World War I
This 1916 battle, the largest of World War I, resulted in over 1 million casualties and was fought to exhaust German reserves, though it gained little strategic ground for the Allies.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
This German general, known as the "Desert Fox," orchestrated a daring 1941 offensive in North Africa but was later defeated at El Alamein by British forces under Montgomery.
Who is Erwin Rommel?
The pH scale measures how acidic or basic a substance is. A pH of 7 is considered this.
What is neutral?
The capital of Canada, located in Ontario.
What is Ottawa?
Who sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States?
Napoleon Bonaparte
This German military strategy, implemented in 1914, aimed for a rapid victory in the West by invading neutral Belgium to outflank French defenses, but ultimately failed due to logistical overreach.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This 1940 defensive line, thought impregnable, was outflanked by German forces through the Ardennes, leading to France’s rapid defeat in the Battle of France.
What is the Maginot Line?
This type of chemical bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
This European capital lies on both sides of the Danube River and was formed by the unification of Buda, Pest, and Óbuda.
What is Budapest (Hungary)?
This Spanish settlement, founded in 1565, is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established city in the continental United States.
What is St. Augustine (Florida)?
This 1917 telegram, intercepted by British intelligence, proposed a German-Mexican alliance against the United States, hastening U.S. entry into World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This French general, exiled after the 1940 armistice, led the Free French Forces and broadcasted a famous BBC appeal on June 18, 1940, urging continued resistance against Germany.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
This part of the cell is responsible for modifying and packaging proteins.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This capital is located on an island in a lake, and its name comes from the Nahuatl word for “the place of the Mexica.
What is Mexico City?
This war between Britain and France in North America (1754–1763) ended with France ceding much of its territory east of the Mississippi to Britain.
What is the French and Indian War?
This 1917 U.S. law imposed strict penalties for anti-war activities, targeting dissenters and leading to the prosecution of over 2,000 Americans.
What is the Espionage Act?
This Native American group, primarily Navajo, developed an unbreakable code based on their language, used by the U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater for secure communications.
Who are the Navajo Code Talkers?
The process in meiosis where homologous chromosomes exchange genetic material.
What is crossing over?
The capital of Brazil, designed and built in the 1960s.
What is Brasília?
This was the name of the 1680 rebellion where Pueblo people successfully drove the Spanish out of New Mexico for 12 years.
What is the Pueblo Revolt (or Popé’s Rebellion)?
This French military leader, appointed commander-in-chief in 1916, was credited with restoring morale after mutinies and leading France to victory in 1918.
Who is Philippe Pétain?
This 1944 invasion, planned by U.S. General Eisenhower, included Free French soldiers landing on Normandy beaches to help liberate France from German occupation.
You MUST give me code name for the invasion.
What is Operation Overlord?
He proposed the heliocentric model, placing the Sun at the center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This capital city, one of the world’s highest, is the political center of Peru.
What is Lima?
This Spanish explorer is known for his expedition through Florida and is credited with the first recorded European sighting of the Mississippi River in 1541.
Who is Hernando de Soto?