Circles and Three Dimensional Shapes
All Things Greek and Latin
From Gobekli Tepe and Giza to the Hagia Sophia and Beyond...
Geographical Vocabulary
Chichen Itza and the Horyu-ji Temple and More
100

The distance from the center of a circle to the outside is called this.

What is the radius?

100

The number written in our mathematical terms for XXXVI

What is 36?

100

The name of the stone that helped archeologists learn to read hieroglyphs.

What is the Rosetta Stone?

100

The line that runs in an east to west direction across the earth.

What is latitude?

100

The Horyu-ji Temple is located on which continent?

What Is Asia?

200

The radius is half of this geometrical term.

What is the diameter?

200

The name of the highest city in Ancient Greece.

What is the Acropolis?

200

The Haggia Sophia is located in this city.

What is Istanbul?

200

The name of land surrounded by water on 3 sides.

What is a peninsula?

200

The Mayan ballgame and its ballcourts have been  linked to the movement of these two astrological features, which are related to agricultural seasons.

What are the sun and the moon?

300

4/3 ∏r3. is the formula to find the volume of this 3 dimensional shape.

What is a sphere?

300

The word created by using the roots meaning "self" "write"

What is an autograph?

300

The top of the Hagia Sophia is a half sphere commonly called this term.

What is a dome?

300

The underground caves that contain deep waters, created where a cave ceiling has collapsed.

What are cenotes?

300

This is what destroyed the temple grounds of Horyu-ji.

What is a fire (or blaze)?

400

This is the formula for finding the volume of a rectangular prism.

What is length x width x height ?

400

The number written in our mathematical terms from MCMLXXIV

What is 1974?

400

Most archaeologists believe Gobekli Tepe was this.

What is a place of worship (temple/church)?

400

The name of a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water.

What is a strait?

400

In the Mayan ballcourt games these 3 parts of the body can never touch the rubber sphere.

What are the head, hands and feet?

500

The flat or curved surfaces that make up the outside of a 3D shape is called this.

What is a face?

500

The most famous temple on the high hill, dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena.

What is the Parthenon?

500

Egypt's Pyramids of Giza are located on a plateau above this River Valley.

What is the Nile River Valley?

500

A narrow land bridge connecting two larger land masses.

What is an isthmus?

500

The names of the six countries Stewie has visited so far.

What are Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Mexico and Japan?