History
Who was president of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What country produces the most coffee in the world?
Brazil
What author wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"?
Mark Twain
What is the most visited museum in the world?
The Louvre
Botany is the scientific study of what?
Plants
What country gave the United States the Statue of Liberty?
France
What is the world's largest island?
Greenland
A pig
What artist sculpted the statue of David?
Michelangelo
Geology is the scientific study of what?
Rocks
The city of Istanbul in Turkey was formerly known as what when it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople
What is the only continent to span across all four hemispheres (Northern, Southern, Eastern, & Western)?
Africa
What is the name of Sherlock Holmes' best friend and assistant?
Dr. Watson
What impressionist painter is famous for his paintings of water lillies?
Claude Monet
What planet in our solar system has the most moons?
Saturn
What was the name of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant that became the site of a nuclear disaster in April 1986?
Chernobyl
What sea separates Saudi Arabia and Africa?
The Red Sea
Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility"?
Jane Austen
Known for his afro and love of happy little trees, what artist had a PBS show called "The Joy of Painting"?
What is sodium chloride referred to as?
Salt
What pandemic affected one third of the world's population by the end of World War 1?
The Spanish Flu
What desert spans much of Mongolia and northern China?
Gobi Desert
In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, how many ghosts visit Scrooge?
Four (Mr. Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future)
What artist of the 20th century was known for their painted covers of the Saturday Evening Post that chronicled the American spirit?
Norman Rockwell
What is the scientific name for the process where plants prepare nutrients for their sustenence?
Photosynthesis