Scientific Discoveries
This physicist is best known for his theory of relativity, which revolutionized our understanding of time, space, and gravity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This Russian author wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the most famous novels in world literature.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
This Austrian composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and concertos, composed The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This desert, the largest in the world by area, stretches across northern Africa and spans several countries including Algeria and Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This phenomenon, named after the Greek word for "eclipse," occurs when a planet passes directly between the Earth and the Sun, as seen from Earth.
What is a transit?
This scientist discovered the structure of DNA along with James Watson and Rosalind Franklin.
Who is Francis Crick?
This Greek philosopher wrote The Republic, outlining his vision of a just society.
Who is Plato?
This composer of Symphony No. 9 and Für Elise was one of the most influential musicians of the Classical and Romantic periods.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This mountain range forms the natural border between France and Spain and includes the famous peak of Mont Perdu.
What are the Pyrenees?
This distant galaxy, located over 13 billion light-years away, is the farthest known galaxy and provides clues about the early universe.
What is GN-z11?
This chemist developed the periodic table of elements and arranged them by atomic number.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
This French writer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, is best known for his existentialist work The Stranger.
Who is Albert Camus?
This Russian composer, known for The Nutcracker and Swan Lake, is famous for his ballets.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
This island nation, known for its unique biodiversity, is located off the southeastern coast of Africa.
What is Madagascar?
This type of star, also known as a "degenerate star," is the remnant of a star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel and is supported by electron degeneracy pressure.
What is a white dwarf?
In 1928, this biologist accidentally discovered penicillin when he left a petri dish of Staphylococcus open to the air.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This Italian author’s Divine Comedy, written in the early 14th century, is one of the cornerstones of Italian literature.
Who is Dante Alighieri?
This composer wrote The Four Seasons, a set of violin concertos that remain some of the most famous Baroque works.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
The world’s largest coral reef system, known for its diverse marine life, is located off the coast of this country.
What is Australia? (Great Barrier Reef)
This type of black hole is believed to be located at the center of most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, and has mass millions to billions of times greater than the Sun.
What is a supermassive black hole?
This physicist first proposed the law of universal gravitation after observing an apple fall from a tree.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This American author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men focused on the struggles of migrant workers in the 1930s.
Who is John Steinbeck?
This German composer and pianist, whose works include The Well-Tempered Clavier and Brandenburg Concertos, is a giant of Baroque music.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This architectural wonder, located in India, is a mausoleum built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
What is the Taj Mahal?
This radiation, discovered by Penzias and Wilson in 1965, is the afterglow of the Big Bang and provides evidence of the early universe.
What is cosmic microwave background radiation?