History
This empire, known for the Pax Romana, fell in 476 AD.
What is the Roman Empire?
This author wrote "Pride and Prejudice."
Who is Jane Austen?
This is the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This composer wrote the Fifth Symphony, often called "Fate."
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
This ancient document, signed in 1215, limited the powers of the English king.
What is the Magna Carta?
This Shakespeare play features the line, "To be or not to be."
What is Hamlet?
This scientist developed the theory of general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This instrument is nicknamed "the king of instruments."
What is the organ?
This U.S. state is the only one made up entirely of islands.
What is Hawaii?
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This novel, set in the Jazz Age, was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
What is The Great Gatsby?
The powerhouse of the cell is known by this name.
What is the mitochondrion?
This legendary jazz musician is known for playing the trumpet and "What a Wonderful World."
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This war, ending in 1953, is often called "The Forgotten War."
What is the Korean War?
This poet wrote, "Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me."
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This branch of science studies fossils and ancient life forms.
What is paleontology?
This song by The Beatles begins with "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away."
What is Yesterday?
This country is home to the Andes Mountains.
What is Chile?
This medieval pandemic killed an estimated 25 million in Europe.
What is the Black Death?
This epic poem by Homer recounts the Trojan War.
What is The Iliad?
The boiling point of water in Fahrenheit is this temperature.
What is 212°F?
This opera by Georges Bizet features the famous "Habanera."
What is Carmen?
This European country is known for its fjords.
What is Norway?
The Treaty of Versailles formally ended this war in 1919.
What is World War I?
This children's book author created characters like the Lorax and the Grinch.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
This type of blood vessel carries blood back to the heart.
What is a vein?
This Austrian composer wrote The Magic Flute.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
This is the only continent without permanent residents.
What is Antarctica?
The discovery of this artifact in 1799 helped decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This poet wrote The Raven and Annabel Lee.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The Earth's core is primarily composed of this metal.
What is iron?
This genre of music is characterized by improvisation and swing rhythms.
What is jazz?
This body of water separates Saudi Arabia from Africa.
What is the Red Sea?
The fall of the Berlin Wall occurred in this year.
What is 1989?
This character in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is a hobbit turned reluctant hero.
Who is Bilbo Baggins?
This part of the human brain regulates balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
This artist is known as the "Queen of Soul."
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This is the smallest country in the world by land area.
What is Vatican City?
This event in 1066 marked the Norman conquest of England.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
This novel by Mary Shelley is often considered the first science fiction novel.
What is Frankenstein?
This scientist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This percussion instrument is played by striking it with mallets.
What is the xylophone?
This Asian country has the most populous capital city in the world.
What is Japan (Tokyo)?
This pharaoh built the Great Pyramid of Giza
Who is Khufu (or Cheops)?
This satirical novel by George Orwell features talking farm animals and critiques totalitarianism.
What is Animal Farm?
This force keeps planets in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
This iconic rock band wrote Bohemian Rhapsody.
Who is Queen?
This Canadian province is known as "the Land of 100,000 Lakes."
What is Manitoba?