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Things That Make Me Chuckle
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This percentage of planet earth is covered with water.
What is 75%
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The name of a supercontinent that existed on earth 250 million years ago.
What is Pangaea?
200
The name scientists have given the ancient peoples who migrated from Africa almost 70,000 years ago.
What is Paleo-Indians?
200
The explorer who despite starting his own navigation school for sailors, never left his home country.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
200
This explorer was given the title, "Admiral of the Ocean Seas."
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
This year marked the beginning of the Columbian Exchange.
What is 1492?
200
The lost colony.
What is Roanoke?
200
The first colonial cash crop.
What is tobacco?
200
The main reason King George III was taxing the colonies.
What is to pay off debts from the French & Indian War?
200
These three crops are referred to as the three sisters.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
200
A Massachusetts Patriot and founder of the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Sam Adams?
200
The number of years the Seven Years' War was fought.
What is nine?
300
These are the 7 continents.
What are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Antarctica, and Australia?
300
The equator divides the globe into these two hemispheres.
What are the northern and southern?
300
This historical period started when humans traded their nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles, and began to farm and raise animals.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
300
The primary reason most explorers set sail in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is to find a water route to India/Asia?
300
This group were the actual first Europeans in North America, not Columbus.
Who were the Vikings?
300
The two "New World" continents.
What are North America and South America?
300
Jamestown, the first permanent English colony, later became part of this Southern colony.
What is Virginia?
300
This colonial region is known for plantations, rich soil, a humid climate, cash crops, and the slave trade.
What are the Southern colonies?
300
These are the two groups of colonists squaring off leading up to the Revolution.
Who are Patriots and Loyalists?
300
Europeans felt they needed to find a sea route to Asia once this occurred.
What is the Silk Road was closed?
300
This American patriot made a controversial choice in defending the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, and winning the case!
Who was John Adams?
300
The reason King Henry VIII started the Church of England.
What is the pope wouldn't let him divorce his wife so he started his own religion.
500
This word means "half of a sphere" in Greek.
What is hemisphere?
500
This map tool corresponds to the phrase Never Eat Soggy Waffles.
What is a compass rose?
500
This percentage of Natives already living in North America were killed by diseases like smallpox, brought and spread by European explorers.
What is 90%
500
These are the 3 G's of the Age of Exploration.
What are God, gold, and glory?
500
The explorer who the Americas are named after.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
500
These three continents were considered "Old World."
What are Europe, Africa, and Asia?
500
America's first try at a representative government in Virginia.
What was the House of Burgesses?
500
An event starting in one New England town, and later spreading throughout the colonies, in which dozens of innocent people were killed due to resentment, superstition, and a mob mentality.
What was the Salem Witch Trials?
500
Two more names for the Patriot and Loyalist groups.
What are rebels, sons of liberty, colonials
redcoats, lobsterbacks, tories, King's men?
500
A joint-stock company created by King James I of England to colonize Virginia.
What is The Virginia Company?
500
This Jamestown leader was known for saying, "He who does not work, shall not eat."
Who is Captain John Smith?
500
The reason the Puritans left England and what they promptly did to others in the colonies.
What is they wanted to be free of religious persecution and have religious freedom?
700
These are the names of the world's five oceans.
What are Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern.
700
The latitude and longitude coordinates for point 4.
What are 40 degrees N, 120 degrees E?
700
Scientists theorize that in addition to using the Bering Land Bridge to reach the Americas, Paleo-Indians also used this route.
What is a coastal route by boat?
700
The three main European powers competing in the Age of Exploration.
What are Spain, France, and England?
700
These Spanish explorers came wearing armor and carrying swords and focused their efforts on conquering the Aztecs and and Incas.
Who are conquistadors?
700
The main reason Africans were brought to the New World as slaves.
What is so many native people were killed by diseases that colonizers needed more free labor?
700
Where the Pilgrims sailed from, and where they landed.
What is Plimouth, England to Plymouth, Massachusetts?
