Geography
This mighty river surrounds the island of Montreal.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
This author makes you think twice about wanting to win a lottery.
Who is Shirley Jackson?
This composer, who did not include the word moonlight in one of his famous pieces, lost most of his hearing.
Who was Beethoven?
These deities are the Greek and Roman names of the goddess of love.
Who are Venus and Aphrodite?
In the chemical formula for water, the H and the O stand for these elements.
What are hydrogen and oxygen?
This massive desert's name literally translates to desert.
What is the Sahara? (So, call it the Sahara, not the Sahara Desert, otherwise you're saying the desert desert.)
Charles Dodsgon, who wrote of hatters, a Queen of Hearts, a white rabbit, and a girl named A---, used this pen name.
Who was Lewis Carroll?
This artist painted "The Last Supper", the "Mona Lisa", and invented something like a helicopter.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
In Greek mythology, they (known in Greek as the Erinyes) are three chthonic (underworld) goddesses of vengeance, retribution, and justice. They primarily targeted those who committed crimes against the natural order, particularly homicide, unfilial conduct (such as harming parents), perjury, and breaking oaths.
Who are the Furies?
According to this scientist's theory of relativity, time moves faster the farther you are from a gravitational centre. Because your head is farther from Earth than your feet, your brain is technically older than your toes!
Who was Albert Einstein?
This man's theory explained how all living species adapt and evolve over generations through a process of survival of the fittest, deeply connecting the history of all life on Earth. THINK Theory of Evolution!
Who was Charles Darwin?
In the graphic novel New Kid by Jerry Craft, this character wears a puppet.
She uses a hand puppet to cover up small burn scars on her hand, which she sustained while saving her younger brother from a pot of boiling water.
Who is Alexandra?
These two people founded the city now known as Montreal.
Who were the French settlers Paul de Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve, and Jeanne Mance on May 17, 1642?
This is a legendary, colossal sea monster of Scandinavian folklore and mythology, usually depicted as a giant squid-like or octopus-like creature. According to ancient myths, it was so massive that sailors often mistook its surfacing back for a chain of islands.
What is the Kraken?
The Manhattan Project was led by this American theoretical physicist, who served as the scientific director of the Los Alamos Laboratory.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
This place in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest place on Earth. It goes down nearly 11,000 meters—if you dropped Mount Everest inside of it, the peak would still be completely underwater!
What is the Mariana Trench?
Author Neil Gaiman whites of this month sitting in a chair.
Who is October (in the chair)?
This, the greatest man-made (person-made) project in history extends over deserts, mountains, and plateaus.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This is the primary Egyptian god of death and mummification (known to the ancient Egyptians as Inpu), the jackal-headed deity who guarded tombs and guided souls into the afterlife.
Who is Anubis?
These microscopic, eight-legged "water bears" can survive extreme conditions, including boiling, freezing, crushing, and the vacuum of outer space.
What are tardigrades?
This is the only continent in the world that sits in all four hemispheres: Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western.
What is Africa?
"The Divine Comedy" describes this man's journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso); he is first guided by the Roman poet Virgil and then by Beatrice.
Who was Dante Alegihieri?
This Mongol conqueror conquered the greatest amount of land ever.
Who was Genghis Khan?
This is a central figure in West African and Caribbean folklore, highly revered as the god of all stories, knowledge, and wisdom. Most commonly depicted as a spider, he is a brilliant trickster who uses his cunning and wit to outsmart larger, more powerful adversaries.
Who is Anansi?
Nearly all the elements in the human body (like carbon, iron, and oxygen) were forged inside the cores of these space objects.
What are exploded stars (we are made of stardust)?