World History
This ancient civilization built the pyramids along the Nile River.
Egyptians
This ancient city was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
What is Pompeii?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This 1999 sci-fi film features characters named Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity.
What is The Matrix?
He was the French military leader who crowned himself emperor in 1804.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This writing system, developed by the Sumerians, is considered one of the earliest forms of writing.
What is cuneiform?
This force keeps planets in orbit around the Sun and causes objects to fall toward Earth.
What is gravity?
This author wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This continent is home to the Sahara Desert.
What is Africa?
This 1919 treaty officially ended World War I and imposed heavy penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This empire, ruled by Cyrus the Great, was known for its tolerance of different religions and cultures.
What is the Persian (Achaemenid) Empire?
This part of the cell contains DNA and controls the cell’s activities.
What is the nucleus?
This country is home to the city of Machu Picchu.
What is Peru?
This novel by George Orwell features the concept of “doublethink.”
What is 1984?
This Chinese dynasty, which lasted over 400 years, is known for opening the Silk Road and establishing Confucianism as state ideology.
What is the Han Dynasty?
This Mesoamerican civilization built the city of Tenochtitlán on an island in Lake Texcoco.
Who are the Aztecs?
This law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
This chemical element has the atomic number 79 and is commonly used in jewelry.
What is gold?
This gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere during photosynthesis?
What is carbon dioxide?
This 16th-century agreement divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This ancient Indian text is a collection of hymns and is one of the oldest surviving religious texts in the world.
What is the Rigveda?
This fundamental particle mediates the electromagnetic force.
What is the photon?
This mathematician formulated the laws of planetary motion in the early 17th century.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This wall, which fell in 1989, symbolized the division between East and West Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?