POLITICS / HISTORY
Which empire’s collapse in 1453 marked the end of the Middle Ages?
The Byzantine Empire
This island country is actually made of over 17,000 islands, but only about 6,000 are inhabited.
This creature has blue blood due to copper-based hemocyanin and has survived virtually unchanged for 450 million years.
Horseshoe crab
In biology, this type of cell division produces gametes with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.
Meiosis
A red background with a white crescent moon, a white sun with 12 rays, and a green border along the hoist side.
Tunisia
Which American president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing enslaved people in Confederate states?
Abraham Lincoln
Capital of Switzerland
Bern
Known as the “unicorn of the sea,” this Arctic whale has a spiral tusk that’s actually a tooth.
Narwhal
This layer of Earth, found just below the crust, is semi-solid and allows tectonic plates to move.
Mantle
The flag of Mozambique uniquely features what?
A weapon
An AK-47 rifle
Which phrase, often misattributed to Marie Antoinette, supposedly demonstrated her ignorance of the struggles of the poor during pre-revolutionary France?
Let them eat cake
What is the only capital city in the world that begins with the letter “Q”?
Quito (Ecuador)
Which marine animal can regenerate entire limbs and even parts of its heart?
Starfish
This type of energy transfer occurs when heat moves through a material without the movement of the material itself, such as a metal spoon heating in hot water.
Conduction
A red field with a white dragon facing the hoist, and four small yellow stars in each corner.
Bhutan
Which explorer is credited with circumnavigating the globe in the early 16th century?
Ferdinand Magellan
This island is the largest in the Mediterranean Sea, but is politically part of a European country whose mainland is far north of the island.
Sicily
Which mammal lays eggs, has venom, and uses electroreception to hunt underwater?
Platypus
Which planet in our solar system has the shortest day, completing a rotation in under 10 hours?
Jupiter
This city is the capital of a country with no land borders, located on an island off the coast of Africa.
Victoria, Seychelles
Who was the first emperor of Rome, known for ending the Roman Republic and starting the Roman Empire?
Augustus
This body of water is technically a lake but is saltwater, and is the largest enclosed inland water body on Earth.
Caspian Sea
This animal can hold its breath for up to seven months by absorbing oxygen through its rear end.
Turtle
Everyone: Name as many elements in the periodic table
2 minutes
Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Neon, Sodium, Magnesium, Aluminum, Silicon, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Chlorine, Argon, Potassium, Calcium, Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper, and Zinc.....
This flag features a light blue background with a large black isosceles triangle outlined in white, placed in front of a taller golden triangle that points upward from the center.
Saint Lucia