Worldly Shapes
This country is shaped like a boot.
What is Italy?
This element has the chemical symbol W.
What is tungsten?
This 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman follows a knight playing chess with Death.
What is The Seventh Seal?
This treaty formally ended World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This Russian composer wrote The Rite of Spring.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
This is the world's largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This phenomenon describes the bending of light as it passes around massive objects.
What is gravitational lensing?
This actor played both Dr. Strangelove and multiple characters in Dr. Strangelove.
Who is Peter Sellers?
This 1648 series of treaties is commonly credited with ending the Thirty Years' War.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This jazz musician's 1959 album Kind of Blue is one of the best-selling jazz albums ever.
Who is Miles Davis?
This country has the most natural lakes in the world.
What is Canada?
This subatomic particle carries the strong nuclear force between quarks.
What is the gluon?
This Japanese director made Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Ikiru.
Who is Akira Kurosawa?
This Byzantine emperor ordered the compilation of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
Who is Justinian I?
This composer wrote the opera Wozzeck.
Who is Alban Berg?
Mount Everest lies on the border of Nepal and this country?
What is China?
This is the name for the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape.
What is the event horizon?
This 1968 film begins with a mysterious black monolith and includes the computer HAL 9000.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
This Carthaginian general famously crossed the Alps with elephants during the Second Punic War.
Who is Hannibal?
This French composer wrote La Mer and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
Who is Claude Debussy?
This is the only country in the world that borders both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf.
What is Iran?
This hypothetical particle is proposed as the quantum carrier of gravity.
What is the graviton?
This 1975 Tarkovsky film follows three men traveling through a mysterious forbidden zone toward a room said to grant one's deepest desire.
What is Stalker?
This 1204 event saw Crusaders sack Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.
What is the Sack of Constantinople?
This composer wrote The Art of Fugue and the Goldberg Variations.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?