Ancient World
This ancient civilization built the Great Pyramid of Giza.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This document declared the thirteen American colonies independent from Great Britain in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This fermented beverage was commonly consumed in medieval Europe, partly because brewing could make water safer to drink
What is beer?
This pair of Founding Fathers famously disagreed over politics, including the direction of the new United States.
Who are Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson?
This country music legend released the song “9 to 5” in 1980 for the film of the same name.
Who is Dolly Parton?
This ancient Greek city was famous for its military culture and warriors.
What is Sparta?
This was the first permanent English settlement in what became the United States.
What is Jamestown?
This ancient Roman fermented fish sauce was a popular condiment.
What is garum?
This English king had a famous conflict with the Catholic Church over his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Who is Henry VIII?
This 1886 Chicago event became an important moment in the American movement for an eight-hour workday.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This city was destroyed and buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
What is Pompeii?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 18th-century French queen was famously associated with the phrase “Let them eat cake,” although historians have found no evidence that she actually said it.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This U.S. president and his vice president became political rivals after serving together, eventually leading to an infamous 1804 duel.
Who are Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr?
Dolly Parton grew up in this state, where the Great Smoky Mountains are located.
What is Tennessee?
This Carthaginian general crossed the Alps with elephants during the Second Punic War.
Hannibal
This 1803 purchase from France nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
In 1518, residents of this city reportedly began dancing uncontrollably in an event whose cause historians still debate the cause of.
What is Strasbourg?
This 1862–1865 feud between the Hatfields and this neighboring family became one of America's most famous family conflicts.
Who are the McCoys?
This 1894 strike against the Pullman Company led to a nationwide railroad boycott and federal intervention.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This ancient writing system of Egypt was deciphered with the help of the Rosetta Stone.
What are hieroglyphics?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This ancient Roman festival honoring the god of agriculture involved temporary social role reversals, including enslaved people and their enslavers dining together.
What is Saturnalia?
This 15th-century English conflict between the Houses of Lancaster and York involved competing claims to the English throne.
What are the Wars of the Roses?
What "instrument" did Dolly Parton use to create the song "9 to 5"?
What are fingernails?