Anarchist History Quiz Contest for Eugene, Oregon

Prizes include t-shirts below)

INTRO To ANARCHY - 29 Questions

Who was born a prince in Russia? He became a geographer, a Siberian explorer, he said “where there is authority, there is no freedom, and he wrote Conquest of Bread? — Answer: Peter Kropotkin

Who was the American feminist anarchist famous for speeches on free speech, birth control, and labor and she said “If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution”? — Answer: Emma Goldman

Which French thinker declared “Property is theft”? — Answer: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Which Italian anarchist was active for decades in revolutionary movements, he wrote Anarchy, and after he was exiled from Italy launched anarchism in Argentina and Uruguay? — Answer: Errico Malatesta

Name the Catholic anarchist who co-founded a movement based on voluntary poverty, and feeding people? — Answer: Dorothy Day

Which anarchist helped lead the Ukrainian peasant army during the Russian Civil War? — Answer: Nestor Makhno


Who said “the urge to destroy is a creative urge” - he had a legendary ideological beef with Karl Marx and he wrote God and the State? — Answer: Mikhail Bakunin

Non-violent anarchism began in the USA with a writer who was jailed for civil disobediance. Who was he? — Answer: Henry David Thoreau

What American radical labor union founded in 1905 had strong anarchist influence? — Answer: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Which Situationist 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

Which 1927 trial involved two Italian anarchists executed in the U.S.? — Answer: Sacco and Vanzetti trial

Which anarchist militia leader was killed in Spain in 1936? — Answer: Buenaventura Durruti

Which uprising by sailors in 1921 was supported by anarchists? — Answer: Kronstadt Rebellion

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

Name the Russian Christian anarchist-pacifist who wrote very long and famous novels? Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Which American anarchist wrote the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang? — Answer: Edward Abbey

Which American feminist anarchist gave the famous speech “The Dominant Idea”? — Answer: Voltairine de Cleyre

Who is the anarchist author of A People's History of the United States? — Answer: Howard Zinn

Name the anarchist of the Occupy movement who helped popularize the slogan “We are the 99%”? - Answer: David Graeber

What religion - originating in China 2,500 years ago - is regarded as anarchistic? — Answer; Taoism

Name the witty playwright who said “Disobediance is humanity’s original virtue? — Oscar Wilde

Name the Mexican anarchist-adjacent who has written children’s books and he said “another world is possible?” hint: he lives in Chiapas. Answer: Subcommandante Marcos

Who was the anarcho-adjacent leader of the original Diggers? — Answer: Gerrard Winstanley

Name the anarchist feminist French woman who participated in the Paris Commune and was exiled to New Caledonia and later wrote revolutionary memoirs? — Answer: Louise Michel

Name the American anarchist thinker that authored Post-Scarcity Anarchism and developed Social Ecology? — Answer: Murray Bookchin

Name the African American anarchist labor organizer who helped found the Industrial Workers of the World, and she said “we must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live?” — Answer: Lucy Parsons

IDEOLOGY + Green & Solar - 40 Questions

 Name the ideology that wants to abolish money, markets, and wage labor - and their flag looks like this: (Anarcho-Communism)

Name the ideology that supports renewable energy, ecological cities, and hopeful futures and their flag looks like this: (Solarpunk)

Name the ideology that supports revolutionary labor unions and workplace organizing and their flag is the same as the Anarcho-Communists: (Anarcho-Syndicalism)

Name the ideology that believes advanced technology and artificial intelligence can expand human freedom and their flag looks like this: (Anarcho-Transhumanism)

Name the idealogy that blends the anarchist goal of abolishing the State with the economic principle of widespread, localized private ownership of property. Answer: Anarcho-Distributism

Name the ideology that favors re-wilding and low-tech tribal futures and their flag looks like this: (Anarcho-Primitivism)

Name the ideology emphasizing immediate, violent "attack" on state and capitalist institutions. It rejects formal organizations (like unions) in favor of autonomous affinity groups, fostering spontaneous conflict - and their flag looks like this: (Insurrectionary Anarchism)

