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1. 1 Medium

   What feature was wrongly added to popular Viking helmets?

   Answer: Horns

   Why: Archaeological finds reveal practical rounded iron helmets, while horns were invented for 19th-century theatrical costumes.

2. 2 Easy

   What action by Rosa Parks sparked the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott?

   Answer: Refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger

   Why: The boycott lasted 381 days and successfully led the Supreme Court to rule that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.

3. 3 Medium

   What abolished slavery across the entire US in 1865?

   Answer: Thirteenth Amendment

   Why: The 1863 Emancipation Proclamation targeted only Confederate territory, leaving slavery legal in Union border states until the 13th Amendment passed.

4. 4 Easy

   Which ancient Babylonian legal code popularized the retaliatory principle of an eye for an eye?

   Answer: Code of Hammurabi

   Why: Hammurabi's epilogue invites any wronged man to stand before the stele and have its 282 laws read aloud to him, since few Babylonians could read.

5. 5 Easy

   Why did President Thomas Jefferson dispatch the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

   Answer: To explore and map the Louisiana Purchase territory

   Why: In two years and four months the Corps of Discovery covered nearly 8,000 miles and logged 178 plants and 122 animals new to Western science.

6. 6 Medium

   Which country first granted women the vote in 1893?

   Answer: New Zealand

   Why: New Zealand granted women full parliamentary voting rights in 1893, more than twenty-five years before Britain or the United States.