Historical Figures
This U.S. president is on the $1 bill and led the fight for American independence.
George Washington
This U.S. landmark is a giant crack in the ground created by the Colorado River.
The Grand Canyon
This is the gas that plants absorb from the air to make food.
Carbon Dioxide
Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing this communication device in 1876.
Telephone
This war from 1939 to 1945 involved most of the world’s nations and ended with Allied victory.
World War II
This artist painted the Mona Lisa and was also an inventor.
Leonardo Da-Vinci
This ancient wonder in Egypt is a tomb for pharaohs, with a lion’s body and human head.
Sphinx
This tiny "building block" makes up all living things
Cell (will also accept atom)
Founded in 1932, Ole Kirk Christiansen invented these plastic blocks that snap together.
LEGO
This 1912 ship was called “unsinkable” but hit an iceberg and sank on its first voyage.
This famous artist cut off part of his ear and painted The Starry Night.
Vincent van Gogh
This landmark in New York Harbor was a gift from France.
Statue of Liberty
This is the hardest natural mineral on Earth
Diamond
The microwave oven was accidentally invented after a scientist noticed this snack melting in his pocket.
Chocolate bar
This war in the 1950s was fought between communists in the north and a democratic south.
The Korean War
This civil rights leader in South Africa became president after ending apartheid.
Nelson Mandela
This ancient road connected China with the Mediterranean, allowing trade.
The Silk Road
This scientist proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
The ancient Chinese invention that helped explorers navigate the seas.
The Compass
This wall’s fall in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War.
Berlin Wall
This Chinese philosopher taught about respect, family, and proper behavior.
Confucious
The world's saltiest body of water where you can't sink, between Israel and Jordan.
The Dead Sea
This subatomic particle has a negative charge and orbits the nucleus of an atom.
Electron
Johannes Gutenberg invented this machine that made books faster to produce.
Printing press (I will also accept printer)
This 1986 nuclear disaster contaminated parts of Ukraine and Belarus.
Chernobyl