Axes, Hammers, Picks and Spikes
This woman was the only suspect of the 1892 ax murders of her father an stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Who is Lizzie Borden?
This extremely loud sound, usually associated with immense drag and turbulence, is emitted when an aircraft or other object breaks the speed of sound.
What is a sonic boom?
This man was fired from Apple Computer, the company he started, in 1985. He later co-founded the animation company Pixar before returning to lead Apple again in 1996
Who is Steve Jobs?
This English Princess's relationship with the Queen became more strained after her 1996 divorce from Prince Charles.
Who is Princess Diana?
Known for destroying some victim's ability to walk, this contagious infectious disease was the cause of multiple epidemics and famously affected President Roosevelt.
What is Polio?
This piece of sports equipment was said to be a weapon of choice for Al Capone and his enforcers. This weapon was famously used by gangster Tony Accardo in the murder of three of Capone's enemies.
What is a baseball bat?
This supersonic passenger jet could reach speeds of around 1300 miles per hour, traveling from Paris to NYC in under three and a half hours, but has since been decommissioned.
What is the Concorde?
Before she became the Queen of Pop, this singer was fired from a job at a Times Square Dunkin Donuts after an incident with a customer.
Who is Madonna?
This Catholic Pope survived a Nazi labor camp as a child and was canonized as a saint in the Church in 2014 after a papal career in which he traveled the world extensively.
Who is John Paul II?
One of the only diseases that has been eradicated from the Earth, the only samples of this virus exist in a CDC laboratory in Florida. Many older adults have a scar on their arm from this disease's vaccine.
What is Smallpox?
This Russian Communist leader worked closely with Lenin before he was deported from the Soviet Union and eventually murdered with an ice axe while in exile in Mexico City.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
This bird of prey sets the record for fastest-moving animal as it dives for prey at speeds that can exceed 240mph.
What is the peregrine falcon?
Before earning his nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park" and becoming one of the most well-known inventors in the world, this man was fired from a laboratory job for dropping a vial of acid that then ate through the laboratory floorboards.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This American actress married the Prince of Monaco after becoming a well-known and prolific movie star in the 1950s.
Who is Grace Kelly?
This 1918 epidemic affected nearly a third of the world population and killed as many as 50-100 million people. At times, deaths from this disease exceeded the amount of deaths from WWI which was occurring at the same time.
What is the 1918 Spanish flu?
This 1400s ruler lived in present-day Romania and was famous for impaling his enemies on large spikes as a method of torture and execution.
Who is Vlad the Impaler?
In September 1956 pilot Tom Attridge was the first to make this particular type of airborne mistake during a supersonic test flight over Long Island, NY, resulting in his plane having to make an emergency landing.
What is shooting his own plane?
This actor and comedian was fired from his role in the sitcom Benson before becoming the main character in his own sitcom where he plays himself in the wildly popular "show about nothing."
Who is Jerry Seinfeld?
This prolific English actor played Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek The Next Generation before becoming knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2010.
Who is Patrick Stewart?
This disease, transmitted mostly by the fleas that infected rodents, killed as much as half of Europe's population in the 1400s.
What is the Black Plague?
In 1976, U.S. Army Capt. Arthur Bonifas and 1st Lt. Mark Barrett were attacked with axes in
This horned and hoofed animal is the world's fastest endurance runner, able to maintain speeds as fast as 55mph for several miles at a time. It could easily commute from Rochester to Fairport each day.
What is the Pronghorn Antelope?
This man was fired from a position at the Kansas City Star newspaper before going on to create one of the most successful and well-known animation companies and production studios in the world.
Who is Walt Disney?
This openly gay English actor received a knighthood in 1991 and has played major roles such as Magneto in X-Men and Gandalf in Lord of the Rings.
Who is Ian McKellen
This deadly respiratory disease was the cause of a major outbreak in South China in 2002 and is said to have been transmitted from animals to humans.
What is SARS?