✏Academic✏
H2O is the chemical formula for this essential liquid.
What is water?
This is the largest continent by land area.
What is Asia?
This red planet is the fourth from the sun in our solar system
What is Mars?
Except for the goalkeeper, this is the main part of the body that players cannot use to touch the ball in soccer.
What is the hand? (or arm)
This iconic white marble mausoleum in Agra was built by Shah Jahan for his wife
What is the Taj Mahal?
This branch of mathematics deals with the relationships between the sides and angles of triangles.
What is trigonometry?
Spanning parts of Nepal, China, and India, this massive mountain range contains Mount Everest.
What are the Himalayas?
This layer of the Earth sits right between the crust and the core.
What is the Mantle?
This team sport is played on ice, uses a rubber disc called a puck, and features periods instead of quarters.
What is ice hockey?
Indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, this large-plumed bird with brilliant blue and green fan-like feathers is India's national bird.
What is the peacock?
This large gas giant planet in our solar system is best known for its prominent system of icy rings.
What is Saturn?
Located just across the Florida Straits from Key West, this Caribbean city is the capital of Cuba.
What is Havana?
This red-hatted Nintendo video game character wears an "M" on his forehead and is famous for his jumping ability and mustache.
Who is Mario?
This team won six NBA championships in the 1990s under the leadership of head coach Phil Jackson and superstar Michael Jordan.
Who is the Chicago Bulls?
Overlooking the Thar Desert, this Rajasthani city is known as the "Blue City" because most houses in the old town are painted a vibrant indigo shade.
This narrow body of water is the strait that separates North America from Russia
What is the Bering Strait?
Montenegro is on this country's northern border and Greece is on its southern one.
What is Albania?
This chemical element with the atomic number 12 is a shiny gray solid used in alloys and antacids.
This shiny, massive trophy is known as the oldest trophy in North American professional sports.
What is the Stanley Cup?
This Mauryan emperor expanded his realm through brutal war before converting to Buddhism and carving his moral edicts into rocks and pillars.
Who is Ashoka?
This chemical element with the symbol W has the highest melting point of all pure metals, reaching over 3,400 degrees Celsius.
What is tungsten?
Straddling the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe on the Zambezi River, this massive waterfall is locally nicknamed "The Smoke That Thunders".
What are Victoria falls?
This volcanic peak in Italy is the highest active volcano in Europe.
Mount Etna?
The sport is cricket
in 2004 at St. John's, Antigua, this West Indian legend broke the record for the highest individual score in a Test match, finishing not out on 400.
Who is Brian Lara?
Named for a city in West Bengal, this term describes the rich, fertile delta region shared by India and Bangladesh.
What is the Bengal Delta (or Sundarbans)?