Arts & Culture
This famous painting was completed by Vincent Van Gogh in the same year as the creation of Coca Cola, Nintendo, and the Eiffel Tower.
What is "Starry Night?"
This country, the home of the Buddha, lays amidst the Himalaya Mountains.
What is Nepal?
A certain Corsican man is the namesake of this series of seven wars that raged through Europe in the early 19th century.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
This planet was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, before being demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006.
What is Pluto?
This renowned baseball player shares a name with a famous candy bar.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This American mobster show is credited with starting a revolution in prestige TV.
What is "The Sopranos?"
This ancient super-continent contained every modern continent, combined into one large landmass.
What is Pangaea?
This country surrendered completely within six hours of being attacked by Germany in World War 2.
What is Denmark?
This Polish-French scientist discovered so many radioactive elements that any scientist who wishes to touch her notebook must wear a radioactivity suit and sign a liability form.
Who is Marie Curie or Marie Skłodowska-Curie?
This animal, often confused with it's Asian relative, once dominated North America, but was gradually hunted to near extinction by European settlers.
What is a Bison?
This popular global domination and strategy game was first published France in 1957 as La Conquête du Monde (The Conquest of the World).
What is Risk?
These twin rivers form the basis of the cradle of civilization, otherwise known as the fertile crescent.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
This war--despite its name--was fought over 119 years in three periods of conflict between Britain and France.
What is the Hundred Years War?
This German monk discovered the relationship between dominant and recessive genes while growing peas in his monastery.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This Roman Emperor reigned from 54 to 68 AD, and is often though to be the basis for many depictions of the anti-christ or the devil.
Who is Nero?
This album, released in 1967, is considered one of the most influential albums of all time, both due to it's revolutionary sound and its Andy Warhol designed cover.
What is "the Velvet Underground and Nico?"
This river's flow was revesred to prevent trash and waste from being expelled into a nearby freshwater lake.
What is the Chicago River?
Aptly named for its combatants, this period of conflict in Chinese history that directly followed the Han Dynasty is notable for its political intrigue, complex family drama.
What is the Three Kingdoms Period?
This book, written by Karl Marx, is credited with birthing both the Communist school of economic thought and the concept of dialectical materialism itself.
What is "Das Kapital" or "Capital?"
Prior to the scientific revolution, these four substances were consider the fundamental elements that make up all of reality.
What are Earth, Fire, Air, and Water?
This ancient fish sauce was a delicacy among Romans, but it had to be banned due to its repulsive smell, caused by its fermentation based production process.
What is Garum?
These seven summits are the tallest on each of their respective continents.
What are Mt. Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Vinson, Elbrus, and Wilhelm?
What is the Anglo-Zanzibar War?
This psychological phenomenon is partially credited with the discovery of the structure of Benzene, the Periodic Table, the Sewing Machine, and an infinite series able to calculate Pi.
What is a dream?
This Danish Philosopher, often labelled the "Father of Existentialism," is most famous for his distinction between faith and reason, and his Christian belief.
Who is Soren Kierkegaard?