Famous Scientists
Important Numbers
My Cold War Dictionary!
Epics
Canadian Provinces by Abbreviation
100
Creating one of the first modern telescope, this scientist revolutionized our understanding of the world by successfully proving the earth revolved around the sun, and not the other way around. His work, Two New Sciences, laid ground work for the science of Kinetics and strength of materials.
Who is Galileo?
100
2.7182...
What is Euler's Constant?
100
a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
What is arms race?
100
This poem concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion or Troy, by the Greeks.
What is the Illiad?
100
NL
What is Newfoundland and Labrador?
200
This scientist contributed greatly towards the advancement of medical sciences developing cures for rabies, anthrax and other infectious diseases. He also enabled milk safer to drink.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
200
1.618
What is the Golden Ratio?
200
the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence
What is Containment?
200
This poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus and his long journey home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach his kingdom of Ithica after the ten-year Trojan War. During this absence, his son Telemachus and wife Penelope must deal with a group of unruly suitors, called Proci, to compete for Penelope’s hand in marriage, since most have assumed that Odysseus has died.
What is the Odyssey?
200
SK
What is Sasketchowan?
300
He was an early Greek scientist who made many discoveries in the natural sciences, including botany, zoology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and meteorology, geometry
Who is Aristotle?
300
186,282 or 299,792,458
What is the Speed of Light?
300
foreign policy principle of the 1950s and the 1960s stating that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would also fall
What is Domino Effect?
300
The poem is written in the first person, and tells of the poet's, Dante, journey through the three realms of the dead, lasting during the Easter Triduum in the spring of 1300. The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and Purgatory; Beatrice, Dante’s ideal woman, guides him through Heaven.
What is the Divine Comedy?
300
QC
What is Quebec
400
He is most famous for his work on electro-magnetism and AC current. He is also credited with many patents from electricity to radio transmission.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
400
6.626068 x 10^-34
What is Plank's Constant?
400
a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender
What is M.A.D?
400
This epic, written by Virgil, tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter, which is considered to be the Grand Style of classical poetry.
What is the Aeneid?
400
MB
What is Manitoba?
500
This German chemist who discovered nuclear fission in 1939 was a pioneering scientist in the field of radio-chemistry. He discovered radio-active elements and nuclear isomerism in 1921 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944
Who is Otto Hahn?
500
6.0221515 x 10^23
What is Avogadro's Constant?
500
a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions
What is McCartyism?
500
In this poem, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who has been attacking the mead hall in Denmark called Heorot and its inhabitants; Grendel’s mother and, later in life after returning to Geatland (modern southern Sweden) and becoming a king, he fights an unnamed dragon. He is fatally wounded in the final battle, and after his death he is buried in a barrow in Geatland by his retainers.
What is Beowulf?
500
YT
What is Yukon?
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