Ancient History
This ancient city had its famous hanging gardens, one of the wonders of the world.
What is Babylon (or Babylonia)
Since 2011, this country has been the biggest in Africa.
What is Algeria?
This country, the main unifier of Germany, held Berlin before the German Empire united.
What is Prussia?
Despite not being its biggest or namesake city, this is the capital of New York State.
What is Albany?
This disaster happened to a German blimp in 1937 in New Jersey.
What is the Hindenburg disaster?
This ancient civilization is generally considered the first to emerge out of all civilization.
What is Sumer? (accept Mesopotamia)
What is Botswana?
This "Iron Chancellor" became the German Empire's first chancellor after its unification.
Otto von Bismarck
This capital of Oregon shares a name with a city where witch trials took place in colonial New England.
What is Salem?
This presumed disaster happened in 1937 over the Pacific Ocean, leading to the death of a famous female aviator.
What is the Death/Disappearance of Amelia Earhart?
This was the first confirmed dynasty of Ancient China.
What is the Shang? (DO NOT ACCEPT XIA)
Despite owning land on mainland Africa, this country's capital, Malabo, is on an island.
What is Equatorial Guinea?
The German Empire formerly held this country as a colony, who later unified with formerly British Zanzibar to become Tanzania.
What is Tanganyika?
This state capital, founded in 1610, sits in the Sangre de Cristo foothills, 65 miles from Albuquerque
5 Years after his successful flight in Kitty Hawk, this Wright Brother witnessed the first death in aviation history, Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge.
Who is Orville Wright?
This civilization dominated ancient Italy until the rise of the Roman Empire.
Who were the Etruscans?
This country's Cabinda exclave allows it to bypass the DRC and border the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What is Angola?
This "Year of Three Emperors," saw Kaiser Wilhelm I die, and by the end of the year, Germany was ruled by his grandson, Wilhelm II.
What is 1888?
This state capital is the northernmost of all capitals.
What is Juneau?
This aerial attack remains the only attack ever to invoke NATO Article V.
What is 9/11? (Accept September 11th attacks)
This Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh was the last of the 18th dynasty, but was not related to his predecessor, Ay II.
TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED! Both of these African countries have spears on their flags.
Kenya AND Eswatini/Swaziland
This piece of land in Namibia is named after Imperial Germany's second chancellor.
What is the Caprivi Strip?
This city became capital of its state in 1780, under the jurisdiction of Governor Thomas Jefferson.
What is Richmond?
This disaster, happening on a Portuguese island in 1977, remains the most fatal accident in aviation history.
What is the Tenerife Airport Disaster?