Great Buildings
This magnificent structure was built by Shah Jahan as a tomb for his favorite wife.
Taj Mahal
This leader conquered more land than any other man in history.
Genghis Khan
This 1876 invention rendered Morse code obsolete.
Telephone
Navigator Giovanni Caboto landed in Eastern Canada while sailing for this European country.
England
This Chinese actor invented his own martial art, Jeet Kune Do.
Bruce Lee
This famous skyscraper was climbed by (the original) King Kong.
Empire State Building
This famous conqueror studied directly under Aristotle.
Chinese monks were the first to mix potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal to create this.
Gunpowder
This man was the first European to set foot in the New World.
Leif Ericson
This Englishman wrote Ticket to Ride.
John Lennon
This Grand Mosque in Istanbul was originally a Greek Orthodox church.
Hagia Sophia
Julius Caesar made his name by conquering this land for Rome.
Gaul (France)
This short-range wireless technology was named after a viking.
Bluetooth
Christopher Columbus discovered the New World for Spain, but he was from this Italian city-state.
Genoa
This German physicist built rockets for the US after WW2.
Wernher von Braun
The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy is better known by what name?
Il Duomo
This Wallachian prince became the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Vlad the Impaler
Johannes Gutenberg didn't invent the first printing press, but he did invent this.
Metal Movable Type
Venetian explorer Marco Polo ventured all the way to China, to the court of this famous ruler.
This Scottish-American industrialist expanded the American steel industry in the 19th century.
Andrew Carnegie
This skyscraper was the tallest building in the world from 2004-2010.
Taipei 101
This masterless samurai was noted for wielding two swords at the same time.
Miyamoto Musashi
Where were the numerals that we use today (1, 2, 3, etc...) first developed?
India
This explorer discovered the mouth of the Amazon River and was the first to realize that South America was not part of Asia.
Amerigo Vespucci
Saint Kitts and Nevis