Geography 1
Geography 2
Economy
Child Labor
Child Soldiers 1
Child Soldiers 2
Imperialism
Berlin Trivia
Cartoon Trivia
Potpourri 1
Potpourri 2
Vocab Terms 1
Vocab Terms 2
100
A flat region surrounded by highlands and mountains
What is a basin?
100
Animal skins, ivory, shells.
What are Central African Trade Goods?
100
When money loses its buying power.
What is inflation?
100
They chase children away.
What do officials at the mine do when they see CNN cameras?
100
someone under 18 being used as a soldier in a government military or nongovernment armed group
What is a child soldier?
100
reasons that people sell their children
What are poverty and hunger?
100
Unwelcome visitors who controlled areas of Africa for 100 years or more.
Who are Europeans?
100
The largest employer in Berlin.
What is Eversource?
100
The cartoon / TV series with the most number of seasons and episodes.
100
Not getting enough nutrition from food.
What is malnutrition?
100
A person directly related to you who comes after you.
What is a descendant?
100
person who has gained control of a country by force and who has no legitimate reason to be in charge of that country
What is a dictator?
100
a mountain that is covered in snow at its peak year round
What is snowcapped?
200
They cover much of Central Africa and the Congo Basin.
What are Tropical Rainforests?
200
The uppermost level of the rainforest; it blocks light from getting to the ground.
What is the canopy?
200
A place to purchase items that is set up only once or twice a week
What is a periodic market?
200
the United Nations definition of child labor
What is any work that puts a child at a disadvantage or in danger?
200
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Sudan, Uganda, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Chechen Republic, Columbia, Iraq, Palestinian Territories
According to CHILDSOLDIERS.ORG, what are some modern countries proven to have child soldiers?
200
kidnapped or sold
How many children end up as child soldiers?
200
Old, post-colonial name for Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What is Zaire?
200
Austin Stowell
Who is a famous actor from Berlin?
200
He said "Fish are friends, not food"
Who is Bruce the Shark?
200
The word that means "to communicate, work or participate in an activity with someone or something".
What is interact?
200
The name used for the material that is really elephant teeth.
What is ivory?
200
to put into action
What is to implement?
200
not getting enough nutrients out of food
What is malnutrition?
300
Important transportation route into Central Africa.
What is the Congo River?
300
Lakes that lie along the Western Rift.
What are Lake Nyassa and Lake Tanganyika?
300
Resources of Central Africa.
What are timber, natural gas, oil, coal?
300
He hit him.
How did one mining ministry official remind a child that he was not to be seen working on camera?
300
a country in which both sides fighting are known to use child soldiers
What is Democratic Republic of the Congo?
(you lose 2x points if you say "Dominican Republic of the Congo")
300
hunger, poverty, easily manipulated, fearless, don't expect to be paid, part of an endless supply
What are reasons that children end up as child soldiers?
300
Forced on Africans by European colonizers.
What are European languages?
OR
What is Christianity?
300
1717
When was the first school built in Berlin?
300
The reason why you can't watch Donald Duck in Finland.
He doesn't wear pants.
300
When Europeans first came to Central Africa.
What are the 1400s?
300
A manner of pronunciation that is unique to a particular individual, location or nation.
What is accent?
300
when money loses its buying power; when things cost more each year
What is inflation?
300
a way of pronouncing words that identifies the speaker's country, area or social class; how close to the ideal way of speaking a given language the speaker comes
What is accent?
400
The area of the rainforest that is home to few animals.
What is the forest floor?
400
The most spectacular waterfall in Central Africa.
What is Victoria Falls?
400
The most important mineral in Central Africa. Cu on the Periodic Table.
What is copper?
400
The percentage of the world's cobalt supply that comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What is about half.
400
200,000
What is the estimated number of child soldiers in the world according to the New York Times UpFront magazine article?
400
18 (or 17 with parent permission)
How old do you have to be to serve in the US Military?
400
When most of Central Africa gained its independence.
World War 2
400
The first people to live in Berlin.
Who are the Matabasset Indians?
400
The name of the snowman created by Anna and Elsa in "Frozen".
Who is Olaf?
400
One of the most important pre-colonization kingdoms in Central Africa.
What is Kongo?
400
A state recreation area in East Hampton, CT.
What is Salmon River?
400
a habit; a practice; an accepted way of behaving in society in a given location
What is a custom?
400
an illness carried by the plasmodium parasite carried by anopheles mosquitoes
What is malaria?
500
Reasons why the rainforest is in danger.
What are hunting, logging, farming?
500
They make it impossible to travel upriver from the sea.
