The iconic figure of the Christmas holiday who famously says "ho, ho, ho."
Who is Santa Claus?
100
Creator of the Pythagorean Theorem.
Who is Pythagoras?
100
The creator of the basic foundation of the periodic table of elements.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
100
The instrument played in the treble clef; has four strings of G, D, A, E.
What is the violin?
100
Empire ruled by the Pharaoh.
What is Ancient Egypt?
200
The holiday first celebrated by a group of pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe.
What is Thanksgiving?
200
Development of digits in Gupta India
What are Arabic numerals?
200
The atomic number of Hydrogen (H).
What is 1?
200
The Italian word meaning to move quickly and suddenly in direction.
What is subito?
200
Ruler of the Mauryan Empire in Classical India.
Who is Asoka/Ashoka?
300
Holiday known as the festival of colors, celebrated in India.
What is Holi?
300
Referred to as the "Father of Geometry"; Greek mathematician in 4th century BCE.
Who is Euclid?
300
The family name of elements with a +2 charge and 2 valence electrons. This includes Beryllium.
What is Alkaline Earth Metals?
300
The number of 8th notes in a score of 3/2.
What is 12?
300
The philosophical ideology that built social principals of the Classical through Post-Classical Dynasties in China; prominent in Han China.
What is Confucianism?
400
The Islamic tradition of fasting, introspection, and prayer for a month.
What is Ramadan?
400
An oblong frame with rows of wires or grooves along which beads are slid, used for calculating.
What is an abacus?
400
The process by which multiple atomic nuclei join together to form a heavier nucleus.
What is fusion or nuclear fusion?
400
Composer who wrote his first, four piano sonatas at the age of 10.
Who is Mozart?
400
The split within the Roman Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodox Church between the Post-Classical Byzantine Empire and feudalistic Western Europe.
What is the Great Schism?
500
The eight-day festival of light that begins on the eve of the 25th of the Jewish month of Kislev and celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, of purity over adulteration.
What is Hanukkah?
500
Developed by the Babylonians in which digits written in the left column represented larger values.
What is decimal system/place-value system?
500
Scientist who used the Gold Foil Experiment to discover that all atoms have a tiny, compact nucleus where most of the atomic mass is concentrated.
Who is Rutherford?
500
Clef played by the trombone, viola, English horn, and bassoon.
What is alto clef?
500
Dominating, pastoral group who took over areas of Southeast Asia and Europe and controlled Silk road and Indian Ocean trade, becoming the largest, land empire in history; 13th and 14th centuries.