Islands
This Southern nation, home to the Māori people and named after a Dutch province, only has 2 islands, and both are in the top 20 largest islands in the world!
What is New Zealand?
In its song on the Periodic Table, ASAPScience says that this element, atomic symbol Ca, "[helps] you grow strong" for its use in bone structure
What is calcium?
The Himalayan Mountain range was formed at a convergent boundary by these massive pieces of crust pushing against each other and rising
What are [tectonic] plates?
... when Columbus sailed the ocean blue
What is the 1490s?
This satirical allegorical novella was written by George Orwell to attack the institution of Stalinist communism who is represented by Napoleon, the piggish leader of the revolution
What is Animal Farm?
Home to the largest empire in world history, this island contains 3 of the 4 countries of the United Kingdom and is the largest island in Europe
What is [Great] Britain (not UK or England)?
This synthetic element is named after the Father of the Periodic Table
What is mendelevium?
Basalt and obsidian are two well-known types of these types of rocks - along with sedimentary and metamorphic - also found in Minecraft by mixing lava with water
What are igneous rocks?
... when Farrokh Bulsara (Freddie Mercury), one of the champions of music, passed away from bronchial pneumonia contracted from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
What is the 1990s?
This ancient Greek poem written by Homer takes over 15K lines of dactylic hexameter over 24 books to describe the Trojan War in excruciating detail
What is the "Iliad"?
The US closed down its embassy with this nation in 1961 during the Cold War when Fidel Castro held nuclear weapons from its ally, the USSR
What is Cuba?
Ancient Romans used a water-soluble powder called stibium, based on this element adjacent to tin, one of the earliest forms of mascara and eyebrow darkener
What is antimony?
While most dinosaurs died out in the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction, a subset of Saurischian dinosaurs survived and evolved to this modern class of animals
What are birds/Aves?
... when 4 young girls accused Sarah Good, the first of tens of women, of witchcraft in Massachusetts because of her poor reputation and general misfitting in Puritan society
What is the 1690s?
This American novelist wrote Little Women (and its sequel, Little Men), about the maturity of 4 sisters from childhood to womanhood and roughly based on her own upbringing
Who was Louisa May Alcott?
The Republic of Formosa - named by Portuguese explorers who thought the island was pretty - on this island existed for 151 days until a violent Japanese takeover of the capital in 1895
What is Taiwan?
Americium-241, a radioactive isotope of element number 95, can be found in trace amounts in these home devices that can detect unexpected internal combustion
What are smoke detectors?
Take a visit to Inner Space Caverns to see these two main similar-sounding types of formations created from calcite deposits on the cave ceiling and floor
What are stalactites and stalacmites?
... when Robespierre incited a Revolution among the French populace and had Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI (and later, himself!) guillotined
What is the 1790s?
This narrator of multiple Mark Twain novels, who grew up around the Mississippi River, has come under immense scrutiny in recent years for spreading racial stereotypes and frequently using the n-word
Who is Huckleberry "Huck" Finn?
French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin was initially a stockbroker but left his life and family to move to this Polynesian island and paint "exotic" nature (and marry 3 teenagers there...)
What is Tahiti?
Scheelite is a source for this rare transition metal, useful in industrial application for its highest melting and boiling point of all known elements
What is tungsten (W)?
This region sits below the lithosphere, in the upper mantle, where convection currents driven by heat in Earth's core circulate and drive continental drift
What is the asthenosphere?
... when the King of France signed the Edict of Nantes and granted the Huguenots substantial rights and protection against religious persecution
What is the 1590s?
The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel written by this British author, who was considered Charles Dickens' successor and well known for his progressive and utopian novels like The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds
Who is H.G. Wells?