General Geography
What is a map?
A representation of the world on a 2-D/flat surface
If we wanted to see where the Mesopotamia region is, what's a country that we could travel to?
Answers vary!
What is the title of the king/god who was in charge of Egypt?
Pharaoh
A recent art piece made the headlines because it featured what type of fruit?
A banana
What's the name of the Speaker of the House?
Nancy Pelosi
What are the 5 themes of geography?
Location, place, region, HEI, movement
What type of writing did Mesopotamians use?
Cuneiform
Why is "Upper Egypt" further south than "Lower Egypt" on maps of ancient Egypt?
Because the Nile flows south to north
What country did Trump *maybe* try to put pressure on?
Ukraine
What's Mrs. O'Shea's son's name?
Seamus!
Who created a famous map used by many navigators? (spelling counts :))
Mercator
What are the two rivers in the Mesopotamia region? (Spelling counts)
Who was Egypt's god of mummification and funerary rights? (He helped put Osiris back together)
Anubis
Who was named TIME magazine's person of the year?
Greta Thunberg
When is Ms. Terry's birthday?
December 31st
The equator is at 0 degrees north/south. What line is at 0 degrees east/west?
Prime Meridian
What goddess cursed Gilgamesh after he rejected her?
Ishtar
What's the primary source text that we could study to learn more about how mummies were made and what Egyptians believed about the afterlife?
The Book of the Dead
What has been named the word of the year?
The gender-neutral pronoun "they"
How many people were originally in Destiny's Child, Beyonce's first girl group?
What is the lowest exposed land on earth (the land, not the water!)
The shore of the Dead Sea (-413 m.)
Who were the four major groups of Mesopotamians?
Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Sumerians
What is the ancient Egyptian symbol for eternal life? Write it or draw it
The ankh
What Massachusetts senator is trying to become the next president?
Elizabeth Warren
What are the colors of the Kwanzaa candles?
Red, black, and green