History
This ancient civilization built the city of Machu Picchu.
Who were the Inca?
This planet is the largest in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This Shakespeare tragedy begins with three witches predicting a Scottish nobleman's rise to power.
What is Macbeth?
This is the largest country in the world by land area
What is Russia?
This artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
In 1066, this English king was defeated and killed at the Battle of Hastings.
Who was Harold Godwinson?
The basic unit of heredity is called this.
What is a gene?
George Orwell wrote this allegorical novella about a farmyard rebellion.
What is Animal Farm?
This river flows through more national capitals than any other river.
What is the Danube?
In Greek mythology, this hero defeated the Minotaur.
Who was Theseus?
The 1648 Peace of Westphalia is generally associated with ending this major European conflict.
What was the Thirty Years' War?
This particle carries the electromagnetic force and has zero rest mass.
What is a photon?
In Dante's Divine Comedy, Virgil guides Dante through this first major realm of the afterlife.
What is Inferno (Hell)?
This landlocked country is entirely surrounded by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
This composer wrote The Rite of Spring, whose 1913 Paris premiere famously caused a near-riot.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
This Byzantine emperor commissioned the Corpus Juris Civilis, a foundational codification of Roman law.
Who was Justinian I?
In thermodynamics, this quantity measures the number of microscopic configurations corresponding to a system's macroscopic state.
What is entropy?
This Irish novelist wrote The Third Policeman and At Swim-Two-Birds.
Who was Flann O' Brien?
The Wakhan Corridor is a narrow extension of this country separating Tajikistan from Pakistan.
What is Afghanistan?
The Rosetta Stone contains the same decree in Greek, Demotic, and this third writing system.
What are Egyptian Hieroglyphics?
The 843 Treaty of Verdun divided the Carolingian Empire among the three grandsons of this ruler.
Who was Charlemagne?
This theorem in quantum mechanics states that no physical operation can perfectly duplicate an arbitrary unknown quantum state.
What is no-cloning theorem?
In Nabokov's Pale Fire, the 999-line poem at the center of the novel is attributed to this fictional poet.
Who is John Shade?
This country has territory on both the European and Asian sides of the Bosporus.
What is Turkey?
In heraldry, a lion depicted walking with its right foreleg raised is described by this term.
What is a passant?