Sports History
This basketball legend was nicknamed “Air Jordan” and won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This is the largest country in the world by land area.
What is Russia?
On D-Day in 1944, Allied troops landed on the beaches of this European country.
What is France?
This scientist developed the theory of relativity and later spoke publicly against nuclear weapons and war.
Who was Albert Einstein?
At more than 29,000 feet above sea level, this is the highest mountain on Earth.
What is Mount Everest?
This baseball player, nicknamed “The Great Bambino,” hit 714 career home runs.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This river flows through Egypt and is often called the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
This 1775 battle in Massachusetts is often considered the first major battle of the American Revolution.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This American aviator became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who was Amelia Earhart?
This ancient Roman arena once hosted gladiator contests for tens of thousands of spectators.
What is the Colosseum?
This boxer famously proclaimed “I am the greatest” and won the heavyweight championship three times.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This mountain range forms a natural border between France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees?
This French emperor was defeated for the final time at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
This American president led the country through the Great Depression and most of World War II.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
These mysterious giant stone statues were carved centuries ago on Easter Island.
What are the Moai?
This baseball legend held the MLB career home run record with 755 until 2007.
Who was Hank Aaron?
This desert stretches across much of northern Africa and is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara desert?
This ancient Greek city-state became famous for its warriors and its stand against the Persian army at Thermopylae.
What was Sparta?
This British naturalist developed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who was Charles Darwin?
This famous geyser in Yellowstone National Park erupts on a relatively predictable schedule.
What is Old Faithful?
This baseball player became the first unanimous selection to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2019.
Who was Mariano Rivera?
This African country is almost completely surrounded by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
This 1836 battle in Texas ended with nearly all of the Texan defenders killed, including Davy Crockett.
What was The Alamo?
This British prime minister was known as the “Iron Lady” and became the first woman to hold that office.
Who was Margaret Thatcher?
This active volcano near Naples famously destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79.
What was Mount Vesuvius?