Land by Land
These two countries share the longest international border.
USA and Canada
Gaining notice in popular culture because of the Butterfly effect and fractals, this mathematical theory.
Chaos Theory
This children's game, that doesn't involve a ball, was an olympic event from 1900-1920
Tug of War
The only person to be a President and Supreme Court Justice
William Howard Taft
Human's have this many senses
9-21 depending on how they're subdivided, there is not complete agreement
The Heart of Darkness was based on an experience by Joseph Conrad of visiting this European colony in Africa. Accurately depicting the practices it even built the antagonist Kurtz as an amalgam of two real officers there.
The Belgian Congo
This scientist was the first to win two Nobel prizes. The first was in this field.
Marie Curie - Physics
The oldest currency still in use.
The British Pound (1,200 years)
Richard Millhouse Nixon in 1970
He became the father of modern epidemiology by tracing the roots of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London to the Broad Street pump, rather than the prevailing theory of miasma.
John Snow
This was the first country to give women the right to vote.
New Zealand, 1893
The only letter not to appear on the Periodic table
J
The inventor of the first car. The inventor displayed his commercial model at the Paris World’s Fair.
Karl Benz (1885)
Alfred Nobel who founded the Nobel prize was a Swedish inventor and businessman who earned a sizable portion of his fortune through this famous invention.
TNT - Dynamite
The first face transplant was performed in 2005 in this country
France
The only country in the world that is a carbon sink, housing large interconnected wildlife sanctuaries.
Bhutan
A brilliant mathematician called the world's first computer programmer in the 1840s. She wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper.
Ada Lovelace
The first vending machine, introduced in 1888, dispensed this.
Gum
The last decade during which a guillotine was used in France.
1970s - 1977
Described as the most successful vaccinologist in history this American microbiologist developed 8 of the 14 routinely recommended vaccine schedule including the vaccines for measles, mumps, Hep A, Hep B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia and others. With more than 40 vaccines in his career and he is credited with saving more lives in 20th century than any other medical scientist.
Dr. Maurice Hilleman(1919-2005)
This country's soccer team helped secure a truce to the nation's civil war in 2006
Ivory Coast
Lise Meitner
This state hosted the first drive-in movie theater.
New Jersey
This President bet a set of White House China on a poker game and lost.
Warren G Harding
An early advocate for sterilization and hand washing this doctor paved found out the puerile fever could be reduced to below 1% with disinfectant and hand washing.
Ignaz Semmelweis - Hungarian