An epidemic that swept through Europe killing over 75 million people. One in every three people died from this.
What is the Black Death?
100
Columbus wanted to sail in this direction to find a new water route to Asia.
What is west?
100
A grand rebirth in the arts and learning of ancient Greece and Rome.
What is the Renaissance?
100
To sail completely around something.
What is circumnavigate?
100
Disease sweeping through Western Africa. It was recently brought to the United States.
What is Ebola?
200
A period of economic development in which merchants changed their business practices.
What is the Commercial Revolution?
200
The name Columbus gave to the first people he encountered in the New World.
What is Indians?
200
He painted the Mona Lisa as well as drew up many inventions. He was a jack of all trades.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
200
The transfer of food, disease, plants, animals, and resources between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
Manager Ned Yost, formerly manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, has led this team to the World Series for the first time since 1985.
Who are the Kansas City Royals?
300
A business in which a group of people invest together and share in the profits and losses.
What is a joint-stock company?
300
Name the three ships that Columbus sailed on.
What are the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
300
He modernized sculpting with his sculpture David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
300
The continents that make up the New World.
What are North and South America?
300
The place in Atlanta, GA where all information about diseases is processed and plans are made to combat the disease.
What is the Center for Disease Control (CDC)?
400
Money or property that is used to make more money.
What is capital?
400
The country that Columbus represented when he sailed.
What is Spain?
400
He developed moveable type, the precursor to the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
400
The continents that make up the Old World?
What are Europe, Asia, and Africa?
400
These two candidates for governor of Wisconsin recently squared off in a televised debate.
Who are Mary Burke and Scott Walker?
500
Sole economic control of business or product.
What is a monopoly?
500
The three reasons why people thought Columbus would never make it.
What are: 1. The world is flat, 2. The world is too big, and he'll die of dehydration and starvation, and 3. There are sea monsters?
500
Reasons why the Mona Lisa changed the way portraits were painted.
What are: 1. She was painted from the front, 2. The use of shadow to show depth, 3. The casual crossing of the hands, and 4. The hazy background showing distance?
500
A path around or through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Northwest Passage?
500
Number one song on the Billboard charts for this week.