Sports
This athlete won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the most in a single Games.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This composer bridged the Classical and Romantic eras and wrote nine symphonies despite progressive hearing loss.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This programming language, created by Guido van Rossum in 1991, is named after a British comedy group.
What is Python?
This British Prime Minister led the U.K. during most of World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This telescope, launched in 1990, dramatically expanded deep-space imaging.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Drafted 199th overall in 2000, this quarterback went on to win seven Super Bowls.
Who is Tom Brady?
This British band released the concept album The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973.
Who are Pink Floyd?
This Apple co-founder was forced out of the company in 1985 before returning in 1997.
Who is Steve Jobs?
This 1962 confrontation brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This was the first artificial satellite launched into Earth orbit in 1957.
What is Sputnik 1?
This MLB pitcher became the first unanimous Cy Young Award winner in 2014 after posting a 1.77 ERA and 269 strikeouts.
Who is Clayton Kershaw?
This 2022 album became the first dance/electronic album to win the Grammy for Album of the Year.
What is Renaissance?
This distributed ledger technology underlies cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and relies on consensus mechanisms such as proof of work.
What is blockchain?
his 1688 event, which resulted in William of Orange taking the English throne, is often described as “bloodless” despite violence in Ireland and Scotland.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This equation, central to cosmology, relates the expansion rate of the universe to its energy content.
What are the Friedmann equations?
This tennis tournament, played on red clay, is the only Grand Slam not held on grass or hard court.
What is the French Open?
This rapper became the first hip-hop artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
This 1936 theoretical machine, proposed by Alan Turing, became a foundational model for modern computation theory.
What is the Turing machine?
This 1787 compromise created a bicameral U.S. Congress balancing large and small state representation.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
This boundary marks the point beyond which not even light can escape a black hole.
What is the event horizon?
This country won the first-ever FIFA World Cup in 1930, defeating Argentina in the final.
What is Uruguay?
This 1991 grunge album by Nirvana features the track “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
What is Nevermind?
This 1989 proposal by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN laid the foundation for the Internet.
What is the World Wide Web?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This NASA mission successfully landed the Perseverance rover on Mars in 2021.
What is Mars 2020?