Geography
The collective name for the major landmasses on Earth.
What are continents?
This is the world's largest land mammal.
What is the African Elephant?
The current King of England, who took over after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away in late 2022
Who is King Charles III?
This common vegetable, famous for making French fries, is technically a tuber.
What are Potatoes?
This Italian explorer is credited with being the first European to complete a voyage to the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The capital of the United States of America
What is Washington D.C.?
The clicks and whistles used by dolphins and whales to navigate and find food underwater.
What is Echolocation?
This Italian astronomer and physicist is often called the "father of observational astronomy" for his work with telescopes.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This fermented cabbage dish is considered the national dish of Korea.
What is Kimchi?
The common term for the historical period in Europe between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Renaissance.
What is the Middle Ages?
This is the term for a country that has no direct access to the sea.
What is landlocked?
Animals that have a backbone are collectively known as this, which contains fish, birds, mammals, etc.
What is Vertebrates?
This Chinese general and military strategist authored The Art of War.
Who is Sun Tzu?
The browning reaction that occurs when sugars are heated, giving foods like caramel their color and flavor.
What is Carmelization?
The religious wars fought between Christians and Muslims for control of the Holy Land between the 11th and 13th centuries.
What is the Crusades?
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What is Greece?
The ability of some animals, like the axolotl, to regrow lost body parts.
What is Regeneration?
This French philosopher is famous for his statement, "Cogito, ergo sum," or "I think, therefore I am."
Who is Rene Descartes?
The process of heating milk to kill harmful bacteria, named after a French scientist.
What is Pasteurization?
The President who purchased the massive Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is the world's largest lake by surface area.
What is the Caspian Sea?
This highly specialized class of carnivores feeds only on fish.
What are piscivores?
Often overlooked, this Austrian physicist and chemist proposed the first workable model of the atom, suggesting that electrons travel in orbits around the nucleus. He later won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933. He is known for his famous "cat puzzle".
Who is Erwin Schrödinger?
The clear, colorless spirit distilled from the fermented sap of the agave plant, primarily in Jalisco, Mexico.
What is Tequila?
The Latin term for the "Roman Peace," a period of stability and relative prosperity lasting from 27 BCE to 180 CE.
What was the Pax Romana?