Capitals Unlocked
This city is the highest capital in the world.
What is La Paz, Bolivia
This painter and surrealist was famous for his flamboyant, curled mustache.
Who is Salvador Dalí
This leader's "Little Red Book" became a mandatory ideological text for millions, fueling a decade-long political upheaval known as the Cultural Revolution.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This noble gas is the lightest in its group and was first isolated from the air by William Ramsay in 1898.
What is helium?
This French novelist is famous for “Les Misérables.”
Who is Victor Hugo?
This capital is known as the "City of a Hundred Spires" due to its many Gothic churches.
What is Prague
This 80s TV star played Magnum P.I. and was known for his iconic mustache.
Who is Tom Selleck?
This North Korean leader, known as the "Eternal President," established one of the world's most isolated and authoritarian regimes.
Who is Kim Il-Sung?
Named after the Greek word for “dawn,” this element is used in fluorescent lights and has the atomic number 9.
What is fluorine?
This Japanese author, known for blending surrealism with postmodernism, wrote The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore.
Who is Haruki Murakami?
This capital's name sounds like a popular type of diet.
What is Quito
This mustached Canadian-American TV personality helmed a popular TV show that started in 1984 and is the recipient of six Emmys.
Who is Alex Trebek?
After seizing power through a coup, this ruler initiated the Operation Condor program, a covert campaign to eliminate political opponents across South America.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
This alkali metal, discovered by Sir Humphry Davy in 1807, is the lightest of its group and is highly reactive with water.
What is lithium?
This Argentine writer, famous for his labyrinthine stories and philosophical themes, authored The Library of Babel and Ficciones.
Who is Jorge Luis Borges?
This South American capital was originally designed by a German architect and is known for its futuristic look.
What is Brasília.
This German philosopher had a thick mustache and wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
As the leader of Uganda in the 1970s, he gave himself the grandiose title "Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa" while overseeing mass killings and economic ruin.
Who is Idi Amin?
This dense, silvery-white element with the symbol Os is the densest naturally occurring element and is used in aerospace and electronics.
What is osmium?
This Nigerian writer, considered the father of African literature, exposed the clash between traditional Igbo society and colonialism in his groundbreaking novel Things Fall Apart.
Who is Chinua Achebe?
This capital has no traffic lights and is known as the "Land of the Thunder Dragon."
What is Thimphu or Bhutan.
This Mexican revolutionary had a thick, curled mustache and was a key figure in the Mexican Revolution.
Who is Pancho Villa?
This Roman emperor, notorious for his cruelty and extravagance, declared himself a living god and made his horse a senator.
Who is Caligula?
This rare, radioactive element, symbolized as Rn, is a noble gas that is found in trace amounts in the Earth's atmosphere and can be a health hazard in enclosed spaces.
What is radon?
He is known as the national poet of Scotland, often celebrated on January 25th.
Who is Robert Burns?