Ancient Civilizations
$100: The Hanging Gardens were said to be built in which ancient city?
a) Athens
b) Babylon
c) Rome
d) Alexandria
Answer: b) Babylon
$100: The Rhine River mainly flows through which country?
a) Germany
b) France
c) Austria
d) Italy
Answer: a) Germany
$100: Who painted the Mona Lisa?
a) Michelangelo
b) Leonardo da Vinci
c) Raphael
d) Caravaggio
Answer: b) Leonardo da Vinci
$100: What gas do humans exhale?
a) Oxygen
b) Carbon dioxide
c) Nitrogen
d) Helium
Answer: b) Carbon dioxide
$100: What has keys but can’t open locks?
a) Map
b) Keyboard
c) Compass
d) Riddle
Answer: b) Keyboard
$200: The Rosetta Stone helped scholars decode which ancient script?
a) Sumerian
b) Egyptian hieroglyphs
c) Phoenician
d) Cuneiform
Answer: b) Egyptian hieroglyph
$200: What is the capital of New Zealand?
a) Auckland
b) Wellington
c) Christchurch
d) Dunedin
Answer: b) Wellington
$200: Beethoven was completely deaf when he composed which symphony?
a) 5th
b) 7th
c) 9th
d) 3rd
Answer: c) 9th
$200: What is the main ingredient in glass?
a) Sand
b) Limestone
c) Clay
d) Salt
Answer: a) Sand
$200: What comes once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?
a) The letter “E”
b) A Sunday
c) Leap year
d) The number 2
Answer: a) The letter “E”
$300: Which empire was ruled by Genghis Khan?
a) Ottoman
b) Mongol
c) Persian
d) Byzantine
Answer: b) Mongol
$300: Which desert is the largest hot desert in the world?
a) Gobi
b) Sahara
c) Kalahari
d) Atacama
Answer: b) Sahara
$300: Which artist is famous for melting clocks in The Persistence of Memory?
a) Pablo Picasso
b) Salvador Dalí
c) Claude Monet
d) Henri Matisse
Answer: b) Salvador Dalí
$300: What particle carries a negative electric charge?
a) Proton
b) Electron
c) Neutron
d) Ion
Answer: b) Electron
$300: I’m taken from a mine, locked up in a wooden case, and used by everyone. What am I?
a) Coal
b) Pencil lead
c) Gold
d) Salt
Answer: b) Pencil lead
$400: Which ancient wonder stood in Ephesus?
a) Lighthouse of Alexandria
b) Colossus of Rhodes
c) Temple of Artemis
d) Statue of Zeus
Answer: c) Temple of Artemis
$400: Mount Kilimanjaro is located in which African country?
a) Kenya
b) Tanzania
c) Uganda
d) Ethiopia
Answer: b) Tanzania
$400: The opera Carmen was composed by:
a) Verdi
b) Puccini
c) Bizet
d) Wagner
Answer: c) Bizet
$400: The first man-made satellite was:
a) Apollo 11
b) Sputnik 1
c) Voyager 1
d) Mir
Answer: b) Sputnik 1
$400: The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
a) Footsteps
b) Time
c) Breath
d) Shadows
Answer: a) Footsteps
$500: The Inca system of knotted strings used for record-keeping was called:
a) Codex
b) Quipu
c) Pictogram
d) Glyphs
Answer: b) Quipu
$500: Which country has the most time zones?
a) Russia
b) France
c) United States
d) China
Answer: b) France
$500: Which Canadian musician is known as the "First Lady of Song"?
a) Anne Murray
b) Sarah McLachlan
c) Joni Mitchell
d) None — that title belongs to Ella Fitzgerald
Answer: d) None — Ella Fitzgerald
$500: The branch of science that studies fossils is called:
a) Geology
b) Paleontology
c) Archaeology
d) Anthropology
Answer: b) Paleontology
$500: What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters?
a) Short
b) Small
c) Tight
d) Long
Answer: a) Short