Classic Movies
In this 1942 film, Rick Blaine runs a cafe in wartime Morocco, where an old love arrives with her husband.
What is Casablanca?
This New York City landmark was a gift from France commemorating the alliance between the two nations during the American Revolution.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This agricultural machine, patented in 1834 by Cyrus McCormick, helped cut grain more quickly than hand harvesting.
What is the mechanical reaper?
What is the Monongahela River?
This blood component helps form clots at the site of a damaged blood vessel.
What are platelets?
This 1950 film follows an aging silent-film star whose fortunes change after she meets a young screenwriter.
What is Sunset Boulevard?
This Florentine cathedral is crowned by a dome engineering by Filippo Brunelleschi.
What is the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore?
This inventor's 1876 patent described a device for transmitting musical tones and speech by telegraph.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This river flows through the Grand Canyon and has its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Colorado River?
This structure in the inner ear converts sound vibrations into nerve signals.
What is the cochlea?
In this 1954 Alfred Hitchcok film, a photographer confined to his apartment become convinced he has witnessed a murder.
What is Rear Window?
This ancient Jordanian city is reached through a narrow gorge known as the Siq.
What is Petra?
This 1947 invention by Walker Brattain, John Bardeen & William Shockley made it possible to amplify or switch electrical signals with a semiconductor.
What is the transistor?
This river, called the "Big Muddy," joins the Mississippi near St. Louis.
What is the Missouri River?
This hormone, made by the pancreas, helps lower blood glucose by enabling cells to take up glucose.
What is insulin?
This 1948 film follows an ambitious man who become entangled in the world of carnival sideshows.
What is Nightmare Alley?
This Istanbul monument was built under Emperor Justinian I and later served as both a mosque and a museum.
What is Hagia Sophia?
This inventor received a patent in 1872 for an improved attachment that helped prevent steam boilers from exploding.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
This river forms much of the border between Oregon and Washington before reaching the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Columbia River?
This kidney structure filters blood and begins the process of forming urine.
What is the nephron?
This 1939 film noir centers on a private detective caught in a web of deception involving a priceless bird statuette.
What is The Maltese Falcon?
The Khmer temple complex includes a central structure representing Mount Meru, the sacred mountain of Hindu and Buddhist cosmology.
What is Angkor Wat?
This 1830s calculating machine, designed by Charles Bobbage, inspired a published account by Ada Lovelace that included an algorithm for its proposed operation.
What is the Analytical Engine?
This river, known by the Indigenous name, loops through Montana before crossing into Idaho.
What is the Kootenai River?
This region of the brain regulates functions such as body temperature, hunger & hormone signaling through its connection to the pituitary gland.
What is the hypothalamus?