History
This 1215 document forced King John of England to accept limits on royal power
What is the Magna Carta?
This river flows through Baghdad before reaching the Persian Gulf
What is Tigris?
This element, atomic number 26, is essential in hemoglobin
What is iron?
The "Iron Chancellor" who unified Germany in the 19th century was this statesman
Who is Otto van Bismarck?
This country, formally called Abyssinia, successfully resisted European colonization at Adwa
What is Ethiopia?
This law explains that energy can not be created or destroyed, only transformed
What is the First Law of Therodynamics?
This 1962 confrontation involving Soviet missiles in Cuba brought the U. S. and the USSR closest to nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The world's largest island that is not a continent belongs politically belongs to this country
What is Denmark?
This astronomer formulated the three laws of describing planetary motion
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This Western African empire reached its height under Mansa Musa, who's pilgrimage made him famous
What is the Mali Empire?
This strait separates the Russian Far East from Alaska
What is the Bering Strait?
This structure in the ear converts sound vibrations into nerve signals
What is the cochlea?
This 1648 peace settlement ended the Thirty Years' War and helped establish the modern state system
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This capital city sits at the meeting point of the Blue and White Nile rivers
What is Khartoum?
This particle, predicted by the Standard Model in 2012, gives other particles mass
What is the Higgs boson?