1. The Hellenistic (Greek) Era
Super Jeopardy
The Hellenistic (Greek) Era
Early Man
and its
Civilizations
The Roman
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Geography
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2. $100 Question from Geography
Where is the Nile River and
the Nile River delta (triangle
piece of land rich with nutrients)?

3. $100 Answer from Geography
Egypt

4. $200 Question from Geography
What is a peninsula?

5. $200 Answer from Geography
A piece of land surrounded
on three 3 sides by water
(for example India or Italy)

6. $300 Question from Geography
What is the other name for
the Huang He River
in China?

7. $300 Answer from Geography
The Yellow River

8. $400 Question from Geography
What is the main sea that
surrounds Italy?

9. $400 Answer from Geography
The Mediterranean Sea

10. $500 Question from Geography
What are the names of the 2 major rivers
that surrounded
the area known as Mesopotamia?

11. $500 Answer from Geography
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

12. $100 Question from Early Man and its Civilizations
On what continent according to scientists did
the earliest men develop?

13. $100 Answer from Early Man and its Civilizations
Africa

14. $200 Question from Early Man and its Civilizations
Which civilization gave us
the written law code known as
Hammurabi’s Code?

15. $200 Answer from Early Man and its Civilizations
The Babylonians

16. $300 Question from Early Man and its Civilizations
During the Neolithic Era was man hunters or gatherers or farmers?

17. $300 Answer from Early Man and its Civilizations
Farmers
(during the Paleolithic
Era they were hunters and
gatherers)

18. $400 Question from Early Man and its Civilizations
What was the name of the major trading people
found along the Fertile Crescent who is responsible
for spreading the earliest civilizations across
the world?

19. $400 Answer from Early Man and its Civilizations
The Phoenicians

20. $500 Question from Early Man and its Civilizations
What is the name of the Aryan
system of splitting up their people
into various groups including the
Brahmins and the Pariahs
(the untouchables)?

21. $500 Answer from Early Man and its Civilizations
The Caste/Varna System

22. $100 Question from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age
Who is the king of the gods according
to the Greeks?

23. $100 Answer from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age
Zeus

24. $200 Question from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

25. $200 Answer from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age
Homer

26. $300 Question from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age
The Battle of Marathon is found
in what Greek war?

27. $300 Answer from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age
The Persian War
(Athens led the Greeks to
victory over the Persians)

28. $400 Question from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age
Who was the ruler during the
Golden Age of Greece
(between the Persian and
Peloponnesian War)?

29. $400 Answer from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age
Pericles

30. $500 Question from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age
Name the three types of Greek columns…

31. $500 Answer from The Hellenistic (Greek) Age
Doric, Ionian, and Corinthian

32. $100 Question from The Roman Empire
What does the words “Pax Romana” mean?

33. $100 Answer from The Roman Empire
Roman Peace

34. $200 Question from The Roman Empire
A mercenary is a paid soldier –
Why did the Roman government hire
so many mercenaries
towards the end of the empire?

35. $200 Answer from The Roman Empire
Because no Roman citizen
wanted to serve in the army

36. $300 Question from The Roman Empire
Who fought in the Punic Wars?

37. $300 Answer from The Roman Empire
Rome and Carthage

38. $400 Question from The Roman Empire
What is the other name for the
ruler known as Octavian
(Rome’s 1st emperor/imperator)?

39. $400 Answer from The Roman Empire
Augustus Caesar

40. $500 Question from The Roman Empire
What is the name of the series of laws
made by the Romans to make the
Patrician and Plebeian classes more equal?

41. $500 Answer from The Roman Empire
The Twelve Tables

42. $100 Question from “?”
Who rules a monarchy?

43. $100 Answer from “?”
A king or queen

44. $200 Question from “?”
What is a bureaucracy?

45. Divisions of government
$200 Answer from “?”
Divisions of government

46. $300 Question from “?”
What is inflation?

47. $300 Answer from “?” When too much money is being printed
so that its not worth anything
while prices keep rising
(it was one of the causes of the fall of the
Roman Empire)

48. Chinese philosopher Confucius?
$400 Question from “?”
What is the name of the test you must take to get a government job that was started by the
Chinese philosopher Confucius?

49. $400 Answer from “?”
A civil service exam

50. $500 Question from “?”
What’s the name of the Persian religion that gave us the idea of good and evil?

51. $500 Answer from “?”
Zoroastrianism