World Religions
This religion, founded in India, teaches the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
What is Buddhism?
This six-stringed instrument is a staple of rock bands and is often played with a pick.
What is a guitar?
This country is shaped like a boot and is home to the Colosseum.
What is Italy?
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This gas makes up about 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
The holiest city in Islam, it’s the destination of the Hajj pilgrimage.
What is Mecca?
This large brass instrument has a slide instead of valves.
What is a trombone?
This country has the largest population in Africa and is known for Nollywood.
What is Nigeria?
This war, ending in 1848, gave the U.S. much of the Southwest, including California.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This branch of biology studies how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
What is genetics?
This branch of Christianity split from the Catholic Church during the 16th-century Reformation.
What is Protestantism?
This instrument is played by blowing across the top of a hole and is commonly used in marching bands and orchestras.
What is a flute?
This landlocked South American country has two capital cities: Sucre and La Paz.
What is Bolivia?
This president delivered the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This fundamental unit of the nervous system transmits electrical signals in the body.
What is a neuron?
Sikh men often wear this article of clothing as part of their faith and identity.
What is a turban?
This woodwind instrument shares its name with a type of snake.
What is a bassoon? (Alternative if too hard: What is a clarinet?)
This country has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
What is Canada?
This 1973 Supreme Court case legalized abortion nationwide before being overturned in 2022.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This British computer scientist is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
The ancient Zoroastrian god of light and truth, opposed by Angra Mainyu.
Who is Ahura Mazda?
This drum set component keeps the steady "chick" sound when you press the foot pedal.
What is a hi-hat?
This country, formerly called Siam, was never colonized by a European power.
What is Thailand?
This rebellion of farmers in 1794 tested the strength of the new U.S. Constitution
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This quantum physics principle states that certain pairs of properties cannot be precisely known at the same time.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?