The Best in the World
What is the lowest point in the world?
the Mariana Trench
This mountain range forms a natural border between Europe and Asia.
the Ural Mountains
What battle marked the final defeat of Napoleon? (1815)
What blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?
Who wrote Crime and Punishment?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Which tree can survive the longest time without water?
the baobab tree
This African country has both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean on its coastline.
South Africa (Republic of South Africa) = JAR
What scandal forced the U.S. president Richard Nixon to resign in 1974?
Watergate
What branch of science studies fungi?
mycology
This artistic movement, strongly associated with France in the late 19th century, includes painters such as Monet, Renoir, and Degas.
impressionism
Where is the tallest waterfall in the world?
Angel Falls (Venezuela)
Tugela (South Africa)
(German, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine)
the Danube (Dunaj)
What conference near the end of WWII brought together Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin?
the Yalta Conference
What scientist of German origin is often called the father of genetics?
Gregor Mendel
This style of architecture is characterized by rounded arches and massive walls, and it came before Gothic.
Romanesque architecture
What is the fastest animal in the world?
peregrine falcon
This country has the highest total number of volcanoes in Europe.
Iceland
This 19th-century statesman is associated with the unification of Germany through “blood and iron.”
Otto von Bismarck
This French scientist shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre Curie and Marie Curie.
Henri Becquerel
This term describes a form of government in which a small group of powerful people rules the country.
oligarchy
How old was the oldest person in the world ever?
122 years (Jeanne Calment)
This desert covers much of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
the Kalahari Desert
This 1805 naval battle destroyed much of the combined French and Spanish fleets and secured British naval dominance.
Battle of Trafalgar
This process splits a heavy atomic nucleus into smaller nuclei.
nuclear fission
What other ancient wonder of the world, besides the pyramids of Giza, stood in Egypt?
Lighthouse of Alexandria