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100

In 1937 his sister said he had “hats of every description,” which he would use as a “foundation of his next book.”

Who is Dr. Seuss?

100

This city is the capital of France

What is Paris?

100

This is the chemical symbol for water

What is H2O?

100

This document declared the independence of the 13 American colonies from Britain

What is the Declaration of Independence?

100

This Queen ruled over the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901, the longest reign of any British monarch at the time

Who was Queen Victoria?

200

The Raven was written by

Who is Edgar Allen Poe

200

This city is the capital of Japan

What is Tokyo?

200

The study of life is known as this

What is biology?

200

He was the first President of the United States

Who is George Washington?

200

He was the first Emperor of France, crowned in 1804

Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?

300

Who is known as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century"

Who is Roald Dahl

300

Known as the “Eternal City,” it’s the capital of Italy

What is Rome?

300

This planet is known as the Red Planet

What is Mars?

300

This war was fought between the North and South regions of the United States

What is the Civil War?

300

Known as the “Father of India,” he led the country to independence through nonviolent protest.

Who was Mahatma Gandhi?

400

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s most famous works

What is Crime and Punishment 

400

This Canadian city is the country’s capital

What is Ottawa?

400

Newton is famous for this law of motion

What is the law of universal gravitation?

400

This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

400

This leader’s reform policies of Glasnost and Perestroika led to the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union

Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?

500

Lewis Carroll’s most famous work

What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

500

Canberra is the capital of this country

What is Australia?

500

Einstein is renowned for this theory of relativity

What is the theory of relativity?

500

The “Gettysburg Address” was delivered by this president

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

500

She became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.

Who was Margaret Thatcher?