Anarchist History Quiz Contest
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QUESTIONS start Easy, then they get hard, many ask the audience to recognize people, flags, artists, & Animal significance in images below
Who wrote The Conquest of Bread? — Answer: Peter Kropotkin
Who was the American anarchist famous for speeches on free speech, birth control, and labor? — Answer: Emma Goldman
Which French thinker declared “Property is theft”? — Answer: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
What band did Henry Rollins sing in? — Answer: X
What kind of exercise does he do? — Answer: weightlifting
What sort of mint do anarchists hate? — Answer: Governmint
What woman co-founded the IWW? — Answer: Lucy Parsons
Who was Emma Goldman’s lover and close collaborator who attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick in 1892? — Answer: Alexander Berkman
Which Italian anarchist wrote Anarchy and was active for decades in revolutionary movements? — Answer: Errico Malatesta
Name the Catholic anarchist who co-founded a movement based on voluntary poverty, and feeding people? — Answer: Dorothy Day
Name the anarchist who married Mary Wollstonecraft — Answer: William Godwin
Name the people pictured below:
Answers: Dorothy Day, Errico Malatesta, Voltarine de Cleyre, Ruth Kinna
Which anarchist helped lead the Ukrainian peasant army during the Russian Civil War? — Answer: Nestor Makhno
Who had a legendary ideological beef with Karl Marx ? — Answer: Mikhail Bakunin
Who wrote the essay “Anarchism: What It Really Stands For”? — Answer: Emma Goldman
Which anarchist wrote The Ego and Its Own? — Answer: Max Stirner
Non-violent anarchism began in the USA with a writer who was jailed for civil disobediance. Who was he? — Answer: Henry David Thoreau
Name an anarchist associated with the strategy “propaganda of the deed”? — Answer: Carlos Cafiero and Johann Most and others
Who is the editor of the jurnal Anarchist Studies? — Answer: Ruth Kinna
How did the IRA find out Lord Mountbatten had dandruff? — Answer: They found his head and shoulders on the beach
Which Russian anarchist prince became a famous geographer? — Answer: Peter Kropotkin
Which anarchist thinker developed Social Ecology? — Answer: Murray Bookchin
Which anarchist historian wrote Demanding the Impossible? — Answer: Peter Marshall
What anarchist concept describes voluntary cooperation among people? — Answer: Mutual aid
Which anarchist approach focuses on ecological society? — Answer: Social Ecology
Identify the 12 Flags Below
Answer (from Top to Bottom, Left to Right): Insurrectionary Anarchism, Queer Anarchism, Anarcho-Distributism, Vegan Anarchism, Techno-Anarchism, Anarcho-Naturism, Anarcho-Nihilism, Religious Anarchism
What anarchist idea proposes decentralized federations of communes? — Answer: Libertarian municipalism
Which anarchist tactic involves masked protesters dressed in black? — Answer: Black Bloc
What American radical labor union founded in 1905 had strong anarchist influence? — Answer: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
What were members of the IWW commonly called? — Answer: Wobblies
Name the British peace punk anarchist band of the late 70’s and early 80’s. — Answer: Crass
Which 1960’s student movement in France included anarchist influence? — Answer: May 1968 Paris protests
Name the anarcho-pacifist singer-songewriter whose first name is a US western state.— Answer: Utah Philipps.
Which anarchist collective organized armed resistance in the Spanish Civil War? — Answer: Durruti Column
Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea? Answer: Because proper tea is theft.
Which anarchist-influenced uprising occurred in Paris in 1871? — Answer: Paris Commune
Which 1886 Chicago labor protest led to a famous anarchist trial? — Answer: Haymarket Affair
Which U.S. president was assassinated by an anarchist in 1901? — Answer: William McKinley
Who assassinated McKinley? — Answer: Leon Czolgosz
Name two mammals that are often praised as Anarchistic and used in memes?
Answer: Opossums and Raccoons
Which 1927 trial involved two Italian anarchists executed in the U.S.? — Answer: Sacco and Vanzetti trial
Which anarchist militia leader was killed in Madrid in 1936? — Answer: Buenaventura Durruti
Which uprising by sailors in 1921 was supported by anarchists? — Answer: Kronstadt Rebellion
What religion did the anarchist Robert Baker Aiken belong to? — Answer: Buddhist
What’s the last name of the two anarchist brothers in the Mexican Revolution? — Answer: Magón
Which radical workers’ holiday emerged from the Haymarket events? — Answer: May Day
Which anarchist-influenced movement emerged in 2011 in many cities? — Answer: Occupy Wall Street
What is the name of the anarchist neighborhood in Athens? — Answer: Exarcheia
Who said, “If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution”? — Answer: Emma Goldman
How do anarchists exercise? Answer: Squats
Who said, “Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality”? — Answer: Mikhail Bakunin
Who wrote the Conquest of Violence? — Answer: Bart de Ligt
What was the large Spanish anarchist labor union founded in 1910? — Answer: Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT)
Who is pictured below?
