Capital Cities
This city is located on the Thames River
What is London?
The Fab Four from Liverpool.
Who are the Beatles?
This was the worst marine disaster in history.
What is the sinking of the Titanic?
The “hills were alive” with Julie Andrews voice in this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
What is the Sound of Music?
This is one of the largest marine mammals reaching a maximum length of about 30 meters.
What is the blue whale?
This most southern capital city is home to the kiwi
What is Wellington?
This Japanese singer became the first to have a number one hit in America in 1963?
Who is Kyu Sakamoto?
The Indian Ocean tsunami in which over a quarter million people died happened in this year.
What is 2004?
This British composer wrote Evita, Cats and Phantom of the Opera.
Who is Andrew Lloyd Webber?
This furry animal likes to build dams from wood they chew off from trees with their large front teeth.
What are beavers?
This capital city is where you find Indira Gandhi International Airport.
What is New Delhi?
This astronaut was the first to step on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Over twenty million died during this pandemic in 1918-19.
What is Spanish Influenza?
Tale as Old as Time is a song from this 1991 Disney musical.
What is Beauty and the Beast?
This mammal has the most powerful bite in the world.
What is the hippo?
This capital is the furthest north.
What is Reykjavik?
This counter-culture group who were anti-war became popular in N. America and UK.
Who are hippies?
This sickness is named after a community in Japan where thousands suffered from mercury contamination and died.
What is Minamata disease?
He was Ginger Rogers dance partner in 10 Hollywood musicals in the 1930’s and 40’s.
Who is Fred Astaire?
This is the largest bird in the animal kingdom.
What is the ostrich?
This capital was established in 1923 replacing Istanbul.
What is Ankara?
British fashion designer Mary Quant invented a revealing new type of women’s clothing in 1964.
What is the mini-skirt?
The name of the city in India where over half a million people were exposed to a deadly gas leak (methyl isocynate) in 1984.
What is Bhopal?
This 1968 musical is based on a Charles Dickens novel of a poor orphan boy who runs away to London to join a gang of pickpockets.
What is Oliver (Twist)?
This mammal communicates with deep rumbling noises pitched too low for human ears to hear.
What is the elephant?