LAT/LONGE
ROX
WW2
WW2
Time and Date
100
This is the direction on the compass that latitude runs.
What is East/West?
100
These are the three types of rocks.
What is Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary?
100
This man was the only allied leader who was still in power after world war 2.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
100
Despite the Maginon Line, Germany was able to invade France through this country.
What is Belgium (again)?
100
In this season, the sun never drops below the horizon in the North Pole.
What is summer?
200
This city is the starting point and 0 degrees longitude.
What is Greenwich, England?
200
This mineral is usually clear, but can be smoky, rose or citrine.
What is quartz?
200
This General was in command of the Phantom Army on D-Day.
Who is General George Patton?
200
This New York Yankees player had a 56 game hitting streak in 1941.
Who is Joe DiMaggio?
200
This is what the moon is said to be doing following a new moon.
What is waxing?
300
While most scientists were turning to the stars, this common household object was the key to solving the problem of longitude.
What is a clock?
300
The Stonehenge is made of this sedimentary rock.
What is sandstone?
300
This man, from the UK, wanted to go to the Battle of D-Day but was prevented by the king.
who is Winston Churchill
300
In the lead up to D-Day, this man was named Supreme Allied Commander.
Who is General Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
This the date of the summer solstice.
What is the June 21?
400
The Sphinx is made of this sedimentary rock.
What is limestone?
400
This German General (nicknamed the Desert Fox)was in a plan to assassinate Hitler.
Who is Edwin Rommel?
400
General Douglas McArthur was the American Army Commander in this theatre.
What is the Pacific?
400
This is the earliest date that Easter can be.
What is the 22nd of March?
500
This is the longitude of Birmingham, AL. (Knowing that we are 6 actual hours behind GMT.)
What is roughly 90 degrees W? Birmingham is exactly 86.8. Every hour is 15 degrees.
500
Mt. Rushmore was carved from this igneous rock.
What is granite?
500
The Norwegian decided to use these unlikely couriers to transport their nations 13 tons of gold across 35 miles of country side to a waiting boat and out of their nation and to America for safekeeping.
What are children? 38 children and their parents transported 13 tons of gold 35 miles over six weeks to a waiting boat using sleds.
500
This man was the ruler in China at the end of WWII.
Who was Chiang Kai-Shek?
500
Approaching the Summer Solstice, this is approximately the maximum gain of sunlight every day in Birmingham, Alabama.
What is two minutes and five seconds?