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One of this figure's seven last utterances from the cross was the compassionate plea, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Who is Jesus Christ?
According to legend, this English physicist was inspired to formulate his law of universal gravitation after seeing an apple fall from a tree in his garden.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This colourful book by Eric Carle follows the ravenous week-long journey of an insect through its life cycle.
What is The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
This legendary cryptid of the Scottish Highlands is often described as a large marine creature resembling a plesiosaur.
Who is the Loch Ness Monster? (Nessie)
In German, this animal is referred to as “seehund”, or “sea dog”.
What is a seal?
Asked on his deathbed to whom he left his vast empire, this conqueror reportedly replied, "To the strongest," sparking decades of war among his generals.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This is the name of the process by which green plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create their own food and release oxygen into the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
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In this Roald Dahl classic, a gifted young girl uses her psychokinetic powers to overcome her neglectful family and the formidable headmistress, Miss Trunchbull.
This mysterious region in the North Atlantic Ocean is blamed in popular culture for the disappearance of numerous ships and aircraft.
What is the Bermuda Triangle?
“Washer dog” is a fitting translation for the scientific name of this masked North American forager.
What is a racoon?
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, this statesman's characteristic wit is preserved on his grave marker, which bears his quote: "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
Sometimes called the 'God particle', the existence of this elementary particle, which gives mass to other fundamental particles, was confirmed by physicists at CERN in 2012.
What is the Higgs Boson?
In this Julia Donaldson classic, a quick-witted mouse avoids being eaten by describing his scary, imaginary friend with "terrible tusks, and terrible claws"
What is The Gruffalo?
This theory alleges that the condensation trails left by aircraft are not water vapor but are actually toxic chemical agents being sprayed for sinister purposes.
What are chemtrails?
“Big Tooth” comes from the Greek for this prehistoric ocean predator.
What is the Megalodon?
After accidentally stepping on her executioner's foot on the way to the guillotine, this last Queen of France's final words were, "Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose."
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Named for the French chemist who developed it, it's the process of heating liquids like milk to a specific temperature to kill pathogens and extend shelf life.
What is pasteurisation?
This classic by E.B. White tells the tale of a pig named Wilbur who is saved from the slaughterhouse by the clever messages woven into a web by his arachnid friend.
What is Charlotte's Web?
This town in New Mexico became synonymous with UFOs after a supposed alien spacecraft crashed there in 1947, an event the government claimed was just a weather balloon.
What is the Roswell Incident?
The English name for this bushy-tailed animal is a famous stumbling block for French speakers, who often struggle with its pronunciation.
What is a squirrel?
The massive tomb of this German philosopher is inscribed with the final line of his Theses on Feuerbach: "The philosophers have only interpreted the world...the point is to change it".
Who is Karl Marx?
This acronym stands for a revolutionary gene-editing technology that allows scientists to make precise changes to the DNA of organisms, essentially 'cutting and pasting' genes.
What is CRISPR? (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)
Author Maurice Sendak revealed that the famous monsters in this book were actually affectionate caricatures of his loud, grasping Polish-Jewish relatives from his childhood, who would pinch his cheeks and say, "We'll eat you up!"
What is Where the Wild Things Are?
This undeciphered 15th-century manuscript has puzzled cryptographers with its unknown script and bizarre illustrations depicting unidentifiable plants, astrological charts, and naked women bathing in green liquid.
What is the Voynich Manuscript?
In Japanese sushi bars, “Uni” is the creamy gonad of this spiny echinoderm.
What is a Sea Urchin?