Famous Leaders & Rulers
This French military leader crowned himself emperor in 1804.
Who is Napoleon?
This revolution overthrew the French monarchy in 1789.
What is the French Revolution?
Humans first landed on this celestial body in 1969.
What is the Moon?
This physicist developed the theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This method involves cooking food in boiling water or steam.
What is boiling?
He abolished slavery in the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This global pandemic in 1918 killed millions worldwide.
What is the Spanish Flu?
This planet is the largest in our Solar System.
What is Jupiter?
This Italian scientist used a telescope to observe moons of Jupiter in 1610.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This sweet food is made by beating sugar and eggs, often baked into cakes.
What is meringue?
This leader of India advocated for nonviolent independence from British rule.
Who is Gandhi?
In 1492, this explorer reached the Americas under the Spanish flag.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
What is the Milky Way?
This English scientist first theorized how evolution occurs through natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This green herb is often used in pesto sauce and salads.
What is basil?
He led the Soviet Union during World War II.
Who is Stalin?
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 doubled the size of this country.
What is the United States?
This dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt was demoted from planet status in 2006.
What is Pluto?
She was a pioneering chemist who discovered radium and polonium.
Who is Marie Curie?
This term describes cooking food submerged in hot fat.
What is deep-frying?
Queen of France executed during the French Revolution.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered this global conflict.
What is World War I?
The first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, was named this.
What is Sputnik?
He formulated the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This method of gently cooking eggs in simmering water without the shell.
What is poaching?