Week 1 Social Studies

Lake Tear of the Clouds lies on its highest peak, Mount Marcy. West of Lake Champlain and north of the Catskills are what mountains of upstate New York?

The Singha Durbar, or Lion Palace, is the official seat of government in this city. Name this Asian capital city that was devastated by an April 2015 earthquake.

Kathmandu is the capital of this nation.

In 1950, two of its residents tried to shoot Harry Truman at Blair House. The 1898 Treaty of Paris gave the U.S. control of the Philippines, Guam, and what Caribbean island?

This phrase was first used in 1907 following Harry Kendall Thaw's murder of architect Stanford White. Give this four-word phrase often used to describe a court case perceived to have great historical significance.

The phrase "trial of the century" was used during the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, who kidnapped and murdered the son of this American aviator.

What Ojibwe term describes a sacred item or spirit being that is an individual, family or tribe's emblem, and is sometimes depicted in North America on "poles"?

What man gave the "Checkers" speech and was the first U.S. president to visit communist China?

What man, who said "what an artist dies with me" as he expired at the start of the Year of the Four Emperors, allegedly fiddled in AD 64 as Rome burned?

What Russian Commissar for Foreign Affairs negotiated the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, then was murdered in exile in Mexico after breaking with Stalin?