History 1
Two waterways that gives Russia access to the Black Sea
Bosporous and Dardanelles
The world's deepest freshwater lake
Lake Baikal
Largest level region in the world is the
Western Siberian Plain
Cold, treeless lands north of the Arctic circle
Strait of Gibraltar
Mountain that separates Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe
Pyrenees
Polynesia
Switzerland
Bern
Russia
Moscow
Poland
Warsaw
Norway
Oslo
Italy
Rome
Germany
Berlin
Micronesia
Finland
Helsinki
Austria
Vienna
Name the country these belong to: Land of Fire and Ice, hot springs, geysers, glaciers, tundra
Iceland
Name the country these belong to: Jutland, Hans Christian Andersen, Greenland
Denmark
Name the country these belong to: Land of the Midnight Sun, Oslo, Fjords
Norway
Name the country these belong to: Tulips, Windmills wooden shoes, dikes, low lands
Netherlands
Melanesia
Name the country these belong to: William Tell, Neutral Republic, Landlocked, International Red Cross
Switzerland
Name the country these belong to: Johann Sebastian Bach, Adolf Hitler, Land of Reformation, Divided after World War II
Germany
Name the country these belong to: Cortes, Valencia Oranges, Tidelands, Matadors
Spain
Name the country these belong to: Leonardo Da Vinci, Mussolini, Leaning Tower, Mt. Vesuvius
Italy
Name the country these belong to: John Calvin, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Eiffel tower, Mont Blanc
France
Founded the Nursing Profession
Florence Nightingale
Australian Dog Fences keep out ________
Dingoes
Person to first translate the Bible into English
John Wycliffe
"I will be good!"
Queen Victoria
Began the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
Greatest English Author
William Shakespeare
Johann/Johannes Gutenberg
Defeated the Spanish Armada
Queen Elizabeth
Wool
Attempts to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks
Crusades
First emperor of Rome
Augustus Caesar
Who "Crossed the Rubicon"?
Julius Caesar
Wars that Rome fought against Carthage
Punic Wars
The famous bard of ancient Greece
Aesop
Word meaning "people" and "rule"
democracy
Australia's Central Lowlands and Western Plateau are often called
Outback
The longest river in Europe
Volga
Highest peak in Europe
Mt. Elbrus
Czar
Finish the sentence: Karl Marx was the founder of _______
Communism
Finish the sentence: The first leader of the Communist state was _____
Lenin
Finish the sentence: Stalin was famous for the ________ _________
Great Purge
Summer
Finish the sentence: Khrushchev threatened to "bury" ________ ________
United States
Finish the sentence: After the Soviet Union fell, the most powerful Russian leader was ________ _______
Australia
Canberra
New Zealand
Wellington
Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby
Antartica's Highest Peak
Vinson Massif
Australia's most important tree, the _______ is known as the gum tree
Eucalyptus
Longest coral reef in the world
Great Barrier Reef
Australia's Highest Peak
Mt. Kosciusko
Australia's longest river flowing year-round
Murray River
The Largest artesian basin
Great Artesian Basin
Highest Island Peak in the world
Mt. Wilhelm
The migration champion of the world
arctic tern
The Sumerian created writing and ______-
Wheel
First man to sail around the Antarctic Circle was ____ ______ _____
Captain James Cook
The early settlers of New Zealand were the _______
Maoris
A famous missionary to the Pacific Islands was ______________
John G. Paton
Richard Byrd
The first man to reach the South Pole was _____ _____
Roald Amundsen
The most famous Antarctic explorer was _____ _____
Richard Byrd
The gardens that was created by a Babylonian king for his wife
Hanging Gardens
Native inhabitants of Australia
Aborigines
More languages are spoken in _____ _____ ____ than in any other country in the world
Papua New Guinea
A place where manufacturing is done is called ______
Seaport
An area of underground water is called _____ ______
Artesian Basin
Because Australia is below the equator it is called ______ ______ _______
Land down under
The 20,000-30,000 islands in the Pacific are called _____
Oceania
The two cities in Japan in which atomic bombs were dropped during WWII
Hiroshima and Nagasaki