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This president was the only one to serve more than two terms.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This African lake is the world’s second-largest freshwater lake by surface area.
What is Lake Victoria?
The study of fungi is known by this name.
What is mycology?
This code name was given to the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
What is Operation Overlord?
He invented the phonograph before developing the practical incandescent light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
This document, written in 1215, influenced the U.S. Constitution by limiting the power of kings.
What is the Magna Carta?
This European river flows through ten countries before emptying into the Black Sea.
What is the Danube River?
This planet rotates on its side with an axial tilt of about 98 degrees.
What is Uranus?
This U.S. general accepted Japan’s formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
This civil rights leader founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while drawing a line at 36°30′ for future slavery decisions.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This mountain range forms much of the natural border between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This scientist developed the three laws of planetary motion.
Who was Johannes Kepler?
This conference in February 1945 brought together Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to discuss postwar Europe.
What was the Yalta Conference?
This aviator became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who was Amelia Earhart?
This president signed the Interstate Highway Act of 1956.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This capital city sits on both the Danube River and was once two separate cities called Buda and Pest.
What is Budapest?
The process by which plants release water vapor through their leaves is called this.
What is transpiration?
This famous battle in the Soviet Union is widely considered the turning point of the war on the Eastern Front.
What was the Battle of Stalingrad?
This agricultural scientist developed hundreds of uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes while working at Tuskegee Institute.
Who was George Washington Carver?
This military fort in South Carolina was where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
This African nation is completely surrounded by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
This is the only metal that is liquid at normal room temperature.
What is mercury?
This code name referred to Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
What was Operation Barbarossa?
This Supreme Court Chief Justice authored the unanimous opinion in Brown v. Board of Education.
Who was Earl Warren?