What was Eleanor Roosevelt's first name?
Anna
What is the name of the system of channels and bridges the Romans built to bring water into their city?
Aqueducts
What state is north of Colorado?
Wyoming
What is the driver of a train called?
Engineer
What is a baby whale called?
A calf.
What was the name of Sacagawea's first son?
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (nicknamed Pompey)
Who invented writing?
Sumerians (Sumer, Mesopotamia)
What is the Easternmost country in South America?
Brazil
What is the fastest train in the world?
Shanghai Maglev: 267 mph
Which animals use their eyes to help them swallow food?
Frogs
Which famous scientist was born on the 300th anniversary of the death of another famous scientist named Galileo?
Stephen Hawking
Where and when were the first Olympics held?
776 BC, in Olympia, or Koroibos, Greece
Which country is southeast of Burundi?
Tanzania
What is the slowest express train in the world?
Glacier Express, the Swiss Alps
Name three examples of ruminants (animals with more than one stomach).
Which journalist pretended to be insane in 1887 so she would be sent to an insane asylum where she could report on how people were being treated?
Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran)
Who was the Greek goddess of agriculture, mother of Persephone?
Demeter (Ceres in Rome)
If you traveled from Multan to Kandahar, which countries would you have seen?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
What does TGV stand for?
Train a Grande Vitesse
A group of these animals is known as an ambush or a streak.
Tigers
Name two of the founding members of the Society of Anonymous Painters, Sculptors, and Printers.
Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro
What was a griot?
Storytellers and entertainers in Ancient Africa
What lake is only a few miles south of Peera Peera Poolanna Lake?
Lake Umaroona, Australia
The London Underground in 1863
Which big cat species can not roar? They can still purr.
Cheetahs