Countries
What is Brazil?
Counting to three in this language goes like this: "un, deux, trois"
What is French?
This man was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, a U.S. Minister to France, Secretary of State, and eventually the third President of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This city is the capital of Ireland.
What is Dublin?
This mountain chain runs north-south in the Eastern part of the United States from Maine down to Georgia.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This is the largest and most populous country that was part of the former Soviet Union.
Which of the following is NOT an official language of Switzerland? French, German, Italian, Spanish
What is Spanish?
This Emperor of the Mongol Empire, born Temüjin Borjigin, is best known for leading many invasions that conquered most of Eurasia, extending as far west as modern-day Poland.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This is the largest city in the United States that is NOT a state capital. (Hint: it's a very large city!!)
What is New York City?
This African river is the longest in the world.
What is the Nile?
What is Shanghai?
This Chinese dialect is spoken by over 80 million people in southeastern China, including the cities of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau.
What is Cantonese?
This woman, who has held the position of Chancellor since 2005, is the first female leader of Germany.
Who is Angela Merkel?
This southwestern U.S. city is the largest city that is ALSO a state capital.
What is Phoenix?
This sea--and namesake strait--separates the U.S. state of Alaska from the Russian region of Chukotka.
What is the Bering Sea? (What is the Bering Strait?)
This South Asian nation's constitution recognizes 22 regional languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, and Tamil.
What is India?
This language, spoken in East Africa and the official language of Kenya and Tanzania, borrows about 20% of its words from other languages, mostly from Arabic.
What is Swahili?
This man is the current Prime Minister of Canada.
Who is Justin Trudeau?
This large Japanese city can be formed using the same exact letters as Japan's capital, Tokyo.
What is Kyoto?
Panama is this type of geographic feature--a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses.
What is an isthmus?
This Asian nation, whose capital is Manila, is made up of thousands of islands and was once ruled by Spain and later by the United States before becoming independent in 1946.
What are the Philippines?
This country in West Africa, with the name of a major line of latitude in its name, is the only African country with Spanish as its official language.
What is Equatorial Guinea?
This Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh's nearly intact tomb was discovered in 1922 by Lord Carnarvon.
Who is Tutankhamun (or King Tut)?
Name any one of South Africa's three capital cities.
What is Cape Town? What is Bloemfontein? What is Pretoria?
The Suez Canal--built between 1859 and 1869--connects the Red Sea to this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?