History
This 19th-century U.S. president, often called the "dark horse," won the election of 1844 and oversaw the annexation of texas.
Who is James K. Polk?
This planet's day is longer than its year, taking 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis.
What is Venus?
This Asian country is the only one in the world with both a tropical rainforest climate and glaciers.
What is Indonesia?
This 14th-century Italian poet wrote The Divine Comedy, a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
This Bob Dylan song, released in 1965, became an anthem for the counterculture and was ranked #1 on Rolling Stones list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
What is "Like a Rolling Stone"?
This empire, which reached its height in the 14th century, was founded by Osman I and lasted until the early 20th century.
What is The Ottoman Empire?
This branch of physics studies the behavior of matter and light on the atomic and subatomic scale.
What is quantum mechanics?
This European river, the second-longest on the continent, flows through four capital cities before emptying into the Black Sea.
What is the Danube?
This American author wrote The Scarlett Letter, a novel set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
This 1967 film, starring Dustin Hoffman, featured the famous Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack and the line, "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."
What is The Graduate?
This ancient city, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., was discovered in the 18th century.
What is Pompeii?
This scientist developed the theory of evolution by natural selection after studying species in the Galapagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This desert, the worlds oldest, lies along the Atlantic coast of southern Africa and is known for its red sand dunes.
What is the Namib Desert?
This novel, published in 1818 by Mary Shelley, is often considered the first true science fiction novel.
What is Frankestein?
This influential 1964 Supreme Court case, concerning an Ohio man accused of obscenity, produced Justice Potter Stewart's famous like: "I know it when I see it."
What is Jacobellis v. Ohio?
The Treaty of Westphalia, signed in 1648, ended this devastating European conflict.
What is the Thirty Year's War?
This part of the human brain regulates balance and coordination, sitting just beneath the cerebrum.
What is the cerebellum?
This mountain range, stretching more than 4,300 miles along South America's western edge, is the longest continental mountain range in the world.
What are the Andes?
This Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author is best known for his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
Before Woodstock, this 1967 "Summer of Love" festival in California showcase Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Who, and introduced America to psychedelic rock.
What is the Monterrey Pop Festival?
She was the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving from 1979 to 1990.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
This chemical process in plants converts carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
This country, though only the size of Maryland, has the highest population density in Africa.
What is Rwanda?
This Irish author's 1922 novel Ulysses parallels Homer's Odyssey and is celebrated for its stream-of-consciousness style.
Who is James Joyce?
This actress played Samantha Stephens in the sitcom Bewitched, which debuted in 1964 and became one of the decade's defining shows.
Who is Elizabeth Montgomery?