History
This president of the United States issued the Emancipation Proclamation. He also acted as an attorney before his political career.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This yellow liquid is formed in the kidneys by mammals to excrete nitrogenous waste.
What is urine?
The protagonist of this novel is orphaned as a baby and made aware of his magical abilities on his 11th birthday by Rubeus Hagrid.
What is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?
This German romantic composer composed famous themes such as "Ode to Joy" and "fate knocking at the door" as part of his 9 symphonies.
Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?
This prophet was spoken to from a burning bush and ascended Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments.
Who is Moses?
This Asian Country recently went through an election in which Bong Bong Marcos and Lina Robrero are projected to win its presidency and vice presidency, respectively.
What is the Phillipines?
This Mongol conquered China and became the first emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. He was later visited by a certain Marco Polo on his famous Travels.
Who is Kublai Khan?
The slope of the graph when this quantity is plotted against time is equal to acceleration.
What is velocity?
This character is the love interest of Hamlet in his namesake Shakespeare play and eventually dies by drowning.
Who is Ophelia?
This Florentine sculptor is best known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
Followers of this Indian religion often take the last name Singh or Kaur rather than using family names.
What is Sikhism?
This second longest river in Europe passes Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and Belgrade.
What is The Danube?
This modern-day country broke away from the Ottoman Turks in 1832 and later annexed Crete and Macedonia.
What is Greece?
When the sun collapses, it will form this kind of celestial ball, with an upper mass limit given by the Chandrasekhar limit.
What are white dwarfs?
This character's best friend Helen Burns dies in her arms at Lowood School. She works as a governess for her future husband Edward Rochester, who hides his wife in the attic.
Who is Jane Eyre?
This jazz saxophonist pioneered modal jazz and later free jazz in songs such as Giant Steps and My Favorite Things.
Who is John Coltrane?
The half-serpent king of this city, Cecrops I (Κέκροψ), introduced a method of worshipping the gods in which cakes are used as offerings.
What is Athens?
This nation holds the world's largest delta, where the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers meet. Its capital is Dhaka.
What is Bangladesh?
This body's corrupting influence was warned by Dwight D. Eisenhower in a farewell address. It promotes a "revolving door" phenomenon of career bureaucrats and pundits.
What is the military industrial complex?
Slate, gneiss, and marble are well-known products of this process, during which its subjects undergo a combination of high temperature, pressure, and exposure to mineral-rich fluid.
What is metamorphism?
This author described a young Brahman's search for self-realization, inspired by his trip to India. He also wrote The Glass Bead Game and Steppenwolf.
Who is Herman Hesse?
This pointillist painting by Georges Seurat notably features women with umbrellas and a monkey on a leash.
What is A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?
The production of retroflex consonants relies on articulation at this part of the mouth, as do the Hungarian consonant stops "ty" and "gy".
What is the hard palate?
This body of water is the namesake of a Saharan country. Other than that country, it borders Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger.
What is Lake Chad?
This Zulu monarch developed the bull horns tactics and expanded his realm during The Crushing. He later developed insanity and was assassinated by Dingane.
Who is Shaka Zulu?
One well-known example of this type of reaction is the Briggs-Rauscher reaction, wherein this type of reaction's namesake process repeats about ten times.
What is a (chemical) oscillator?
This author coined the phrase 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind', and detailed the Baron cutting off Belinda's hair in his mock epic 'The Rape of The Lock'.
Who is Alexander Pope?
This composer of Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture died 11 days after the premiere of his 6th symphony.
Who is Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky?
This Platonic utopia is imagined in the Laws and is considered a more realistic utopia than the naïve ideal of The Republic.
What is Magnetes?
This Federal Subject of Russia borders the Altai Republic and Mongolia. Huun Huur Tur is a throat-singing band from this place.
What is Tuva?
This Bulgarian saint was an early adopter of the Cyrillic alphabet, and even took the title of emperor or tsar after defeating the Byzantines in 913.
Who is Simeon I?
By the Diophantine approximation, the set of rational numbers are this type of set as a subset of the real numbers, since every real number is either equal to or arbitrarily close to a rational number.
What is a dense set?
This 1921 play, which was written by Czech author Karel Čapek, first introduced the concept of a robot.
What is Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R)?
The most famous sculpture by French artist Edgar Degas depicts a ballerina of this age.
What is 14 (years old)?
The prayer Ṣalāt al-Janāzah (صلاة الجنازة) is part of a ritual in Islam relating to this ritual, which should be conducted within a day of its cause.
What is a funeral?
A 2017 constitutional referendum was held in response to this event which occurred a year prior, where president Erdogan used a video call to communicate with the nation.
What is the 2016 Attempted Turkish Coup?