Anarchist History Quiz Contest for Varna, Bulgaria
answers at https://anarchist-Utopian.news/answers
Prizes include t-shirts below)
QUESTIONS start Easy, then they get hard, many ask the audience to recognize people, flags, artists, & Animal significance in images below
BULGARIA QUESTIONS
Bulgarian anarchism had always accepted individualism and syndicalism - true or false? ANSWER: false
Name the poet who was deeply influence by Bakunin and is viewed as introducing anarchism to Bulgaria. ANSWER: Hristo Botev
Bulgarian anarchists were the first group to adopt a controversial platform in 1926 - what was the name of this platform? ANSWER: Platform of the Ukrainian Makhnovist exiles in Paris
Name the Bulgarian anarchist who was an expert marksman and a writer for the journal Awakening and the magazine Anarchist. ANSWER: Vasil Ikonomov
How old was Vasil Ikonomov when he died and how did he die? ANSWER: He was 26 when he was shot to death while bathing.
What city was Georgi Sheytanov born in? ANSWER: Yambol
Georgi Sheytanov (1896-1925) was arrested for burning the records of a local courthouse when he was 17. He escaped from prison and fled into exile in what nation? France
Georgi Sheytanov wrote an anarchist critique of Bolshevism - what was it called? ANSWER: Manifesto to Revolutionaries
Name the anarchist who established an aquarium in Varna and described the city as “the bright pearl of the Black Sea” ANSWER: Paraskev Stoyanov
Paraskev Stoyanov adopted socialist ideas in his youth, but he switched to anarchism after reading a pamphlet by Kropotkin. Name the pamphlet. ANSWER: “Towards the Young.”
After demonstrating on May Day in 1890, Paraskev Stoyanov was thrown into jail in what nation? ANSWER: France
Who are the Bulgarian anarchists pictured below?
ANSWERS: Hristo Kolev, Vasil Ikonomov, Tsvetana Djermanova, Tinko Simov, Georgi Kontantinov, Miriola Sirakova, Paraskev Stoyanov, Georgi Sheytanov
Who blew up the statue of Stalin in Sofia in 1953? ANSWER: Georgi Konstantinov
How old was he when he did this? ANSWER: Nineteen
What happened two days after the statue was blown up? ANSWER: Stalin died.
When Georgi Konstantinov went to prison he weighed 93 kilograms. How much did he weigh when he was released? ANSWER: 49 Kilograms
After his release, he lived in exile in what nation? ANSWER: France
He wrote an autobiography… How many volumes is it? ANSWER: Five
What Russian anarchist was the primary influence on Georgi Konstantinov? ANSWER: Mikhail Bakunin
What do scholars often say is a primary difference between Bulgarian anarchism and anarchism in other European nations? ANSWER: Bulgarian had deep roots among peasants and and workers, not just in intellectual circles.
What other anarchist revolution is the Bulgarian revolution often compared to, due to the resemblance? ANSWER: Spanish anarchism
Tsvetana Djermanova died last year, how old was she? ANSWER: Ninety-five
She wrote a memoir - what was it called? ANSWER: Memories of the Camps
A documentary film was made about her. What was it called? ANSWER: Open Files
GENERAL QUESTIONS (answers at https://Anarchist-Utopian.News/answers)
Who wrote The Conquest of Bread?
Who was the American anarchist famous for speeches on free speech, birth control, and labor?
Which French thinker declared “Property is theft”?
What band did Henry Rollins sing in?
What kind of exercise does he do?
What sort of mint do anarchists hate?
Name the Anarcha-Taoist science fiction writer who died in Portland in 2018.
What novel did Ursela K LeGuin write that is regarded as anarchist?
What woman co-founded the IWW?
Who was Emma Goldman’s lover and close collaborator who attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick in 1892?
Which Italian anarchist wrote Anarchy and was active for decades in revolutionary movements?
Name the Catholic anarchist who co-founded a movement based on voluntary poverty, and feeding people?
Name the anarchist who married Mary Wollstonecraft
Name a famous deaf and blind woman who was very anarchist-adjacent.
Name the people pictured below:
Which anarchist helped lead the Ukrainian peasant army during the Russian Civil War? —
Who had a legendary ideological beef with Karl Marx ?
Who wrote the essay “Anarchism: What It Really Stands For”?
Which anarchist wrote The Ego and Its Own?
Non-violent anarchism began in the USA with a writer who was jailed for civil disobediance. Who was he?
Name an anarchist associated with the strategy “propaganda of the deed”?
Name the woman who shot Vladimir Lenin claiming he was a “traitor to the revolution.”
Who is the editor of the journal Anarchist Studies?
How did the IRA find out Lord Mountbatten had dandruff?
Which Russian anarchist prince became a famous geographer?
Which anarchist thinker developed Social Ecology?
Name the woman who shot Vladimir Lenin claiming he was a “traitor to the revolution.”
