Before & After
The Belgian village where Napoleon was defeated in 1815.
What is Waterloo?
The only mammal capable of sustained flight.
What is a bat?
The Edinburgh underground street linked to tales of hauntings.
What is Mary King's Close?
The ancient Egyptian writing system that used pictures and symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
The SI unit for the amount of substance.
What is the mole?
The Shakespeare tragedy about a Danish prince seeking revenge.
What is Hamlet?
The smallest country in the world.
What is the Vatican City?
The former Philadelphia prison known for ghost stories and its imposing Gothic architecture.
What is Eastern State Penitentiary?
The Athenian statesman often credited with establishing democracy in Athens.
Who is Cleisthenes?
The boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape.
What is the event horizon?
The Roman city buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
What is Pompeii?
The chemical element with the symbol W.
What is tungsten?
The Venetian island associated with plague stories and ghost legends.
What is Poveglia?
The capital of the Hittite Empire in what is now Turkey.
What is Hattusa?
The change in observed frequency caused by motion between a wave source and an observer.
What is the Doppler effect?
The Greek philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
The author of The Name of the Rose.
Who is Emberto Eco?
The Scottish castle connected in legend to a "Grey Lady" ghost.
What is Glamis Castle?
The ancient African kingdom south Egypt, also know as Nubia.
What is Kush?
The process by which cells release energy from glucose without using oxygen.
What is anaerobic respiration?
The English scientist who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The strait separating the Malay Peninsula from the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
What is the Strait of Malacca?
The reportedly haunted Victorian mansion in San Jose, CA built by the widow of a firearms magnate.
What is the Winchester Mystery House?
The Persian king who ordered the construction of Persepolis.
Who is Darius I?
The quantum rule that no two identical fermions can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously.
What is the Pauli Exclusion Principle?