Ancient History
The oldest confirmed writing system (developed about 6000 years ago)
What is Cuneiform?
The most widely spoken constructed language (Conlang) created by L.L. Zamenhoff in 1887, meant to be a Universal Second Language.
The Buddha (full name)
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
A war that the U.S.A. is currently involved in
(Any of these are acceptable) What are the Yemini Civil War, Somali Civil War, Syrian Civil War, or Gaza War?
Chinese/Mongolian desert that the Great Wall of China passes through
What is the Gobi Desert?
The first dynasty in China (2700 to 1600 BCE)
What was the Xia dynasty?
The term for components of Chinese characters. There are 214 of these, and they dictate the meaning and pronunciation of Chinese characters
What are Radicals?
Major Indian religion from the Punjab that forbids cutting hair, piercings, eating meat, intoxication, and face veiling
What is Skihi (also known by the exonym Sikhism)?
What is the Teutoburg Forest?
The time zone that spans the greatest longitude (12 hours ahead of us)
What is China Standard Time (CST)?
The percentage of "deity" that Gilgamesh was, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, written about 4000 years ago
What was 66%?
The language from which the word "Chocolate" originates
What is Nahuatl?
Jesus' early followers were ____ Jews, meaning that they emulated Greek culture
What is Hellenistic?
What is a flower war?
The northernmost region in Norway in which it is illegal to die
What is Svalbard?
Climate event involving abrupt cooling of the Northern Hemisphere which may have influenced the development Cereal cultivation (12,900 to 11,700 years ago)
What was the Younger Dryas?
The original language family of the Indian subcontinent, now spoken only in southern India.
What is the Dravidian language family?
The number of kami (spirits, gods) in the Shinto religion according to a Japanese idiom
What is 8 million?
Violence, including war, is the __th most common cause of death, accounting for about 7% of all deaths
What is 12?
The Maasai people inhabit land belonging to these two countries
What are Kenya and Tanzania?
The age of the oldest oral history, involving a volcanic eruption in Paleolithic Australia
Also known as "Euskara", this language isolate is spoken in autonomous regions of Spain and France
What is Basque?
The only monotheistic Egyptian Pharoh, ruled from 1375 to 1358 BCE
Who was Akhenaten?
Period of Japanese history in which there were no wars (14,000 to 300 BCE)
What is the Jomon period?
The last place that Mammoths lived before they went extinct, an island in the Artic Ocean now owned by Russia
What was Wrangel Island?