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World Geography
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100
There are this many watts in a kilowatt.
What is 1,000?
100
This German Monk nailed 95 Theses to a church door in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
100
This Asian country has the highest population.
What is China?
100
He painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
100
This animal, famed for remaining motionless for long periods in trees, is named after a word meaning “lazy.”
What is a sloth?
200
These particles have no electric charge.
What are neutrons?
200
In 1989, this wall fell. Symbolically marking the end of the Cold Word.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
This country is both an island and a continent.
What is Australia?
200
The Dutch painter that created this work of art:
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
200
This breakfast cereal mascot is known for saying "They’re grrreat!"
Who is Tony the Tiger?
300
This law explains why every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
300
This revolution began with the storming of the Bastille.
What is the French Revolution?
300
The capital of Spain.
What is Madrid?
300
This Broadway musical features the song “Do-Re-Mi.”
What is the sound of music?
300
Before being renamed in 1935, this popular board game was once titled "The Landlord's Game".
What is Monopoly?
400
The only mammals capable of flight.
What are bats?
400
This document, signed in 1215 by King John of England, limited the power of the monarchy.
What is the Magna Carta?
400
The smallest (and shallowest) ocean in the World.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
400
This Spanish surrealist painted The Persistence of Memory.
Who is Salvador Dali?
400
In Morse code, this single letter is represented by three dots.
What is "S"?
500
This is the closest star-system to our own Solar System?
What is the Alpha Centauri system?
(Made up of Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri)
500
Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage was sponsored by this Spanish Queen.
Who is Queen Isabella I?
500
This ocean current keeps Western Europe warmer than expected.
What is the Gulf Stream?
500
This art movement included artists like Monet and Renoir.
What is impressionism?
500
The first United States President to appear on television.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
600
This gas makes up 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
600
This battle in 1815 marked the final defeat of Napoleon.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
600
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
[Also Accepted: The Caucasus Mountains]
600
This American jazz musician was nicknamed “Satchmo.”
Who is Louis Armstrong?
600
The name of this punctuation mark comes from the Latin for “little star.”
What is an asterisk?
700
This branch of Biology studies insects.
What is Entomology?
700
This city in Italy is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance movement.
What is Florence?
700
The highest, uninterrupted waterfall in the world.
What is Angel Falls? [979 meters (3,212 feet)]
700
This composer wrote the Moonlight Sonata.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
700
This country consumes the most chocolate per year, per capita.
What is Switzerland?
800
The reproductive cells of spores and mosses.
What are spores?
800
This war between England and France lasted from 1337 to 1453.
What is The Hundred Years War?
800
This country contains the most natural lakes.
What is Canada?
800
This Broadway musical about French revolutionaries includes the song “One Day More.”
What is Les Misérables?
800
This mythical creature appears on Scotland’s coat of arms and symbolizes purity and strength.
What is a Unicorn?
900
This part of a flower produces pollen.
What is the "anther"?
900
The first major book printed using a movable-type printing press in Europe, completed around 1455.
What is the Gutenberg Bible?
900
Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei make-up this island; the third-largest in the world.
What is Borneo?
900
This Russian composer wrote The Nutcracker Ballet.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
900
With an estimated 3 million sold annually, this is the best-selling instrument in the world.
What is the harmonica?
1000
This element has the highest melting point.
What is Tungsten?
Melting Point: [3,422°C (6,192°F) ]
1000
The Thirty Years War ended with this treaty in 1648.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
1000
This US State is closest to mainland Africa.
What is Maine?
1000
This American Architect designed the house-museum in Stewart Township, Pennsylvania?
Who is Frank Llyod Wright?
1000
This root vegetable was used to make jack-o'-lanterns before pumpkins became common.
What is the turnip?
