Literature
This author wrote “Pride and Prejudice.”
Who is Jane Austen?
Canberra is the capital of this country.
What is Australia?
This war was fought between the North and South regions of the United States.
What is the Civil War?
This Latin dance, often performed in pairs, originated in Cuba and features hip-swaying moves.
What is the Salsa?
This device, invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, allowed people to communicate across long distances for the first time.
What is the telephone?
“To be or not to be” is a famous line from this Shakespeare play.
What is “Hamlet”?
This Canadian city is the country’s capital.
What is Ottawa?
This was the first permanent English settlement in America, established in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This street dance, known for popping, locking, and breakdancing, emerged from hip-hop culture in the 1970s.
What is Breakdancing?
This company introduced the first commercially successful graphical user interface computer, the Macintosh, in 1984.
What is Apple?
This epic poem by Homer is about the fall of Troy.
What is “The Iliad”?
This African capital, located near the Nile River, is home to ancient pyramids.
What is Cairo?
The War of 1812 included the burning of this city by British forces in 1814.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This Caribbean dance, often performed at social gatherings, involves dancers passing under a low bar and is named after the bar itself.
What is the Limbo?
Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon during this NASA mission in 1969.
What is Apollo 11?
He is known for his horror novels, including “Carrie” and “The Shining.”
Who is Stephen King?
This city hosted the Summer Olympics in 2021.
What is Tokyo?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1990s dance craze, set to a hit Spanish pop song by Los del Río, features a repetitive arm and hip movement sequence.
What is the Macarena?
The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, who used this common symbol to separate the username from the host computer.
What is the @ symbol?
This author wrote a novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
Who is Harper Lee?
The capital of Bhutan, this city is one of the few in the world without traffic lights.
What is Thimphu?
This battle, fought in 1836 at a Texas fort, became a rallying cry for Texas independence.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
Originating in Argentina, this passionate and dramatic dance often features intricate footwork and close embraces.
What is the Tango?
The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched by this country in 1957.
What is the Soviet Union?