Exploration History
This explorer is credited with discovering the Pacific Ocean after crossing the Isthmus of Panama.
(Who was Vasco Núñez de Balboa?)
Water freezes at this temperature on the Celsius scale.
(What is 0°C?)
Gladiators fought in this famous Roman arena.
(What is the Colosseum?)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." begins this Dickens novel.
(What is A Tale of Two Cities?)
The largest island in the Caribbean.
(What is Cuba?)
A heptagon has this many sides.
(What is seven?)
Sir Edmund Hillary reached the summit of this mountain in 1953.
(What is Mount Everest?)
This gas makes up about 21% of Earth's atmosphere.
(What is oxygen?)
The ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed by this volcano.
(What is Mount Vesuvius?)
"Happy families are all alike..." begins this Tolstoy novel.
(What is Anna Karenina?)
This European capital is built on 14 islands.
(What is Stockholm?)
The gemstone associated with the month of June.
(What is a pearl? Accept: alexandrite or moonstone.)
This explorer searched for the Northwest Passage and disappeared in the Canadian Arctic.
(Who was Sir John Franklin?)
This household appliance removes moisture from food by freezing and then drying it under vacuum.
(What is a freeze dryer?)
This river was the lifeblood of Ancient Egypt.
(What is the Nile?)
"All children, except one, grow up." begins this classic.
(What is Peter Pan?)
The world's longest river in South America.
(What is the Amazon River?)
This branch of medicine specializes in diseases of the skin.
(What is dermatology?)
This Portuguese explorer reached India by sailing around Africa in 1498.
(Who was Vasco da Gama?)
The bending of light as it passes from one substance to another is called this.
(What is refraction?)
The Hanging Gardens were said to have been located in this ancient city.
(What is Babylon?)
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." begins this novel.
(What is Mrs. Dalloway?)
This sea lies between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
(What is the Red Sea?)
The fear of confined spaces is known by this name.
(What is claustrophobia?)
This Norwegian explorer was the first to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage entirely by ship.
(Who was Roald Amundsen?)
This scientist first explained why apples fall and planets orbit the Sun using the same force.
(Who was Sir Isaac Newton?)
This Greek historian is often called the "Father of History."
(Who was Herodotus?)
“It is a truth universally acknowledged...” begins this Jane Austen novel.
(What is Pride and Prejudice*?)*
This desert stretches across northern China and southern Mongolia.
Mongolia.(What is the Gobi Desert?)
The dot above a lowercase “i” or “j” has this typographical name.
(What is a tittle?)