Geography 1
Geography 2
Economy
Child Labor
Imperialism
Berlin Trivia
Cartoon Trivia
Potpourri 1
Potpourri 2
100
A flat region surrounded by highlands and mountains
What is a basin?
100
Animal skins, ivory, shells.
What are Central African Trade Goods?
100
When money loses its buying power.
What is inflation?
100
They chase children away.
What do officials at the mine do when they see CNN cameras?
100
Unwelcome visitors who controlled areas of Africa for 100 years or more.
Who are Europeans?
100
The largest employer in Berlin.
What is Eversource?
100
The cartoon / TV series with the most number of seasons and episodes.
100
Not getting enough nutrition from food.
What is malnutrition?
100
A person directly related to you who comes after you.
What is a descendant?
200
They cover much of Central Africa and the Congo Basin.
What are Tropical Rainforests?
200
The uppermost level of the rainforest; it blocks light from getting to the ground.
What is the canopy?
200
A place to purchase items that is set up only once or twice a week
What is a periodic market?
200
The definition of child labor.
What is any work that puts a child at a disadvantage or in danger?
200
Old, post-colonial name for Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What is Zaire?
200
Austin Stowell
Who is a famous actor from Berlin?
200
He said "Fish are friends, not food"
Who is Bruce the Shark?
200
The word that means "to communicate, work or participate in an activity with someone or something".
What is interact?
200
The name used for the material that is really elephant teeth.
What is ivory?
300
Important transportation route into Central Africa.
What is the Congo River?
300
Lakes that lie along the Western Rift.
What are Lake Nyassa and Lake Tanganyika?
300
Resources of Central Africa.
What are timber, natural gas, oil, coal?
300
He hit him.
How did one mining ministry official remind a child that he was not to be seen working on camera?
300
Forced on Africans by European colonizers.
What are European languages?
OR
What is Christianity?
300
1717
When was the first school built in Berlin?
300
The reason why you can't watch Donald Duck in Finland.
He doesn't wear pants.
300
When Europeans first came to Central Africa.
What are the 1400s?
300
A manner of pronunciation that is unique to a particular individual, location or nation.
What is accent?
400
The area of the rainforest that is home to few animals.
What is the forest floor?
400
The most spectacular waterfall in Central Africa.
What is Victoria Falls?
400
The most important mineral in Central Africa. Cu on the Periodic Table.
What is copper?
400
The percentage of the world's cobalt supply that comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What is about half.
400
When most of Central Africa gained its independence.
World War 2
400
The first people to live in Berlin.
Who are the Matabasset Indians?
400
The name of the snowman created by Anna and Elsa in "Frozen".
Who is Olaf?
400
One of the most important pre-colonization kingdoms in Central Africa.
What is Kongo?
400
A state recreation area in East Hampton, CT.
What is Salmon River?
500
Reasons why the rainforest is in danger.
What are hunting, logging, farming?
500
They make it impossible to travel upriver from the sea.
What are rapids and waterfalls?
500
Things that hurt business in Central Africa.
What are civil war, crime, corrupt (bad) government?
500
With certificates of origin.
How does Tesla say it's working to stop child labor in the cobalt supply chain?
500
A WEST AFRICAN country started in the early 1800s by the United States as a colony for former slaves, it's name means "land of the free".
What is Liberia?
500
It left in 1850
When did New Britain leave Berlin to be its own town?
500
The official mascot for Warner Brothers entertainment.
Who is Bugs Bunny?
OR
Who is Michigan J. Frog?
500
When migration from Western Africa to Central Africa first occurred.
What is 2000 years ago?
500
Waterfalls located on the Zambezi River.
What are Victoria Falls?
600
The geography name for a country that does not touch the world ocean.
What is landlocked?
600
A river in Africa that is fed by hundreds of small rivers.
What is the Congo River?
600
Lack of doctors, teachers, etc.
What is a reason why the Democratic Republic of the Congo is poor?
600
Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Fiat-Chrysler.
Which carmakers did CNN name as using cobalt?
600
When people started migrating from Western Africa to Central Africa.
When happened 2000 years ago?
600
Taverns and Inns.
What was the original purpose of many of the large, older homes on Worthington Ridge?
600
A chihuahua and a cat are the main characters in this controversial cartoon series.
What are "The Adventures of Ren and Stimpy"?
600
A regional variation in a language.
What is dialect?
600
Having to do with government by representatives elected by all eligible members of the population.
What is democractic?
700
An activity important for economic growth in Central Africa that destroys the environment.
What is the diamond and copper mining?
700
The climate type of Central Africa.
What is humid tropical?
700
Economic activities that destroy the environment.
What are diamond and copper mining?
700
None.
Which automakers can honestly certify that their cars are child-labor free?
700
It's sometimes called "the Switzerland of Africa".
What is Ethiopia?
700
90,000 each day
About how many bricks were made in Berlin during its brickmaking days?
700
He usually communicates with signs, but did speak in a couple of cartoons. He will talk when he's in a movie with Bugs Bunny.
Who is Wiley E. Coyote, Genius?
700
Man who changed his name and the name of his country to reject Europeans.
Who was Joseph Mobutu?
OR
Who was Mobutu Sese Seko?
700
Percentage of people in Central Africa under the age of 15.
What is 45%?
800
A disease carried by mosquitoes, its name literally means "bad air".
What is malaria?
800
Animals that live in the trees of the rainforest.
What are birds, bats, monkeys, snakes and insects?
800
A trade product made from teeth.
What is ivory?
800
The symbol for Cobalt on the Periodic Table.
What is
800
Original colonial name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What is Belgian Congo?
800
The 1886 "Harvest Festival"
What is the earliest version of the Berlin Fair?
800
Everest's favorite food.
What is liver?
800
A short-necked relative of the giraffe, he is on page 152 of our text in a paragraph and a photo. He looks like he's made from spare parts.
What is an okapi?
800
Trains, planes, automobiles, buses, trollies, a ferry, scooters....
What are elements of a transportation system?