History
Literature
Geography
Famous People
War
100
What word is used to describe the series of religious wars sanctioned by the Catholic Church during medieval times, aimed at recovering the Holy Land from Islamic rule?
The Crusades
100
Who wrote the Odyssey
Homer
100

What is an archipelago?

a group of islands

100

Who is the CEO of Tesla?

Elon Musk

100
What central European country remained neutral in WWII?
Switzerland
200
What is the USS Constitution's nickname?
Old Ironsides
200
Who wrote 1984?
George Orwell
200

What is the highest mountain in North America?

Mt. McKinley (Denali)

200

What British Royal died in a car crash in Paris in 1998?

Princess Diana

200
Who was the Commanding General of Union forces in the Civil War?
Ulysses S. Grant
300
What famous building sits atop the Acropolis?
Parthenon
300
Who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", and "A Farewell to Arms"?
Ernest Hemingway
300
What type of rock is formed from cooling lava or magma?
igneous
300
Who was the leader of Italy during WWII?
Benito Mussolini
300
What war is technically still ongoing, although fighting stopped after an armistice was signed in 1953?
Korean War
400
What was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople
400
What is Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous novel?
The Scarlet Letter
400

What do you call a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley?

fjord

400
What Venetian merchant traveler wrote a book c. 1300 that described to Europeans the wealth and great size of China, its capital Peking, and other Asian cities and countries.
Marco Polo
400

What was the name of the battle fought between the Greek city states, led by Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire, led by Xerxes I?

Battle of Thermopylae

500
What is the name of George Washington's estate?
Mount Vernon
500
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" is the first line of what famous poem?
The Road Not Taken
500

What is the name of the large body of water that is connected to the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and is surrounded by the Canadian provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and Nunavut?

Hudson Bay

500
What Portuguese explorer was the first European to reach India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa?
Vasco da Gama
500

What conflicts did the United States fight with North African pirates during the late 18th and early 19th centuries?

Barbary Wars

M
e
n
u