ANIMALS
Which animal can sleep standing up and locks its knees to avoid falling?
Answer: What is a horse?
Which city is famous for its gondolas and canals?
Answer: What is Venice?
What event marked the official end of World War II in Europe in 1945?
Answer: What is VE Day?
Which invention made long-distance communication possible almost instantly?
Answer: What is the telephone?
What did people often use to listen to music before cassette tapes?
Answer: What are records?
Which bird is known for returning to the same nesting site every year?
Answer: What is a swallow?
Which Canadian city is known as “The Birthplace of Confederation”?
Answer: What is Charlottetown?
What 1929 event led to a worldwide economic crisis?
Answer: What is the Stock Market Crash?
Which invention allowed people to preserve food for longer periods?
Answer: What is the refrigerator?
What household item was once delivered daily to homes in glass bottles?
Answer: What is milk?
Which animal has fingerprints so similar to humans that they can confuse investigators?
Answer: What is a koala?
Which world landmark was originally built as a radio tower?
Answer: What is the Eiffel Tower?
What wall fell in 1989, symbolizing the end of the Cold War in Europe?
Answer: What is the Berlin Wall?
Which invention replaced candles and oil lamps in homes?
Answer: What is the electric light bulb?
What device did families gather around for evening entertainment before television?
Answer: What is the radio?
Which sea creature has three hearts and blue blood?
Answer: What is an octopus?
Which country has the city of Timbuktu?
Answer: What is Mali?
Answer: What is Mali?
What 1912 disaster involved the largest passenger ship of its time?
Answer: What is the Titanic sinking?
Which invention made mass production of books possible?
Answer: What is the printing press?
What was commonly used to dry clothes before electric dryers?
Answer: What is a clothesline?
Which animal was once commonly used in coal mines to detect dangerous gases?
Answer: What is a canary?
Which Canadian province is home to L’Anse aux Meadows, the only known Viking site in North America?
Answer: What is Newfoundland and Labrador?
What 1962 event nearly led to nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
Answer: What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Which medical invention dramatically reduced death during surgery by preventing infection?
Answer: What is antiseptic surgery?
What thick paper booklet was used to look up people’s names and phone numbers before mobile phones and the internet?
Answer:
What is a phone book (telephone directory)