Wars
In 1812, this French Emperor led a "Grande Armée" of 600,000 men into Russia; fewer than 100,000 returned, mostly due to the "scorched earth" policy and the brutal winter.
Napoleon Bonaparte?
In this harrowing memoir, Sungju Lee describes his transformation from a privileged child in Pyongyang to a leader of a homeless street gang.
What is Every Falling Star?
Home to the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, this city is the capital of France.
What is Paris?
Led by stars like LeBron James and Stephen Curry, this professional league consists of 30 teams competing for the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy.
What is the NBA
Some months have 31 days, and some have 30. How many months have 28 days?
What is all of them
This Carthaginian general famously crossed the Alps with war elephants during the Second Punic War to attack Rome.
Who is Hannibal
This William Golding novel follows a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island who attempt to govern themselves, with disastrous results.
What is Lord of the Flies?
Located in Ontario, this city serves as the capital of Canada
What is Ottawa?
In basketball, this occurs when a player is fouled while making a basket, allowing them one additional free throw.
What is a Three-Point Play
A doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one every half hour. How many minutes will it take until you have taken all the pills?
90
Lasting nearly 900 days from 1941 to 1944, this brutal siege of a Soviet city resulted in over a million civilian deaths.
What is the Siege of Leningrad
In this Orson Scott Card novel, a young boy is sent to Battle School to train against an insect-like alien race known as "Formics."
What is Ender’s Game?
Sitting at over 11,000 feet in the Andes Mountains, this is the highest administrative capital in the world.
What is La Paz?
In American Football, this rare 1-point play occurs if a team score a safety during a conversion attempt (extra point or 2-point try).
What is a One-Point Safety?
While most people think this common kitchen substance is a better conductor of heat than air, it actually takes more energy to heat up one gram of this than it does to heat up one gram of iron or gold.
What is Water
Famous for the "Charge of the Light Brigade," this 1850s war saw Russia lose to an alliance of France, Britain, and the Ottoman Empire.
What is the Crimean War
In the sequels to Ender’s Game, Andrew Wiggin adopts this title, traveling to Lusitania to tell the "true story" of those who have died.
What is Speaker for the Dead?
This city, whose name translates to "Smoky Bay," is the world’s northernmost capital of a sovereign state.
What is Reykjavík
In Association Football (Soccer), this rule states that an attacking player cannot be closer to the goal line than the second-to-last defender when the ball is played to them.
What is the Offside Rule?
hese heavy iron objects found on city streets are always circular because a circle is the only shape that cannot accidentally fall through its own opening, no matter how you turn it.
What are Manhole Covers?
Led by a man who claimed to be the brother of Jesus, this 19th-century Chinese rebellion resulted in an estimated 20 to 30 million deaths—far more than the American Civil War.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
While Ender is in space, his brother Peter Wiggin uses this online pseudonym to gain political power and eventually become "Hegemon" of Earth.
Who is Locke
Named after a local chief and meaning "The Place of the Elephant," this city is the capital of Botswana and one of the fastest-growing cities in Africa.
What is Gaborone?
Despite playing 1,045 games and being known for his physical dominance, this legendary center is the only player in NBA history to have never once fouled out of a game.
Who is Wilt Chamberlain
Named after a 19th-century Scottish physicist, this "thought experiment" describes a tiny, hypothetical creature that could theoretically violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics by sorting fast-moving molecules from slow-moving ones, effectively reversing entropy.
What is Maxwell’s Demon?