What are rapids and waterfalls?
500
Things that hurt business in Central Africa.
What are civil war, crime, corrupt (bad) government?
500
With certificates of origin.
How does Tesla say it's working to stop child labor in the cobalt supply chain?
500
major countries known to have used child soldiers
What are the United States, Germany and France?
500
cannot prove age
How does lack of birth certificates complicate the problem of child soldiers?
500
A WEST AFRICAN country started in the early 1800s by the United States as a colony for former slaves, it's name means "land of the free".
What is Liberia?
500
It left in 1850
When did New Britain leave Berlin to be its own town?
500
The official mascot for Warner Brothers entertainment.
Who is Bugs Bunny?
OR
Who is Michigan J. Frog?
500
When migration from Western Africa to Central Africa first occurred.
What is 2000 years ago?
500
waterfall located on the Zambezi River
What are Victoria Falls?
500
a network for moving persons, or products or data
What is a transportation system?
500
a regional variation of a language that may include pronunciation or specific words
What is dialect?
600
The geography name for a country that does not touch the world ocean.
What is landlocked?
600
A river in Africa that is fed by hundreds of small rivers.
What is the Congo River?
600
Lack of doctors, teachers, etc.
What is a reason why the Democratic Republic of the Congo is poor?
600
Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Fiat-Chrysler.
Which carmakers did CNN name as using cobalt?
600
drummer boys, buglers, junior officers, cabin boys, personal servants and powder boys
What were child soldiers used for in the US Military in the past?
600
foot soldiers and cooks and cleaners
How does the Washington Post say child soldiers are being used in South Sudan?
600
When people started migrating from Western Africa to Central Africa.
When happened 2000 years ago?
600
Taverns and Inns
What was the original purpose of many of the large, older homes on Worthington Ridge?
600
A chihuahua and a cat are the main characters in this controversial cartoon series.
What are "The Adventures of Ren and Stimpy"?
600
A regional variation in a language.
What is dialect?
600
Having to do with government by representatives elected by all eligible members of the population.
What is democractic?
600
controlled by representatives; where each person has an equal voice
What is democratic?
600
the level of the rainforest that blocks out all light to layers below
What is canopy?
700
An activity important for economic growth in Central Africa that destroys the environment.
What is the diamond and copper mining?
700
The climate type of Central Africa.
What is humid tropical?
700
Economic activities that destroy the environment.
What are diamond and copper mining?
700
None.
Which automakers can honestly certify that their cars are child-labor free?
700
international courts are making convictions
What is being done on a global scale to solve the problem of child soldiers?
700
3800
About how many of the "Lost Boys of Sudan" made it to the US according to Weekly Reader?
700
it's sometimes called "the Switzerland of Africa"
What is Ethiopia?
700
90,000 each day
About how many bricks were made in Berlin during its brickmaking days?
700
He usually communicates with signs, but did speak in a couple of cartoons. He appeared as a toon in the live action sitcom "Night Court". He will talk when he's in a movie with Bugs Bunny. He's the star of a movie coming out August 2026.
Who is Wiley E. Coyote, Genius?
700
Man who changed his name and the name of his country to reject Europeans.
Who was Joseph Mobutu?
OR
Who was Mobutu Sese Seko?
700
Percentage of people in Central Africa under the age of 15.
What is 45%?
700
a country controlled by a president and where laws are the highest power
What is a republic?
700
to produce a change in
What is affect?
800
A disease carried by mosquitoes, its name literally means "bad air".
What is malaria?
800
Animals that live in the trees of the rainforest.
What are birds, bats, monkeys, snakes and insects?
800
A trade product made from teeth.
What is ivory?
800
The symbol for Cobalt on the Periodic Table.
What is
800
how the US Government works to prevent child soldiers in friendly countries
What is enforcing the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008?
800
16,000
What is the number of children the Washington Post estimates are used as soldiers in government and rebel forces in South Sudan since 2013?
800
Original colonial name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What is Belgian Congo?
800
The 1886 "Harvest Festival"
What is the earliest version of the Berlin Fair?
800
Everest's favorite food.
What is liver?
800
A short-necked relative of the giraffe, he is on page 152 of our text in a paragraph and a photo. He looks like he's made from spare parts.
What is an okapi?
800
Trains, planes, automobiles, buses, trollies, a ferry, scooters....
What are elements of a transportation system?
800
a vehicle that cannot be sold in Mexico because of inattention to dialect: its name means "doesn't go" in Spanglish
What is the Chevrolet Nova?
800
an accepted way of behaving in a given society, such as bowing, shaking hands, or kissing as a greeting
What is custom?