History
This man was the first person in space.
Yuri Gagarin
Only the females of this species of insect bite.
Mosquitos
Two empires that disintegrated as a consequence of WWI.
The Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires
This mountain is the tallest in Kenya.
Mt. Kenya
This country formerly ruled Iceland.
Denmark
Scholars of this religion preserved the science and culture of classical Greece and Rome, established libraries, and invented algebra and the Arabic numerals we use today while much of Europe descended into the Dark Ages following the fall of Rome.
Islam
This type of bird is the only kind that can fly backwards.
Hummingbirds
This was the nickname for American Soldiers in World War I.
Doughboy
Canada’s Swan River empties into this lake.
Swan Lake
These two countries directly border Hungary to the north.
Ukraine, Slovakia
These three countries experienced the "Color Revolutions" in the early 2000s
Ukraine (Orange), Georgia (Rose), Kyrgyzstan (Tulip)
In Australia, Police feared this type of mammal would contaminate crime scenes due to the similarities in fingerprints with humans.
Koalas
The "domino theory," or the idea that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, led to this U.S. policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism (and led to proxy wars in Korea and Vietnam).
Containment
In 1981 this 9-letter word was added to the state flag of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
The Middle Passage
The widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American (New World) and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres (Old World) following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
The Columbian Exchange
A group of Ferrets is called a _________
Business
This international peace-keeping organization (which the U.S. refused to join due to its isolationist policies), founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference at the end of WWI, failed to prevent WWII.
League of Nations
It's the collective 2-word name for the extinct bears who lived in caves 1,000,000 years ago
Cave Bears
This country is also known as the largest micro-continent.
Madagascar
A collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence (study or theory of law), issued from 529 to 534 CE by order of Justinian I, Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor.
Code of Justinian
The eyes of this northern mammal turn blue in the winter.
Reindeer
The United States, blaming wrong coordinates, bombed a Chinese embassy in this city during the Kosovo War.
Belgrade
Number of letters on your standard 8-sided stop sign
Four
The Maasai tribe in the Great Plains of the African Savanna now reside in these two countries.
Kenya, Tanzania