History
This Greek city-state was built around military training from age seven.
Sparta
This Dutch painter cut off part of his own ear.
Vincent van Gogh
He wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth.
William Shakespeare
This is the currency of Japan.
The yen
Often called the powerhouse of the cell, this organelle produces most of a cell's energy.
Mitochondria
Egyptian civilization was built entirely along this river.
The Nile
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Van Gogh's swirling night landscape carries this title.
The Starry Night
He wrote 1984 and Animal Farm.
George Orwell
He appears on the US hundred-dollar bill despite never being president.
Benjamin Franklin
This blood type is the universal donor for red blood cells.
O negative
Meaning "land between the rivers," this region is called the cradle of civilization.
Mesopotamia
Monet's Impression, Sunrise gave its name to this movement.
Impressionism
Homer's epic about the ten-year journey home from Troy is this.
The Odyssey
A bear market is generally defined as a decline of at least this percentage.
20% (Half point for 15–25%.)
A typical human body cell contains this many chromosomes.
46
Discovered by French soldiers in 1799, this slab let scholars finally decode hieroglyphs.
The Rosetta Stone
Painting onto wet plaster so the pigment binds into the wall is this technique.
Fresco
In this Bradbury novel, firemen burn books rather than put out fires.
Fahrenheit 451
US inflation is most commonly tracked with this index.
The Consumer Price Index (Accept "CPI.")
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This Austrian monk established the laws of heredity by breeding pea plants.
Gregor Mendel
This Roman emperor legalized Christianity with the Edict of Milan in 313.
Constantine
Rodin sculpted this seated, brooding figure, Originally part of a larger commission depicting Dante at the gates of Hell.
The Thinker
This Hemingway novella about an old fisherman won the Pulitzer and helped secure his Nobel.
The Old Man and the Sea
In 2008, hyperinflation led Zimbabwe to print a banknote of this staggering denomination.
100 trillion dollars (Half point for anything a billion or above. They sell as souvenirs now.)
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria live in root nodules of this plant family, which is why farmers rotate them into fields.
Legumes (Beans, peas, clover, soy.)