World Capitals & Cities
This city, formerly known as Byzantium and Constantinople, is the largest city in Turkey but not its capital.
What is Istanbul?
This element, atomic number 6, is the basis for all known life.
What is carbon?
The U.S. President who purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
If you go due south from Detroit, Michigan, what is the first foreign country you will encounter?
What is Oh Canada?
This song by Queen begins with “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?”
What is Bohemian Rhapsody?
The capital of Finland, located on the Gulf of Finland.
What is Helsinki?
The scientist who developed the first vaccine for polio.
Who is Jonas Salk?
The Declaration of Independence was primarily written by this man.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The river that forms part of the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
The 2010 Christopher Nolan film that explores dreams within dreams and features Leonardo DiCaprio as a “extractor.”
What is Inception?
This African capital is the highest in elevation on the continent.
What is Addis Ababa?
This process describes the splitting of a nucleus to release energy.
What is nuclear fission?
The President who purchased Alaska from Russia.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This island nation lies to the southeast of India and is known for its ancient cities and tea plantations.
What is Sri Lanka?
This 1999 film, directed by David Fincher, stars Edward Norton and Brad Pitt and is famous for its twist ending.
What is Fight Club?
The capital of New Zealand.
What is Wellington?
The only mammal capable of true flight
What is a bat?
This statue in New York Harbor is a symbol of freedom and was a gift from France.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
The longest river in South America, flowing through Brazil, Peru, and Colombia.
What is the Amazon River?
The 1991 Nirvana song that brought grunge to the mainstream, opening with “Load up on guns, bring your friends.”
What is Smells Like Teen Spirit?
This South American capital is home to the presidential palace called "La Moneda."
What is Santiago?
The largest internal organ in the human body.
What is the liver?
The river that forms the border between Missouri and Illinois.
What is the Mississippi River?
This country has the most islands in the world, over 220,000.
What is Sweden?
This Simon & Garfunkel song, released in 1964, begins with “Hello darkness, my old friend.”
What is The Sound of Silence?