World History
This ancient civilization built the pyramids at Giza.
What is ancient Egypt?
William Shakespeare wrote this tragedy about two young lovers from feuding families.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Judy Garland sang “Over the Rainbow” in this 1939 film.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This composer wrote the famous Fifth Symphony beginning with four dramatic notes.
Who was Ludwig van Beethoven?
his document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the English monarchy.
What is the Magna Carta?
This author created the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Who was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman starred together in this wartime romance.
What is Casablanca?
Plants absorb this gas from the atmosphere during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
This British group featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Who were the Beatles?
This French military leader crowned himself emperor in 1804.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
George Orwell’s novel about Big Brother and an oppressive future bears this numerical title.
What is 1984?
This actor played the title role in the 1959 epic Ben-Hur.
Who was Charlton Heston?
This is the largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
This Spanish artist painted Guernica.
Who was Pablo Picasso?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand helped trigger this global conflict.
What is the First World War?
This Russian author wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Who was Leo Tolstoy?
Alfred Hitchcock directed this 1960 thriller featuring the Bates Motel.
What is Psycho?
This scientist developed the three laws of motion and the theory of universal gravitation.
Who was Isaac Newton?
his Russian composer wrote the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
Who was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
This 1648 agreement ended the Thirty Years’ War and reshaped the political order of Europe.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
A word that imitates a sound, such as “buzz” or “hiss,” is known by this literary term.
What is onomatopoeia?
This 1941 Orson Welles film follows the rise and downfall of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane.
What is Citizen Kane?
This layer of Earth lies between the crust and the core.
What is the mantle?
Meaning “rebirth,” this cultural movement began in Italy and renewed interest in classical art and learning.
What is the Renaissance?