Literature
Writer of this line: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
William Shakespeare
The artist commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Michelangelo
The assassination of this figure was a precipitant of WWI
Archduke Franz Ferdinand (of Austria)
Southernmost state on the US mainland
Florida
This phrase is attributed to Julius Caesar upon his victory in the Battle of Zela
"Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered")
Author of Beloved, Jazz, Sula, The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Austrian artist famous for The Kiss and Judith and the Head of Holofernes
Gustav Klimt
The city in which large-scale bus boycotts protesting segregation took place in 1955
Montgomery (Alabama)
Wonder of the Ancient World located in Egypt; served as a tomb for the pharoah Khufu
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The mythical city said to be made of gold
El Dorado
Author of Middlemarch; real name Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot
Mexican artist known for her surrealist and often autobiographical paintings
Frida Kahlo
The early 19th-century movement that opposed the replacement of workers with machinery, the latter of which was often broken in protest
The Luddites
The city formerly known as Constantinople under the Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman Empires
Istanbul
Element used to develop the first X-ray machines; discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie
Radium
2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature; author of Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Baroque painter notorious for his use of chiaroscuro; convicted for murder
Caravaggio
The country in which American nationals were held hostage in its embassy in 1979; subject of the film Argo
Iran
South American country named for its proximity to the latitudinal centre of the Earth
Ecuador
The name and logo origin of this wireless technology comes from a 10th-century Danish king
Bluetooth
Known for her speech "Ain't I a Woman?"; abolitionist and women's rights activist
Sojourner Truth
Public sculpture located in Chicago, colloquially known as "The Bean"
Cloud Gate
The 1791 slave revolt that overturned French colonial rule in an area of the Caribbean; Toussaint Louverture was among its leaders
The Haitian Revolution
The unicorn is the national animal of this country
Scotland
The common name of the grain oryza sativa
Rice