Geography
This African river is the longest in the world.
What is the Nile?
This element has the chemical symbol "Au".
What is gold?
This treaty officially ended World War I in 1919.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This 8-letter word for an underground cemetery hides a popular Mexican folded corn tortilla snack.
What is catacomb?
This 1975 Spielberg film, about a giant shark terrorizing a beach town, is widely credited with inventing the modern summer blockbuster.
What is Jaws?
This strait separates Asia from North America.
What is the Bering Strait?
What is the mitochondria?
This ancient civilization built the mountaintop city of Machu Picchu in Peru.
Who are the Inca?
A small, flowing body of water contains this 4-letter word for a bulk quantity of 500 sheets of paper.
What is a stream?
This actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a man with a low IQ who unwittingly influences several major historical events.
Who is Tom Hanks?
This South American county has its administrative capital in La Paz, even though its consitutional captial is Sucre.
What is Bolivia?
This is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight.
What is the bat?
This U.S. founding father, not George Washington, appears on the $2 bill.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
A small biting insect, or a word that means "power or strength."
What is a mite (or might)?
This composer scored Star Wars, Jaws, and E.T., and has been nominated for more Academy Awards than any other living person.
Who is John Williams?
This is the only country that borders both France and Spain, tucked in the Pyrenees mountains.
What is Andorra?
This planet has a day longer than its year, due to its extremely slow rotation.
What is Venus?
This English queen ruled for 44 years, never married, and was nicknamed "The Virgin Queen."
Who is Elizabeth I?
To frolic or play, or a small songbird often associated with the early morning.
What is a lark?
This Beatles album is named after the London street where EMI studios was located, and its cover features the band's famous crosswalk photo.
What is Abbey Road?
This landlocked country is surrounded entirely by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
This is the scientific term for organisms, like the tardigrade, that can survive extreme conditions such as radiation or the vacuum of space.
What is an extremophile?
This ancient wonder, a lighthouse, was once located in this Egyptian city and guided ships into its harbor.
What is Alexandria?
Add a single letter to the salvation of a kidnap victim, and you get this glass window piece located above a door.
What is a transom?
Before Harrison Ford was cast, this actor was Steven Spielberg's original choice to play Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Who is Tom Selleck?