EUROPE
CANADA
LATIN AMERICA
AUSTRALIA
THE COLD WAR
100

This massive, underground tunnel runs beneath the English Channel to connect the United Kingdom and France.

What is the Chunnel (or Channel Tunnel)?

100

Clue: These five massive bodies of water are shared between the United States and Canada, containing about 20% of the world's surface fresh water.

What are the Great Lakes?

100

    • Spanning multiple South American countries, this geographic feature is the largest tropical rainforest in the world and generates a massive amount of the Earth's oxygen.


    • Answer: What is the Amazon Rainforest?
100
  • Visible from space, this vibrant ecosystem off Australia's northeastern coast is the world's largest coral reef system.

  • Answer: What is the Great Barrier Reef?
100
  • Clue: Built in 1961 to stop citizens from escaping to the democratic West, the tearing down of this physical barrier in 1989 symbolized the beginning of the end of the Cold War.

  • Answer: What is the Berlin Wall?
200

French, Italian, and Spanish belong to this specific language family, which evolved from the Latin spoken by the ancient Romans.


    • What are Romance languages?

200

Clue: Because of its colonial past, Canada has two official languages; English is spoken by the majority, while this language is dominant in Quebec.

What is French?

200

    • Before Spanish conquest, this advanced indigenous empire built their capital city of Tenochtitlan in the valley of modern-day Mexico.


    • Answer: Who were the Aztecs?
200

    • This is the collective name for the native, indigenous peoples who populated the Australian continent for tens of thousands of years before European colonization.


    • Answer: Who are the Aborigines (or Aboriginal Australians)?
200
  • Clue: The Cold War was an ideological clash between the democratic United States and this superpower nation that operated under a totalitarian communist system.

  • Answer: What is the Soviet Union (or USSR)?
300

Created to promote easy trade, this is the name of both the economic/political alliance of 27 European nations and its shared common currency.

What is the European Union and the Euro?

300

Canada is a constitutional monarchy that recognizes this British royal figure as their ceremonial Head of State.

Who is King Charles III?

300
  • This religion, brought over by Spanish and Portuguese colonizers, remains the dominant faith practiced by a majority of people across Latin America.

  • What is Roman Catholicism?
300

    • Great Britain originally used its new colony of Australia in the late 1700s for this specific purpose.


    • Answer: What is a prison colony (or penal colony)?
300

Clue: Under the Soviet economic system, the government made all decisions about production, wages, and pricing, which is known by this economic term.

What is a Command Economy?

400

Unlike a presidential system, the United Kingdom utilizes this form of government, where citizens elect the legislature, and the legislature then chooses the Prime Minister.

is a parliamentary democracy?

400

To protect their unique culture and language from being absorbed by English-speaking Canada, this province has attempted to vote for independence multiple times.

What is Quebec?

400
  • For over 60 years, this island nation in the Caribbean has been ruled by an autocratic, single-party communist government with restricted citizen freedoms.

  • Answer: What is Cuba?
400
  • Clue: To ensure high political participation, Australia has a strict "compulsory" rule regarding this democratic responsibility for all citizens aged 18 and older.

  • Answer: What is voting?
400

Clue: Under the Soviet economic system, the government made all decisions about production, wages, and pricing, which is known by this economic term.

What is Command Economy?

500
  • Triggered by a poorly designed nuclear reactor experiment in 1986, this Soviet-era Ukrainian disaster caused long-term environmental and health crises across Europe.

What is the Chernobyl disaster?

500

Covering over half of Canada, this massive region of rocky terrain and ancient rock is poor for farming but serves as the country’s primary source of mineral wealth, including iron ore, nickel, and gold.


  • Answer: What is the Canadian Shield?
500

To limit trade barriers and encourage economic growth, Mexico, the United States, and Canada updated their free-trade pact into this modern agreement, replacing NAFTA.

What is USMCA?

500
  • Clue: Australia relies heavily on a high literacy rate and specialized workforce training, which are investments in this specific economic factor of production.

  • Answer: What is human capital?
500
  • This 1962 event brought the world to the brink of nuclear war when the US discovered Soviet nuclear missiles stationed just 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
  • Answer: What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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