer: weather-related fluctuations

Answer: weather-related

Answer: weather


Question: What institution has helped farmers grow new pigeon pea varieties?

Answer: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Answer: ICRISAT

Answer: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics


Question: Why did they teach them to grow peas?

Answer: Pigeon peas are very drought resistant,

Answer: drought resistant

Answer: very drought resistant


Question: How did the project encourage the commercialisation of legumes?

Answer: by stimulating the growth of local seed production and agro-dealer networks for distribution and marketing

Answer: stimulating the growth of local seed production

Answer: stimulating the growth of local seed production


Question: How did this effect the producer prices?

Answer: , helped to increase local producer prices by 20–25%

Answer: increase local producer prices by 20–25%

Answer: increase


Question: What has the increase of prices caused?

Answer: enabling some farmers to buy assets

Answer: enabling some farmers to buy assets

Answer: enabling some farmers to buy assets


Question: Where is the most successful agricultural prodcution regions?

Answer: the fertile highlands

Answer: fertile highlands

Answer: highlands


Question: What is grown in the fertile highlands?

Answer: Tea, coffee, sisal, pyrethrum, corn, and wheat

Answer: ea, coffee, sisal, pyrethrum, corn, and wheat

Answer: Tea, coffee, sisal, pyrethrum, corn, and wheat


Question: Where does the livestock of the country normally dominate?

Answer: the semi-arid savanna to the north and east

Answer: savanna to the north and east

Answer: semi-arid savanna to the north and east


Question: What percent live below the povertly line?

Answer: 53% of the population

Answer: 53%

Answer: 53%


Question: What program did Red Cross put together in 2011?

Answer: Kenyans for Kenya

Answer: Kenyans for Kenya

Answer: Kenyans for Kenya


Question: What country is the most industrially developed country in the African Great Lakes Region?

Answer: Kenya

Answer: Kenya

Answer: Kenya


Question: How much of GDP does manufactoriing account for?

Answer: 14%

Answer: 14%

Answer: 14%


Question: What are the three largest urban areas in Kenya?

Answer: Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu

Answer: Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu

Answer: , Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu


Question: What does the sector known as Jua Kali engage in?

Answer: small-scale manufacturing of household goods, motor-vehicle parts, and farm implements

Answer: small-scale manufacturing

Answer: small-scale manufacturing


Question: What has given a boost to manufacturing in recent years?

Answer: Kenya's inclusion among the beneficiaries of the US Government's African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)

Answer: AGOA

Answer: African Growth and Opportunity Act


Question: What year did AGOA take effect?

Answer: 2000

Answer: 2000

Answer: 2000


Question: Where does the largest part of Kenya's power come from?

Answer: hydroelectric stations at dams

Answer: hydroelectric stations at dams

Answer: dams


Question: Where are these dams located?

Answer: Tana River, as well as the Turkwel Gorge Dam

Answer: upper Tana River, as well as the Turkwel Gorge

Answer: along the upper Tana River


Question: When was Kenya Electricity Generating Company established?

Answer: 1997

Answer: 1997

Answer: 1997


Question: Where does Kenya have deposits of oil?

Answer: in Turkana

Answer: Turkana

Answer: Turkana


Question: How many barrels of oil is it estimated Kenya has?

Answer: around 10 billion barrels.

Answer: 10 billion

Answer: 10 billion


Question: What is Kenya doing to determine if there are more reserves?

Answer: Exploration

Answer: Exploration

Answer: Exploration


Question: How much does petroleum account for of the national import bill?

Answer: r 20% to 25%

Answer: 20% to 25%

Answer: 20% to 25%


Question: How much is China's investment in Kenya?

Answer: $474 million

Answer: $474 million

Answer: $474 million


Question: What does China's investment mean for Kenya?

Answer: Kenya's largest source of foreign direct investment

Answer: largest source of foreign direct investment


Question: What did the Kenyan business people hope for when meeting with the Chinese?

Answer: support from China for a planned $2.5 billion railway from the southern Kenyan port of Mombasa to neighboring Uganda

Answer: support from China for a planned $2.5 billion railway

Answer: support from China for a planned $2.5 billion railway


Question: Where did the first shipment of minerals ship from?

Answer: Base Titanium, a subsidiary of Base resources of Australia

Answer: Base Titanium

Answer: Base Titanium


Question: What has caused China to suspend their railway project?

