This hero traveled home for 10 years after the Trojan War.
What is Odysseus?
This region includes countries like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran and is known for large oil reserves.
What is the Middle East?
This term refers to a shared universe of films, including characters like Iron Man and Thor.
What is the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
This 14th-century pandemic, also called the Black Death, killed an estimated one-third of Europe’s population.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
This mythological figure flew too close to the sun with wings made of wax.
What is Icarus?
This form of storytelling uses exaggerated characters and humor to critique society.
This desert covers much of northern Africa and stretches across multiple countries.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This artist’s album To Pimp a Butterfly blends hip-hop with jazz and social commentary.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
This document begins with “We the People” and outlines the structure of the U.S. government.
What is the Constitution?
This Titan was punished by Zeus to hold up the sky for eternity.
What is Atlas?
This African country successfully resisted European colonization and defeated Italy in 1896.
What is Ethiopia?
This continent contains the Amazon Rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest in the world.
What is South America?
This term, created by a song by Eminem refers to extremely dedicated fans of a celebrity or franchise.
What is a Stan?
This doctrine, announced in 1823, warned European nations against colonizing in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This creature was blinded by Odysseus in his men. What is his name?
What is Polyphemus?
This process describes how traits that improve survival become more common over generations.
What is natural selection?
This country is both in Europe and Asia and has a city that sits on two continents.
What is Turkey?
This 2019 film by Bong Joon-ho became the first non-English film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
What is Parasite?
This global phenomenon involves the spread of ideas, products, and culture across countries.
What is globalization?
This goddess, born fully armored from Zeus’s head, represents wisdom and warfare strategy.
What is Athena?
This system of racial segregation in South Africa legally separated people based on race.
What is apartheid?
This river is considered the longest in the United States and flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
This concept in media refers to self-awareness within a story, where characters acknowledge they are fictional.
What is breaking the fourth wall (or metafiction)?
This Chinese leader established the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
What is Mao Zedong?
This tragic king unknowingly fulfilled a prophecy by killing his father and marrying his mother.