General History
What was the name of the trade route that connected China with the West?
What is the Silk Road.
What are the three subatomic particles?
What are a proton, a neutron, and an electron.
The female version of this insect sucks blood from larger animals.
What is mosquito.
This person was the president of the United States during the Civil War and abolished slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
What was the name given to the disaster that led to the decline of airships?
What is the Hindenburg Disaster.
Name one of the 3 great Greek philosophers.
Who is Socrates, who is Plato, who is Aristotle.
The centre of an atom is called?
What is the nucleus.
This insect is the longest living insect in the world.
What is the termite queen.
Who was the French general who became emperor and ruled from 1804 to 1814? (FULL NAME)
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte.
This famous saying refers to the length of time it took to build Rome was built in.
What is Rome wasn't built in a day.
Which country did Alexander the Great rule?
What is Macedonia.
What is the main element in our atmosphere?
What is nitrogen.
Name one of the two only mammals that lay eggs
What is the Platypus or Echidna.
This Carthaginian general famously invaded the Roman Empire by crossing the Alps and is now considered one of the greatest military tacticians of all time.
Who is Hannibal.
Where were the Lord of the Rings movies filmed?
What is New Zealand.
Cyrus the Great was the first ruler of this empire.
What is the Persian Empire
What element do stars fuse into helium to produce energy?
What is hydrogen.
This crustacean comes in two variations and one of them spear-like appendages, while the other uses a club-like appendage to punch as powerful as a .22 caliber bullet.
What is the mantis shrimp.
This person in 500 BCE China created a revolutionary philosophy and belief system named after himself.
Who is Confucius.
These are commonly called underwater lakes and are extremely dense and have salinity typically 3-8 times that of the surrounding ocean.
What are brine lakes.
Which empire was the largest in history and who was its most famous ruler?
What is the Mongol Empire and who is Genghis Kahn.
What is the speed of light in a vacuum in m/s? (To the nearest million)
What is 299 million
This ant species has the largest colonies in the world, often referred to as "megacolonies," with one of them stretching around 6,000 km across.
What is the Argentine ant.
This military leader and king was famously called "the scourge of god" by the Romans. He led the Huns, who were a barbarian group.
Who is Attila the Hun.
What was the uranium isotope used to create the first atomic bombs? It is between uranium 200-300.
What is uranium 235.