Answer: environmental and social problems

Answer: environmental and social problems

Answer: environmental and social problems


Question: What did Kenya reveil in 2030?

Answer: Vision 2030

Answer: Vision 2030

Answer: Vision 2030


Question: What is Vision 2030?

Answer: an economic development programme it hopes will put the country in the same league as the Asian Economic Tigers by the year 2030

Answer: economic development programme

Answer: an economic development programme


Question: What was their first plan that was launched?

Answer: National Climate Change Action Plan

Answer: 2013

Answer: National Climate Change Action Plan


Question: Why did Vision 2030 add the NCCAP?

Answer: having acknowledged that omitting climate as a key development issue in Vision 2030 was an oversight

Answer: oversight

Answer: oversight


Question: What will ensure and create the framework for the Action Plan to work?

Answer: climate will be a central issue in the renewed Medium Term Plan that will be launched in the coming months

Answer: Medium Term Plan

Answer: Medium Term Plan


Question: Where are most working children working?

Answer: in agriculture

Answer: agriculture

Answer: agriculture


Question: What percent of girls are in prostution in Kenyas coastal areas?

Answer: up to 30%

Answer: 30%

Answer: up to 30%


Question: What is the age range of most prostitutes in Kenya?

Answer: 9–18.

Answer: 9–18

Answer: 9–18


Question: What are some of the causes of child labor?

Answer: poverty, the lack of access to education and weak government institutions

Answer: poverty, the lack of access to education and weak government institutions

Answer: poverty, the lack of access to education and weak government institutions


Question: What language is spoken in Kenya?

Answer: Kenya's various ethnic groups typically speak their mother tongues within their own communities

Answer: mother tongues

Answer: mother tongues


Question: What are the two official languages?

Answer: English and Swahili

Answer: English and Swahili

Answer: English and Swahili,


Question: Where is English spoken the most?

Answer: in commerce, schooling and government

Answer: commerce, schooling and government.

Answer: commerce, schooling and government


Question: Where is British English usually used?

Answer: in the country

Answer: country

Answer: in the country


Question: What is the main religion in Kenya?

Answer: Christian

Answer: Christian

Answer: Christian


Question: What is the main denomination of Christians in Kenya?

Answer: Protestant

Answer: Protestant

Answer: Protestant


Question: How many followers does The Presbyterian Church of East Africa have?

Answer: 3 million followers

Answer: 3 million

Answer: 3 million


Question: Where is the only Jewish synagogue located?

Answer: Nairobi

Answer: Nairobi

Answer: Nairobi


Question: How many Kenyans are non-religious?

Answer: 2.4%

Answer: 2.4%

Answer: 2.4%


Question: What percent of the Muslim population lives in Kenya's Coastal Region?

Answer: Sixty percent

Answer: Sixty percent

Answer: Sixty percent


Question: What religion is the western region mostly?

Answer: mostly Christian

Answer: mostly Christian

Answer: Christian


Question: How much of the population is Hindu?

Answer: around 300,000

Answer: 300,000

Answer: 300,000


Question: Who treats the majority of the population medically?

Answer: Nurses

Answer: Nurses

Answer: Nurses


Question: Who sees a patient after a nurse can not help anymore?

Answer: clinical officers, medical officers and medical practitioners

Answer: clinical officers, medical officers and medical practitioners

Answer: clinical officers, medical officers and medical practitioners


Question: How many registered nurses were in Kenya in 2011?

Answer: 65,000

Answer: 65,000

Answer: 65,000


Question: How many doctors were in Kenya in 2011?

Answer: 7,000 doctors

Answer: 7,000

Answer: 7,000


Question: What directly correlates with the country's economic performance and wealth distribution?

Answer: Diseases of poverty

Answer: Diseases of poverty

Answer: Diseases of poverty


Question: How many Kenyans are living below the poverty level?

Answer: Half

Answer: Half

Answer: Half


Question: What are the biggest burdens?

Answer: diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, diarrhoea and malnutrition

Answer: Preventable diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, diarrhoea and malnutrition

Answer: Preventable diseases


Question: What is to blame for the burdens in health care in Kenya?

Answer: weak policies, corruption, inadequate health workers, weak management and poor leadership in the public health sector

Answer: weak policies, corruption, inadequate health workers, weak management and poor leadership

Answer: weak policies, corruption, inadequate health workers, weak management and poor leadership


Question: How many cases of malaria did Kenya report in 2006?

