Which animal provided the finest wool for Inca royalty?
Answer
Vicuña
32309 Easy Trivia Questions
32309 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What Inca structure in Cusco was the Temple of the Sun?
Answer
Coricancha
What type of club did Inca warriors use?
Answer
Macana
What Inca city served as the last refuge of the empire after 1537?
Answer
Vilcabamba
What was the Inca god of thunder and lightning called?
Answer
Illapa
What Inca festival honoring the sun god is still celebrated in Cusco?
Answer
Inti Raymi
What was the Inca term for the emperor?
Answer
Sapa Inca
Which Inca emperor was executed by the Spanish in 1533?
Answer
Atahualpa
What was the capital city of the Inca Empire?
Answer
Cusco
What was the main deity of the Inca religion?
Answer
Inti
Who was the Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of the Inca Empire?
Answer
Francisco Pizarro
What was the official language of the Inca Empire?
Answer
Quechua
What is the name of the ancient Inca city located high in the Andes?
Answer
Machu Picchu
Which large Preclassic Maya site is located in the Mirador Basin?
Answer
El Mirador
Which Maya ruler's elaborate tomb was found in Palenque's Temple of the Inscriptions?
Answer
Pakal the Great
What symbol did the Maya use to represent zero in their numerals?
Answer
A shell glyph
What is the name of the Maya writing system using glyphs?
Answer
Maya hieroglyphs
How many months did the Maya Haab' calendar contain?
Answer
18 months
What sport did the Maya play in their stone courts?
Answer
Mesoamerican ballgame
What was the name of the colonial protest group that dumped tea into Boston Harbor?
Answer
Sons of Liberty
What river did George Washington cross on Christmas night 1776?
Answer
Delaware River
In which city did the Continental Congress meet in 1774?
Answer
Philadelphia
What pamphlet by Thomas Paine swayed public opinion toward independence?
Answer
Common Sense
Who was the British commander who surrendered at Yorktown?
Answer
Charles Cornwallis
On what date did the Battles of Lexington and Concord occur?
Answer
April 19, 1775
Who said, 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country'?
Answer
Nathan Hale
Who was the first African American killed in the Boston Massacre?
Answer
Crispus Attucks
Which colony was the first to renounce its allegiance to King George III?
Answer
Rhode Island
In what year did the Boston Massacre occur?
Answer
1770
How many original colonies were there?
Answer
13
What river did George Washington cross to attack Trenton?
Answer
Delaware River
Which battle is known for the order 'Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes'?
Answer
Battle of Bunker Hill
Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
Answer
John Hancock
What city was the site of the Boston Massacre in 1770?
Answer
Boston
What was the name of the pamphlet by Thomas Paine that encouraged independence?
Answer
Common Sense