Geography
The first nation in the world to enshrine womens' right to vote.
What is New Zealand?
The father of Scout and Jem in the American classic To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Atticus Finch?
The body system responsible for gas exchange. Your nose and diaphragm are part of it.
What is the respiratory system?
The four year war between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
What is the US Civil War?
A bound collection of recipes.
What is a cookbook?
A South American country whose green, yellow, and blue flag has 27 stars (26 representing states and one federal district)
What is Brazil?
A phrasal verb meaning "disappoint".
What is "let down"?
A semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal native to eastern Australia.
What is a platypus?
A famous inventor and American Revolutionary who helped Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence.
What is Benjamin Franklin?
A length of thick strong cord that could be used to clean your hands.
What is a soap rope?
A deep, narrow valley, usually with steep sides and a river flowing through it.
What is a canyon?
A preposition that used for specifying deadlines or the latest time when something should happen.
What is 'by'?
The rise and fall of sea levels caused by the Moon's gravitational forces.
What are the tides?
At the end of WWII this city was divided into 4 parts- each of the Allied countries (the US, Great Britain, Russia, and France) were responsible for one part.
What is Berlin?
A process in which caucasians move out of an area because people of other races are moving in
What is white flight?
The climate zones between polar and tropical.
A famous English author whose most popular books are Animal Farm and 1984.
Who is George Orwell?
A sustainable style of ranching meant to mimic the way buffalo herds graze on the move.
What is regenerative (ranching)?
It's the name of the four major social groups into which a person was born in Ancient India.
What is the caste system?
A positive outlook, but also always in other people's business.
What is nosy rosy?
The name for the international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire.
What is the (British) Commonwealth?
Laborers in Esperanza Rising plan to organize this, leading to immigration officials starting to round people up for deportation.
What is a (farm workers’) union?
The season, beginning in November, that's triggered by an increase in daily sunlight which heats the Indian Ocean?
What is monsoon season?
Paul Revere's most famous quote to warn 'Patriots' during the American Revolution.
What is the "British are coming!"?
A religious man typically living under vows of poverty and chastity mixed with a smelly black and white mammal.
What is a monk skunk?