World of Knowledge
What is the common name for the large landmasses of Earth, of which there are seven? (Can you name all seven?)
Continents - North America, Asia, Antarctica, South America, Africa, Europe, & Oceana.
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies independent from Great Britain.
The Declaration of Independence.
The force that pulls objects towards the center of the Earth.
Gravity
What is the name of the large global network of computers used to access information and communicate?
The internet
What is the name of the whimsical land where Alice falls down a rabbit hole?
Wonderland
What is the highest mountain in the world?
Mt. Everest - known locally as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit.
Its height was most recently measured in 2020 by Chinese and Nepali authorities as 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8+1⁄2 in).
This American civil rights leader delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 which increased the support needed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This gas makes up about 21% of Earth's atmosphere and is essential for humans to breathe.
Oxygen
What is the term for a malicious software program designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system?
A virus
What is the literary term for the main character or hero in a story?
What is the capital city of Canada? (In what province?)
The city of Ottawa, in the province of Ontario.
Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories.
(For reference, United States has 50 states, District of Columbia, and 14 territories).
This act, signed into law in 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
What is the smallest basic unit of matter?
What is the best-selling video game ever as of 2023?
Minecraft
What type of story features talking animals and often teaches a moral lesson, like "The Tortoise and the Hare"?
A fable
The largest tropical rainforest in the world, this region includes territory belonging to nine nations and 3,344 indigenous territories.
The Amazon - represents over half of the total area of remaining rainforests on Earth, and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees in about 16,000 species.
This significant purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the United States.
the Louisiana Purchase
What is the specific name for the process where a liquid turns into a gas?
Evaporation
What does CPU stand for?
Central Processing Unit, also known as the brain of the computer.
You get a book! You get a book! You get a book! For 15 years, starting in 1996, what daytime talk show megastar’s book club recommended a total of 70 books leading to total sales of over 55 million copies?
Oprah Winfrey
This oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, is known as having the deepest recorded depth known to man.
The Mariana Trench.
The maximum known depth is 10,984 ± 25 meters (36,037 ± 82 ft; 6,006 ± 14 fathoms; 6.825 ± 0.016 mi) at the southern end of a small slot-shaped valley in its floor known as the Challenger Deep.
The deepest point of the trench is more than 2 km (1.2 mi) farther from sea level than the peak of Mount Everest.
What is the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607 in the territory of more than 30 tribes and an estimated 20,000 Native Americans; including Mattaponi, Pamunkey, and Chickahominy peoples that make up the powerful Powhatan Chiefdom in what is now known as eastern Virginia.
Jamestown
This gas makes up about 78% of the atmosphere.
Nitrogen
What do the letters "URL" stand for when you're typing in a web address?
Uniform Resource Locator
"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama." is a sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards. This is an example of what literary device?
Palindrome