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This Guatemalan poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967.
Miguel Ángel Asturias
This British band released the album “Abbey Road” in 1969.
The Beatles
This Pixar film follows a robot left alone on Earth cleaning up waste.
WALL-E
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
The mitochondria
This civilization built Machu Picchu in present-day Peru.
Inca civilization
This volcano overlooking Antigua is one of the most active in Central America.
Volcán de Fuego
This term describes a group of three notes played together in harmony.
A chord
This actor portrayed the Joker in The Dark Knight (2008).
Heath Ledger
This branch of science studies the structure and behavior of matter and energy.
Physics
This treaty ended World War I in 1919.
The Treaty of Versailles
This pre-Columbian Mayan text, written in K’iche’, narrates the creation of the world and humanity.
Popol Vuh
This genre blends jazz, blues, and gospel and originated in African American communities in the 1940s.
Rhythm and blues (R&B)
This 1999 film features a character who discovers reality is a simulation.
The Matrix
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Newton’s Third Law
This leader delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This Guatemalan saint is honored in October with a large festival in Quetzaltenango.
San Simón (Maximón)
This composer wrote “The Four Seasons.”
Antonio Vivaldi
This film directed by Steven Spielberg tells the story of a businessman saving Jews during WWII.
Schindler’s List
This element has the atomic number 6.
Carbon
This empire was ruled by Genghis Khan.
The Mongol Empire
This Mayan site is known for Stela 1, one of the tallest monuments in the Mayan world.
Quiriguá
This composer wrote the opera “The Magic Flute.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This film won Best Picture in 2020 and is the first non-English film to do so.
Parasite
This scientist is credited with discovering penicillin.
Alexander Fleming
This revolution, beginning in 1789, drastically changed a country's political system.
The French Revolution