The Napoleonic Age
Napoleon was the first man to take which title in France, which he held from 1804 to 1814, and again for 3 months in 1815?
Emperor of the French
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin carried the title of World Champion in which field 6x between 1998 and 2001?
Professional Wrestling (WWF)
The German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented which technology in around 1440, arguably the most important invention of the entire Renaissance period?
Printing Press
The "Luddites" were best known for doing what in the early 19th Century?
Destroying textile machinery / protesting against manufacturers' use of machinery
I think, ________ _ __. (Descartes)
I think, therefore I am. (Cogito ergo sum)
What species is Napoleon, the main antagonist of George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945)?
Pig (large, black Berkshire Boar)
Get Me Roger Stone is a documentary about the role of Roger Stone in the election of which US President?
Donald Trump
Which great family rose to power in 15th Century Florence through banking, going on to rule the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and produce 4 Popes?
The Medici
James Watt made a crucial contribution to the industrial revolution in 1776 when he developed an improved design of which technology?
Steam engine (two-cylinder design to increase efficiency)
[God] does not __ __. (Einstein)
“Quantum theory yields much, but it hardly brings us close to the Old One’s secrets. I, in any case, am convinced He does not play dice with the universe.”
Which Napoleon was the title character of a 2004 indie-comedy film about a socially awkward high-schooler?
Napoleon Dynamite
Oliver Stone directed a multiple-Oscar-winning film trilogy based on which war?
Vietnam War
Which 4 artists gave their names to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, Raphael
In which country would you find the world's largest active coal mine by tonnage produced (101 million tonnes produced 2017)
North Antolope Rachelle, Wyoming, USA
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, __ ___ __ __ __ __ __. (Nietzsche)
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."
For which fictional international intelligence agency did Napoleon Solo and Ilia Kuryakin operate?
U.N.C.L.E.
The three "general" classes of rock are Igneous, Metamorphic, and which other class of rock?
Sedimentary
Which rounded structure, previously thought impossible, did Brunelleschi famously design and complete build in 1436 in a major Italian city
Dome of Florence Cathedral - started 1296!
William Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time" is generally thought to make reference to the early Industrial revolution. What two adjectives does he use to describe the mills of England?
Those "dark, satanic" mills
If God did not exist, _ __ _ _____ _ ___ __. (Voltaire)
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him"
On which Mediterranean island, now an administrative region of France (then an imperial possession), was Napoleon Bonaparte born in 1769?
Corsica
What name is given to the shaping of stones such as flint or obsidian via a process of "reduction" to produce stone tools?
Knapping
By what name was Early Renaissance painter Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi better known? The nickname means 'little barrel'
(Sandro) Botticelli
Which country music legend's final single before their death in 2003 was a cover of "Hurt" by industrial metal band Nine Inch Nails
Johnny Cash
A spectre _ ______ ____. (Marx)
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism."