Irish Potato Famine
What caused the Irish Potato Famine?
Plant pathogen/disease
This philosopher is known for his famous quote, "I think, therefore I am"
Renes Descartes
What is the largest country in North America by land mass?
Canada
This famous green plumber was first playable in the 1985 hit, Super Mario Bros
Luigi (Also accept Green Mario)
This city is the capital of China
Beijing
During which century was the Irish potato famine?
19th centure (1800s)
This ancient Greek philosopher is known for writing works such as the Allegory of the Cave and The Republic
Plato
Prauge is the capital of which country?
The Czech Republic
A missing piece from this circular food inspired Toru Iwatini to create Pac Man
Pizza
This exam was used for 1300 years to select Chinese government officials
The Imperial Exame OR The Confucian Scholar Exam OR the keju
During the famine, Ireland still had to export crops to this country that governed them
This political philosopher is known for writing 'The Social Contract'
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Antigua and Barbuda is a country in this region (two accepted answers)
Central America OR The Caribbean
This video game franchise received the first major western movie adaptation
Super Mario Bros (in real life)
This dynasty was the last official Chinese dynasty
Qing Dynasty
This economic philosophy was used by the country governing Ireland to justify limited intervention while its citizens starved
Laissez-faire economics
French philosopher Voltaire corresponded with this so called 'Enlightened Despot' of Russia during the 1770's
Catherine the Great
Name one of the two countries bordered by both Turkey and Georgia
Armenia OR Azerbaijan
This video game, published by Enix, is the game that popularized the JRPG genre
Dragon Quest
What is the name of the violent anti-imperialist and anti-foreign rebellion that took place in China between 1899 and 1901?
The Boxer rebellion
These aptly named tariff laws, which were originally designed to protect wealthy landlords by keeping crop prices artificially high, were repealed during the potato famine
The corn laws
This is the most famous work by Immanuel Kant
A Critique of Pure Reason
What is the largest land locked country in Africa?
Chad
Created in 1958, Tennis for Two is considered to be the first ever video game. It was created in which country?
USA
The name commonly used to describe the pieces of animal remains which house the earliest form of Chinese Writing is?
Oracle Bones