Capital Cities
This capital city sits on the Seine River and is home to the Eiffel Tower.
What is Paris?
This enormous wall stretching thousands of kilometers was built in ancient China to protect against northern invasions.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This long-serving German chancellor led Germany from 2005 to 2021.
Who is Angela Merkel?
This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”
What is Mars?
This wall dividing East and West Berlin fell in 1989, symbolizing the end of the Cold War in Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This South American capital lies high in the Andes and is one of the highest national capitals in the world.
What is La Paz?
This ancient stone circle located in England dates back more than 4,000 years.
What is Stonehenge?
This South African president was imprisoned for 27 years before becoming the country’s first Black president in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This scientist developed the theory of general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This Mongol ruler created the largest contiguous land empire in history during the 13th century.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This capital city of Australia is located between Sydney and Melbourne.
What is Canberra?
This famous clock tower at the Palace of Westminster in London is commonly called Big Ben, though that name technically refers to the bell inside.
What is Elizabeth Tower?
This leader of India promoted nonviolent resistance during the struggle for independence from Britain.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This naturalist wrote On the Origin of Species and developed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This empire, ruled from Constantinople, lasted for more than 1,000 years after the fall of Rome.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
This European capital lies on both sides of the Danube and was historically two separate cities.
What is Budapest?
This archaeological site in Peru was built by the Inca civilization high in the Andes Mountains.
What is Machu Picchu?
This British prime minister during World War II was known for speeches such as “We shall fight on the beaches.” and his famous cigars.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This element with atomic number 1 is the most abundant element in the universe.
What is Hydrogen?
This famous trade route connected China to the Mediterranean for centuries.
What is the Silk Road?
This African capital sits near the Atlas Mountains and is known for landmarks like the Hassan Tower.
What is Rabat?
This sandstone city in southern Jordan, famous for its rock-cut architecture and the structure called “The Treasury,” was once the capital of the Nabataean kingdom.
What is Petra?
This Russian leader served as the last head of the Soviet Union before its dissolution in 1991.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This telescope launched in 1990 revolutionized astronomy by providing deep-space images from Earth orbit.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This 1914 assassination in Sarajevo triggered the start of World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?