People
Who was England's longest-ruling monarch?
Queen Elizabeth II
Who is often called "the father of the atomic bomb"?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Who were the main two groups that were in the Peloponnesian War?
Athens and Sparta
Which ancient Greek city-state was known for having the most powerful army?
Sparta
Which Greek goddess was the Parthenon in Greece dedicated to?
Athena
What was Amerigo Vespucci famous for?
Inspiring the term "America"
What disease was also called "the Black Death/Plague"?
Bubonic Plague
During World War I, clothing was made from these objects.
Potato sacks
Which nations made up the Axis Powers during WWII?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Which Egyptian goddess was depicted as a cat?
Bastet
Which US president delivered a series of radio addresses known as "fireside chats"?
Franklin Roosevelt
What year did the Titanic Sink?
1912
This sport was once part of the Olympic games from 1900 - 1920. You can often find this sport being played during your school's Field Day.
Tug of War.
Britain has 5 medals and the US has 3.
Which US colony was the first to declare independence?
Rhode Island
In Egyptian mythology, what organ determines if you led a pure enough life to gain entry to the afterlife?
The heart. It is weighed against a feather. If the feather is heavier, you were pure. If your heart is heavier, you lived a bad life.
Cleopatra, one of the last female Egyptian Pharaoh's wasn't actually Egyptian. What nationality was she really?
Greek. She is a relative of Alexander the Great's Macedonian general Ptolemy.
An Enigma Machine was used during WWII to do what?
Used by Germany to send ciphers to different allies and German camps. The settings to send ciphers changed every day which made it almost impossible for their opponents to decode their messages. Alan Turing was one of the code breakers who solved the Enigma Machine.
Which Roman emperor "accidentally" set fire to the Library of Alexandria?
Julius Caesar
Oxford University is older than which South American empire?
Aztec
Oxford began teaching in 1096 and the Aztec empire was founded in 1325
In Norse Mythology, who is eaten by Fenrir at Ragnarok?
Odin
Gladiators in Ancient Rome were not always male. Very rarely, women joined in the sport. What is the name female Gladiators were called?
Gladiatrix
What are Seven Wonders of the Ancient world?
Great Pyramids of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria
During these trials, people (many were women) were accused of casting spells, making potions, and shape shifting into various animals by fellow villagers.
The Salem Witch Trials
What year did Australia stop being a penal colony?
1868
The boatman named Charon carried passengers across which of these rivers?
Vimur, Lethe, Styx, Tigris
Styx. He carries the souls of the deceased across the river to the underworld, the realm of Hades, marking the final boundary between the living and the dead, a passage requiring payment (an obol coin) placed in the dead person's mouth for proper burial rites. Souls unable to pay were left to wander the riverbanks for a century before crossing.