Space & Astronomy
This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”
What is Mars?
This wall was built to separate East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This river runs through Egypt and Sudan.
What is the Nile?
This British author wrote Macbeth and King Lear, among many other plays.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This is the term for a word used to name a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
This planet is the largest in the solar system and has a famous Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
The ancient Egyptians built pyramids primarily as these.
What are tombs?
The Sahara Desert is located on this continent.
What is Africa?
This English novelist created the orphan Pip in Great Expectations.
Who is Charles Dickens?
This geometric shape has exactly three sides and three angles.
What is a triangle?
The Sun is classified as this type of star.
What is a yellow dwarf / G-type main-sequence star?
This leader of the Soviet Union during World War II was known for his five-year plans and authoritarian rule.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This Asian country is made up of more than 7,000 islands.
What is the Philippines?
This American author wrote The Great Gatsby, exploring the excesses of the Roaring Twenties.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
If you roll a standard six-sided die, the probability of rolling a 4 is this fraction.
What is 1/6?
This is the name of our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
The French Revolution began in this year, marked by the storming of the Bastille.
What is 1789?
This waterfall, one of the largest in the world, is located on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
What is Victoria Falls?
This art style, pioneered by Monet, focuses on light and color rather than detail.
What is Impressionism?
If you subtract 17 from 100 and then add 24, the result is this number.
What is 107?
These dense remnants of massive stars have gravity so strong that not even light can escape.
What are black holes?
This treaty ended the Seven Years’ War and redrew colonial territories between Britain, France, and Spain.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763?
This massive South American waterfall system, shared by Argentina and Brazil, is known for its thunderous roar and mist.
What is Iguazu Falls?
This 20th-century British author wrote 1984 and Animal Farm.
Who is George Orwell?
If you arrange the letters in the word “LISTEN”, you can form this related six-letter word.
What is “SILENT”?