World History

One of the ancient world wonders, the “Hanging Gardens,” was found in which city?

• Babylon

• Damascus

• Beirut

• Cairo

Greenland was a colony of which country until 1981?

• Iceland

• Denmark

• Finland

• Norway

How many days in a week were there in ancient Roman times?

• 7

• 9

• 8

• 10

In 1927, who became the first man to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic?

• Amelia Earhart

• Jimmy Doolittle

• Charles Lindbergh

• Bob Hoover

What was the family name of the Russian rulers from the 17th century until the 1917 revolution?

• Romanov

• Pavlov

• Dostoyevsky

• Pushkin

The ancient Egyptians worshiped dung beetle?

• The scarab

• The ladybug

• The darkling beetle

• The weevil

How did Alexander the Great solve the puzzle of the Gordion knot?

• He spent an hour untying it

• He cut it with a sword

• He had his wife do it

• He gave up

Who was the first man to walk on the moon

• Buzz Aldrin

• Neil Armstrong

• Buzz Lightyear

• John Glenn

Which infamous prison was stormed on July 14th, 1789?

• The Bastille in Paris

• Alcatraz

• Sing Sing Prison

• Shawshank

Where were the first modern Olympics held?

• Berlin, Germany

• Queretaro, Mexico

• Athens, Greece

• London, England