Flags, Flags, Flags
This flag has blue and white stripes with a golden sun in the center. The country is in South America, home of tango and Lionel Messi.
→ What is Argentina?
This 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the United States.
→ What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This baseball player was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era, debuting in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
→ Who is Jackie Robinson?
Arachibutyrophobia — Someone with this fear might panic if their mouth feels sticky while eating a spread.
→ What is fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth?
This Olympian holds the all-time record with 23 gold medals, the most by any athlete in Olympic history.
→ Who is Michael Phelps?
This country’s flag has green, white, and orange vertical stripes. It’s an island in Europe known as the “Emerald Isle.”
→ What is Ireland?
In 1954, this landmark Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
→ What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This woman was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.
→ Who is Amelia Earhart?
Triskaidekaphobia — A person with this fear might avoid certain calendars, lotteries, or hotel room numbers.
→ What is fear of the number 13?
This NBA superstar passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the all-time leading scorer in league history.
→ Who is LeBron James?
This flag shows a red circle with a yellow star in the middle. This country is in Southeast Asia.
→ What is Vietnam?
This US state was the last to join the Union in 1959.
→ What is Hawaii?
This U.S. president was the first to live in the White House, moving in during 1800.
→ Who is John Adams?
Nomophobia — If your phone dies or you lose signal, this fear might set in.
→ What is fear of being without a mobile phone?
This Jamaican sprinter set the Olympic 100m record at 9.63 seconds in 2012, one of his 8 total golds.
→ Who is Usain Bolt?
This flag has a red background with a white crescent moon and a star. The country straddles Europe and Asia, with Istanbul as its largest city.
→ What is Turkey?
This was the first national park in the U.S., established in 1872.
→ What is Yellowstone?
This medical breakthrough, developed by Jonas Salk in 1955, was the first successful vaccine against a major 20th-century epidemic.
→ What is the polio vaccine?
Scolionophobia — Students with this fear might fake illnesses or invent excuses every morning.
→ What is fear of school?
This two-way baseball superstar became the first player in MLB history to be named an All-Star as both a pitcher and a hitter in the same season.
→ Who is Shohei Ohtani?
This flag is the only non-rectangular national flag in the world — it’s two stacked triangles. The country is in the Himalayas between China and India.
→ What is Nepal?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
→ What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This Viking explorer is believed to be the first European to reach North America, centuries before Columbus.
→ Who is Leif Erikson?
Arachnophobia — Someone with this fear might avoid basements, attics, or corners of the ceiling, even if nothing’s moving there.
→ What is fear of spiders?
This tennis icon holds 23 Grand Slam singles titles in the Open Era — the most of any player, male or female — and also won Olympic gold medals in both singles and doubles.
→ Who is Serena Williams?