Possible Anarchist History Quiz Contest for Berea, Kentucky

Prizes include t-shirts, patches, and Books - displayed below)

QUESTIONS start Easy, then they get harder, many ask the audience to recognize people, flags, artists, & Animal significance

Who wrote The Conquest of Bread? — Answer: Peter Kropotkin

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

Who was the American anarchist famous for speeches on free speech, birth control, and labor? — Answer: Emma Goldman

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

Identify the woman in the photo below:

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 two animals who are the mascots of anarchism? — Answer: Raccoons and Opossums

Which 1960s student movement in France included anarchist influence? — Answer: May 1968 protests

Which anarchist-influenced uprising occurred in Paris in 1871? — Answer: Paris Commune

Which U.S. president was assassinated by an anarchist in 1901? — Answer: William McKinley

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

Identify the two anarchists in the photos below: — Answer: David Graeber and Mikhail Bakunin

Who said, “If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution”? — Answer: Emma Goldman

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

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

Name the two anarchist-influenced artists who painted the paintings below

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

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

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

Which American labor activist known as “The Rebel Girl” had strong connections to anarchists and the IWW? — Answer: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Identify the ideologies or groups associated with the images below:

Name the singer-songwriter for the IWW who was executed by the government in 1915. — Answer: Joe Hill

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

What novel did Ursela K LeGuiin write that is regarded as anarchist? — The Dispossessed

Name the two anarchists in the photos below: — Answer: Murray Bookchin and Emma Goldman

Name a person who had anarchist ideas who is from the nations pictured below. Answer: Italy - Errico Malatesta, India Gandhi, Ukraine Nestor Mahnov, Mexico Flores Magon