Ancient History
This Macedonian king created one of history's largest empires by age 30.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This vaccine-preventable liver disease has strains A, B, and C, spread through different routes (fecal-oral vs. blood/body fluids).
What is hepatitis?
This venomous but often-domesticated arachnid is typically kept in a terrarium and can live 20+ years.
What is a tarantula?
This poet wrote "Leaves of Grass" and is often called the father of free verse.
Who is Walt Whitman?
This Italian businessman's name became synonymous with pyramid schemes after his 1920s investment scam.
Who is Charles Ponzi?
This Greek city-state was known for its military discipline and the "300" at Thermopylae.
What is Sparta?
What is Ebola?
This color-changing lizard from Madagascar is popular but notoriously finicky exotic pet.
What is a chameleon?
This poet wrote "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
Who is Robert Frost?
This bank's employees secretly opened millions of unauthorized accounts in customers' names to hit sales quotas, exposed in 2016.
What is Wells Fargo?
This ancient library, located in Egypt, was one of the largest repositories of knowledge in the ancient world before its destruction.
What is the Library of Alexandria?
This 1918 pandemic, despite its name, likely didn't originate in Spain.
What is the Spanish Flu?
This large rodent, native to South America, is the world's largest rodent and is sometimes kept as a pet.
What is a capybara?
This Toni Morrison novel, about a formerly enslaved woman haunted by her past, won the Pulitzer Prize.
What is "Beloved"?
This pharmaceutical executive raised drug prices massively and was later convicted of securities fraud unrelated to the price hikes.
Who is Martin Shkreli?
This Mesopotamian code, from around 1750 BC, is one of the earliest written legal codes.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This disease, caused by a poxvirus and related to smallpox, saw a global public health emergency declaration in 2022.
What is mpox (monkeypox)?
This Australian marsupial, kept as an exotic pet in some places, is known for gliding between trees.
What is a sugar glider?
This John Steinbeck novel follows the Joad family fleeing the Dust Bowl for California.
What is "The Grapes of Wrath"?
This German automaker admitted in 2015 to installing software that cheated emissions tests on millions of diesel vehicles.
What is Volkswagen?
This Sumerian epic, one of the oldest surviving works of literature, follows a king seeking immortality.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This waterborne bacterial disease causes severe diarrhea and was the focus of John Snow's famous London map.
What is cholera?
This African wildcat hybrid, bred with domestic cats, is legal in some U.S. states but banned in others.
What is a Savannah cat?
This Cormac McCarthy novel follows a father and son navigating a post-apocalyptic landscape.
What is "The Road"?
This ride-share and freight startup's founder, Trevor Milton, was convicted of fraud after faking a truck rolling downhill under its own power.
What is Nikola?