World Geography
This country has the most time zones when including overseas territories.
What is France?
This subatomic particle has no electric charge.
What is a neutron?
This treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This Shakespeare play includes the line “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
What is Hamlet?
A prime number greater than 2 must be this.
What is odd?
The Darien Gap separates Panama from this country.
What is Colombia?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics
He was the last Tsar of Russia.
Who is Nicholas II?
One Hundred Years of Solitude was written by this author.
Who is Gabriel García Márquez?
The sum of the interior angles of a hexagon.
What is 720 degrees?
This capital city sits at the highest elevation in the world.
What is La Paz?
The powerhouse of the cell contains its own DNA.
What is the mitochondrion?
This 1962 event brought the U.S. and USSR closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This novel opens with the line, “All happy families are alike…”
What is Anna Karenina?
This branch of math deals with limits, derivatives, and integrals.
What is calculus?
Lake Baikal contains about 20% of the world’s unfrozen freshwater and is located in this country.
What is Russia?
This element has the highest melting point of all metals.
What is tungsten?
This empire was ruled by Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people in history.
What is the Mali Empire?
This dystopian novel features a society controlled by pleasure rather than fear.
What is Brave New World?
The Fibonacci sequence begins with 0 and 1; the next number is this.
What is 1?
This African country was formerly known as Abyssinia.
What is Ethiopia?
The process by which plants lose water vapor through leaves is called this.
What is transpiration?
The Meiji Restoration modernized this country in the late 19th century.
What is Japan?
he Beat Generation novel On the Road was written by this author.
Who is Jack Kerouac?
This number is known as Euler’s number.
What is e?