Name the ideology that emphasizes individual self-interest above collective morality and their flag looks like this: (Egoism)

Name the ideology that rejects violence as a strategy or moral principle and their flag looks like this (Anarcho-Pacifism)

Name the ideology that rejects rigid labels and encourages anarchists of different views to cooperate and one of their images looks like this: (Anarchy Without Adjectives)

Name the ideology that emphasizes theft, outlaw activity, and expropriation as revolt and their flag looks like this: (Illegalism)

Name the ideology that critiques “the spectacle” and promotes playful cultural revolt and their flag looks like this: (Situationism)

Name the ideology that links animal liberation with opposition to hierarchy and domination and their flag looks like this: (Vegan Anarchism)

Name the ideology that focuses on racism, prisons, policing, and state violence as interconnected systems and their flag looks like this: (Black Anarchism)

Name the ideology that emphasizes democratic municipal assemblies and ecological stewardship and their flag looks like this: (Communalism / Social Ecology)

Name the ideology rejected by many anarchists because it accepts capitalism and concentrated wealth and their flag looks like this: (Anarcho-Capitalism)

Name the ideology that supports collective ownership but compensates labor through vouchers or hours worked and their flag looks like this: (Collectivist Anarchism)

“Blessed is the Flame” is an important work that is associated with what subset of anarchism? Their flag looks like this. — Answer: Anarcho-Nihilism

Name the ideology that promotes a "back-to-nature" lifestyle with abolition of the state, eco-villages, vegetarianism, nudism, and free love, as a way of life against industrialism and capitalist society. Answer: Anarcho-Naturism

Name the ideology that combines feminist principles with anarchist theory, viewing patriarchy as a form of coercive hierarchy that must be abolished along with the state and capitalism. Answer: Anarcha-Feminism

Name the ideology that combines anarchism with trans-activism, viewing gender self-determination as inherently anti-state. Answer: Transgender Anarchism or Tranarchism.

Name the ideology that merges anarchist principles with religious convictions that recognize only God's authority - often interpreting the "Kingdom of God" as a call to abolish earthly state power. Answer: Religious Anarchism

Name the ideology that merges anarchism with environmentalism, advocating for a stateless, decentralized society based on ecological sustainability. It seeks to restore direct relationships between humans and nature. ANSWER: Green Anarchism or Eco-Anarchism

Name the economic system based on giving without expecting any return payment. Answer: Gift Economy

What do you call the decision making system where everyone participates equally? Answer: Horizontalism

What do you call a small autonomous political collective within a movement? Answer: Affinity group

What do you call it when a community practices voluntary cooperation between people and reciprocal support - sharing tools, skills, and resources? Answer: Mutual aid

What do you call living according to future ideals in the present? Answer: Prefigurative politics

What do you call an attack, like an assassination, that is intended to inspire wide-spread revolt? Answer: Propaganda-of-the-deed

What do you call reducing dependence on centralized institutions? Answer: Autonomy

What do you call worker or student takeover of work or study places? Answer: Occupation

What do you call the futuristic movement combining ecology and technology?
 Answer: Solarpunk

What do you call buildings covered with living plants and vegetation?
 Answer: Greenroofs

What do you call technology powered by renewable natural sources? 
Answer: Cleantech

What do you call the shared neighborhood system that produces electricity locally?
 Answer: Microgrids

What do you call the system that reuses sink or shower water for irrigation? Answer: Graywater

What do you call the movement to recover, eat, and distribute discarded food to reduce waste, starvation, and consumerism? Answer: Freeganism

What do you call re-using materials instead of throwing them away. Answer: Upcycling

What do you call the burial method that avoids embalming chemicals and concrete vaults ,it naturally returns the bodies to earth, emphasizing minimal environmental impact after death. Answer: Greenburial, Eco-Burial, Natural Burial

What do you call an edible ecosystem-inspired garden with fruit trees, shrubs, and edible plants, that requires very little maintenance?Answer: Foodforest

