Unit 1 Stuff
Ancient Greece
Video Games
Sports
Movies
Music
Random Mr.Corso Pulls
100

This Egyptian body of water is 4,160 miles long. 

The Nile River

100

This person's stories are the main source of information from the "Dark Ages" of Greece

Homer

100

What 2009 game, developed by Mojang, is an open sandbox in which players often build structures and battle creepers, zombies, and other "mobs"?

Minecraft

100

This is the only player on the field who can touch the ball with their hands during play in soccer?

The Goalie

100

This green ogre reluctantly befriends a talking donkey in this movie.

Shrek

100

 “At first I was afraid, I was petrified,” is the opening lyric of what 1978 groovy Gloria Gaynor hit?

I will survive 

100

This restaurant that was founded in Denver Colorado is famous for letting customers build their own burritos. 

Chipotle 

200

This form of government says that rule is based on religious authority. 

Theocracy 

200

This story tells the tale of man's 10 year journey home after the Trojan war.  

The Odyssey

200

This video game is thought to be the first video game, created in 1958 and becoming popular in the 1970s?

Pong

200

This sport is known as Canada's national sport.

Ice Hokey

200

This Disney movie features a loveable snowman named Olaf and is known for the song "Let it Go".

Frozen

200

This pop star is known for hits such as "Good Luck Babe" and "Hot To Go".

Chappell Roan

200

This astrology star sign is represented by "scales" and spans from September 23 to October 22.

Libra

300

This mesopotamian story is known as one of the world's oldest stories. 

The Epic of Gilgamesh

300

The geographical feature is found all over Greece is known for a body of land with water on 3 sides.

Peninsula

300

In 2014, Google partnered with Game Freak and Nintendo as part of an April Fool's Day prank to create a new version of Google Maps populated by small creatures. This prank inspired what massively popular 2016 video game?

Pokemon Go

300

This women's basketball player currently hold the record for all time scoring in college basketball.

Caitlin Clark

300

This superhero famously gets his powers from a radioactive spider.

Spiderman

300

This rapper is featured on Taylor Swift's song "Fortnite". 

Post Malone

300

This musician is famous for hits such as "I walk the line", "Ring of Fire" and his cover of the song "Rusty Cage".

Johnny Cash

400

This specific Indus River Valley city famously had indoor plumbing and sewer systems.

Mohenjo Daro

400

This is a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state

City-state

400

This video game is set in 1899 and follow the story of outlaws Arthur Morgan and John Marston? Both characters are members of the Van der Linde gang.

Red Dead Redemption 2

400

This NFL player won the NFL MVP in 2015, scoring 45 touching and totaling 4,473 all purpose yards

Cam Newton

400

This is where Dorthy lands after a tornado lifts her house in Kansas.

The land of Oz.

400

 Elphaba, played by Cynthia Erivio, sings that no one is “ever going to bring [her] down” in which song in the musical movie Wicked?

Defying Gravity 

400

This famous superhero gets his powers from the "Speed Force" which makes him the fastest man alive.

The Flash

500

The ancient Chinese religion believed that universal force guides all things, and that natural order is more important than social order. 

Daoism

500

This was the civilization that controlled much of the mediterranean before the Greeks.

The Phoenicians

500

According to market research company NPD Group, which video game console sold the most units in the United States in 2008?

The Wii

500

This baseball player famously broke the "color barrier" in 1947, becoming the first black man to play in the MLB.

Jackie Robinson
500

This actress plays the lead role of Barbie in the 2023 movie Barbie. 

Margot Robbie

500

This hit song is famously Justin Bieber's "break-out" song.

 Baby

500

This town (not far from Orion) is where Mr. Corso grew up and went to high school.

Geneseo