Mythology
This Roman goddess of love and beauty was equivalent to the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
Who is Venus?
This planet rotates on its side and has a unique tilted axis of 98 degrees.
What is Uranus?
This empire, which fell in 1453, was centered in Constantinople.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
This river, the longest in the world, flows through 11 countries in northeastern Africa.
What is the Nile River?
This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
The Greek hero Perseus slew this Gorgon, whose gaze could turn people to stone.
Who is Medusa?
This belt of asteroids lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
This Asian leader, founder of the Mongol Empire, was born as Temüjin.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This is the only Central American country without a coastline on the Caribbean Sea.
What is El Salvador?
This Dutch artist is famous for cutting off part of his own ear and painting Starry Night.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
In Norse mythology, this tree, also called Yggdrasil, connects the nine realms.
What is the World Tree?
This is the term for the apparent backward motion of a planet as observed from Earth.
What is retrograde motion?
The Opium Wars were fought between China and this European power.
What is Great Britain?
This large plateau region in Asia is known as “The Roof of the World.”
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
This American artist is best known for his depictions of Campbell’s soup cans.
Who is Andy Warhol?
In Hindu mythology, this god, part of the Trimurti, is known as "The Destroyer."
Who is Shiva?
The Milky Way is classified as this type of galaxy, characterized by its spiral arms.
What is a barred spiral galaxy?
This treaty, signed in 1648, ended the Thirty Years' War in Europe.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
This is the largest island in the world that is not classified as a continent.
What is Greenland?
This Spanish painter of Guernica is considered one of the pioneers of Cubism.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
The Trojan prince Paris awarded the golden apple "to the fairest", sparking the Trojan War.
Who is Aphrodite?
This spacecraft, launched in 1977, became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space.
What is Voyager 1?
This Carthaginian general famously crossed the Alps with war elephants to invade Italy.
Who is Hannibal?
This lake is the oldest and deepest in the world.
What is Lake Baikal?
This Italian Renaissance artist is known for the Birth of Venus and Primavera.
Who is Sandro Botticelli?