General Knowledge Jeopardy

This is the largest country in the world by land area, spanning eleven time zones.

What is Russia?

This is the largest continent by both area and population.

What is Asia?

This mountain range, running through Nepal and Tibet, contains Earth's highest peak.

What is the Himalayas?

This desert, the largest hot desert in the world, spans much of North Africa.

What is the Sahara?

This South American mountain range is the longest continental mountain range in the world.

What is the Andes?

This ancient Egyptian structure at Giza was built as a tomb for a pharaoh and is the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World.

What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?

This 1789 event in France began with the storming of a hated prison-fortress and led to the eventual end of the monarchy.

What is the French Revolution?

This wall, with construction beginning in the 3rd century BC, stretches thousands of miles across northern China.

What is the Great Wall of China?

This Italian explorer's 1492 voyage, funded by Spain, reached the Americas while searching for a westward route to Asia.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains of present-day Peru.

What are the Inca?

This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth and keeps the planets in orbit around the sun.

What is gravity?

This is the largest planet in our solar system.

What is Jupiter?

This process allows plants to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen.

What is photosynthesis?

This is the hardest naturally occurring mineral on Earth, often used in jewelry and industrial cutting tools.

What is diamond?

This is the largest animal known to have ever lived, a marine mammal rather than a dinosaur.

What is the blue whale?

This Italian artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the statue of David.

Who is Michelangelo?

This English playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.

Who is William Shakespeare?

This Dutch painter, known for Starry Night, cut off part of his own ear and died relatively unrecognized in his lifetime.

Who is Vincent van Gogh?

This author wrote Pride and Prejudice and five other novels of English social life in the early 19th century.

Who is Jane Austen?

This Spanish artist co-founded the Cubist movement and painted Guernica in response to the bombing of a Basque town.

Who is Pablo Picasso?

This sport, played on a diamond-shaped field, involves pitching, batting, and running between four bases.

What is baseball?

This board game, played on a checkered 8x8 board, involves a king, queen, rooks, bishops, knights, and pawns.

What is chess?

This international sports event, held every four years, brings together athletes from around the world to compete across many sports.

What are the Olympic Games?

This sport, known as football outside the United States, is played by two teams of eleven trying to score goals using their feet or head.

What is soccer?

This tennis Grand Slam tournament is played on grass courts in London each summer.

What is Wimbledon?

This is the currency used by most countries in the European Union.

What is the euro?

This precious metal has been used as currency and jewelry across nearly every human civilization.

What is gold?

This 1969 event marked the first time humans walked on the surface of the Moon.

What is the Apollo 11 Moon landing?

This search engine and technology company's name has become a common verb meaning to look something up online.

What is Google?

This is the tallest mountain above sea level on Earth, sitting on the border of Nepal and Tibet.

What is Mount Everest?