Mars
The Age of Exploration
The Pink Set
Famous Metropolitan Areas
On the Ship
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The presence of many of these formations on the surface of Mars suggests that it had liquid water upon its formation - one of their counterparts on Earth lies in the American Southwest

What are canyons?

500

This explorer went to China during the Yuan dynasty during the Middle Ages and composed a journal recounting his travels to incentivize the Age of Exploration

Who is Marco Polo?

500

General Robert E. Lee surrendered at this location in Richmond, Virginia on April 9th, 1865 to end the Civil War

What is the Appomattox Court House?

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This "City that Never Sleeps" was originally named New Amsterdam and became America's economic center after the excavation of the Erie Canal

What is New York City?

500

The front of a ship - also the name of a thing used to shoot arrows or play a stringed instrument

What is the bow?

1000

Just like other planets (besides Earth), Mars was originally named after a figure in classical mythology - namely the Roman god of this act

What is war?

1000

A voyage led by this European explorer was the first one to circumnavigate the world - however, he himself died in the Philippines along the way

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

1000

John Locke wrote that the natural human rights were of life, liberty, and this, which became "the pursuit of happiness" in an almost-direct quote from him by Jefferson in the United States' Declaration of Independence

What is property?

1000

This biggest metropolis in the world was the "de facto" capital of its then-isolationist civilization after its shogunates fell

What is Tokyo?

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This term for the actual body of the ship excludes the structures built above it and includes the bottom, sides, and top that the cabin is built inside of

What is the hull?

1500

Christopher Columbus landed in what he thought was India in his first voyage, a territory now known as the West Indies as a result of this misconception and is now claimed by this modern-day island nation

What are the Bahamas?

1500

This city, along with the country it was capital of, was split between a capitalist west side and a communist east side by a namesake wall until 1989

What is Berlin?

1500

The back of a ship, which is also another word for "serious and stringent"

What is the stern?

2000

Mars has two irregularly-shaped moons that probably came from the Asteroid Belt near it under these names

What are Phobos and Deimos?

2000

To develop his theory of evolution that was based on natural selection, Charles Darwin went to this archipelago west of Ecuador to take samples of species and gather proof of differences across different islands due to their differing environments

What are the Galapagos Islands?

2000

The Rosetta Stone is kept in a museum is this city - it sure had a long way out of old Egypt

What is London?

2000

DAILY DOUBLE

It has quite a birdy name, but in reality, this is just another name for the top of a ship that birds may land on

2500

The reason behind Mars losing liquid water and becoming cold and dry is the lack of this "solar radiation shield" around the planet that Earth possesses

What is a magnetic field?

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DAILY DOUBLE

Before the discovery of a "New World", spices from India were traded through South Africa's Cape of Good Hope in a route discovered by this Portuguese explorer

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These towering structures jutting out of the body of the ship act as scaffolding for the sails

What are masts?