World Geography
This is the largest continent on Earth.
What is Asia?
This battle, fought in 1775, is remembered for the order “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”
What is Bunker Hill?
The solid outer layer of Earth is known as this.
What is the crust?
In Monopoly, you go to this place if you roll badly or draw the wrong card.
What is jail?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
This country is both in Europe and Asia and includes the city of Istanbul.
What is Turkey?
He authored the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These large sections of Earth’s crust shift and move, causing earthquakes.
What are tectonic plates?
This game challenges players to sink their opponent’s naval fleet.
What is Battleship?
This sea, bordered by Jordan and Israel, is so salty people can float easily.
What is the Dead Sea?
This mountain range separates France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees?
This 1777 victory convinced France to join the war on the American side.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This process describes water moving from land to air through plant leaves.
What is transpiration?
This classic game begins with the player yelling “Jenga!” when the tower falls.
What is Jenga?
This Great Lake is the largest by surface area.
What is Lake Superior?
This African nation completely surrounds the country of Lesotho.
What is South Africa?
Washington famously crossed this river on December 25, 1776.
What is the Delaware River?
Igneous rock forms when this substance cools and hardens.
What is magma or lava?
In Chess, this piece can only move diagonally.
What is the bishop?
This strait separates Alaska from Russia.
What is the Bering Strait?
This desert, the largest hot desert in the world, covers much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara?
This treaty officially ended the war in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This scale measures the intensity of earthquakes.
What is the Richter scale?
This classic strategy game, believed to be over 4,000 years old and originating in ancient Mesopotamia, is often considered the oldest board game still played today.
What is Backgammon?
This canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?