ANSWER: David Graeber, Louise Michel, Mikhail Bakunin, William Godwin
Which radical newspaper did Emma Goldman edit? — Answer: Mother Earth
Who said, “Property is theft”? — Answer: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Who said, “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently”? — Answer: David Graeber
Who said, “Anarchism is democracy taken seriously”? — Answer: Edward Abbey
Who said, “Everyone wants to change the world, but no one thinks about changing himself”? — Answer: Leo Tolstoy
Who wrote Post-Scarcity Anarchism? — Answer: Murray Bookchin
Which American anarchist wrote the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang? — Answer: Edward Abbey
Name the anarcho-pacifist theater troupe in New York City founded by Julian Beck and Judith Malina.— Answer: The Living theater
Which American anarchist thinker authored Post-Scarcity Anarchism and developed Social Ecology? — Answer: Murray Bookchin
Why did the non-binary prospector move to California during the Gold Rush? — Answer: because there was gold in them/their hills
Which American feminist anarchist gave the famous speech “The Dominant Idea”? — Answer: Voltairine de Cleyre
What anarchist economic model uses labor vouchers? — Answer: Collectivist anarchism
Identify the anarchist or anarchist-adjacent artists who created the paintings below:
ANSWERS: Camille Pissarro, Georges Seurat, Jackson Pollock, Banksy
What island was called “Pirate Utopia”? — Madagascar
Who is the author of A People's History of the United States who described himself as an anarchist? — Answer: Howard Zinn
Who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, often described as anarchistic? — Answer: Ken Kesey
Name two Beat Generation poets that sympathized with anarchist ideas. — Answer: Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Name the early American naturalist that expressed anti-government ideas influencing anarchist environmentalists. — Answer: John Muir
Which 2005 film features a masked revolutionary inspired by anarchist ideas fighting a dystopian state? — Answer: V for Vendetta
Who said “by anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.” — Answer: Jacques Elul
Which Ken Loach film portrays anarchist collectives during the Spanish Civil War? — Answer: Land and Freedom
When Errico Malatesta was exiled, he spent time promoting anarchism on which continent? — Answer: South America (Argentina and Uruguay)
David Graeber helped popularize which protest slogan during the Occupy movement? — Answer: “We are the 99%”
Which African American anarchist labor organizer helped found the Industrial Workers of the World? — Answer: Lucy Parsons
ANSWERS: Solar Punk, Anarcho-Syndicalism & Anarcho-Communism, Philosophical Anarchism, Social Anarchism, International Workers of the World, Green Anarchism, Transgender Anarchism, Anarcho-Collectivism
Which French anarchist and feminist participated in the Paris Commune and later wrote revolutionary memoirs? — Answer: Louise Michel
Which Spanish anarchist woman became a leading figure in the women’s organization Mujeres Libres? — Answer: Federica Montseny
Which American labor activist known as “The Rebel Girl” had strong connections to anarchists and the IWW? — Answer: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Name the singer-songwriter for the IWW who was executed by the government in 1915. — Answer: Joe Hill
“Blessed is the Flame” is an important work that is associated with what subset of anarchism? — Answer: Anarcho-Nihilism
Which Spanish anarchist educator founded the Modern School movement? — Answer: Francisco Ferrer
What religion - originating in China 2,500 years ago - is regarded as anarchistic? — Answer; Taoism
Which Irish anarchist helped found the Irish Workers’ Republican Party and supported radical labor organizing in Belfast and Dublin? — Answer: James Connolly
What anarchist theory centers individual sovereignty? — Answer: Egoist Anarchism
Who are the people pictured below:
Answer: Murray Bookchin, Emma Goldman, Pierre Proudhon, Lucy Parsons
Kōtoku Shūsui was a Japanese anarchist executed in 1911 — why? — Answer: For denouncing the emperor and promoting anarchist ideas
What term describes revolutionary labor unions? — Answer: Syndicalism
Name a recent musical composer who was anarchist - his last name rhymes with Page? - John Cage
Name the African American anarchist often associated with the Harlem Renaissance, who wrote Anarchism and the Black Revolution? — Answer: Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin
Which African American anarchist collective organized mutual aid, community defense, and prison abolition efforts in Oakland, California? — Answer: Black Autonomy Network (BAN)
Who wrote God and the State? — Answer: Mikhail Bakunin
Who was the Brazilian anarchist and writer known for advocating for labor unions, free education, and anti-clerical activism in the early 20th century? — Answer: Edgard Leuenroth
Which American anarchist edited the journal Liberty? — Answer: Benjamin Tucker
Name a fictitious Englishman from the Middle Ages who is admired by anarchists? — Answer: Robin Hood
Which Chilean anarchist was prominent in early 20th-century labor strikes and helped develop the anarcho-syndicalist movement? — Answer: Manuel Rojas
Which anarchist newspaper in Argentina, first published in the early 1900s, became a key platform for anarchist ideas and labor organizing? — Answer: La Protesta
Who was the anarcho-adjacent leader of the original Diggers? — Answer: Gerrard Winstanley
Name an Anarchist from each of the nations below: Answers - many possibilities
SPECIAL OREGON SECTION
Name the Anarcha-Taoist science fiction writer who died in Portland in 2018. — Answer: Ursela K LeGuin
What novel did Ursela K LeGuiin write that is regarded as anarchist? — Answer: The Dispossessed
The IWW in western Oregon was strongest in what labor groups? — Answer: Lumber camps and mills
Who wrote the introduction to the Green Anarchy magazine archive? — Answer: John Zerzan
What was the name of this publication? — Answer: Uncivilized
Name the two individuals identified in the SUV dealership fire attack in Eugene in the year 2000. — Answer: Jeffrey ‘Free’ Luers, and Craig ‘Critter’ Marshall
Name the group that attacked and destroyed dozens of SUVs in Eugene in the year 2001. — Answer: ELF (Earth Liberation Front)
Why did the mutual aid advocate move to Eugene? — Answer: Because she heard they have a NAC (knack) for anarchism.
What year did NAC start? — Answer: 2017
When was the first NAC Share Fair? — Answer: February 2018
What was the first NAC project? — “The little guide to free resources in Eugene”