Answer: 15 million

Answer: 15 million

Answer: 15 million


Question: Who introduced the first system of education?

Answer: British colonists.

Answer: British colonists

Answer: British colonists


Question: When did Kenya gain independance?

Answer: 12 December 1963

Answer: 12 December 1963

Answer: 12 December 1963


Question: What was formed to introduce changes that would reflect the nation's sovereignty?

Answer: Ominde Commission

Answer: Ominde Commission

Answer: Ominde Commission


Question: What did the Ominde Commission do?

Answer: focused on identity and unity, which were critical issues at the time

Answer: focused on identity and unity

Answer: focused on identity and unity


Question: What system was adopted for education?

Answer: the 7–4–2–3 system was adopted

Answer: 7–4–2–3 system

Answer: 7–4–2–3


Question: What was the Presidential Working Party on the Second University commissioned to do?

Answer: look at both the possibilities of setting up a second university in Kenya as well as the reforming of the entire education system

Answer: look at both the possibilities

Answer: look at both the possibilities of setting up a second university in Kenya as well as the reforming of the entire education system


Question: What did they want the educational system to be?

Answer: 8–4–4 system

Answer: 8–4–4 system

Answer: an 8–4–4 system


Question: What is the edcuation system currently?

Answer: 8–4–4 system

Answer: 7–4–2–3 system

Answer: 7–4–2–3


Question: When did the last batch of students that followed the former system graudate?

Answer: 1992

Answer: 1992

Answer: 1992


Question: When was the 8-4-4 system launched?

Answer: January 1985

Answer: January 1985

Answer: January 1985


Question: What was the emphasis focuses on?

Answer: vocational subjects

Answer: vocational subjects

Answer: vocational subjects


Question: Why were vocational subjects most important?

Answer: the new structure would enable school drop-outs at all levels either to be self-employed or to secure employment in the informal sector

Answer: enable school drop-outs at all levels either to be self-employed or to secure employment

Answer: enable school drop-outs at all levels either to be self-employed or to secure employment


Question: When was free primary school introduced?

Answer: January 2003

Answer: January 2003

Answer: January 2003


Question: How much did enrollment increase?

Answer: increased by about 70%.

Answer: 70%

Answer: 70%


Question: What age does basic education start?

Answer: age six years

Answer: six

Answer: six


Question: What is the break down of years at different level of education?

Answer: eight years in primary school and four years in high school or secondary school.

Answer: eight years in primary school and four years in high school

Answer: eight years in primary school and four years in high school


Question: What do students do after primary school?

Answer: join a vocational youth/village polytechnic or make their own arrangements for an apprenticeship program

Answer: join a vocational youth/village polytechnic

Answer: four years in high school


Question: What can students that complete high school have opportunites to do?

Answer: join a polytechnic or other technical college and study for three years or proceed directly to the university and study for four years

Answer: join a polytechnic or other technical college

Answer: join a vocational youth/village polytechnic


Question: What is Kenya's literacy rate?

Answer: 85%

Answer: 85%

Answer: 85%


Question: Preschool targest what age children?

Answer: age three to five

Answer: three to five

Answer: age three to five


Question: What is preschool required for?

Answer: a key requirement for admission to Standard One (First Grade)

Answer: admission to Standard One

Answer: admission to Standard One


Question: What does the KCPE determine?

Answer: those who proceed to secondary school or vocational training

Answer: those who proceed to secondary school or vocational training

Answer: those who proceed to secondary school or vocational training


Question: What is the exam at the end of Form Four?

Answer: the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

Answer: Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

Answer: determines those proceeding to the universities


Question: Who leads the National and Public Library Servies?

Answer: the Kenya National Library Service

Answer: Kenya National Library Service

Answer: Kenya National Library Service


Question: What is the KNLS responsible for?

Answer: establish, equip, manage and maintain national and public libraries in the country

Answer: establish, equip, manage and maintain national and public libraries

Answer: establish, equip, manage and maintain national and public libraries


Question: What is the public library seen as to Kenyans?

Answer: a peoples university

Answer: peoples university

Answer: peoples university


Question: Why is the public library known as a people's university?

Answer: it is open to all irrespective of age, literacy level and has materials relevant to people of all walks of life

Answer: open to all irrespective of age, literacy level

Answer: open to all irrespective of age, literacy level