World History
The French Revolution began with the storming of this prison in 1789.
(What is the Bastille?)
The capital city of Finland.
(What is Helsinki?)
Ebenezer Scrooge appears in this Charles Dickens novel.
(What is A Christmas Carol?)
The closest star to Earth.
(What is the Sun?)
The violin, viola, cello, and bass belong to this family of instruments.
(What are the string instruments?)
In a standard deck of cards, drawing one specific ace has this probability.
(What is 1 in 52?)
The Cold War was primarily a rivalry between the United States and this country.
(What was the Soviet Union?)
The world's largest island that is not a continent.
(What is Greenland?)
This American author wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(Who was Mark Twain?)
The pH of pure water is this number.
(What is 7?)
This opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber is set beneath the Paris Opera House.
(What is The Phantom of the Opera?)
In Roman numerals, LX equals this number.
(What is 60?)
This explorer was the first European to circumnavigate the globe, although he died before the voyage was completed.
(Who was Ferdinand Magellan?)
This mountain range stretches through seven countries in Europe, including Switzerland and Austria.
(What are the Alps?)
The wardrobe leading to Narnia belongs to this family of children.
(Who are the Pevensies?)
This gas is most responsible for the greenhouse effect caused by human activity.
(What is carbon dioxide?)
Johann Sebastian Bach was born in this country.
(What is Germany?)
The only even prime number.
(What is 2?)
This emperor was exiled to the island of Saint Helena after his defeat at Waterloo.
(Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?)
This sea separates Italy from the Balkan Peninsula.
(What is the Adriatic Sea?)
This Russian novelist wrote Crime and Punishment.
(Who was Fyodor Dostoevsky?)
This vitamin is often called the "sunshine vitamin."
(What is Vitamin D?)
This Canadian singer recorded the hit "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
(Who was Gordon Lightfoot?)
A polygon with twelve sides is called this.
(What is a dodecagon?)
The Peace of Westphalia, signed in 1648, ended this long European conflict.
(What was the Thirty Years' War?)
This river forms much of the border between Texas and Mexico.
(What is the Rio Grande?)
Odysseus is the hero of this epic poem by Homer.
(What is The Odyssey?)
These scientists discovered radioactivity.
(Who were Marie & Pierre Curie?)
This Italian composer wrote The Four Seasons.
(Who was Antonio Vivaldi?)
The Roman god Janus gave his name to this month.
(What is January?)