Inventors & Inventions
The inventor whose name is most often linked to the lightbulb, helping humanity stay awake far longer than nature intended...
Who is Thomas Edison?
The civil rights leader who shared a dream that inspired millions...
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
With a population of around 11 million people, this Caribbean nation is known for its vibrant art, colorful tap-tap buses, and a cuisine featuring griot, a popular dish made from fried pork, occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola and shares a border with the Dominican Republic...
What is Haiti?
Its flag features green, white, and red vertical stripes. It is home to Europe's largest active volcano, produces more wine than most countries, and gave the world a dish that many people mistakenly think originated in America...
What is Italy?
This South American country was the first in the world to officially use fingerprints for criminal identification. It is also home to the southernmost city on Earth...
What is Argentina?
The invention by Tim Berners-Lee changed communication worldwide in 1989...
What is the World Wide Web?
The scientist whose wild hair became almost as famous as his theory of relativity...
Who is Albert Einstein?
This Pacific island nation's flag features nine stars and a Union Jack. Its highest point sits less than five meters above sea level, making it one of the countries most vulnerable to rising oceans, a population of roughly 10,600 people and is one of the smallest sovereign states on Earth...
What is Tuvalu?
Its national motto is "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." It is the world's most visited country, produces around 1,200 varieties of cheese, and gifted a famous statue to the United States in 1886...
What is France?
This European country once controlled a global empire stretching from South America to Asia. Today, it is home to Europe's westernmost capital city...
What is Portugal?
The inventor credited with creating the telephone and making it possible for meetings to happen from anywhere...
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
The South African leader that became the country's first democratically elected president in 1994...
Who is Nelson Mandela?
With a population of over 34 million people, this South American nation is home to Machu Picchu, more than 3,000 varieties of potatoes, and a flag consisting of three vertical stripes: red, white, and red...
What is Peru?
Its flag contains a yellow diamond and a blue globe featuring the national motto. It contains roughly 60% of the Amazon Rainforest, is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas, and has won more FIFA World Cups than any other nation...
What is Brazil?
This Asian country is home to more than 20 officially recognized languages, operates one of the world's largest railway networks, and conducted a national election involving hundreds of millions of voters...
What is India?
The brothers who proved humans could fly and immediately created airport delays for future generations...
Who are the Wright Brothers?
The British wartime leader whose speeches helped rally a nation during World War II...
Who is Winston Churchill?
This Southeast Asian nation on the island of Borneo has a population of roughly 450,000 people. Its flag features diagonal black and white stripes across a yellow field, and it is one of the world's wealthiest countries per capita thanks to oil and natural gas...
What is Brunei Darussalam?
Its flag features a green five-pointed star on a red background. It sits less than 15 kilometres from Europe at its closest point, is one of the world's largest exporters of phosphates, and its city of Chefchaouen is famous for streets painted almost entirely blue...
What is Morocco?
This Caribbean nation is the only country in the world named after a woman. It is also home to the Pitons, two volcanic peaks that appear on its national flag...
What is Saint Lucia?
The invention that first brought moving pictures into people's living rooms...
What is Television?
The woman who won two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences...
Who is Marie Curie?
This island nation in the South Pacific has a population of about 750,000 people. Its flag features five stars arranged as the Southern Cross, and its traditional underground feast, known as a lovo, is cooked using heated stones buried in the earth...
What is Fiji?
Its flag includes the Union Jack and the Southern Cross constellation. It is home to the world's longest fence, one of the largest cattle industries on Earth, and once deployed soldiers in an unsuccessful campaign against a population of flightless birds...
What is Australia?
This South American nation was once known as Dutch Guiana, is the smallest independent country in South America by population, and has Dutch as its official language...
What is Suriname?