Notable Figures
Which scientist won two Nobel Prizes in different fields in the early 20th Century?
Who is Marie Curie?
Which British band famously performed on the rooftop of Apple Corps in 1969?
What is the Beatles?
What was the name of the conference where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in February 1945 to discuss postwar Europe?
What was the Yalta Conference?
What country was expelled from the UN in 1971?
What is Taiwan?
In which city was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
What is Boston?
What famous U.S. figure died on the same day as C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and Anthony Burgess?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
What is the best selling album of all time?
Which German field marshal was nicknamed the 'Desert Fox'?
What was the name of the telegram sent by Germany to Mexico during WWI, suggesting that the latter invade the US?
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
What drug was first shipped from the Bahamas to the US in the early 1980s?
What U.S. president was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1992?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Which early hip-hop group released Rapper’s Delight (1979)?
What is the Sugarhill Gang?
What was the name of the secret Soviet spy ring that provided atomic research intelligence from the Manhattan Project?
What was the Rosenberg Network?
The Silent Sentinels protested in front of the U.S. White House from 1917 to 1919 in support of what?
What is women's suffrage?
What was cancelled on board the RMS Titanic the day the famous ship struck the iceberg?
What is a lifeboat drill?
Which Latin American president committed suicide in office in 1954?
Who is Getúlio Vargas?
What New York club is considered the birthplace of punk rock in the U.S.?
What is CBGB?
What was the name of the code-breaking machine used by Germany?
What is the Enigma Machine?
Aside from U.S. and South Vietnamese troops, what nation supplied the greatest number of anti-Communist forces during the Vietnam War?
What is South Korea?
What was the name of the secret US government program to investigate UFO sightings in the 1960s?
What was Project Blue Book?
What famous world leader of the 20th century wrote six operas?
Who is Kim Jong-Il?
Which 1970s film starring Malcolm McDowell was withdrawn from UK cinemas due to violence?
What is Clockwork Orange?
What was the German codename for the planned invasion of Switzerland?
What is Operation Tannenbaum?
What was the nom de guerre of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzmán?
What is Presidente Gonzalo?
Which Middle Eastern president was awarded the key to the city of Detroit in 1980?
Who is Saddam Hussein?