Anarchist History Quiz Contest for Sacramento - 142 Questions
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?
Oppossum
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:
Camille Pissarro
George Seurat
Jackson Pollack
Banksy
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
Final General 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
Who is the Eugene, Oregon anarchist who developed anarcho-primitivism? — Answer: John Zerzan
Name the group that attacked and destroyed dozens of SUVs in Eugene in the year 2001. — Answer: ELF (Earth Liberation Front)
What style of protest, with masked demonstrators dressed in black, was developed by anarchists? ANSWER: Black Bloc
Who assassinated President William 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
Which German philosopher inspired anarchists with critiques of the state and morality? Answer: Max Stirner
Which French geographer linked anarchism with ecology and decentralization? — Answer: Élisée Reclus
What book did George Orwell write that discusses anarchism in the Spanish Civil War? — Answer: Homage to Catalonia
Which French radical movement inspired UK punk and squatter politics? — Answer: Situationists
Which French theorist wrote The Society of the Spectacle? — Answer: Guy Debord
Which anti-globalization protest city in 1999 inspired anarchists? — Answer: Seattle
Which Mexican Indigenous movement inspired anti-capitalist activists globally? — Answer: Zapatistas
Name the Danish autonomous district became famous for self-governance and squatting? — Answer: Christiania
Which Italian movement advocated autonomous social centers and occupations? — Answer: Autonomia
Which anti-capitalist protest summit in Italy saw violent clashes in 2001? — Answer: Genoa G8
Which American anarchist advocated unschooling and free education? — Answer: Paul Goodman
Which California coastal city became known for ELF and anarchist activism? — Answer: Santa Cruz
Name the religious group with an organizational structure that was adopted by anarchists? — Quakers
Which anarchist organizational model avoids formal leaders? Answer: Horizontalism
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.