US History
This civil rights leader delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This is the value of pie rounded to four decimal places.
What is 3.1415?
These are the three main branches of science that study living things, matter and energy, and Earth and space.
What are Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth Science?
This ancient civilization built the pyramids at Giza.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This river, the longest in the world according to most sources, flows through northeastern Africa.
What is the Nile River?
This scandal during the presidency of Richard Nixon led to the first and only resignation of a U.S. president in 1974.
What is the Watergate scandal?
A jacket originally costs $80 and is on sale for 25% off. What is the sale price?
What is $60?
This branch of physical science focuses on energy, force, and motion.
What is Physics?
In 1492, this Italian explorer sailed across the Atlantic under the Spanish flag.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This famous triangle in the Atlantic Ocean is known for mysterious ship and plane disappearances.
What is the Bermuda Triangle?
This Founding Father and principal author drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This theorem states that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
This branch of life science studies animals.
What is Zoology?
This war, fought from 1914 to 1918, was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is World War I?
This country has the most time zones in the world.
What is France?
In 1863, this president issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This algebraic formula finds the steepness of a line by dividing the change in y by the change in x between two points.
What is the slope formula?
This molecule carries genetic instructions for all living organisms.
What is DNA?
This English document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the king.
What is the Magna Carta?
This mountain grows about 2 inches taller every year due to tectonic movement.
What is Mount Everest?
In October 1962, this 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This value determines how many real solutions a quadratic equation has.
What is the discriminant?
This thermodynamic quantity measures the disorder of a system and tends to increase according to the Second Law.
What is entropy?
This leader became president in 1994 after spending 27 years in prison for fighting against racial segregation in his country.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This landlocked country is also considered “doubly landlocked,” meaning all of its neighboring countries are landlocked too.
What is Uzbekistan?