Mountains, Rivers, and Lakes
This over 4,000 mile river is famous for being the longest river on Earth.
What is the Nile River?
Famous for being its own country for nearly 10 years before being annexed by the Union in late December, 1845.
What is Texas?
This city is famous for the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe.
What is Paris?
The bloodiest conflict the world has seen to-date.
What is World War Two?
This ancient civilization built the pyramids at Giza.
What was Ancient Egypt?
The tallest mountain chain in North America, stretching from the foothills of Mexico City to freezing Fairbanks, Alaska.
What are the Rockie Mountains?
Notorious across the union for the tagline on their license plates, stating "First in Flight."
What is North Carolina?
This is the largest country by land area.
What is Russia?
Called the Great War until 1939.
What is World War One?
This river was the lifeline of Ancient Egypt, flooding yearly and making farming possible.
What is the Nile River
The most famous lakes in the world, and the biggest ones.
+30 points for each one of their names you know!
What are the Great Lakes?
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Ontario, Erie (+20/name)
After 72 years of statehood, this state became the first one to leave the Union, causing the worst war the United States would ever see, and, arguably, the worst the U.S. has ever had.
What is South Carolina?
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Famous for the sale of the Louisiana Territory to Thomas Jefferson, this 12-year European conflict was led by a French emperor who rose after the Revolution and ended with defeat at Waterloo.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
This ancient civilization, located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, is often called the “cradle of civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
This country is famous for having more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
What is Canada?
The first state to join the Union and also the second smallest one.
What is Delaware?
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest peak, is located in this country.
What is Tanzania?
Considered the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, it took place in Maryland in September 1862.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This wonder of the ancient world was said to have been built in Babylon for a queen who missed her homeland.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Every continent's tallest mountain.
100 points for each one named, +500 if you say all seven.
They are: Mt. Kiliminjaro (Africa), Mt. Everest (Asia) Mt. McKinney / Denali (North America), Mt. Elberus (Europe), Aconcagua (South America), Puncak Jaya or Carstensz Pyramid (Oceania), and Vinson Massif (Antarctica).
Famous for maple syrup and the scenic Green Mountains, this New England state is one of the smallest states and actually was its own country for fourteen years before becoming the fourteenth state.
What is Vermont?
This famous 1884 conference carved up a continent, leaving scars still seen today.
What is the 1884 Berlin Conference?
(Scramble for Africa)
This conflict was the first major proxy war of the Cold War, seeing major offensives, UN and Chinese intervention, and the division of a peninsula that remains divided today.
What is the Korean War?
This city was buried by ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
What was Pompeii?
Write your answer on the paper provided.
This ancient trade network connected China to Europe and helped spread goods, ideas, and even diseases across continents.
A) The Royal Road
B) The Silk Road
C) The Appian Way
D) The Trans-Saharan Route
The correct answer was... B!