Historical Events and Figures #2

Given the description, name the historical event or person.

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Description	Answer
Leader of the Hungarian Revolution	Imre Nagy
Medieval theologian in Bohemia who was a predecessor of the Protestant Reformation	Jan Hus
Swiss female neoclassical painter who painted "Potrait of a Lady"	Angelica Kauffman
Spanish playwright whose political pieces led to his assassination	Federico Garcia Lorca
Chief consort of the Mughal Empire, the Taj Mahal was built for her	Mumtaz Mahal
Qing emperor who was the last ruler of China	Puyi
Roman emperor who was assassinated by his own soldiers	Maximinus Thrax
Italian painter and sculptor who started the Futurist movement	Umberto Boccioni
Russian painter who depicted historical scenes	Vasily Surikov
Wife of Socrates who was much younger than he was	Xanthippe

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Elizabethan playwright and author of "The Spanish Tragedy"	Thomas Kyd
Leader of the Protestant movement in Switzerland	Ulrich Zwingli
The first action taken in the Great Leap Forward	Four Pests Campaign
Longest ruling sultan of the Ottoman Empire	Suleiman the Magnificent
Oversaw the Federal Reserve during the late 2000's during the economic crisis	Ben Bernanke
Assassinated emperor of Ethiopia who was a influence on Rastafarianism	Halie Selassie I
First chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany	Konrad Adenauer
The founder the Cable News Network (CNN)	Ted Turner
Sports executive who brought the Olympics to Los Angeles in 1984	Peter Ueberroth
Series of treaties that ended the 30 Years War	Peace of Westphalia