World Geography
This river flows through Egypt and was essential to ancient Egyptian civilization
What is the Nile?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This author wrote Romeo and Juliet
Who was William Shakespeare?
This film franchise features a character named Darth Vader
What is Star Wars?
This band recorded “Hey Jude” and “Let It Be”
Who are The Beatles?
This is the largest ocean on Earth
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This war was fought between the Union and the Confederacy
What was the American Civil War?
This author created the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes
Who was Arthur Conan Doyle?
This Pixar film follows a cowboy doll named Woody and a space ranger named Buzz Lightyear
What is Toy Story?
This singer was known as the “King of Rock and Roll”
Who is Elvis Presley?
This strait separates Spain from Morocco
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This Harper Lee novel follows Scout Finch and Atticus Finch
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
This 1975 Steven Spielberg film made many people afraid to swim in the ocean
What is Jaws?
This singer's albums include Lemonade and Renaissance
Who is Beyoncé?
The ancient city of Petra is located in this modern-day country
What is Jordan?
This 1869 railroad connection was completed at Promontory Summit, Utah
What was the First Transcontinental Railroad?
This epic poem tells of Odysseus's long journey home after the Trojan War
What is The Odyssey?
In this 1999 science-fiction film, Neo must choose between a red pill and a blue pill
What is The Matrix?
This composer wrote the opera The Magic Flute
Who was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
This sea, bordered by Europe, Asia, and Africa, connects to the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This 1814–1815 agreement ended the War of 1812
What was the Treaty of Ghent?
This novel by Gabriel García Márquez follows several generations of the Buendía family
What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?
This 1941 Orson Welles film follows the life of Charles Foster Kane
What is Citizen Kane?
This composer wrote the Goldberg Variations and the Brandenburg Concertos
Who was Johann Sebastian Bach?