What is the country?
This country occupies the world's largest island and and in 1946, the United States offered to buy the island from Denmark for $100,000,000. Denmark refused to sell it.
What is Greenland?
This novel by Philip Roth explores an alternate history—told through the experiences of a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey— in which Franklin Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to famed aviator and isolationist Charles Lindbergh.
What is The Plot Against America?
The fifth largest park in NYC by area, it is the most visited urban park in the United States.
What is Central Park?
This is the year that the World Wide Web became available to the general public.
What is 1991 CE?
The most popular social network site worldwide as of April 2020, ranked by number of active users.
What is Facebook?
This is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia.
What is Laos?
This novel by Virginia Woolf details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England.
What is Mrs. Dalloway?
This Art Deco–style skyscraper was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931.
What is the Chrysler Building?
This year marks the first year of the Umayyad conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.
What is 711 CE?
This is the number of provinces in Canada.
What is ten?
This is the is only territory of the mainland Americas to have full integration in a European country.
What is French Guiana?
This debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, tells the story of pre-colonial life in the southeastern part of Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans during the late 19th century and is the most widely read book in modern African literature.
What is Things Fall Apart?
Name the three bridges that connect Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge
The year of the Boston Tea Party, in which demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.
What is 1773 CE?
The most read newspaper in the United States in 2019, determined by average weekday paid circulation, including digital circulation.
What is USA Today?
This country is completely surrounded on all sides by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
This novel by James Baldwin is a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. It was adopted into a film by the same name in 2018.
What is If Beale Street Could Talk?
This park was created as the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair and also hosted the 1964 New York World's Fair. Its giant steel globe can be seen from miles away.
What is Flushing Meadows-Corona Park?
The year Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published, a work which aroused international interest and a widespread debate, with no sharp line between scientific issues and ideological, social, and religious implications.
What is 1859 CE?
Name Switzerland's four official languages. (Switzerland's national anthem has different lyrics for each of the country's four official languages.)
What are German, French, Italian, Romansh?
Named lutruwita in the Palawa kani reconstructed language of its native inhabitants, this country is most commonly known by a different name, adopted from a Dutch explorer from the 1600s.
The only novel written by its author, it was originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas." The novel tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a young woman from the suburbs of Boston, who gains a summer internship at a prominent magazine in New York City.
What is The Bell Jar?
Features of this landmark's buildings —the Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem, Bonnefont and Trie— were purchased by American sculptor and art dealer George Grey Barnard, dismantled in Europe between 1934 and 1939, and moved to New York.
What are the Met Cloisters?
This is the year the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens.
What is 1896 CE?
These are the six different flags that have governed Texas. (This is what Six Flags Theme Parks are named after.)
What are Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America?