HEROES & LEADERS
This leader helped guide India to independence through nonviolent protest.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
These giant stone monuments in England were built before the pyramids.
What is Stonehenge?
This civilization built the Great Pyramids and was ruled by pharaohs.
What is Ancient Egypt?
People celebrating Ramadan fast during daylight hours as part of this religion.
What is Islam?
This is the longest continuous river in the world according to many geography textbooks.
What is the Nile River?
This activist became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner after advocating for girls' education.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
These giant drawings in Peru can best be seen from the air.
What are the Nazca Lines?
This ancient civilization developed democracy in the city-state of Athens.
What is Ancient Greece?
Diwali, often called the Festival of Lights, originated in this country.
What is India?
This mountain is the highest point on Earth above sea level.
What is Mount Everest?
This founding prime minister transformed Singapore into a global economic powerhouse.
Who is Lee Kuan Yew?
This lost city high in the Andes remained largely unknown to the outside world until 1911.
What is Machu Picchu?
This ancient civilization built roads stretching thousands of miles across South America.
What is the Incan Empire?
The Māori people are the Indigenous people of this island nation.
What is New Zealand?
This desert covers much of northern Africa and is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This Taiwanese leader initiated reforms that helped Taiwan transition toward democracy.
Who is Chiang Ching-kuo?
This vanished American colony left only the word "CROATOAN" behind.
What is the Roanoke Colony?
This ancient civilization built the city of Tenochtitlan on an island in a lake where Mexico City now stands.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This Japanese tradition involves the viewing of cherry blossoms in the spring.
What is Hanami?
This country has more than 17,000 islands and is the world's largest archipelago.
What is Indonesia?
This Chinese leader famously said, "It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white..."
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
This ancient civilization had advanced plumbing, but its writing system remains undeciphered.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
This Chinese dynasty is known for beginning construction of the Great Wall of China.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
This sport has its roots in an ancient folk ritual of contending villagers, which dates back 2000 years throughout southern China, and even further to the original games of Olympia in ancient Greece.
What is Dragon Boat Racing?
This narrow waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?