Geography
This European country is shaped like a boot.
What is Italy?
This gas is the most abundant in Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
This famous document begins with the words, “We the People.”
What is the US Constitution?
This traffic signal tells cars they must stop.
What is a Red Light?
This desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This scientist is credited with the first periodic table of elements.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
This explorer is credited with "discovering" the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This household item helps illuminate rooms and often has a shade.
What is a lamp?
This South American country is landlocked and bordered by Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia.
What is Paraguay?
This is the term for a black hole's boundary, beyond which nothing can escape.
What is an event horizon?
The Wright brothers are credited with inventing this mode of transportation in 1903.
What is an airplane?
This is a form of advertising that uses illuminated displays, commonly seen in places like Times Square and Las Vegas.
What is a neon light?
This African lake is the second-largest freshwater lake by surface area and is shared by multiple countries.
What is Lake Victoria?
This scale measures the intensity of tornadoes based on wind speed and damage.
What is the Fujita Scale?
This Canadian province was the last to join Confederation in 1949.
This scientific term describes the bending of light as it passes through a prism.
What is refraction?
This uninhabited volcanic island near Iceland marks the northernmost extension of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
What is Surtsey?
The term for the point in a planet’s orbit closest to the Sun is this.
What is the perihelion?
This U.S. president was in office during the Louisiana Purchase.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This rare optical phenomenon, also known as “false dawn,” is caused by interplanetary dust scattering sunlight.
What is zodiacal light?