History
This ancient civilization built the pyramids of Giza.
Ancient Egypt
This country is shaped like a boot.
Italy
This author created the detective Hercule Poirot.
Agatha Christie
This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”
Mars
This instrument has black and white keys and is often used in classical and pop music.
piano
This war began in 1939 and ended in 1945.
Word war ll
This desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
Sahara desert
This author wrote Romeo and Juliet.
William Shakespeare
The chemical symbol for gold.
Au
In musical notation, this Italian word means to gradually get louder.
crescendo
He was the British Prime Minister during most of World War II.
Winston Churchill
This is the smallest country in the world by area.
Vatican city
This epic poem begins with the words, “Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles.”
Iliad
This branch of biology deals with heredity and genetic variation.
genetics
This classical composer became deaf but continued to write symphonies, including the famous 9th.
Ludwig van Beethoven
This wall, built in the 1960s, divided a major European city until 1989.
Berlin wall
This line of latitude separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Equator
This Russian author wrote Crime and Punishment.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
This vitamin is primarily produced when the human body is exposed to sunlight.
vitamin D
This "King of Pop" released Thriller, the best-selling album of all time.
Michael Jackson
This U.S.president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
This country was formerly known as Ceylon.
Sri Lanka
This author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 and wrote The Old Man and the Sea.
Ernest Hemingway
The earth is flat or round?
Absolutely flat
Vivaldi lived during this musical period, which also includes composers like Bach and Handel.
Baroque period