World Affairs
This organization works to maintain international peace and security.
What is the United Nations?
his punctuation mark is used to indicate possession or contractions in English.
What is an apostrophe?
This country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles.
What is Brazil?
This continent contains the greatest number of countries.
What is Africa?
This force keeps planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
A document signed in 1776 declaring U.S. independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This word means a fear of spiders.
What is arachnophobia?
This NBA team drafted Kobe Bryant in 1996 before trading him on draft night.
Who are the Charlotte Hornets?
This European river flows through Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade.
What is the Danube River?
This part of the cell is responsible for producing ATP through cellular respiration.
What is the mitochondrion?
This wall fell in 1989, symbolizing the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This Shakespeare play features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
What is Hamlet?
This MLB player broke the single-season home run record in 1998.
Who is Mark McGwire?
This country is home to the world’s largest salt flat, Salar de Uyuni.
What is Bolivia?
This scale is used to measure the acidity or basicity of a solution.
What is the pH scale?
This Asian country was formerly known as Siam.
What is Thailand?
This term describes a word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning and spelling.
What is a homophone?
This NFL team completed the only perfect season in league history in 1972.
Who are the Miami Dolphins?
This strait separates Asia from North America at their closest point.
What is the Bering Strait?
This type of chemical bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms
What is a covalent bond?
This treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This ancient wonder was located in Babylon.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
This athlete has won the most Olympic gold medals of all time.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This capital city lies south of the equator and is the southernmost capital in the world.
What is Wellington?
This principle states that the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease.
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?