SCIENCE & SCIENTISTS
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER
STARTS WITH K
EGYPTIAN QUEENS
CIRCASSIAN HISTORY
100

This physicist refused a state funeral and requested to be buried in an unmarked grave, his preserved brain was later found in a cardboard box in Kansas.

Albert Einstein

100

Before Sozin's Comet, the Fire Lord sought counsel from this ancient spirit that granted the original firebenders their power.

The lion turtle

100

This Ottoman architectural style of pavilion, used as a word borrowed into English, refers to a small open-sided structure

Kiosk

100

This 18th dynasty queen ruled as pharaoh, had herself depicted with a false beard, and commissioned one of Egypt's most ambitious building programs at Deir el-Bahari.

Hatshepsut

100

The Circassian homeland in the northwestern Caucasus is centered around this mountain range, and their autonym (meaning 'free people' ) is used to this day.

Adyghe (Adiga)

200

She discovered two elements, won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and was denied membership in the French Academy of Sciences solely due to her gender.

Marie Curie

200

This general led the conquering of Ba Sing Se from within by staging a coup d'état, earning him the title Firelord Ozai's most trusted strategist.

General Iroh's

200

This ancient Nubian kingdom, also called Kush, reached its peak when it ruled Egypt as the 25th dynasty

Kerma

200

Wife of Akhenaten, this queen's bust (discovered in 1912) became one of the most reproduced artworks of ancient Egypt, now housed in Berlin's Neues Museum.

Nefertiti

200

This 1864 date marks the culmination of the Russo-Circassian War, when the Russian Empire declared victory and began the mass deportation of Circassians to the Ottoman Empire.

May 21st

300

This scientist's 1953 X-ray diffraction image, known as 'Photo 51', was pivotal in determining the double-helix structure of DNA  yet she received no Nobel Prize credit.

Rosalind Franklin

300

In the episode 'The Firebending Masters', Zuko and Aang discover the original source of firebending from these two legendary dragons thought to be extinct.

Ran and Shaw

300

In Kantian ethics, this German term describes the supreme principle of morality 


Kategorischer Imperativ (Categorical Imperative)

300

This queen of the Middle Kingdom served as regent for her son Thutmose III before he reached adulthood, effectively co-ruling Egypt alongside Hatshepsut.

Queen Iset (Isis)

300

The Circassian resistance was led for decades by this imam, who unified the Caucasian mountain peoples under the banner of Muridism ( He was Avar not Circassian)

Imam Shamil

400

This mathematician developed the concept of 'incompleteness' proving that in any consistent formal system, there are truths that cannot be proven within that system.

Kurt Gödel

400

Guru Pathik teaches Aang about the seven chakras, and this specific chakra blocked by attachment must be released for Aang to enter the Avatar State. Aang ultimately refuses to release it.

The Thought Chakra (Crown Chakra)

400

This Japanese literary concept, translating roughly as 'the pathos of things', describes the bittersweet awareness of impermanence in beauty.

Kokoro

400

Predating Cleopatra VII by over a millennium, this 6th dynasty queen is believed to have wielded significant political power and may have outlived several of her sons who became pharaohs.

Queen Ankhesenamun

400

Circassian soldiers who were resettled in the Ottoman Empire were later deployed as elite troops in this region, and their descendants still form notable communities in Jordan and Syria today.


(ONLY SPECIFIC ONE) WHATEVER IS ON THE BOARD I PICKED BETWEEN 3 ANSWERS

The Levant

500

Known as the 'father of information theory', this Bell Labs scientist published a 1948 paper that laid the mathematical foundation for all modern digital communication.

Claude Shannon

500

The ancient civilization that predates the four nations, shown to have coexisted with all bending types, whose lion turtle cities are briefly depicted in Wan's origin story in Korra.

The ancient human civilization / the people of the lion turtle cities

500

n particle physics, this quantity is conserved in strong and electromagnetic interactions but not in weak interactions

Kaon

500

This Ptolemaic queen co-ruled with her brother before Julius Caesar and her name, meaning 'glory of her father' in Greek, was shared by at least six other queens in her dynasty.

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Cleopatra (VII)

500

This Circassian aristocratic social code (governing chivalry, honor, hospitality, and martial conduct) is considered the cornerstone of Circassian cultural identity.

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