Communist Leaders
World Cities
Company Locations
American Frontiersmen
Oil
100
What Georgian-born (the country not the state) Soviet leader led the Russians during WW2?
Joseph Stalin
100
What major city in Turkey straddles Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait?
Istanbul
100
General Motors is located in what city, also known as "Motor City"?
Detroit, MI
100
What two men led the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase?
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
100
Which country has the highest known reserves of oil?
Venezuela
200
Which leader was the founder of the People's Republic of China, leading as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party?
Mao Zedong
200
What city in the United Arab Emirates is known for luxury shopping, ultramodern architecture, and a lively nightlife scene, with the Burj Khalifa tower dominating the skyline?
Dubai
200
Apple is located in which US state?
California
200
What man was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician, often referred to in popular culture as the "King of the Wild Frontier" and who died at the Alamo?
Davy Crockett
200
What international organization consists of governments who agree to coordinate with petroleum firms in order to manipulate the worldwide oil supply and price?
OPEC
300
What leader led a successful campaign to make Vietnam independent and was president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969?
Ho Chi Minh
300
What city is the capital of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, and is famous for its beer, skiing, and annual snow festival featuring enormous ice sculptures?
Sapporo
300
Warren Buffett also known as the "Oracle of Omaha" runs the company Berkshire Hathaway out of what US state?
Nebraska
300
What an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West was alleged to have killed 21 men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21 and was involved in New Mexico's Lincoln County War, during which he allegedly committed three murders?
Billy the Kid
300
What is the name of the "well stimulation technique" in which rock is broken by a pressurized liquid to create cracks in deep-rock formations through which natural gas or petroleum can escape?
Fracking
400
What leader was the son of the former North Korean premier Kim Il-Sung, and successor to his father as ruler of North Korea?
Kim Jong Il
400
What city in Mali, situated twenty kilometers north of the Niger River is known for its famous Djinguereber Mosque and prestigious Sankore University?
Timbuktu
400
Walmart is located in which US state, nicknamed "The Natural State"?
Arkansas
400
What man was an early American frontiersman who gained fame for his hunting and trailblazing expeditions through the Cumberland Gap, a natural pass through the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky?
Daniel Boone
400
What sedimentary basin is located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico and is one of the largest oil fields in the US?
Permian Basin
500
What leader led the communist Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime (1975–79) in Cambodia?
Pol Pot
500
Known for its connection to the Trans-Siberian Railroad, what Russian city is one of the major industrial cities of Siberia and is near Lake Baikal?
Irkutsk
500
Both, Home Depot and Coca-Cola are located in what southern city?
Atlanta, GA
500
What man was an American frontiersman who was a fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and U.S. Army officer, who became a frontier legend in his own lifetime with biographies and news articles, and exaggerated versions of his exploits being the subject of dime novels?
Kit Carson
500
What two subsea pipelines connecting Russia to Germany were sabotaged last September, triggering gas leaks in Swedish and Danish sections of the Baltic sea?
Nord Stream 1 and 2