History
This man is known as the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The Declaration of Independence was signed in this year.
What is 1776?
This is the capital city of Japan
What is Tokyo?
This country is home to the Great Wall.
What is China?
The main idea or underlying message of a work of literature is called its...
What is theme?
This event, taking place in 1969, marked the first time humans landed on the Moon.
What is the Apollo 11 mission?
This U.S. president delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This river is the longest in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
This is the only U.S. state that is an archipelago.
What is Hawaii?
The word “running” in the sentence “She is running fast” is an example of this verb form.
What is a present participle?
This ancient civilization built the pyramids and is known for their contributions to mathematics and astronomy
What is Ancient Egypt?
The famous Roman leader Julius Caesar was assassinated in this year.
What is 44 BCE?
This African country has the longest coastline of any African country.
What is Somalia?
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This figure of speech compares two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
This empire, based in modern-day Turkey, fell in 1922 after over 600 years of existence.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This 16th-century English king had six wives and initiated the English Reformation.
Who is Henry VIII?
This landlocked country is bordered by both India and China.
What is Nepal?
This desert, the largest in the world, stretches across northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This rhetorical device involves repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in close proximity.
What is alliteration?
This U.S. president is credited with the New Deal, a series of programs to help recover from the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The Magna Carta was signed by this English king in 1215.
Who is King John?
This country has the world's largest population.
What is China?
This country, which once controlled the most land area in the world, was the origin of the Soviet Union.
What is Russia?
This type of rhyme occurs when words have similar but not identical sounds, often used in poetry to create a more subtle effect.
What is slant rhyme?