HISTORY
This is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing today, located in Giza, Egypt.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This is the longest river in the world, flowing through northeastern Africa.
What is the Nile River?
This basic economic principle describes the relationship between how much of something is available and how much people want it.
What is supply and demand?
In Greek mythology, this god rules the sea and carries a trident.
What is/Who is Poseidon?
This is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight.
What is a bat?
This ancient trade network connected China to the Mediterranean, moving silk, spices, and ideas for centuries.
What is the Silk Road?
This is the largest country in the world by total land area.
What is Russia?
This term refers to the total value of all goods and services produced within a country in a given year.
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
This Norse god, associated with thunder, wields a hammer called Mjölnir.
Who is Thor?
Invented during the Great Depression, this board game has players buy properties like Boardwalk and Park Place.
What is Monopoly?
Built starting in 1961, this concrete barrier divided a European capital city until 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This is the tallest mountain in the world, sitting on the border of Nepal and China.
What is Mount Everest?
This economic system is based on private ownership and free markets, with minimal government intervention.
What is capitalism?
In Egyptian mythology, this god of the afterlife and mummification is often depicted with the head of a jackal.
Who is Anubis?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1919 treaty officially ended World War I and placed heavy blame and reparations on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This is the longest mountain range in the world, running along the western edge of South America.
What are the Andes?
This severe U.S. economic downturn of the 1930s led to widespread unemployment and the New Deal.
What is the Great Depression?
In Greek mythology, this hero completed twelve labors, including slaying the Nemean lion.
Who is Heracles (Hercules)?
Founded in 1945 and headquartered in New York City, this international organization aims to maintain global peace.
What is the United Nations?
This 1789 event, marked by the storming of a Paris prison, is considered the spark of a revolution.
What is the French Revolution (the storming of the Bastille)?
This canal, completed in 1914, connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Central America.
What is the Panama Canal?
This term describes a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services over time.
What is inflation?
In Norse mythology, this prophesied apocalyptic battle results in the death of many major gods, including Odin.
What is Ragnarök?
This term describes a system of government in which citizens vote directly on laws, rather than through elected representatives.
What is direct democracy?