Crackpot History
The builders of the pyramids
What are aliens?
The author who once said that if the phrase "and it came to pass" was taken out of the Book of Mormon, it would be a much shorter book.
Who is Mark Twain?
A featherless biped
What is a man? (+100 points if you also said "behold a man!")
The two major types/versions of Buddhism
What are Mahayana and Theravada?
The richest man who ever lived
Who is Mansa Musa?
The reason America doesn't use the metric system.
What are Aliens?
An Ancient Egyptian trick to track the flooding of the Nile river
What is a nilometer?
The rare example of a Greek Hero who didn't allow hubris to be his downfall.
Who is Perseus?
The country which occupied Korea from 1910-1945
What is Japan?
The ancient civilization which performed archaeological studies on their own culture
What is Egypt?
Who is Cain?
What people did when the Spanish Monarchy banned spoken Arabic because of the Crusades or whatever. (Arabic was pretty integrated into Spanish culture at this point.)
What is writing Spanish in Arabic script?
The Patron God of Hospitality
The correct order of the Chinese Zhou, Tang, Song, Qin, and Han Dynasties.
What are the Song, Tang, Zhou, Han, and Qin Dynasties?
The person who opened the first museum in ancient Babylon
Who was Ennigaldi-Nanna?
The place Hitler fled to after WWII
What is Argentina?
The age of the Tarkhan Dress, the oldest prices of fabric clothing ever found.
What is 36205 years old? (From 34182 BC, older than the Pyramids.)
What are the Olympic games, the Oracle of Delphi, and the Homeric Hymns?
What is Shinto?
The ancient legend which explained how Buddhism arrived in China
What is the Journey to the West?
The true identity of Socrates
Who is Plato?
The place archeologists found out the silver of queen Hetepheres' bracelets came from in 1925, revealing the extend of Egypts trade back then.
What is Greece?
A Greek God whose festival incorporated heavy themes of death and resurrection
Who is Dionysus?
A concubine who rose through the ranks to become Empress of China, exiling, executing, and threatening anyone in her way, took the throne from the Emperor and was the sole ruler of the Tang/Zhou Dynasty (transition period) for 15 years.
Who was Empress Wuhou? (624-705.)
The first recorded king in history
Who is Sargon the Great?