World Capitals
This city is known for its historic Colosseum and is the capital of Italy.
What is Rome?
This kitchen utensil is used to flip foods like pancakes and burgers and is also known as a spatula.
What is a turner?
This Scottish inventor is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This series of children's books written by J.K. Rowling follows the adventures of a young wizard with a lightning-shaped scar.
What is 'Harry Potter'?
This planet is known for its prominent ring system and is the sixth planet from the Sun.
What is Saturn?
Home to the historic site of the Forbidden City, this capital city is the political center of China.
What is Beijing?
This cooking method involves submerging food in boiling water for a short period and then plunging it into ice water to halt the cooking process.
What is blanching?
Often mistakenly credited with inventing the light bulb, this American inventor did, however, develop the first commercially practical incandescent light.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This novel by Harper Lee tells the story of a young girl named Scout and her father Atticus, who defends a black man accused of rape in the Deep South during the 1930s.
What is 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
This term describes the event when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth, temporarily obscuring the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
This capital city of Egypt is the largest city in the Middle East and has an ancient pyramid complex nearby in Giza.
What is Cairo?
This French cooking term refers to the technique of cooking food slowly in fat, such as duck or goose, at a low temperature.
What is confit?
These two brothers are acknowledged for inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
This term refers to a recurring symbol, theme, or character type that appears across literature and is often emblematic of a broader concept or idea.
What is an archetype?
This constellation, named after a mythological Greek hunter, is one of the most conspicuous and recognizable in the night sky.
What is Orion?
This capital city is the second oldest European-established capital city in the Americas and is the seat of the oldest Catholic cathedral in the New World, located in the Dominican Republic.
What is Santo Domingo?
This cooking technique involves gently cooking foods in a liquid just below boiling point and is often used for delicate foods like eggs or fish.
What is poaching?
This Polish-born physicist and chemist was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes and is known for her research on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
This 14th-century English poet is known for writing 'The Canterbury Tales,' a collection of stories told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
This NASA space telescope, launched in 1990, has provided some of the most detailed images of distant galaxies and nebulae.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Nestled in the Andes, this capital city is the highest administrative capital in the world and is the seat of government for Bolivia.
What is La Paz?
This Italian dessert, whose name means "pick me up," is made with ladyfingers dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, and flavored with cocoa.
What is tiramisu?
This English mathematician is often called the "father of the computer" for his conceptual and mechanical inventions that anticipated the first digital computer.
Who is Charles Babbage?
This prestigious international literary award is given annually for a full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.
What is the Booker Prize?
This theoretical boundary around a black hole represents the point of no return, where the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible.
What is the event horizon?