US History
Fill in the blank: The 19th Amendment guarantees ____ the right to vote.
Wommen
What is the longest wall in the world?
The Great Wall of China
What was the name of the ancient trade route that connected the East with the West?
The Silk Road
What was the name of the Category 5 hurricane that hit New Orleans and its surrounding areas in 2005?
Hurricane Katrina
Which is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres?
Africa
The United States bought Alaska from what country?
Russia
Who was the first person in the world to land on the moon, and which country were they from?
Neil Armstrong, United States
What are the seven wonders of the ancient world?
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria
In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
What is the world's largest retailer?
Wallmart
Who was the fourth president of the United States?
James Madison
Where did Albert Einstein live before moving to the United States?
Germany
Who was the first emperor of Rome?
Augustes
When was the first iPhone released?
2007
In which U.S. state is the country's busiest airport located?
Georgia (Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport)
Which four presidents are on Mount Rushmore?
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt
Who gave financial backing to Christopher Columbus to explore the New World?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb for which pharaoh?
Khufu
Which country hosted the 2016 Olympics?
Brazil
Rome
What do the stripes on the American flag represent?
The original 13 colonies
What was the name of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant that was the site of a nuclear disaster in April 1986?
Chernobyl
Who established the Xia Dynasty in China?
Yu the great
In 1996, a sheep became the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell. What was the name of that sheep?
Dolly
On which continent would you find the city of Baku?
Asia