Historical Events
The Declaration of Independence was signed in this city
What is Philadelphia?
This is the only known naturally occurring element that is a liquid at standard temperature and pressure besides mercury
What is Bromine?
This is the only country in the world that is located entirely within another country
What is Lesotho?
This 1967 album by The Beatles was the first rock album to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year
What is Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?
This is the only country whose flag is not rectangular or square
What is Nepal?
This ancient wonder is located in the city of Babylon
What is The Hanging Gardens?
This scientist first proposed the heliocentric model placing the Sun at the center of the solar system in the 16th century
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This is the smallest independent country in South America by land area
What is Suriname?
This was the name of the supergroup formed in 1969 by Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech
What is Blind Faith?
This is the only U.S. state that grows coffee commercially
What is Hawaii?
This was the codename for the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II
What is Operation Overlord?
This is the name of the process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere through small pores in their leaves
What is transpiration?
This is the only sea in the world with no coastline
What is the Sargasso Sea?
This American singer-songwriter released the protest song “Ohio” in 1970 in response to the Kent State shootings
Who is Neil Young?
This is the chemical symbol for tungsten
What is W?
He was the last Tsar of Russia before the 1917 revolution
Who is Nicholas II?
This is the term for the point in an orbit where a planet is closest to the Sun
What is Perihelion?
This mountain range forms a natural border between Europe and Asia
What are The Ural Mountains?
This was the name of Pink Floyd’s 1973 album that spent over 14 years on the Billboard 200 chart
What is The Dark Side of the Moon?
This ancient city was famously buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 CE along with Pompeii
What is Herculaneum?
In 1919 this international organization was founded as part of the Treaty of Versailles but later replaced by the United Nations
What is the League of Nations?
This is the name of the astronomical event where three celestial bodies align in a straight line
Syzygy
This country has the most natural lakes in the world
What is Canada?
This was the title of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album that became one of the best-selling albums of all time
What is Rumors?
This is the term for a word or phrase that reads the same backward and forward
What is palindrome?