US Geography
This is the largest US state by land mass.
What is Alaska?
This Italian family invested heavily in art and artists, and are known as the investors of the renaissance.
Who are the Medicis?
The Beatles set sail across the "Sea of Green" in their first animated full-length feature film, named after this vessel.
What is "Yellow Submarine"?
These two countries were already involved in a military conflict before the beginning of World War II.
What are Japan and China?
This is the westernmost state capital in the US.
What is Salem, OR?
This version of the bible played a large role in the Protestant Revolution, largely due to its unprecedented translation.
What is the King James Bible?
This British band named themselves after a metal airship due to the band themselves thinking they would crash and burn.
What is Led Zeppelin?
This bloody battle led to the Axis powers losing about a quarter of their total troops on the Eastern Front
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
Wyoming's highest peak (Gannett Peak) is in this mountain range.
What are the Rockies?
The Renaissance shed light on the end of these "ages."
What are the Dark Ages?
This "Summer of Love" music festival actually took place in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of its namesake city.
What is Woodstock?
This was the codename for the research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
Two US states border 8 other states - name one of them.
What are Missouri and Tennessee?
Missouri borders Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska
Tennessee borders Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas…and Missouri.
This was an important philosophy of the Renaissance - the belief that education and studying of Greek and Roman culture would lead to a rebirth.
Formed by brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson (along with their cousin Mike Love and close friend Al Jardine), this California group was distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs.
What are The Beach Boys?
This operation was launched on June 6th 1944 with the Normandy landings.
What is Operation Overlord?
This is the longest river in the US.
What is the Missouri River?
It’s 2,341 miles, 139 miles longer than the Mississippi.
Lisa del Giocondo was part of the Gherardini family of Florence and is also thought to be the inspiration for this.
What is the Mona Lisa?
Pop and rock groups such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks led this cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when music and counterculture from the UK became popular in the United States.
What was the British Invasion?
This agreement, signed on September 27, 1940, created the Axis Powers.
What is the Tripartite Pact?