Europe
What country now exists in the heart of the former Roman Empire?
Italy
Which country was formally both a French and English colony?
Canada
Which country is known as the home of the Pharaohs?
Egypt
What country is known as the home of Samurai and Ninjas?
Japan
In what modern day country was Jesus born?
Palestine
The Treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement to divvy-up the Americas between which two countries?
Portugal and Spain
What country holds the canal constructed by the US used by ships to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
Panama
What (two) countries share a name with the second largest river on the continent and second largest rainforest in the world
Democratic Republic of Congo
Republic of the Congo
After losing colonial control, France got the US involved in a lengthy and controversial war against this country during the Cold War
Vietnam
What country was initially formed as a British (penal) colony populated by criminal prisoners
Australia
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in which modern day country
Ukraine
The largest slave revolt in nearly 2,000 years, which successfully overthrew the French, occurred in what country?
Haiti
From what country was Nelson Mandela, a former revolutionary and president who was falsely labeled as a terrorist by the USA
South Africa
Chinese Taipei, a country formed by nationalist forces fleeing after losing the Chinese Civil war, is better known by this name
Taiwan
What country is considered the heir of the Ottoman Empire, named after it's founder, the military leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Turkey
Huguenots were a Protestant group which fled across the world from what country
France
The Falklands War was fought over these Islands between England and what South American Country?
Argentina
The movie "Black Hawk Down" follows American involvement in the city of Mogadishu during the civil war in which country?
Somalia
During the Vietnam war, under the direction of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the US made a bombing run every 8 minutes every day for 9 years on which of Vietnam's neighboring countries?
Laos
Which country is known as "The Graveyard of Empires", outlasting the British, Soviets, and Americans in drawn-out wars
Afghanistan
After his infamous affair scandal, Hillary Clinton did not speak again to her husband, President Bill Clinton until she urged him to bomb which country, that at the time was engaging in genocide
Serbia
Cahokia, one of the largest pre-Columbian cities in the Americas, was located in what modern day country
United States (Illinois, by St Louis)
The Arab Springs, a chain of protests, revolts, uprisings, and civil wars across the Arab world in the early 2010s, began in which country?
Tunisia
The world's coldest national capital city; Ulaanbaatar is located in which country visited by Marco Polo in his travels?
Mongolia
What country is the world's 4th most populated, and consists of 17,000 islands?
Indonesia