World Capitals
What is Paris?
This classic board game has players buy and trade properties to bankrupt opponents.
What is Monopoly?
This American football championship game is played annually in February.
What is the Super Bowl?
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This Italian dish is made with layers of pasta, sauce, cheese, and often meat or vegetables.
What is lasagna?
This city is the capital of Japan
What is Tokyo
This classic arcade game features a yellow circle eating pellets while avoiding ghosts.
What is Pac-Man?
In tennis, the term for a score of 40–40 is called this.
What is deuce?
This wall divided a European city from 1961 to 1989, symbolizing the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This spice, made from dried stigmas of a flower, is known as the most expensive spice in the world by weight.
What is saffron?
This European capital sits on the Danube River and is known for its thermal baths.
What is Budapest?
In this 1980 arcade game, a spaceship shoots aliens descending in formation, inspiring a generation of shooters.
What is Space Invaders?
This athlete holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This treaty ended World War I and imposed harsh penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This Italian cured meat is made from the hind leg of a pig and is aged for at least 12 months.
What is prosciutto?
This African capital city is located in Kenya.
What is Nairobi?
In this strategy game, players build settlements, roads, and cities on an island with hexagonal tiles.
What is Catan (formerly The Settlers of Catan)?
This tennis player won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in men’s history.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
This medieval English document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the king and laid the foundation for constitutional law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This traditional Japanese alcoholic drink is brewed from fermented rice and is often served warm or cold.
What is sake?
This South American capital city lies at one of the highest elevations in the world and is the seat of government for Bolivia.
What is La Paz?
This board game, created in 1933 by Alfred Butts, combines elements of chance and skill and originally was called “Criss-Cross Words.”
What is Scrabble?
This university’s men’s basketball team has won the most NCAA Division I championships, with 11 titles as of 2023.
What is the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)?
This 1898 conflict resulted in the United States gaining control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This Southeast Asian soup, made with lemongrass, galangal, and lime, is a spicy and sour specialty from Thailand.
What is Tom Yum soup?