Politics
Citizens cast these to choose their leaders in an election.
What are votes (or ballots)?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This country has won the most men's FIFA World Cup championships.
What is Brazil?
This is the largest land animal.
What is the elephant?
The past tense of the verb "go" is this.
What is "went"?
This branch of government is responsible for making and interpreting laws.
What is judicial branch?
This desert covers much of northern Africa.
What is the Sahara?
The Tour de France is contested in this sport.
What is cycling?
This is the fastest land animal.
What is the Cheetah?
A noun that names a specific person, place, or thing is called this.
What is a proper noun?
This document begins with the words, "We the People."
What is the Constitution of the United States?
This river flows through Egypt and is considered the longest river in the world by many geographers.
What is the Nile?
This NBA legend earned the nickname "His Airness."
Who is Michael Jordan?
A group of wolves is known by this collective noun.
What is a pack?
Words like "who," "which," and "that" are commonly known as this type of pronoun.
What are relative pronouns?
This document, adopted in 1948 by the United Nations, outlines fundamental rights and freedoms for all people.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
A marathon is approximately this many miles long.
What is 26.2 miles?
This eight-armed marine animal has three hearts and blue blood.
What is the octopus?
A sentence that can be interpreted in more than one way because of its wording is said to have this quality.
What is ambiguity?
This city is home to the headquarters of the European Union's executive branch, the European Commission.
What is Brussels?
This city is the capital of Australia.
What is Canberra?
The Ryder Cup is a major competition in this sport.
What is golf?
This bird is the only species known to fly backward.
What is a hummingbird?
This literary term refers to a contradiction in terms, as in "deafening silence" or "bittersweet."
What is an oxymoron?