Currency
The Equator
21st Century Dictatorships
From the 1910s
Latin Phrases
100
This currency, its name derived from a word meaning weight, makes up 5% of the world's currency reserves
What is the British pound?
100
This country's name comes from the Spanish word for the equator
What is Ecuador?
100
Alexander Lukashenko is the dictator of this Eastern European country that was banned from the 2024 Olympics in light of its involvement with the conflict in Ukraine
What is Belarus?
100
June 28, 1914 the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, sparked this military conflict
What was World War I?
100
This common alliterative phrase means "the other way around" in Latin
What is vice versa?
200
India uses this currency found in some video games
What is the rupee?
200
The equator splits Earth into the North and South ______
What is hemisphere?
200
In 2013, Jang Song-thaek was arrested and executed by his nephew, dictator of this country
What is North Korea?
200
On April 15, 1912, this vehicle disappeared only to be found 73 years, 4 months, and 18 days later
What was the Titanic?
200
This Latin phrase means "by fact" or "in effect"
What is de facto?
300
This currency is abbreviated not with a symbol but with a three letter abbreviation it shares with alcohol use disorder
What is the Australian dollar/Aussie?
300
This lake, the second largest freshwater lake in the world, is cut by the equator
What is Lake Victoria?
300
This dictator was elected president of China in 2013, and in the 12th National People's Congress of Beijing received 2,952 for, 1 vote against, and 3 abstentions
Who is Xi Jinping?
300
This "unnatural" disaster struck the streets of Boston in 1919
What was the Great Molasses Flood?
300
This Latin word is used as an English word and it means a stipulation or condition
What is a caveat
400
This cryptocurrency, a fork of Bitcoin, was thought of largely as a joke until attention from Elon Musk skyrocketed investments in 2021 and later in November of 2024
What is Dogecoin?
400
This country has the longest portion of the equator including land and sea
What is Indonesia?
400
Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez is the current president of this dictatorship in the Caribbean
What is Cuba?
400
This country fought from 1918-1920 for independence from the USSR
What is Latvia?
400
This Latin word is found in the Army, constellations, and universities
What is major?
500
The Fugio cent was the first official coin of the United States, designed by this political figure
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
500
This imaginary place is where the prime meridian meets the equator
What is null island?
500
Nicolás Maduro, who destroyed the economy of a Latin American country after he came to power in 2013, replaced this dictator who died of cancer, going down in history as one of the world's most corrupt politicians
Who is Hugo Chávez?
500
The joint venture to create this structure took the United States, Colombia, and France from 1881 to 1914 to complete
What is the Panama Canal?
500
In court a judge might say this, literally meaning "may you have your body"
What is habeas corpus?