Literature & Classics
This literary device gives human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
This empire was ruled by Suleiman the Magnificent during its 16th-century golden age.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This African lake is bordered by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya.
What is Lake Victoria?
This device, developed by the Wright brothers, made controlled powered flight possible.
What is the airplane?
This artist painted The Persistence of Memory, famous for its melting clocks.
Who is Salvador Dalí?
This Shakespeare play features Iago, Desdemona, and jealousy as a central theme.
What is Othello?
This treaty ended World War I and placed heavy penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This landlocked country is bordered by eight countries, including Germany, Italy, and Hungary.
What is Austria?
This Scottish scientist discovered penicillin in 1928.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This architectural style is known for pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses.
What is Gothic architecture?
This novel by Mary Shelley is often considered an early work of science fiction.
What is Frankenstein?
This Cold War crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union close to nuclear conflict in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This country contains the region of Transylvania.
What is Romania?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg helped spread books and printed material across Europe.
What is the printing press?
This Italian artist sculpted David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This term refers to a word that imitates a sound, such as “buzz” or “clang.”
What is onomatopoeia?
This Chinese dynasty built much of the Great Wall and was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This island territory in the South Atlantic is located about 2,400 km west of Cape Town and is famous as Napoleon’s place of exile.
What is Saint Helena?
This device, first successfully demonstrated by Samuel Morse, allowed messages to be sent using coded electrical signals.
What is the telegraph?
This art movement, associated with Monet and Renoir, focused on light, colour, and everyday scenes.
What is Impressionism?
This author wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Who is Gabriel García Márquez?
This event in 1066 changed English history after William of Normandy defeated Harold Godwinson.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
This large inland sea is bordered by Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Azerbaijan.
What is the Caspian Sea?
This invention by Tim Berners-Lee allowed documents to be linked and accessed through internet browsers.
What is the World Wide Web?
This Spanish architect designed the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.
Who is Antoni Gaudí?