Scientists
This man loved to ask questions. He asked why does an apple fall down and not up.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Which queen ruled England well and never married?
Who is Queen Elizabeth
What is Hamlet?
This city was founded by Peter the Great to bring culture to Russia.
What is St. Petersburg?
The name of the main river Marquette and Joliet mapped and was hoping would lead to a new trade route.
What is the Mississippi River?
Copernicus was the first person to claim that this star, not the Earth, was the center of the universe.
What is the sun?
Under Queen Elizabeth, this daring ship captain looted Spanish ships, defeated the Spanish Armada, and sailed all around the world.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
What event forced the theater to shut down for awhile and give Shakespeare time to write poems for the Earl of Southampton and observe many people at the Earl's estate who he could later use as characters in his plays?
What is the plague?
The Ming and Qing dynasties ruled here. Emperor Kangxi of the Qing dynasty reign lasted 61 years.
Where is China?
Captain Janszoon of the Dutch East India Company was the first European to set foot on what continent?
What is Australia?
Galileo made the first telescope from what new invention?
What is a spyglass?
This Russian czar improved the navy, dress, and culture of Russia.
Who is Peter the Great?
What is another play Shakespeare wrote besides Hamlet?
What is Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Richard III, Midsummer Night's Dream, or Antony and Cleopatra?
What US State was named after the queen of England who never married?
What is Virginia?
The name of the first person to see that the surface of the moon was not smooth, but had mountains and valleys.
Who is Galileo?
Isaac Newton saw that when light went through a prism it was actually made up of what colors?
A rainbow- Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
Suleyman the Magnificent ruled what empire that is also known as a footstool?
What is the Ottoman Empire
How did the Shakespeare's theater company solve their problem when the landlord said they couldn't use the land that their theater was built on anymore?
What is they took down the theater building, carried the wood to the other side of the Thames River, across London Bridge, and built the new theater, The Globe there.
Richelieu became the youngest person to become a bishop after he persuaded the Pope he was capable. Richelieu later became a cardinal and used his persuasive speech to help King Louis become the strongest king in Europe of what nation?
What is France?
The Dutch East India Company set out to have a monopoly selling spices from where?
What is East Indies?
This scientist worked with another scientist who got his nose cut off in duel and replaced had it with a nose made of silver and gold. He discovered planets travel in ellipse-shaped orbits and wrote The New Astronomy
Who is Kepler?
Before Queen Elizabeth reigned England for 45 years and defeated the Spanish Armada, who was queen?
Who was Bloody Mary.
Theater companies performed new plays this often before Shakespeare started writing his plays?
What is every night. Quality was not very good!
The capital city of Portugal that had a 9.0 earthquake in 1755, followed by a tsunami, and a fire that destroyed the entir
What is Lisbon?
The direction Marquette and Joliet hoped the Mississippi River flowed.
What is west?