World History
This wall, built starting in 1961, divided a major European city until 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This is the largest country in the world by land area.
What is Russia?
This planet is known as the "Red Planet."
What is Mars?
This number is considered "unlucky" in many Western cultures and is the number of days in almost two weeks.
What is 13?
This British rock band sang "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1975.
What is Queen?
This Mongol emperor's empire at its peak covered approximately 24 million square kilometers, the largest contiguous land empire in history.
Who is Genghis Khan (or Kublai Khan)?
This river, the longest in South America, flows through Peru and Brazil.
What is the Amazon River?
This type of rock is formed when magma cools and solidifies, including granite and basalt.
What is igneous rock?
This sequence begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones.
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
This 2009 James Cameron film became the highest-grossing movie of all time before being surpassed by Avengers: Endgame.
What is Avatar?
This 18th-century intellectual movement emphasized reason, individual rights, and skepticism of absolute monarchy, influencing revolutions in America and France.
What is the Enlightenment?
This is the name of the supercontinent that existed about 200 million years ago before breaking apart into today’s continents.
What is Pangaea?
This is the powerhouse of the cell, responsible for producing ATP.
What is the mitochondria?
This is the only number that cannot be represented in Roman numerals.
What is zero?
This influential anime film by Katsuhiro Otomo, released in 1988 and set in Neo‑Tokyo, helped introduce cyberpunk anime to Western audiences.
What is Akira?
The ancient library of Alexandria was located in this modern-day country.
What is Egypt?
This South American country has two capital cities: La Paz (administrative) and Sucre (constitutional).
What is Bolivia?
This scientist is credited with discovering penicillin in 1928.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This mathematician’s “Principia Mathematica” laid the foundations of classical mechanics and also introduced important work in calculus.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This 1994 film won Best Picture at the Oscars, beating out Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption.
What is Forrest Gump?
This English king was forced by his barons to sign the Magna Carta in 1215, limiting his power and influencing later democratic ideas.
Who is King John?
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, is located in this country.
What is Tanzania?
Water can simultaneously boil and freeze at this specific point, known as the "triple point."
What is 0.01 degrees Celsius (and 611.657 pascals of pressure)?
This French mathematician, known for his "Last Theorem," had his famous proof finally completed in 1995 by Andrew Wiles.
Who is Pierre de Fermat?
This artist holds the record for the most Grammy Awards won by any artist, with 32 total wins as of 2023.
Who is Beyoncé?