State the Facts
The largest city in Pennsylvania
What is Philadelphia
The tallest mountain peak in the world
What is Mt Everest (29,029 ft or 8,848m)
This famous composer wrote Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Who is Mozart
Hummingbirds are native only to this continent/s
What are the Americas or North & South America
The first president of the United States
Who was George Washington
Fourth largest city in the US, by population
What is Houston
A record 8ft & 11in
What is the tallest person to ever live
The smallest instrument in the orchestra
What is the piccolo
The game Angry Birds comes from this country
What is Finland
In 1994 a civil war in this country caused an estimated 660,000 deaths
What is Rwanda (the genocide against the Tsuti)
They are 2 of the Native American tribes of Oklahoma (Jason at least 4 major)
What are Cherokee, Chicashaw, Choctaw, Muscogee/Creek & Seminole
(also: Apache, Comanchi, Cheyenne/Arapaho, Osage, Delaware, Iowa, Miami, Kaw, Shawnee, Pawnee, Peoria, Wichita, Cayuga, Caddo, Quassarte, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Modoc, Ottawa, Ponca, Quapaw, Sac & Fox, Seneca- Tonkawa, Wyandotte
The lowest point on the planet earth
What is the Challenger Deep in the southern part of the Mariana Trench (35,856 ft or 10,929m)
Hitler's favorite composer
Who was Wagner
(most famous for Ride of the Valkyries from the Opera set The Ring of the Nibelung)
This moth is the largest in the world with a wingspan of 27 centimeters across (10.6 in)
What is the Atlas moth (found in South China)
Singapore separated from Malaysia on this date and it has been an independent sovereign country ever since
When was 9 August 1965
One ancient & one modern they are both city-states
What are Athens, Sparta, Rome, Troy, Carthage
&
Singapore, Monaco, Vatican City
What is France (Jeanne Calment died in 1997)
Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev wrote this symphonic fair tale for children
What is Peter and the Wolf
The North Pole is part of this country
What is Denmark (Greenland territory)
This Empire conquered the maximum land area and was the largest empire in history, at 13.71 million sq miles
Who was the British Empire
The Mongol Empire had the largest CONTINUOUS LAND empire in history
The smallest state in the USA, by area
What is Rhode Island
Ken Jennings won this many consecutive games and still holds the all-time record in Jeopardy history
What is 74 (2004)
The highest voice type in Opera and the voice type of Ariana Grande
What is a soprano
This island in the Aegean Sea is second in size only to the island of Crete
What is Evia
In 1959, seven nations laid claim on Antarctica, drawing lines and carving the continent like a pie chart. This country claims the largest piece of the pie.
Who is Australia, with 42%
other 6 are:
Argentina, Chile, France, N. Zealand, Norway, United Kingdom