American History
Geography
Music & Art
Mythology
General Knowledge
200
This novel, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was one of the most influential novels of the 1850s.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
200

I am standing on top of this, one of the oldest and biggest man made structures on the planet which is at least 3,948 miles long.

The Great Wall of China

200

This painting is the Louvre's most popular attraction.

"La Gioconda" - or better known as, "Mona Lisa"

200

This hero was assigned twelve tasks, which included killing the Nemean Lion, capturing Cerberus, and cleaning the stable of flesh-eating horses.

Hercules

200

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89... This ongoing series of integers is commonly referred to as this.

The Fibonacci sequence

400

In the late 1730s and the 1740s, a religious revival swept across the land, a period of American history commonly referred to as this.

The Great Awakening

400

You are on a Pacific Island looking at some immense statues. These statues have very large heads. In fact the head is the only part visible in many of them. You are here.

Easter Island

400

This machine, invented to keep a steady tempo, is used by all different types of musicians.

The metronome

400

In Ancient Egypt, reverence of this animal is demonstrated through the worship of the goddess Bastet.

The cat

400

This classic board game is often referred to as the "Game of Kings".

Chess 

600
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by this man, just five days after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, ending the Civil War.
John Wilkes Booth
600

This third-largest ocean is less than half the size of the Pacific.

Indian Ocean

600

This Mexican artist is famous for her self-portraits set against native backdrops and animals. She married another prominent Mexican artist known for his frescos and influence in establishing a mural movement in Mexico.

Frida Kahlo

600

Anubis, the Egyptian god of the underworld, has the head of this animal.

A jackal

600

An 1890 LDS church manifesto mandated a halt to this practice.

Polygamy

800
The American Civil War started with a Confederate attack on this South Carolinian fort on April 12, 1861
Fort Sumter
800

I am climbing a steep Andean mountainside, leaving behind the turbulence of the Urubamba River. My intention is to visit a sacred Incan city, five square miles of architectural splendor the likes of which are found nowhere else on the planet. I am here.

Machu Picchu 

800

In music, the tempo marking for a steady, strolling pace is referred to as this.

Andante

800

Persephone becomes bound to Hades after eating one of these fruits.

A pomegranate

800

This religious leader died in India around 483 B.C. possibly from eating contaminated pork

Buddha

1000

During this president's time in office, Lewis and Clark carried out the first transcontinental expedition to the Pacific coast.

Thomas Jefferson

1000

It's Africa's highest mount that shares its name with a country.

Kenya

1000

Roy Lichtenstein is a prominent pop artist famous for his close "zoom in" paintings of this entertainment medium.

Comic Books

1000

How smart! This Roman goddess of wisdom graces California's state seal

Minerva

1000

In 2000 Albert Sabin's oral vaccine for this was discontinued in the U.S.

Polio

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