Natural Disasters
This natural disaster is measured using the Richter scale.
What is an earthquake?
She is the actress who won Best Actress for La La Land in 2017.
Who is Emma Stone?
This is the most spoken language in the world.
What is English?
This province is home to the city of Toronto, Canada’s largest city.
What is Ontario?
He was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This natural disaster often follows an undersea earthquake and sends giant waves crashing onto coasts.
What is a tsunami?
He won Best Actor for playing the titular character in Forrest Gump.
Who is Tom Hanks?
This language is widely spoken in Brazil and is the only official language there.
What is Portuguese?
This province is known for its French-speaking population and the city of Montreal.
What is Quebec?
This famous battle, fought in Pennsylvania in 1863, is considered a turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The center of a hurricane, known for calm weather, is called this.
What is the eye?
This director has won the most Academy Awards for Best Director in history.
Who is John Ford?
The Romance languages—like Spanish, French, and Italian—descend from this ancient language.
What is Latin?
Canada’s westernmost province, known for its Pacific coastline and the city of Vancouver.
What is British Columbia?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1925 U.S. tornado traveled over 200 miles and killed nearly 700 people.
What is the eye?
This 2010 film won the Oscar for Best Picture and is known for its visually stunning depiction of a dream within dreams.
What is Inception?
Spoken by over 80 million people and written in a script derived from the Cyrillic alphabet, this East Slavic language is the official language of four countries in Europe and Asia.
What is Russian?
This prairie province is known for its vast wheat fields and the city of Regina.
What is Saskatchewan?
This Union general led the “March to the Sea,” devastating Georgia to weaken the Confederacy’s ability to fight.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This type of powerful storm forms over warm ocean waters and is called a hurricane in the Atlantic.
What is a tropical cyclone?
In 1929, at the very first Academy Awards, this film won the Oscar for Outstanding Picture.
What is Wings?
This Semitic language, once considered dead, was revived in the 19th and 20th centuries and is now the official language of Israel.
What is Hebrew?
This Atlantic province is the smallest in both area and population and is famous for its red sand beaches.
What is Prince Edward Island?
This Confederate general was known as “Stonewall” for standing firm at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson?