Geography
Famous Firsts
Name That Thing
What Came First?
Palindrome Puzzle
100
This country has the largest land area in the world
What is Russia
100
In 1961, this Soviet cosmonaut became the first human to travel into space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
100
This instrument has 88 keys and is commonly found in concert halls and homes.
What is a piano?
100
What came first: the Telephone or the Light Bulb?
What is the Telephone? (1876 vs 1879)
100
Unscramble this palindrome: ccaarer
hint: vroom vroom
What is racecar?
200
The name of the largest island located in the Mediterranean Sea
What is Sicily
200
In 1953, this New Zealander and a Nepalese Sherpa became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Who are Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay?
200
This punctuation mark combines a question mark and an exclamation point in informal writing.
What is an interrobang? ‽
200
Who was born first: Morgan Freeman or Meryl Streep
Who is Morgan Freeman? (1937 vs 1949)
200
Unscramble this palindrome: llvee
hint: perfectly horizontal
What is level?
300
The country with the highest number of time zones (13 total)
What is France
300
This year is when the first International Olympic games were held in modern history, inviting 14 nations.
What is 1896? (Summer/Athens Olympics)
300
This geological formation occurs when a cave ceiling collapses, creating a large depression in the ground.
What is a sinkhole?
300
What came first: the first photograph or the first successful telegraph message?
What is the photograph? (1826 vs 1837)
300
Unscramble this palindrome: entte
hint: 2022 Christopher Nolan film
What is Tenet?
400
A sovereign state that is entirely surrounded by Italy
San Marino OR Vatican City
400
This Austrian became the first person to successfully clone an adult mammal from a somatic cell, through the sheep known as Dolly.
Who is Ian Wilmut?
400
This effect describes the apparent slowing of time for an object moving at speeds approaching that of light.
What is time dilation?
400
What came first: the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza or the invention of paper?
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza? (~2500 BCE vs ~100 BCE)
400
Unscramble this palindrome: aoiiohabhbp
hint: a type of phobia
What is aibohphobia?
500
The country shown in the map
Where is New Zealand
500
This English monarch was the first king of England to be crowned following the Norman Conquest.
Who is William the Conqueror?
500
This microscopic organism
What is a tardigrade?
500
What came first: the invention of anesthesia for surgery or first smallpox vaccine?
What is the Smallpox Vaccine (1796 vs 1846)
500
Unscramble this palindrome: amyMaaall
hint: South Indian language
What is: Malayalam (official language of Kerala, India)