Ancient History
The region known for housing the earliest known civilizations.
What is Mesopotamia?
The inventor of the most entertaining method of execution during the French Revolution.
Who is Joseph-Ignace Guillotin?
The killer of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in 1804.
Who is Aaron Burr?
A historic monument that was tragically set aflame in 2019.
What is Notre-Dame?
Because the Victorians ate them.
Why are there so few mummies?
The earliest known writing system.
What is Cuneiform?
Lover of King Henry VIII who died in childbirth (with an incredible song about it)
Who is Jane Seymour?
The man known for inventing the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
What is Sputnik I?
Famed survivor of three catastrophic ship disasters, and probable bearer of bad luck on voyages.
Who is Violet Jessop?
The last ruler of the Ptolemaic Empire of Egypt.
Who is Cleopatra VII?
Lord Protector, executor of Charles I, notorious Puritan, and hater of the Irish.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
The first official battle of the American Revolution.
What is The Battle of Lexington and Concord?
Time's Person of the Year in 2006.
Who am I?
(You) hehe
Primate police in Ancient Egypt.
What are Baboons?
A famous Greek philosopher that tutored Alexander the Great.
The most beautiful and most amazing of the philosophes. French, funny, and fabulous.
Who is Voltaire?
The first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims of Plymouth colony in 1621.
Who is Samoset?
The first feature-length film with synchronized sound for dialogue.
What is "The Jazz Singer"?
The shade of green that's infamous for containing arsenic.
What is Scheele's green?
One of the earliest known historical documents, depicting the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. (Wikipedia says it's in Assassin's Creed)
What is the Narmer Palette?
The city where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914.
What is Sarajevo?
Former President whose ghost allegedly urged an assassination attempt on Theodore Roosevelt.
Who is William McKinley?
The first Japanese Prime Minister to be assassinated since 1936.
Who is Shinzo Abe?
A U.S. detective agency founded in 1850 that's still hireable today.
What is the Pinkerton Detective Agency?