Science
This particle carries a negative electric charge and orbits an atom's nucleus.
What is an electron?
This 1215 English document limited the power of the monarchy.
What is the Magna Carta?
This author wrote The Divine Comedy.
Who is Dante Alighieri?
This is the value of the sum of the interior angles of a triangle in Euclidean geometry.
What is 180 degrees?
This country has the most natural lakes in the world
What is Canada?
This principle states that two identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state.
What is the Pauli exclusion principle?
This West African empire was ruled by Mansa Musa during the 14th century.
What is the Mali Empire?
This Shakespeare tragedy features the Danish prince who says, "To be, or not to be."
What is Hamlet?
This constant is approximately 2.71828 and is the base of natural logarithms.
What is \(e\)?
This strait separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey.
What is the Bosporus?
This is the SI unit of electrical capacitance.
What is the farad?
This 1648 settlement ended the Thirty Years' War in Europe.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This novel by Mary Shelley follows a scientist who creates a living being.
What is Frankenstein?
This theorem states that in a right triangle, \(a^2+b^2=c^2\).
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
This landlocked country is entirely surrounded by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
This enzyme unwinds DNA during replication.
What is helicase?
This Byzantine emperor commissioned the legal compilation known as the Corpus Juris Civilis.
Who is Justinian I?
This Russian author wrote The Brothers Karamazov.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
This branch of mathematics studies properties preserved under continuous deformation.
What is topology?
This African country was formerly known as Abyssinia.
What is Ethiopia?
This theoretical boundary around a black hole marks the point beyond which nothing can escape.
What is the event horizon?
This 19th-century rebellion weakened Qing China and was led by Hong Xiuquan.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
This literary term describes a narrative in which the audience knows more than the characters.
What is dramatic irony?
This conjecture, proved by Andrew Wiles, concerns equations of the form \(x^n+y^n=z^n\) for integers \(n>2\).
What is Fermat's Last Theorem?
This 1884–1885 conference formalized European rules for colonizing Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?