Which anarchist historian wrote Demanding the Impossible?
What anarchist concept describes voluntary cooperation among people?
Which anarchist approach focuses on ecological society?
Identify the 12 Flags Below
What anarchist idea proposes decentralized federations of communes?
Which anarchist tactic involves masked protesters dressed in black?
What American radical labor union founded in 1905 had strong anarchist influence?
What were members of the IWW commonly called?
Name the British peace punk anarchist band of the late 70’s and early 80’s.
Which 1960’s student movement in France included anarchist influence?
Name the anarcho-pacifist singer-songewriter whose first name is a US western state.
Which anarchist collective organized armed resistance in the Spanish Civil War?
Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea?
Which anarchist-influenced uprising occurred in Paris in 1871?
Which 1886 Chicago labor protest led to a famous anarchist trial?
Which U.S. president was assassinated by an anarchist in 1901?
Who assassinated McKinley?
Name two mammals that are often praised as Anarchistic and used in memes?
Which 1927 trial involved two Italian anarchists executed in the U.S.?
Which anarchist militia leader was killed in Madrid in 1936?
Which uprising by sailors in 1921 was supported by anarchists?
What religion did the anarchist Robert Baker Aiken belong to?
What’s the last name of the two anarchist brothers in the Mexican Revolution?
Which radical workers’ holiday emerged from the Haymarket events?
Which anarchist-influenced movement emerged in 2011 in many cities?
What is the name of the anarchist neighborhood in Athens?
Who said, “If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution”?
How do anarchists exercise?
Who said, “Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality”?
Who wrote the Conquest of Violence?
What was the large Spanish anarchist labor union founded in 1910?
Who is pictured below?
Which radical newspaper did Emma Goldman edit?
Who said, “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently”?
Who said, “Anarchism is democracy taken seriously”?
Who said, “Everyone wants to change the world, but no one thinks about changing himself”?
Which American anarchist wrote the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang?
Name the anarcho-pacifist theater troupe in New York City founded by Julian Beck and Judith Malina.
Name the Japanese anarchist woman who was executed for plotting to kill the Emperor.
Which American anarchist thinker authored Post-Scarcity Anarchism and developed Social Ecology?
Why did the non-binary prospector move to California during the Gold Rush?
Which American feminist anarchist gave the famous speech “The Dominant Idea”?
What anarchist economic model uses labor vouchers?
Identify the anarchist or anarchist-adjacent artists who created the paintings below:
What island was called “Pirate Utopia”?
Who is the author of A People's History of the United States who described himself as an anarchist?
Who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, often described as anarchistic?
Name four Beat Generation poets that sympathized with anarchist ideas.
Name the early American naturalist that expressed anti-government ideas influencing anarchist environmentalists.
Which 2005 film features a masked revolutionary inspired by anarchist ideas fighting a dystopian state?
Who said “by anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.”
Which Ken Loach film portrays anarchist collectives during the Spanish Civil War?
Name the Japanese anarchist woman who was executed for plotting to kill the Emperor.
When Errico Malatesta was exiled, he spent time promoting anarchism on which continent?
David Graeber helped popularize which protest slogan during the Occupy movement?
Which African American anarchist labor organizer helped found the Industrial Workers of the World?
Which French anarchist and feminist participated in the Paris Commune and later wrote revolutionary memoirs?
Which Spanish anarchist woman became a leading figure in the women’s organization Mujeres Libres?
Which American labor activist known as “The Rebel Girl” had strong connections to anarchists and the IWW?
Name the singer-songwriter for the IWW who was executed by the government in 1915.
“Blessed is the Flame” is an important work that is associated with what subset of anarchism?
Which Spanish anarchist educator founded the Modern School movement?
What religion - originating in China 2,500 years ago - is regarded as anarchistic?
Which Irish anarchist helped found the Irish Workers’ Republican Party and supported radical labor organizing in Belfast and Dublin?
What anarchist theory centers individual sovereignty?
Who are the people pictured below:
What term describes revolutionary labor unions?
Name a recent musical composer who was anarchist - his last name rhymes with Page?
Name the African American anarchist often associated with the Harlem Renaissance, who wrote Anarchism and the Black Revolution?
Which African American anarchist collective organized mutual aid, community defense, and prison abolition efforts in Oakland, California?
Who wrote God and the State?
Who was the Brazilian anarchist and writer known for advocating for labor unions, free education, and anti-clerical activism in the early 20th century?
Which American anarchist edited the journal Liberty?
Name a fictitious Englishman from the Middle Ages who is admired by anarchists?
Which Chilean anarchist was prominent in early 20th-century labor strikes and helped develop the anarcho-syndicalist movement?
Which anarchist newspaper in Argentina, first published in the early 1900s, became a key platform for anarchist ideas and labor organizing?
Who was the anarcho-adjacent leader of the original Diggers?
Name an Anarchist from each of the nations below:
