Record Breaking Places
Standing at 19,330 feet above sea level, what is Africa's tallest mountain?
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
Who was the greatest ruler of the Maurya Empire, known for building and expanding its borders?
Who was Asoka?
Who was the founder of Buddhism, known as the "Enlightened One"?
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
Who was the first emperor of a united China who ordered the construction of the Great Wall?
Who was Shih Huang Ti?
Which Chinese dynasty marked the height of ancient China's power and glory?
What is the Han dynasty?
What is the world's largest desert, which covers most of northern Africa?
What is the Sahara Desert?
Which Mongol leader swept into China in the 1200s and established the largest continental empire in history?
Who was Genghis Khan?
What is the oldest surviving religion in Japan, centered on nature worship?
What is Shinto?
What was the first civilization to establish itself on the Indian subcontinent?
What is the Indus Valley civilization?
What was China's longest ruling dynasty, during which iron implements, laws, and major philosophers emerged?
What is the Chou dynasty?
What is Africa's largest lake and the source of the Nile River?
What is Lake Victoria?
Who became known as the greatest ruler of the Mali Empire?
Who was Mansa Musa?
In Hinduism, what is the single, absolute, impersonal, universal spirit from which all deities manifest?
What is Brahma?
Which pharaoh united Upper and Lower Egypt to become the first pharaoh of all Egypt?
Who was Menes?
Which native Indian dynasty inaugurated India's "Golden Age"?
What is the Gupta dynasty?
What is the largest rift in the earth's surface, extending 4,000 miles from Asia into Africa?
What is the Great Rift Valley?
This female pharaoh ruled jointly alongside her nephew for 20 years
Who was Hatshepsut?
In Buddhism, what is the ultimate spiritual state of mind where the soul is oblivious to self and the world?
What is Nirvana?
Who was the first African on record to become a Christian?
Who was the Ethiopian eunuch?
What Muslim warrior of Mongol extraction invaded India in 1526 to found the Mogul Empire?
Who was Babar?
What is the world's longest and second deepest freshwater lake, which serves as a source for the Congo River?
What is Lake Tanganyika?
Under which ruler did the Songhai Empire reach its peak of wealth and power in West Africa?
Who was Askia the Great?
What is the belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits called?
What is Animism?
What ruler is considered the founder of Japanese civilization?
Who is Prince Shotoku
What was the largest central African kingdom?
What is the Kingdom of the Kongo?