World Geography
This city is built on more than 100 small islands connected by canals and bridges
What is Venice?
The powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondrion?
This singer won all “Big four” Grammy Awards in 2020
Who is Billie Elish?
This empire was ruled by Genghis Khan
What is the Mongol Empire?
What is a semicolon?
The smallest independent country in the world
What is Vatican City?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
This actor voices both Darth Vader and Mufasa
Who is James Earl Jones?
The year the Berlin Wall fell
What is 1989?
Words the intimidate natural sounds (like “buzz” or “clang”)
What is onomatopoeia?
The mountain range separating Europe and Asia
What are the Ural Mountains?
The heaviest naturally occurring element on the periodic table
What is uranium?
The film that won Best Picture at the 2020 Academy Awards
What is Parasite?
The war fought between Athens and Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian War?
A word that has the same spelling but different meanings and pronunciations (e.g., “lead”)
What is a heteronym?
The African lake is the source of the Nile River
What is Lake Victoria?
This branch of physics studies motion without considering its causes
What in kinematics?
The Beatles’ last studio album
What is Let it Be?
The year the declaration of independence was signed
What is 1776?
The word for a word or phase that reads the same backward and forwards
What is a palindrome?
The world’s highest capital city, located over 11,000 feet above sea level
What is La Pez, Bolivia?
The physicist proposed proposed the uncertainty principle
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
The first video ever uploaded to YouTube
What is “Me at the Zoo”?
The dynasty that built China’s Great Wall
What is the Qin Dynasty?
A word that is spelled by rearranging the letters of another word (e.g., “silent” and “listen”)
What is an anagram?