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In 1453, the Ottomans used canons to knock down the impenetrable walls of this city.
What is Constantinople?
This person printed the first Bible in Western Europe using movable metal type.
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
Following the Mannerist period, this period yielded ornate, over-the-top visual arts and architecture and was characterized by grandeur and richness.
What was the Baroque Period?
Famous for his theory of relativity, this scientist found that energy is mass times the speed of light.
Who was Albert Einstein?
This city was particularly demographically affected by Quebec's "Silent Revolution."
What is Montreal?
Prior to the dropping of the nuclear bombs, this explosion was the largest in human history.
What was the 1917 Halifax Explosion?
For 1597 Christmas, the Chamberlain's Men performed Shaeskeapre's Love's Labour's Lost for this monarch at the Inns of Court.
Who was Elizabeth I?
This is one of the first modern art movements which came to be as a result of the anti-Romantic movement in Germany, the rise of journalism and the advent of photography.
What is realism?
This centre of intellectual thought was found in Baghdad during the Abbasid era.
What is the House of Wisdom?
This small country boasts the oldest national flag in the world, divinely given in an 1139 battle.
What is Denmark?
The annual Thunder Over Louisville event spends $1 million annually on this Chinese invention.
What are fireworks?
Though one of the most popular Arthurian stories, this example of alliterative poetry survives in only one manuscript.
What is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
This iconic German expressionist science-fiction film was released in 1927.
What is Metropolis?
This ancient Greek philosopher developed the notion of the four humours.
Who was Hippocrates?
This type of sushi was popularized by Norway, not Japan.
These WW2 submarines share a name with a popular British 90s rock band.
What is U-2?
Often called the world's first novel, this 11th-century Japanese work follows the life and romances of Hikaru Genji.
What is Tale of Genji?
Characterized by lightness and elegance while focusing on natural forms and asymmetry, this aesthetic offered a softer style of decorative art compared to Baroque's exellence.
What is Rococo?
This philosopher/scientist believed that machines would develop into their own biological kingdom because of how co-dependent humans and machines would be on each other.
Who was Samuel Butler?
Known under Spain as "Upper Peru," this country adopted a new name after independence.
What is Bolivia?
Most of North Korea's failed missile launches end up in this body of water.
Originally written in this language, the first European novel is said to be Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
What is Early Modern Spanish?
This artist wrote the TV series and book, Ways of Seeing.
Who was John Berger?
This 2nd century Chinese philosopher found that there were 6 distinct schools of thought which included Confucianism and Naturalism.
Who was Sima Tan?
This republic in Central Africa was briefly an empire under the 1970s leader Jean-Badel Bokassa
What is the Central African Republic?