Grammar
Part of speech that is a word that names a person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
What is the title of Shakespeare’s most famous play?
Romeo and Juliet
What year did Christopher Columbus arrive in the Americas?
1492
The "Columbian Exchange" refers to the transfer of goods between which two regions?
America and Afro-eurasia
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
What are the three basic verb tenses?
Past, preset, future
What is the title of the 1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell?
1984
What was the primary language of the Byzantine Empire?
Greek
What was the primary cause of the Opium Wars?
What number was the Apollo mission that succeeded in putting a man on the moon?
Apollo 13
What is a preposition?
A word that shows the relationship between the noun and other words in a sentence
Who is the author of War and Peace?
The Magna Carta was signed in which year?
1215
What was the effect of champa rice on Song China’s economy?
Champa rice revolutionized agriculture by enabling two harvests per season, leading to increased food production and improved food security and economic prosperity in regions where it was cultivated.
What is the longest-running Broadway show?
The Phantom of the Opera
What is the Oxford comma?
The optional comma placed right before the coordinating conjunction (usually "and" or "or") in a list of three or more items.
In what century was Don Quixote published?
17th century
Who was the last tsar of Russia?
Nicholas II
The Social Contract theory is most commonly associated with which philosophers during which intellectual movement?
John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau during the Enlightenment
How many plays do people generally believe Shakespeare wrote?
37
What is the correct word order for asking a question in the Present Simple tense?
(Question Word) + Auxiliary + Subject + Main Verb
Which character in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights was ostracized for his skin color and background?
Heathcliff
Which two rivers defined the Mesopotamian region?
The Tigris and the Euphrates
The Scramble for Africa was formalized at which 1884 conference?
The Berlin Conference
What was the name of the Franco-British supersonic commercial plane that operated from 1976-2003?
a) Accord
b) Concorde
c) Mirage
b) Concorde