World History
This French emperor was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This is a system of government where power is held by the people and exercised through elected representatives.
What is a democracy (or republic)?
This large South American country is the only one on the continent whose official language is Portuguese.
What is Brazil?
The total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year, abbreviated GDP.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
This is the general term for a long-lasting, irrational fear of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
This ancient Roman arena was used for gladiator contests and public spectacles.
What is the Colosseum?
The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution are collectively known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the world's longest river
What is the Nile River?
A market structure where there is only one seller or producer of a product.
What is a monopoly?
This famous Austrian neurologist is known as the father of psychoanalysis and coined terms like the id, ego, and superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This conflict spanned from 1914 to 1918 and involved the Central Powers fighting the Allied Powers.
What is World War I?
The political philosophy that advocates for the means of production, distribution, and exchange to be regulated by the community as a whole.
What is socialism?
The deepest known point in the Earth's oceans, located in the western Pacific.
What is the Mariana Trench?
This is the general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.
What is inflation?
This is the highest level of needs on Abraham Maslow's famous Hierarchy of Needs.
What is self-actualization?
The period of rebirth in art, science, and European culture that began in Italy during the 14th century.
What is the Renaissance?
This U.S. Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This type of line on a map connects points of equal elevation above sea level.
What is a contour line?
The economic principle that suggests consumers will buy more of a good when its price is lower and less when its price is higher.
What is the Law of Demand?
This term describes the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
The year the Berlin Wall fell, symbolizing the end of the Cold War division in Germany.
What is 1989?
A bicameral legislature is composed of this many houses or chambers.
What is two?
The term for a triangular tract of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
This is the primary function of a country's central bank, such as the U.S. Federal Reserve.
What is controlling the money supply (or setting interest rates)?
The stage of sleep where most vivid dreaming occurs.
What is Rapid Eye Movement sleep? (or REM sleep)