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100

A natural fiber derived from the coat of various animals, primarily sheep.

What is wool?

100

This country is thought to have invented gunpowder, as well as soy sauce.

What is China?

100

The nickname of this capital city is 'the City of Angels'.

What is Los Angeles?

100

The year Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the New World.

What is 1492?

100

It was the first bridge to be built across the River Thames in London.

What is London Bridge?

200

It is the most widely used natural fiber.

What is cotton?

200

Clement Ader created this type of sound system that used  two microphones feeding separate headphones.

What is stereo?

200

The capital city of this Asian country is Seoul.

What is South Korea?

200

The American Declaration of Independence was adopted in this year.

What is 1776?

200

The war in which the Battle of the Bulge took place.

What is World War II?

300

A natural fiber produced by a certain type of worm, it was first produced in China over 5,000 years ago.

What is silk?

300

The German Heinkel He-280 of 1941 was the first jet fighter to have one of these in case of emergency.

What is an ejection seat?

300

The river Thames flows through this capital city.

What is London?

300

The decade when President John F. Kennedy was shot.

What is the 1960s?

300

Mass protests against this war took place in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

What is the war in Viet Nam?

400

The tartan-style patterns in clothing such as the kilt were traditionally used to identify individual clans in this country.

What is Scotland?

400

He first determined that energy equals mass times the velocity of light square.

Who is Albert Einstein?

400

If you were visiting the Forbidden City, you would be in this capital city.

What is Bejing?

400

The year man first landed on the moon.

What is 1969?

400

Prospectors rushed to California in search of this in the 1840s and 1850s.

What is gold?

500

a synthetic fabric developed in the 1940s, made from chemicals derived from petroleum.

What is polyester?

500

In 1965 Stephanie Kwolek developed this material used in bulletproof vests.

What is kevlar?

500

This capital city is known as 'The Big Easy.'

What is New Orleans?

500

Reaganomics, MTV, and the fall of the Berlin Wall all took place in this decade.

What is the 1980s?

500

On May 8th, 2025, the world marks the 80th anniversary of this event with parades and memorials.

What is World War II Victory in Europe (V-E Day)?