The Amendments
This amendment gives us the right to bear arms.
What is the second amendment?
This scientist formulated the law of universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history.
What is the Renaissance?
This mollusk can sleep for three years.
What is a snail?
This rainforest produces half of the world's oxygen supply.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
These amendments are known as the "Bill of Rights."
What are the first through the ninth amendment?
This scientist discovered penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
The revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.
What is the French Revolution?
What is an elephant?
Americans eat this type of fruit more than any other.
What are bananas?
This amendment prohibited alcoholic beverages.
What is the 18th amendment?
This scientist developed the special theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
An intellectual movement concentrated in France during the 1700's developed rational laws to describe social behavior and applied their findings in support of human rights and liberal economic theories.
What is the Enlightenment?
This is what a rhinoceros' horn is made out of.
This type of fruit has the highest calorie count per hundred grams.
What are avocados?
This amendment gives women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for physics in 1903.
Who is Marie Curie?
International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s.
What is the League of Nations?
It takes this animal two weeks to digest food.
What is a sloth?
What is the California Redwood?
This amendment protects us from "cruel and unusual punishment."
What is the 8th amendment?
This scientist invented the mathematical system of logarithms.
Who is John Napier?
Founded the Communist Party in Russia and set up the world's first Communist Party dictatorship. He led the October Revolution of 1917, in which the Communists seized power in Russia. He then ruled the country until his death in 1924.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This animal's urine makes up nearly three percent of the ice in antarctic glaciers.
What is a penguin?
This spice is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. It is also a spice found in eggnog.
What is nutmeg?