Month of August
Back in history, on the 5th August 1962, Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for trying to overthrow this country's apartheid rule.
What is South Africa
In The Matrix, Neo takes this pill.
What is the Red pill?
This female singer has had a Billboard No. 1 hit in each of the last four decades.
Who is Mariah Carey?
At approximately 17,300,000 square miles, this is Earth's largest continent.
What is Asia?
She was the only woman with 2 Nobel Prizes, one in chemistry and one in physics.
Who is Marie Curie?
The eruption of this volcano, in 79 AD, destroyed the cities of Stabiae and Herculaneum.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
Tom Hanks scored his first Academy Award nomination for his role in this 1988 film, about a boy who wishes to be grown up.
What is Big?
And this female artist, who wrote and sang "Break Away" was the first winner of American Idol.
Kelly Clarkson
This razor-thin country accounts for more than half of the western coastline of South America.
What is Chile?
The sequence that begins 1,1,2,3,5,8,13... (Hint: it's the same sequence we use for story pointing!)
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
The month of August is named after this historical figure, the first emperor of Rome, who reigned from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.
Who is Augustus?
This American writer/director starred in several iconic European-produced “Spaghetti Westerns“.
Who is Clint Eastwood?
This classical composer, whose 9th symphony is very famous, was deaf.
Who was Beethoven?
An impressive nine percent of the country is covered in fresh water, making this the country with the most natural lakes.
What is Canada?
This trigonometric function is the same as sine divided by cosine.
What is the tangent?
This historic event took place in Japan on August 6th, 1945, close to the end of World War II.
What is the bombing of Hiroshima?
The head of this kind of animal is front-and-center in an infamous scene from The Godfather.
What is a horse?
This astronomer, who discovered Jupiter's moons, is namedropped in “Bohemian Rhapsody”.
Who is Galileo?
You can visit Machu Picchu in the Cusco region of this country.
What is Peru?
This German-speaking friar is famous for discovering the field of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This Caribbean island, whose capital is Kingston, gained independence from Britain in August 1962.
What is Jamaica?
Steven Spielberg won his first Academy Award for Best Director for this movie about the Holocaust, released in 1993.
What is Schindler's List?
This Super Bowl singer, who sings "Firework", "ET", and "Teenage Dream" was upstaged by a dancing shark.
Who is Katy Perry?
This country is home to over 200 pyramids, more than twice that of Egypt.
What is Sudan?
This is the non-technical name for dihydrogen monoxide.
What is water?