When you cut this vegetable, it can make you cry.
What is an onion?
This popular sport challenges competitors to move more quickly than others through water.
Swimming
The group of religious settlers who founded Plymouth colony.
Puritans
This branch is responsible for making laws.
Legislative Branch
Octopuses have this number of hearts.
What is three?
In France, they are known as escargot.
Snails
Intense players in this sport are known as "ankle-breakers" as they try to jump, shot, bounce or throw a ball into a net or basket.
Basketball
A transaction in which the size of the United States was doubled for only $10 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This branch is responsible for interpreting, or "judging" the laws.
The Judicial Branch
This animal is a hybrid between a horse and a donkey.
What is a mule?
This type of tea leaf is commonly found in many Japanese desserts. It is known for its bright green color.
Macha (Green Tea Leaf)
This popular sport in Asia, especially in China, is known for its very fast gameplay as 2 players strike a "shuttlecock" across a high net. Points are scored on misses.
Badminton
The city of Buffalo was burned by the British during this conflict.
What is the War of 1812?
Creating distinct branches so that no single branch gains too much power.
This is the opposite of blue on the color wheel.
What is orange?
Humans kill this many sharks per year.
More than 100 million
This basketball player invented "The Sky Hook"
Kareem Abdul-Jabarr
The name of the path thousands of European settlers took into the far western part of North America.
The Oregon Trail
The Constitution was written to replace this document
The Articles of Confederation
These are the names of all 9 of Santa's reindeer.
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Donner, Vixen, Blizten, Comet, Cupid, Rudolph
Sharks kill this many humans per year.
Fewer than 10.
Most balls are inflatable and made of rubber, but they weren't always that way. Early versions of footballs and basketballs use what to inflate their balls?
Animal bladders, typically a pig or sheep bladder.
The North American Indigenous alliance in what is now called New York State that the French called the "Iroquois Confederacy."
Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
This President is known as the "Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
A group of eagles is called this
What is a convocation