European History
This wall, erected in 1961, divided a German city until 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This is the longest river in the world, flowing through northeastern Africa.
What is the Nile?
This is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
This East Asian country is the world's largest exporter of semiconductors and integrated circuits.
What is Taiwan?
This 2018 Pixar sequel, about a family of superheroes, became the highest-grossing opening weekend for an animated film at the time of release.
What is Incredibles 2?
This Portuguese explorer's fleet became the first to circumnavigate the globe, though he died before completing the voyage.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia and runs through Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This eight-armed cephalopod is known for its remarkable intelligence and camouflage abilities.
What is the octopus?
This country is the world's largest exporter of coffee beans.
What is Brazil?
This 2009 film's directors pitched the project using only a single image: a floating house held aloft by balloons, with no plot attached yet.
What is Up?
This 1789 event began with the storming of a Parisian fortress-prison.
What is the French Revolution (storming of the Bastille)?
This African lake is the world's largest tropical lake and source of the White Nile.
What is Lake Victoria?
This is the only fish known to be able to turn its head 180 degrees.
What is the hammerhead shark?
This African country is the world's top exporter of cocoa beans, supplying roughly 40% of global cocoa.
What is Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)?
This 2010 film's climactic incinerator scene was reportedly altered after test audiences found it too intense for a children's film.
What is Toy Story 3?
This 1815 battle marked Napoleon's final defeat and exile to Saint Helena.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This archipelago nation consists of over 17,000 islands and is the world's largest island country.
What is Indonesia?
These cnidarians, related to jellyfish, form the reef structures that house 25% of marine species.
What is coral?
This country is the world's largest exporter of farmed salmon.
What is Norway?
This 2010 film's title princess was given a magical ability not present in the original fairy tale specifically to solve an animation problem: how to move her extremely long hair believably.
What is Tangled?
This Habsburg-ruled empire, encompassing modern-day Austria, Hungary, and parts of a dozen other nations, dissolved in 1918 after WWI.
What is the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
This landlocked country is the largest in the world without a coastline.
What is Kazakhstan?
This crustacean has blue blood due to its use of copper-based hemocyanin instead of iron-based hemoglobin.
What is the horseshoe crab?
This East African nation is the world's largest exporter of cut flowers to Europe.
What is Kenya?
This 2008 film's two main characters share almost no dialogue for its first act, a choice the studio worried would hurt the film commercially before it went on to earn a Best Picture nomination.
What is WALL-E?