World History
This empire built the Hagia Sophia under Emperor Justinian I.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The chemical symbol “Fe” stands for this element.
What is Iron?
This U.S. document begins with the phrase “We the People.”
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This English playwright coined the phrase “all that glitters is not gold.”
Who is William Shakespeare?
The “Upside Down” is the parallel dimension in this Netflix series.
What is Stranger Things?
The 30 Years’ War ended with this 1648 treaty.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
This planet has the longest day—lasting nearly 243 Earth days.
What is Venus?
This economic term describes a general rise in prices across an economy.
What is inflation?
The Greek muse of epic poetry
Who is Calliope?
This artist’s 2016 album Lemonade mixed R&B with political and visual storytelling.
Who is Beyoncé?
This 19th-century rebellion in China was led by Hong Xiuquan, who claimed to be Jesus’s brother.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
The law stating “energy cannot be created or destroyed” is part of this thermodynamic law.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
The “Iron Curtain” metaphor was popularized by this British leader in 1946.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This Russian author wrote Crime and Punishment.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
In Breaking Bad, Walter White’s alias in the drug world.
Who is Heisenberg?
The Incan city of Machu Picchu was rediscovered by this explorer in 1911.
Who is Hiram Bingham?
This part of the human brain regulates balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
The Bretton Woods system established this global financial institution in 1944.
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
In Dante’s Inferno, the gate to Hell bears this famous phrase.
What is “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”?
The Marvel villain who seeks to balance the universe by eliminating half of all life.
Who is Thanos?
This European nation’s 1830 revolution inspired Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People.
What is France?
The Higgs boson was first observed in experiments at this particle collider in 2012.
What is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)?
This theory argues that power in international relations is distributed among several dominant states rather than one.
What is multipolarity?
In Norse mythology, the world tree that connects the nine realms.
What is Yggdrasil?
This 1999 film popularized the concept of “the red pill” as a metaphor for truth and awakening.
What is The Matrix?