Science
This process explains how traits that improve chances of survival become more common in a population over time.
What is natural selection?
This famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh is a depiction of the night sky from his bedroom window.
What is the Starry Night?
This person was a Victorian Era poet and artist, most famously known for his poems "The Tyger" and "The Lamb", and his collection of poems "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell."
Who is William Blake?
This 14th-century ruler of Mali is famous for his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, during which his immense gold distribution reportedly ruined economies along his route.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Located in Western Africa and surrounded by Senegal, this is Africa's smallest mainland nation. Name it.
What is Gambia?
Valence electrons are electrons on the outermost shell of an element. Name the only metalloid that has 3 valence electrons.
Romanesque architecture was most commonly used for building these large religious structures that served as the seat of the bishop during the Middle Ages.
What are cathedrals?
This author wrote Macbeth, A tragedy about a Scottish man kills a king to become king, gets paranoid, and eventually loses everything; He also wrote King Lear, a story about an elderly king losing his mind and his life after giving his kingdom to the wrong daughters.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This 241 BCE treaty ended the First Punic War and forced Carthage to cede this large Mediterranean island to Rome
What is Sicily?
Located in Siberia, this body of water contains 20% of the world's freshwater, and is the deepest freshwater lake in the world.
What is Lake Baikal?
This daughter of Marie Curie, won a Nobel Prize for creating radioactive isotopes, while German chemist Otto Hahn conducted experiments that led to the discovery of this process in uranium.
What is nuclear fission?
This Mexican artist is known painting deeply personal self-portraits and paintings while being paralysed because of a near-fatal bus accident.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This person was an American author who revolutionized literature through the eyes of legendary characters like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. His most famous works, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Who Mark Twain?
This French military leader lifted the Siege of Orléans in 1429 and helped secure the coronation of Charles VII at Reims.
Who is Joan of Arc?
This island, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is the second-largest island in the Caribbean by area.
What is Hispaniola?
This principle states the pressure applied to a confined fluid is transmitted equally in all directions.
What is Pascal's principle
This theater, closely associated with Shakespeare, was rebuilt in modern times on the River Thames in London.
What is the Globe Theatre?
This female author who was very influential for her time, wrote the books Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Sense & Sensibility, and Persuasion.
Who is Jane Austen?
This dynasty was founded by Zhu Yuanhang after the Yuan dynasty dynasty collapsed because of rivalries among Mongol generals and multiple rebellions led by farmers.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
An acropolis is a fortified citadel built on a peak of a city used for important and religious purposes. Name the two most prominent acropolises in Greece.
What are the acropolises of Athens and Lindos?
In chemistry, this type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
This 20th-century are movement, led by artists like Salvador Dalí, aimed to express the unconscious mind and dreams.
What is Surrealism?
This author who had a whimsical and creative style of writing, wrote the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and The Hunting of The Shark.
Who is Lewis Carroll?
This 1862 conflict in Maryland followed the discovery of "Special Order 191" by Union soldiers and resulted in enough of a Union victory for Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Temperate rainforests are rainforests formed near coastal areas; name the southernmost temperate rainforest.
What is the Valdivian Temperate Rainforest?