700
This colonial region was known for fishing, shipbuilding, strict religion, cold winters and a short growing season.
What are the New England colonies?
700
Name the three countries represented by the colors in the maps relating to 
the French and Indian War.
What is red is British, orange is French, and purple is Spanish?
700
The Spanish brought this animal to the Americas and changed the lives of the Plains Indians.
What is the horse?
700
This Patriot and member of the Sons of Liberty engraved a very famous piece of propaganda following the Boston Massacre.
Who is Paul Revere?
700
This 21 year old Commander was soundly beaten by the French in the Battle of Fort Necessity.
Who is George Washington?
900
An imaginary line found at 0 degrees N/S latitude.
What is the equator?
900
The two hemispheres where you will find the United States.
What are the northern and western?
900
How Paleo-Indians were able to migrate from Asia to North America.
What is an ice age or glacial advance was happening at the time and sea level was lower than normal which caused lower elevation land to be exposed? BERINGIA or BERING LAND BRIDGE
900
Three reasons why the age of exploration happened when it did.
What are new trade routes were needed, loss of the Silk Road, curiosity & new knowledge, advances in sailing & ships, better maps, new technology, etc.?
900
Although Columbus was a native of (this country), he was sponsored by Ferdinand and Isabella, the monarchs of (another country).
What are Italy and Spain?
900
The reason the Columbian Exchange caused Europe's population to explode.
What is all of the new nutritious foods being brought from the Americas?
900
Three reasons why The Starving Time happened.
What are many of the settlers were unaccustomed to work, they didn’t plan for such harsh winters, and too much time spent searching for gold & minerals.
900
The Middle Passage of the Triangle Slave Trade ran between these two locations.
What are Africa and the West Indies (Caribbean)?
900
Three reasons King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763.
What are to protect the colonists from Indians, prevent expensive wars with Native tribes, set aside land for Natives, maintain order in the colonies, keep Indians happy
900
This colonial region's characteristics included being the breadbasket of the colonies, the most culturally diverse and religiously tolerant, and having busy trading ports.
What are the Middle colonies?
900
This Ottawa Chief united many eastern tribes against the British following the French & Indian War.
Who was Pontiac?
900
Under this act, the King had a lot of nerve to demand colonists house, feed, and take care of the British soldiers he was sending.
What is the Quartering Act?
1000
An imaginary line found at 0 degrees E/W longitude that runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
1000
The latitude and longitude for point 5.
What is 20 degrees S, 0 degrees?
1000
These are the eight cultural regions of early Native Americans of what is now the U.S.
What are Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Great Basin, Southwest, Plains, Northeast, and Southeast?
1000
This imaginary line is the reason why Brazilians speak Portuguese instead of Spanish.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
1000
This disease commonly afflicting sailors was a vitamin deficiency whose symptoms included rotting teeth and gums, open sores, and even mental breakdowns.
What is scurvy?
1000
Two products that traveled from the Old World to the New World and two that went the other way.
What are:
Old to New: grapes, cows, sugar, bananas, olives, coffee, honeybees, pigs, horses, etc.
New to Old: tobacco, avocados, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, beans, vanilla, turkey, chocolate
1000
These are the original 13 British colonies, if you list them by region you DOUBLE your 1000 points!
What are:
New England-Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire
Middle: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Southern: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
1000
These are three Enlightenment philosophers who influenced the writers of the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution.
Who are Voltaire, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu?
1000
A list of 5 items taxed by the British following the French & Indian War.
What are sugar, tea, lead, paint, paper, glass
1000
This religious movement followed the Enlightenment and encouraged people to think for themselves and develop a personal relationship with God.
What is the Great Awakening?
1000
He founded Pennsylvania colony after being a Quaker got him kicked out of Massachusetts.
Who is William Penn?
1000
King George III could have avoided losing the British colonies in America by doing this one simple thing the colonists wanted.
What is give them representation in Parliament?