The Wild West
These animal herders rode horses as they tended to the cattle in their care and wore broad brimmed hats.
What are cowboys?
This sporting competition originated in ancient Greece and still occurs today every four years!
What are the Olympics?
What gets wet while drying?
A towel.
On this, the highest mountain on earth, 330 people have died in their attempt to climb it.
What is Mount Everest?
People from Australia are called this.
What is an Aussie?
This mail service featured a team of 80 or so riders who carried the mail day and night between St Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California – a 1,900-mile journey. Riders stopped every 10 miles or so at carefully placed station houses to swap horses and maintain full gallop, shrinking delivery times from 24 days to 10.
These ancient professional fighter usually specialized with particular weapons and types of armor. They fought before the public in hugely popular organized games held in large purpose-built arenas throughout the Roman Empire.
What are gladiators?
What goes up but never comes back down?
Your age?
This is the lowest point in North America and is thought to be the hottest place in the world during the summer.
What is Death Valley?
In this movie, a young clownfish is kidnapped and taken to a dentist's office in Sydney. His dad searches for him with the help of a forgetful fish he meets.
What is Finding Nemo?
This expedition's goal was to explore the land recently bought in the Louisiana purchase. They were guided by a Shoshone woman named Sacagawea.
What is the Lewis and Clark expedition?
This giant structure in Rome is an amphitheater and was the scene of thousands of hand-to-hand combats between gladiators, of contests between men and animals, and of many larger combats, including mock naval engagements
What is the colosseum?
What do you call a bear with no teeth?
A gummy bear
This tree is found in California and is the world's largest tree.
What is the California Redwood Tree?
This Australian animal consumes eucalyptus leaves and spends most of its life in the trees.
What is a koala?
This ill-fated company were trying to get to California when they got snowed in while attempting to cross a pass in the mountains. They resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.
What is the Donner Party?
This race originated in ancient Greece when Pheidippides ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek defeat of the Persian army.
What is the marathon?
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg.
Similar to a octopus, this animal has the largest eyeball.
What is a Giant Squid?
What is a joey?
This show continued until 1916. It demonstrated bronco riding, roping, and other skills that would later become part of rodeos. Famous people such as Sitting Bull and Annie Oakley performed in it.
What is the Buffalo Bill Show?
The Roman god of the underworld is Pluto, and the Greek god of the underworld is...
Who is Hades?
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
A promise.
This giant bird is flightless and native to Africa and lays the largest eggs.
What is an ostrich?
This area of Australia is remote, vast, and sparsely populated. It features Uluru, Australia's iconic red-rock monolith.
What is the Outback?