Anarchist History Quiz Contest

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

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

3 Who wrote God and the State? — Answer: Mikhail Bakunin

4 Which Russian anarchist prince became a famous geographer? — Answer: Peter Kropotkin

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

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

7 Which Italian anarchist wrote Anarchy and was active for decades in revolutionary movements? — Answer: Errico Malatesta

8 Which American anarchist edited the journal Liberty? — Answer: Benjamin Tucker

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

10 Who wrote the essay “Anarchism: What It Really Stands For”? — Answer: Emma Goldman

11 Which anarchist anthropologist wrote Mutual Aid? — Answer: Peter Kropotkin

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

13 Which anarchist wrote The Ego and Its Own? — Answer: Max Stirner

14 Name the anarchist feminist poet of the 1920s. — Answer: Sara Bard Field (or Mina Loy, depending on source)

15 Which anarchist was associated with the strategy “propaganda of the deed”? — Answer: Johann Most and other late 19th-century anarchists

16 Which anarchist thinker developed Social Ecology? — Answer: Murray Bookchin

17 Who wrote Post-Scarcity Anarchism? — Answer: Murray Bookchin

18 Which anarchist historian wrote Demanding the Impossible? — Answer: Peter Marshall

19 What anarchist concept describes voluntary cooperation among people? — Answer: Mutual aid

20 What anarchist economic model uses labor vouchers? — Answer: Collectivist anarchism

21 What anarchist theory centers individual sovereignty? — Answer: Egoist anarchism

22 What term describes revolutionary labor unions? — Answer: Syndicalism

23 Which anarchist approach focuses on ecological society? — Answer: Social Ecology

24 What anarchist idea proposes decentralized federations of communes? — Answer: Libertarian municipalism

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

26 What was the large Spanish anarchist labor union founded in 1910? — Answer: Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT)

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

28 What were members of the IWW commonly called? — Answer: Wobblies

29 Which Italian city briefly became an anarchist commune in 1920? — Answer: Fiume

30 Which French anarchist movement influenced syndicalism? — Answer: Revolutionary syndicalism

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

32 Which anarchist collective organized armed resistance in the Spanish Civil War? — Answer: Durruti Column

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

34 Which radical newspaper did Emma Goldman edit? — Answer: Mother Earth

35 Which 1886 Chicago labor protest led to a famous anarchist trial? — Answer: Haymarket Affair

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

37 Who assassinated McKinley? — Answer: Leon Czolgosz

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

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

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

41 What’s the last name of the two anarchist brothers in the Mexican Revolution? — Answer: Magón

42 Which radical workers’ holiday emerged from the Haymarket events? — Answer: May Day

43 Which anarchist-influenced movement emerged in 2011 in many cities? — Answer: Occupy Wall Street

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

45 Which anarchist tradition emphasizes neighborhood assemblies? — Answer: Communalism

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

47 Who said, “Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality”? — Answer: Mikhail Bakunin

48 Who said, “Property is theft”? — Answer: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

49 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

50 Who said, “Anarchism is democracy taken seriously”? — Answer: Edward Abbey

51 Who said, “Everyone wants to change the world, but no one thinks about changing himself”? — Answer: Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

55 Who is the author of A People's History of the United States who described himself as an anarchist? — Answer: Howard Zinn

56 Who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, often described as anarchistic? — Answer: Ken Kesey

57 Name a Beat Generation poet that sympathized with anarchist ideas. — Answer: Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

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

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

61 Which punk band released the song Anarchy in the U.K.? — Answer: Sex Pistols

62 When Errico Malatesta was exiled, he spent time promoting anarchism on which continent? — Answer: South America

63 David Graeber helped popularize which protest slogan during the Occupy movement? — Answer: “We are the 99%”

64 Which African American anarchist labor organizer helped found the Industrial Workers of the World? — Answer: Lucy Parsons

65 Which French anarchist and feminist participated in the Paris Commune and later wrote revolutionary memoirs? — Answer: Louise Michel

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

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

68 Name a French impressionist painter who was an anarchist. — Answer: Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, Georges Seurat

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

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

74 Name the African American anarchist thinker who emphasized self-determination and anti-authoritarianism in the early 20th century, often associated with the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote Anarchism and the Black Revolution, linking anarchist theory to Black liberation struggles? — Answer: Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

77 Which African American anarchist collective organized mutual aid, community defense, and prison abolition efforts in Oakland, California? — Answer: Black Autonomy Network (BAN)

78 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

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

80 Which anarchist newspaper in Argentina, first published in the early 1900s, became a key platform for anarchist ideas and labor organizing? — Answer: La Protesta

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

82 “Blessed is the Flame” is an important work that is associated with what subset of anarchism? — Answer: Anarcho-Nihilism

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