Slang, Pop Culture, Jokes - 32 Questions

What kind of mint do anarchists strongly dislike? Answer: Govern mint

How did the IRA find out Lord Mountbatten had dandruff? — Answer: They found his head and shoulders on the beach

Which anarchist tactic involves masked protesters dressed in black? — Answer: Black Bloc

Name the anarchist singer in the LA punk band X? Answer: Henry Rollins

What kind of exercise does Henry Rollins like to do? Answer: Weightlifting

What is the slang term for people who are led into anarchism after reading The Conquest of Bread? Answer; “bread-pilled”

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

Name another British anarchist band that sang about Anarchy in the UK? — Answer: Sex Pistols

Name a San Francisco anarchist band that sang about Holiday in Cambodia? — Answer: Dead Kennedys

Name the anarcho-pacifist singer-songewriter whose first name is a US western state.— Answer: Utah Philipps.

Why do Anarchists only drink herbal tea? Answer: Because proper tea is theft.

Which Ken Loach film portrays anarchist collectives during the Spanish Civil War? — Answer: Land and Freedom

Name two mammals that are often praised as Anarchistic and used in memes?

What is the name of the anarchist neighborhood in Athens? — Answer: Exarcheia

How do anarchists exercise? Answer: Squats

Name the anarcho-pacifist theater troupe in New York City founded by Julian Beck and Judith Malina.— Answer: The Living theater

 Why did the non-binary prospector move to California during the Gold Rush? — Answer: because there was gold in them/their hills 

Identify the anarchist or anarchist-adjacent artists who created the paintings below:

What island was called “Pirate Utopia”? — Madagascar

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

Which 2005 film features a masked revolutionary inspired by anarchist ideas fighting a dystopian state? — Answer: V for Vendetta

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

Name a recent musical composer who was anarchist - his last name rhymes with Page? - John Cage

Name a fictitious Englishman from the Middle Ages who is admired by anarchists? — Answer: Robin Hood

Eugene / Oregon SECTION - 41 Questions

Name the Anarcha-Taoist science fiction writer who died in Portland in 2018. — Answer: Ursela K LeGuin

What novel did Ursela K LeGuin 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”

Name another region that was inspired by the NAC’s free resource guide to assemble and publish its own free resource guide? — ANSWER: San Francisco East Bay

What 1997 protest tactic—where activists lived in trees to prevent logging—became a flashpoint for conflict with police? ANSWER: Tree-sitting

What restaurant in Whitaker was often vandalized by the community in the late 1990’s because it was a gentrifying newcomer? ANSWER: Blair Island Cafe

What style of protest, with masked demonstrators dressed in black, was developed in part by activists connected to the Whit? ANSWER: Black Bloc

In 2020, activists in Eugene tore down what two statues? ANSWER: Pioneer Father and Pioneer Mother

Which industry played a major role in reshaping the Whit’s image in the 2000s–2010s?
 ANSWER: Craft beer / microbreweries

What does the acronym CAHOOTS stand for? ANSWER: Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets.

How many buildings are in Whiteaker? ANSWER: 2606 homes 432 business

What was the name of the railroad line where many Whiteaker residents worked in the late 1800’s? ANSWER: Oregon & California Railroad line

Name the Eugene Anarchists pictured below

ANSWERS: John Zerzan, Heather Coburn, Jeff “Free” Luers, Kari Johnson, Tim Lewis, Lacey Phillabaum

What is the name of John Zerzan’s radio show? — ANSWER: AnarchyRadio

Name the anarchist who lived in Vermont who was very critical of John Zerzan’s writing. ANSWER: Murray Bookchin

What building in Eugene was firebombed in 1968, destroying multiple jeeps and trucks? ANSWER: The Eugene Armory.

