Are You Smarter Than A 6th Grader?

Question 1

The law of _____________ determines how a person is reborn.

Accepted Answer

karma

Question 2

The time before humans invented writing.

Accepted Answer

Prehistory

Question 3

This pharaoh ruled for about 66 years and went to war against the Hitittes.

Accepted Answer

Ramses II

Question 4

Which major world religion has no single founder?

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 5

The first emperor of China.

Accepted Answer

Qin Shi Huangdi

Question 6

The city-state of Athens pioneered what form of government?

Accepted Answer

Democracy

Question 7

The Persian elite force of soldiers were known as...

Accepted Answer

immortals

Question 8

A person who moves from place to place with no settled home...

Accepted Answer

nomad

Question 9

This king's Code was based on 'eye for an eye'

Accepted Answer

Hammurabi

Question 10

This is the Buddha's real name.

Accepted Answer

Siddhartha

Question 11

The two major rivers of the Fertile Crescent are the Tigris and what?

Accepted Answer

Euphrates

Question 12

All of the major world religions began on which continent?

Accepted Answer

Asia

Question 13

Ancient Egypt was the 'Gift of the ____________'

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 14

Was built in Northern China to keep invaders out.

Accepted Answer

The Great Wall

Question 15

The Assyrians invented what great military weapon?

Accepted Answer

battering ram

Question 16

'Homo sapiens' means what?

Accepted Answer

wise man

Question 17

This was built at the center of the acropolis of Athens.

Accepted Answer

Parthenon

Question 18

The Battle in which 300 Spartans stood against the mighty Persian army.

Accepted Answer

Thermopylae

Question 19

system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols

Accepted Answer

cuneiform

Question 20

The Land Between the Rivers

Accepted Answer

Mesopotamia

Question 21

A body that has been preserved so it will not decompose is a...

Accepted Answer

mummy

Question 22

Widespread domestication marked the birth of what?

Accepted Answer

Farming

Question 23

This person conquered Persia, never lost a battle, and spread Greek culture everywhere.

Accepted Answer

Alexander the Great

Question 24

Which item were the Phoenicians NOT known for?

Accepted Answer

libraries

Question 25

Information about an event that comes directly from a person who experienced the event.

Accepted Answer

Primary Source

Are You Smarter Than A 6th Grader?

Questions 25

Are You Smarter Than A 6th Grader?

Questions 25