World History
The Magna Carta was signed in this year.
What is 1215?
The SI unit for electric resistance.
What is the ohm?
The only country completely surrounded by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
A word that is spelled the same forwards and backwards.
What is a palindrome?
The mathematical constant approximately equal to 2.718.
What is e?
This empire was ruled by Mansa Musa at its peak.
What is the Mali Empire?
This part of the atom determines its chemical behavior.
What are valence electrons?
The capital of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
The logical fallacy that attacks a person instead of an argument.
What is ad hominem?
The branch of mathematics that studies limits and change.
What is calculus?
The Thirty Years’ War ended with this treaty.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
The process plants use to convert light into energy.
What is photosynthesis?
The driest non-polar desert on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
The study of the physical sounds of human speech.
What is phonetics?
The longest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
This Russian ruler abolished the boyar system.
Who is Peter the Great?
The name for animals that maintain a constant body temperature.
What are endotherms?
This sea is shrinking rapidly due to irrigation projects.
What is the Aral Sea?
A sentence that contains a contradiction within itself.
What is a paradox?
The term for government rule by the wealthy.
What is plutocracy?
The last dynasty to rule China before becoming a republic.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
The most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
The country with the longest total coastline.
What is Canada?
“Cogito, ergo sum” translates to this.
What is “I think, therefore I am”?
The only chess piece that can jump over others.
What is the knight?