Potpourri
His 3 Laws of Planetary Motion gave him the title 'Father of Modern Astronomy'.
Johannes Kepler
Who was the Roman Emperor when Jesus was born?
Caesar Augustus
In geometry which instrument is usually used to measure an angle?
A protractor
Which cells in your blood destroy germs?
White blood cells
The Magna Carta
1215
A hill that overlooks the city of Athens, Greece.
The ruins of ancient buildings are on top of this hill.
Acropolis
Name the Macedonian king who conquered Persia.
Alexander the Great
Name the number of feet in a mile.
5,280
What vessels in the human body carry blood away from the heart?
The arteries
The Renaissance
1300-1500
The galaxy closest to the Milky Way Galaxy, about 2.2 million light years away from Earth.
Andromeda Galaxy
Was Virgil a Hun, A Roman poet, or Greek historian?
A Roman poet
What measures the angle between a star and the horizon?
A sextant
Name 3 of the 4 properties of matter that can be measured.
Volume, density, mass, weight
The Black Plague
1348-1350
Name the most distant celestial objects that can be seen from earth.
Quasars
What did the ancient Romans build to bring water to their cities?
What is the total number of degrees in any triangle?
180 degrees
Who was the first scientist to describe the laws of motion?
Isaac Newton
1st English Bible Translation - John Wycliffe
1381
The mount located in northeastern Turkey at the triangle where Iran, Russia, and Turkey meet between the Black and Caspian Seas, mentioned in Genesis 6-8.
Mount Ararat
Name the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer
What kind of triangle has 3 sides of equal length?
An equilateral triangle
Which disease is often called TB?
Tuberculosis
Gutenberg and the printing press
1456