Art and Culture
This Spanish artist painted Guernica, his monumental 1937 response to the bombing of a Basque town.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
Named after the French scientist who invented it, this heat-treatment process destroys harmful pathogens in raw milk to make it sage for consumption.
What is pasturization?
This wall, opened in November 1989, became the defining physical symbol of the end of the Cold War in Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This scientist formulated the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation in his 1687 work Principia.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This capital is also the known as Seat of the Government: The Hague.
What is Amsterdam, Netherlands?
This architect designed the glass pyramid that now serves as the main entrance to the Louvre
Who is I. M. Pei?
This primary sugar found in milk must be broken down by the enzyme lactase in the human digestive system.
What is lactose?
This 1648 series of treaties is commonly associated with ending the Thirty Years' War and shaping the modern European state system.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This philosophical thought experiment asks whether a ship remains the same ship if every component is gradually replaced.
What is the Ship of Theseus?
This capital is named after the river that runs along.
What is Ottawa, Canada?
The Japanese aesthetic concept finds beauty in this quality of things: impermanence, imperfection, and incompleteness.
What is wabi-sabi?
This mammal has the fattest milk.
What is a seal, whale or dolphin?
In 1453, this capital city fell to the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
This Austrian-born physicist formulated the uncertainty principle, which places limits on how precisely certain pairs of physical properties can simultaneously be known.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
Historically known as Ancyra and Angora, it served as the capital of the ancient Celtic state of Galatia and later the Roman province of the same name.
What is Ankara, Turkey?
Daily Double
This Dutch Golden Age painter created Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Milkmaid.
This is Ben and Jerry's most popular flavor.
What is Half Baked? (Will accept chocolate chip cookie dough and chocolate fudge brownie).
This 1919 treaty imposed major territorial, military, and financial penalties on Germany after World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This German philosopher wrote Critique of Pure Reason and argued that the mind actively structures human experience.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
This Country has three capital cities that serve three different branches of government: administrative, legislative, and judicial.
What is South Africa?
The 1913 Armory Show in New York helped introduce American audiences to European modernism. One Marcel Duchamp painting in the exhibition caused particular outrage with its depiction of movement and a fragmented figure. Name it.
What is Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2?
This month was named "National Dairy Month" by grocery stores to help distribute extra milk during peak production times.
What is June?
The 1618 Defenestration of Prague helped trigger this devastating European conflict, fought from 1618 to 1648.
What is the Thirty Years' War?
In Gödel's incompleteness theorems, sufficiently powerful, consistent formal systems capable of expressing basic arithmetic contain statements that cannot be proved within the system. Name the mathematician.
Who is Kurt Gödel?
This is the Capital of Vietnam.
What is Hanoi?