American History
This 1803 land deal nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This movie featuring dinosaurs cloned from ancient DNA was released in 1993.
What is Jurassic Park?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This element, symbolized “Hg,” is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury?
Home to the most official languages in Africa, this southern nation recognizes 11.
What is South Africa?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal” racial segregation laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This author wrote the dystopian novel 1984.
Who is George Orwell?
What organ pumps blood throughout your body?
The heart
This composer wrote his Symphony No. 9 while completely deaf.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This is the only planet in our solar system that rotates on its side, with an axial tilt of about 98 degrees.
What is Uranus?
This post-Reconstruction system of laws and customs enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the American South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States.
What is France?
What primary colors make up purple?
Red and blue
This was the first state to join the United States.
What is Delaware
This general famously crossed the Alps with elephants during the Second Punic War.
Who is Hannibal?
This 1972 political scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon
What is the Watergate scandal?
This law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s Third Law?
What is the process by which plants use sunlight to make food?
Photosynthesis
This singer is known as the “Queen of Soul.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This is the only U.S. state that grows coffee commercially.
What is Hawaii?
This 1807 law, signed by Thomas Jefferson, halted U.S. trade with foreign nations in an attempt to avoid war.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
This 1974 sequel is one of the few sequels to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is The Godfather Part II?
What is the only continent that lies entirely in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is Australia?
This film, released in 2009 and directed by James Cameron, became the highest-grossing movie at the time.
What is Avatar?
This is the only national capital city that borders two different countries.
What is Vatican City? (borders Italy—but trick: enclaved entirely; alt stump answer sometimes debated)