History & Civilization
This ancient civilization is credited with creating the first known written legal code.
What is Babylon?
This is the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
George Orwell’s real name was this.
What is Eric Arthur Blair?
This country has the longest coastline in the world.
What is Canada
This company developed the first commercially successful personal computer mouse.
What is Xerox?
The War of the Roses was fought between two royal houses with these flower symbols.
What are the red and white roses?
This organ produces insulin in the human body.
What is the pancreas?
This Shakespeare play features the line “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
What is Hamlet?
The Danube River flows into this sea.
What is the Black Sea?
HTML stands for this.
What is HyperText Markup Language
This empire was ruled by Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest individuals in history.
What is the Mali Empire?
The speed of light in a vacuum is approximately this many kilometer per second.
What is 300,000?
The novel Frankenstein was written by this author.
Who is Mary Shelley?
Machu Picchu is located in this country.
What is Peru?
This programming language was named after a British comedy group.
What is Python?
The Magna Carta was signed in 1215 in this country.
What is England?
This is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury?
This epic poem begins with the line “Sing, O goddess, of the rage of Achilles.”
What is The Iliad?
This European capital city is divided by the River Liffey.
What is Dublin?
Moore’s Law predicts the doubling of this roughly every two years.
What is transistor count?
This wall was built primarily to defend against Mongol invasions.
What is the Great Wall of China?
Plants primarily absorb this color of light for photosynthesis.
What is red?
This dystopian novel features the concept of “firemen” who burn books.
Response: What is Fahrenheit 451?
This mountain range separates Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This was the name of the first electronic general-purpose computer.
What is ENIAC?