Presidents
Slaves like Sally Hemmings lived at this man's estate, Monticello.
Who was Thomas Jefferson
This football team just moved to Las Vegas.
Who are the Raiders?
This rock band released the album Dark Side of the Moon in 1973.
Who is Pink Floyd?
This scientist proposed the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This novel by George Orwell explores surveillance, totalitarianism, and “Big Brother.”
What is 1984?
Donald Trump was president. Lost his presidency, and then won again. This other president served two non-consecutive terms.
Who was Grover Cleveland?
This boxer reclaimed the heavyweight title seven years after being stripped for refusing military induction, winning their famous “Rumble in the Jungle” bout in 1974.
Who was Muhammad Ali?
This album by Lauryn Hill holds the record for most Grammys won by a female artist in one night (five).
What is The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill?
This part of the cell is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is the mitochondria?
This reclusive poet published fewer than a dozen poems in her lifetime, yet left behind nearly 1,800 poems, many discovered only after her death in 1886.
Who was Emily Dickinson?
He was the president directly after Jimmy Carter.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
This soccer star led Argentina national team to a World Cup victory in 2022.
Who is Lionel Messi?
This composer’s symphony originally called the “Bonaparte Symphony” was renamed when he learned Napoleon crowned himself emperor.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This subatomic particle, first theorized in 1930 and confirmed in 1956, has almost no mass and no electric charge.
What is the neutrino?
In this novel, Melquiades brings ice, fascinating Jose Arcadio, the patriarch of the Buendia family.
What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?
This president was the first former chief executive to later serve on the U.S. Supreme Court after leaving the White House.
Who was William Howard Taft?
This tennis player has won more Grand Slam titles than any other man in history.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
This Seattle-based band led by Kurt Cobain helped define the grunge movement.
Who is Nirvana?
This scientist introduced the uncertainty principle, fundamentally limiting how precisely position and momentum can be known.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
This novel opens with the line “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.”
What is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley?
He is the only president elected without winning either the popular vote or a majority of the electoral vote, after the House decided the election of 1824.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
This NFL quarterback lost four consecutive Super Bowls as the starter for the same team in the early 1990s.
Who is Jim Kelly?
This Russian composer wrote The Rite of Spring, which caused a riot at its 1913 Paris premiere.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
This space telescope, launched in 2021, can see light from over 13 billion years ago due to its infrared instrumentation.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
This Russian novel features brothers named Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha and explores faith, free will, and morality.
What is The Brothers Karamazov?