What building at University of Oregon was lit on fire in anti-war protests in 1970? ANSWER: The ROTC Building - Esslinger Hall. Also a bomb in Prince Lucien Hall,

Name the Mayor of Eugene who said in 1999 that the city was “The Anarchist Capital of the United States.” - ANSWER: Jim Torrey

In 1999, who did the Seattle Police Chief blame the majority of WTO protest unrest on, in his resignation speech? ANSWER: Eugene Anarchists

Name the two statues in Eugene that were toppled in the George Floyd riots? ANSWER: The Pioneer and the Pioneer Mother.

In 2001, Jeff “Free” Luers was imprisoned for burning three SUVs. How much time in jail was he originaly sentenced to? ANSWER: twenty-three years and eight months

When Luers got out of jail, what subject did he study at University of Oregon? ANSWER: Landscape Architecture

Who are the two Tims from Eugene of the WTO Riots? ANSWER: Tim Lewis and Tim Ream

Name the anarchist-feminist of Eugene that started the Ant Farm in 1998. She also ran an all-women’s show called “Vaginal Discharge” on Radio Free Cascadia and she co-organized “Free Skool” classes and she launched an urban gardening movement called Food Not Lawns. ANSWER: Heather Coburn

Who was the woman who invited Fall Creek forest defenders to hold meetings in her café, and opened her 5th Ave. home as a campaign headquarters for the tree-sitters? ANSWER: Shelley Cater

Who is the anarcho-eco-feminist who is also a muralist? She recently painted a mural at Village School? ANSWER: Kari Johnson

Who is the anarchist videographer who co-founded Cascadia Media Collective and produced “Guerrilla Video Primer”? ANSWER: Randy Shadowalker

Who is the anarchist-eco-feminist who was co-editor of the Earth First Journal, she appeared in the film Breaking the Spell, and was editor of In Good Tilth Magazine? ANSWER: Lacey Phillabaum

Final Miscellaneous Tough - 22 Questions

Who assassinated McKinley? — Answer: Leon Czolgosz

What religion did the anarchist Robert Baker Aiken belong to? — Answer: Buddhist

What’s the last name of the three anarchist brothers who instigated the Mexican Revolution? — Answer: Magón

Who wrote the Conquest of Violence? — Answer: Bart de Ligt

Name the Yale anthropology professor who wrote about stateless societies in South Asia? Answer: James Scott

Name the early American naturalist that expressed anti-government ideas influencing anarchist environmentalists. — Answer: John Muir

Who said “by anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.” — Answer: Jacques Elul

Which Spanish anarchist woman became a leading figure in the women’s organization Mujeres Libres? — Answer: Federica Montseny

Which Spanish anarchist educator founded the Modern School movement? — Answer: Francisco Ferrer

Which Irish anarchist helped found the Irish Workers’ Republican Party and supported radical labor organizing in Belfast and Dublin? — Answer: James Connolly

Kōtoku Shūsui was a Japanese anarchist executed in 1911 — why? — Answer: For denouncing the emperor and promoting anarchist ideas

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 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 the British anarchist who married Mary Wollstonecraft? — Answer: William Godwin

Who is the editor of the current journal Anarchist Studies, published in the UK? — Answer: Ruth Kinna

Which Chilean anarchist was prominent in early 20th-century labor strikes and helped develop the anarcho-syndicalist movement? — Answer: Manuel Rojas

Who was Emma Goldman’s lover and close collaborator who attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick in 1892? — Answer: Alexander Berkman

Name the woman who tried to assassinate Vladimir Lenin, she shot and seriously wounded him claiming he was a “traitor to the revolution.” — Answer: Fanny Kaplan

Name the anarchist from India - most people don’t realize he was an anarchist but what he really wanted was to have India be a subcontinent of autonomous villages. Answer: Gandhi

Name this famous American deaf and blind woman who was very anarchist-adjacent. Here’s a hint: she was blind. Here’s another hint: she was deaf.—Answer: Helen Keller

Questions from the Audience

And now, it’s your turn. Does anyone here have a question that has not yet been asked? Perhaps you think only you know the answer. Or perhaps you think it’s an important question and we should ALL LEARN THE ANSWER. We have time for 5-10 of these. You can come up here and use the microphone. You can try to stump me and everyone else.