Famous Last Words
Who is Julius Ceasar
Creature with snakes for hair that turns people to stone
Who is Medusa?
Inventor of the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
KIDS ONLY - the system in the body responsible for breathing
What is the respiratory system?
What is democracy?
"Let them eat cake" is often attributed to this French queen
Who is Marie Antoinette
KIDS ONLY - Greek god of sky and thunder
Who is Zeus?
KIDS ONLY - Inventor of the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
KIDS ONLY - the green pigment in plants that captures sunlight
What is chlorophyll?
KIDS ONLY - the capital city of Greece
What is Athens
"The rest is silence" are the final words of this Shakespeare character
Who is Hamlet?
The epic poem describing a hero's journey home
What is the Odyssey?
This German inventor created the moveable type printing press
Who is Johannes Gutenburg?
The diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane
What is osmosis?
The famous battle in 490 BC where Athenians defeated the Persians
What is the battle of Matathon?
"I regret but I have but one life to give for my country"
Who was Nathan Hale
This creature from Greek mythology with the body of lion, the head of a woman, and wings
What is the Sphinx
Credited with the first powered flight
Who are the Wright Brothers
The process by which organisms maintain stable internal conditions
What is homeostasis?
The open public space in ancient Athens, used for gatherings and markets
What is the Agora?
"I have not yet begun to fight" was said by this naval commander
Who was John Paul Jones?
The king of Camelot who wielded Excalibur
Who is King Arthur?
Developed alternating current electricity systems
Who is Nikola Tesla?
The process by which a cell divides into two identical daughter cells
What is mitosis?
The war fought between Athens and Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian War?