Birds, birds, birds!
Colonial and Imperial History
20th Century Bands
Animals
Musical Theater
100
This bird stands on one leg to conserve body heat in cold water and owes its bright coloring to a diet rich in carotenoids from the plankton, algae, and crustaceans they eat.
What is a flamingo?
100
The 1884–1885 Berlin Conference allowed European powers to divide this continent among themselves without any input from its people.
What is Africa?
100
This "Fab Four" from Liverpool sparked the British Invasion of the 1960s.
Who are The Beatles?
100
This mammal is the only one that truly flies and uses echolocation to navigate in the dark.
What is a bat?
100
This Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, set in Oklahoma Territory, was the first Broadway show to fully integrate songs, dance, and story.
What is Oklahoma!
200
With extra neck vertebrae, this nocturnal bird can rotate its head about 270 degrees—but not all the way around.
What is an owl?
200
This European country established colonies in places like Canada, India, and the Caribbean—and once ruled the 13 American colonies.
What is Great Britain?
200
Known for hits like "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Will Rock You," this band’s lead singer was Freddie Mercury.
Who is Queen?
200
Despite its name, this "bear" is actually a marsupial and eats almost nothing but eucalyptus leaves.
What is a koala?
200
In this hit musical, based on a movie, students form a band in secret with the help of a fake substitute teacher.
What is School of Rock?
300
This tropical bird’s intelligence lets it solve puzzles, use tools, and repeat phrases it hears from humans.
What is a parrot?
300
In the 1400s and 1500s, this European country established colonies in Brazil, Africa, and parts of Asia. Heavily involved in the transatlantic slave trade, ships from this country transported more than 4.6 million African people into bondage, mostly in their Brazilian colonies.
What is Portugal?
300
This American rock band sang "Hotel California" and helped define the soft rock sound of the 1970s.
Who are The Eagles?
300
This creature gets its name from the fact that Indigenous people once used its toxins on hunting weapons.
What is a poison dart frog?
300
This long-running show is set in 19th-century France and features characters like Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert.
What is Les Miserables?
400
This flightless, toothless bird has the largest eyes of any land animal and swallows pebbles to help it digest food.
What is the ostrich?
400
This European empire colonized large parts of the Americas, including Mexico and Peru, where it conquered the Aztec and Inca civilizations and took vast amounts of gold and silver back to Europe.
What is the Spanish Empire?
400
Emerging from the punk scene in the late 1970s, this British band fused reggae and rock in politically charged songs like “London Calling.”
Who are The Clash?
400
This animal, the world’s largest rodent, can be found lounging in South American wetlands and is a close relative of the guinea pig.
What is a capybara?
400
This musical follows a high school student who becomes internet-famous after pretending he was friends with a classmate who died.
What is Dear Evan Hansen?
500
This state bird of Maryland is black and orange and shares its name with a famous baseball team.
What is the Baltimore oriole?
500
This African country was famously never colonized by a European power, defeating Italy at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.
What is Ethiopia?
500
Known for their experimental style and songs like "Once in a Lifetime," this band was fronted by David Byrne and came out of the 1970s punk and new wave scenes.
Who are Talking Heads?
500
This tiny creature, also called a “water bear" or "moss piglet," can survive extreme heat, freezing cold, radiation, and even outer space by entering a state called cryptobiosis.
What is a tardigrade?
500
Premiering in 2015, this musical follows a closeted teen in a small English town who dreams of becoming a drag queen, inspired by a true story and a BBC documentary.
What is Everybody’s Talking About Jamie?