Literature
The Lion King is based on this written play.
What is Hamlet?
This is the longest man made structure in the world.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This is what the women of the Salem Trials were convicted of.
What is Witchcraft?
This kind of warfare, used in WW1 and WW2, involves digging a maze of deep ditches at fighting lines.
What is Trench Warfare?
This invasion took place on the coast of France in Normandy on June 6, 1944 and is known for being one of the most Deadly battles of World War 2.
What is D-Day?
In The Book Thief, this entity is the narrator.
Who is Death?
This is the name of the famous clock in London.
What is the Big Ben?
This escaped slave helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This American President is on the $20 bill.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This Japanese attack took place on December 7, 1941, and caused America to join WW2 on the side of the Allies.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This is why the narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart murders the old man.
What is his Eye?
This American monument was a gift from France.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This was the nickname of the people who went to California in search of gold in 1849 and it is now the name of a San Francisco football team.
Who are the 49ers?
This man invented the Cotton Gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This American legislative document was signed in 1787.
What is the Constitution?
In this Greek play by Sophocles, the main character murders his father, marries his mother, and gouges his eyes out.
What is Oedipus Rex?
These four presidents' faces appear on Mount Rushmore.
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt?
This was the first governing document created by the English settlers who traveled to the New World.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
This British king had six wives, most of which did not survive their marriage to him.
Who is Henry the Eighth?
This is the year that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
This dystopian novel has firemen starting fires rather than putting them out.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
This is where The Great Pyramids and The Great Sphinx can be found in Egypt.
Where is Giza?
This event was how the Sons of Liberty protested the British tea tax in Boston.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
In Roman Mythology, these brothers are said to have founded the city of Rome.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
This is the year that World War 1 began.
What is 1914?