This massive festival is held in New Orleans in February or early March, to celebrate the day before Lent begins
What is Mardi Gras?
This was the year of the first moon landing
What is 1969?
This is the number of of official Great Lakes there are
What is 5?
This famous physicist described three fundamental laws of motion
Who is Isaac Newton?
This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Who is Michelangelo?
This semi-precious rock is the birthstone for February
What is amythyst?
This infamous event in French history officially began in the year 1789
What is the French Revolution?
This is the largest island in the Mediterrainian Sea
What is Sicily?
Radium and Polonium were first discovered by this double Nobel Prize winner
Who is Marie Curie?
Paul Cezanne and Claude Monet were both influential members of this artistic movement
What is impressionism?
This, along with aquarius, is one of February's astrological signs
What is Pisces?
This teenaged girl famously led a French army during the Hundred Years War
Who is Joan of Arc?
This Asian country is made up of over 7 000 small islands, and is the only country in Asia that is predominantly Catholic
What is the Philippines?
Gregor Mendel demonstrated the laws of genetic inheritance by breeding this type of plant
What are peas?
This American artist is known for her many colourful, close-up depictions of flowers
Who is Georgia O'Keefe?
This fuzzy rodent is thought to be able to predict the length of winter on February 2nd
What is a groundhog?
This war was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent
What is the war of 1812?
Dakar is the capitol of this West African country
What is Senegal?
Alfred Wegener was the first scientist to name this theory, which describes how Pangaea broke up into the modern continents
What is Continental Drift?
This Spanish surrealist painter kept a pet ocelot named Babou
Who is Salvador Dali?
In February of the year 269 AD, this Catholic Saint was martyred, starting a holiday that we still celebrate today
Who is St. Valentine?
This historical wartime nurse was sometimes known as "The Lady with the Lamp"
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is the second most populous city on Earth (after Tokyo, Japan)
What is Dehli, India?
This scientist took the famous "Photo 51", which showed the double helix structure of DNA, and contributed to the famous findings of Watson and Crick
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This painting by Edward Hopper
What is Nighthawks?