This ancient civilization developed cuneiform, an ancient form of writing.
What is Mesopotamia
100
Settled in 1585, this colonial city failed in just 5 years when all the colonists disappeared.
What is Roanoke
100
This country is in the Polynesian territory and was where the famous movie franchise Lord of The Rings was filmed.
What is New Zealand
100
Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to ever win an Academy Award for this 1940 classic motion picture.
What is Gone with the Wind
100
This famous duo discovered the structure of DNA.
Who are Watson and Crick
200
The Peloponnesian Wars were fought between these two Greek city-states.
What are Sparta and Athens
200
During this time many men and women were hanged and burned at the stake for the possibility of rebellion against the church.
What are the Salem witch trials
200
This strategy was used by the U.S. military during World War 2 to get to the coast of Japan via the Polynesian Islands.
What is island hopping
200
This organization, founded in 1909, was built on the principles of “ensuring...equality of rights to all persons and to eliminate racial hatred”.
What is N.A.A.C.P.
200
This system of counting, invented in India, is now the most common way to count.
What is the Hindu Arabic Numeral System
300
This was considered the highest point of civilization in ancient Egypt.
What is the Old Kingdom
300
The Quakers, a subset of the Protestants, mainly resided in this British colony known for its oatmeal.
What is Pennsylvania
300
This state consists of multiple islands and was the victim of the Pearl Harbor attacks.
What is Hawaii
300
This slave rebellion was one of the largest in United States history, during which a group of escaped slaves killed upward of 40 people before being stopped by the state militia.
What is the Stono Rebellion
300
This scientist is most famous for his theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener
400
The Persian Empire reached its peak under this ruler.
Who is Darius I
400
Founded in 1636, what was the name of the first college in the British colonies.
What is Harvard
400
This practice was followed by early Polynesian inhabitants that involved the consumption of human flesh.
What is cannabalism
400
This black jazz musician was famous in the 1920s with his breakthrough solo performances in the jazz music scene.
Who is Louis Armstrong
400
This early psychologist is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism.
Who is Edward B. Titchener
500
This is where the Assyrians build their library.
What is Nineveh
500
Now called the Hudson River, this was the name that Henry Hudson gave the river before it was renamed after him.
What is the Mauritius River
500
This island in the Polynesian area has the famous Moai heads that give the island its tourist attraction
What is Easter Island
500
This was the state where most African Americans migrated to during the Great Migration.
What is Michigan
500
This scientist created a scenario which presents a cat that may simultaneously be both alive and dead, a state known as a quantum superposition.