American History
This city served as the first capital of the United States under the Constitution.
What is New York City?
This river is the longest in South America.
What is the Amazon River?
Julie Andrews won an Academy Award for this Disney musical.
What is Mary Poppins?
This planet is known for its Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
This is the only planet in our solar system known to support life.
What is Earth?
This president purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This country is home to the Great Pyramids of Giza.
What is Egypt?
This actor portrayed Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who was Gregory Peck?
This is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury?
This tree, known for its distinctive leaves, produces acorns.
What is an oak tree?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This European river flows through Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade.
What is the Danube River?
This 1939 film won the Academy Award for Best Picture over The Wizard of Oz.
What is Gone with the Wind?
This element has the chemical symbol "Ag."
What is silver?
This weather event occurs when warm, moist air is forced rapidly upward, often producing hail, lightning, and heavy rain.
What is a thunderstorm?
This battle is widely considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This desert covers much of northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Elvis Presley made his film debut in this 1956 movie.
What is Love Me Tender?
This scientist developed the three laws of motion.
Who was Isaac Newton?
This is the hottest layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
This Founding Father is credited as the "Father of the Constitution."
Who was James Madison?
This is the world's largest island that is not considered a continent.
What is Greenland?
This actor played Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind.
Who is Clark Gable?
This blood type is known as the universal donor.
What is O negative?
This scale is used to measure the strength of earthquakes.
What is the Richter scale? (Or the Moment Magnitude Scale is also accepted)