California Cities
During the 1920s, this angelic city became the largest in California.
This Greek mythological king is the epitome of greed; you might have had your car serviced by his name.
Located on the Seine, its Eiffel Tower makes it one of the most recognizable cities on Earth.
What is Paris?
He crossed the Rubicon to take over Rome, though he wouldn’t remain “dictator for life” for long afterwards.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This lake, which shares its name with a prominent state, is the only one of the Great Lakes to be entirely located in the United States.
What is Lake Michigan?
The famous Ghirardelli Chocolate Company got its start in this city, the largest in the state before 1920.
What is San Francisco?
If the head is especially good, or you suffer a harsh defeat, you might be blown to this.
What is Kingdom Come?
This city was founded by Kublai Khan to rule over his Chinese territories, though it's now one of the most famous in China.
What is Beijing?
This disease killed up to 33% of Europe’s population, making it one of the deadliest single outbreaks in human history.
What is the Black Death?
The largest lake by volume outside of the Great Lakes in North America, this place has become one of the largest natural tourist attractions in the West due to its pristine waters.
What is Lake Tahoe?
This city, known for its beaches, is the southernmost major city in California.
What is San Diego?
This son of Akhenaten restored Egypt's traditional religious structure and created a spiritual renaissance, even though he died aged just 19.
Who is King Tut?
This capital was built as the administrative center of the Abbasid Caliphate, and remains one of the largest cities in West Asia (and biggest city in Iraq) today.
What is Baghdad?
This country, though once sporting the largest empire on the continent, was humiliated by the rising United States in the 1898 war bearing both names.
What is Spain?
This saline lake, a remnant of an ancient megalake that covered much of the Great Basin, was the inspiration for the name of the city that sits on its Eastern shore.
What is the Great Salt Lake?
This laid-back beach town was the inspiration for Santa Carla in The Lost Boys.
What is Santa Cruz?
This English monarch is widely regarded as one of the worst rulers of the Middle Ages, even though he signed the Magna Carta. (Daily Double)
Who is King John?
This city was built on the border of the French and English speaking hubs of its country to project unity, to debatable effect.
What is Ottowa?
Florence, among the wealthiest of the Italian city-states, was ruled by this banking clan for generations during the Renaissance.
Who are the Medicis?
A lake monster similar to Nessie is said to stalk the waters of this long lake that straddles the US and Canadian border, though it might be more famous as the site of Fort Ticonderoga.
What is Lake Champlain?
This Humboldt city is one of the northernmost in the state; you might say it when you realize.
What is Eureka?
This jazz pioneer became one of the most successful African-American entertainers of all time; many of his performances were Unforgettable.
This city, whose name comes from the largest country in South America, was one of the first planned cities to become a capital after WW2.
What is Brasilia?
This city, at the time an independent trading state, would slowly rise to rule all of Russia after the collapse of the Golden Horde.
What is Moscow?
This artificial reservoir was the crowning achievement of the Hoover Administration, which used its construction as fuel for recovery from the Great Depression.
What is Lake Mead?