Duplicate of Are You Smarter Than A 6th Grader?

Question 1

The Assyrians invented what great military weapon?

Accepted Answer

battering ram

Question 2

Which major world religion has no single founder?

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 3

The Land Between the Rivers

Accepted Answer

Mesopotamia

Question 4

This is the Buddha's real name.

Accepted Answer

Siddhartha

Question 5

Was built in Northern China to keep invaders out.

Accepted Answer

The Great Wall

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

Parthenon

Question 7

system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols

Accepted Answer

cuneiform

Question 8

All of the major world religions began on which continent?

Accepted Answer

Asia

Question 9

Widespread domestication marked the birth of what?

Accepted Answer

Farming

Question 10

The time before humans invented writing.

Accepted Answer

Prehistory

Question 11

The law of _____________ determines how a person is reborn.

Accepted Answer

karma

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

mummy

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

Ramses II

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

Euphrates

Question 15

Ancient Egypt was the 'Gift of the ____________'

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 16

The first emperor of China.

Accepted Answer

Qin Shi Huangdi

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

nomad

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Primary Source

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

Thermopylae

Questions 19