Geography
From 1998 to 2004, the Petronas Towers in this Asian capital city were the tallest building in the world, and the first tallest building of the 20th century located outside the United States
What is Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?
In spring of 2025, this popular app temporarily killed off its threatening owl mascot in a marketing stunt
What is Duolingo?
Thucydides depicts this Athenian leader delivering a funeral oration in the first year of the Peloponnesian War
Who is Pericles?
Who is Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus)?
This country's so-called "artificial sun" recently broke its own record for a sustained mega nuclear fusion reaction, lasting nearly 18 minutes
What is China?
Located in Siberia, this deepest and oldest lake in the world contains more freshwater than all five Great Lakes combined
What is Lake Baikal?
According to Cassius Dio, this Roman emperor enjoyed fighting wild animals in the gladiatorial arena in emulation of Hercules
Who is Commodus?
This grandson of Genghis Khan established the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty in China in 1271 CE
Who is Kublai Khan? (Shizu, Setsen Khan)
This British writer most famous for his detective stories also penned sci-fi adventures featuring "Professor Challenger" and the humorous exploits of a fictional Napoleonic soldier "Brigadier Gerard"
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
This famous physician and key source for the Antonine Plague is the author of more surviving Greek literature than any other writer from antiquity
Who is Galen?
A major imperial mint was located in the capital of the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis, now a French city known in modern times by this name
What is Lyon?
This Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is the longest-running show in Broadway history, only closing after 35 years in April of 2023
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
This last ruler and only queen of Hawai'i was overthrown in 1893 by a US-backed coup of American settlers, leading to the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands in 1898
Who is Lili'uokalani?
The "New Seven Wonders of the World" include the Colosseum, Great Wall of China, and this Brazilian statue, the only "New Wonder" completed in the 20th century
What is Cristo Redentor/Christ the Redeemer?
Although he studied philosophy and natural science broadly as head of the Lyceum, this successor of Aristotle is best known as the "Father of Botany"
Who is Theophrastus?
Lake Winnipesaukee, the White Mountains, and the Merrimack River Valley are defining physical features of this U.S. state
What is New Hampshire?
These Greek heroes were both declared winners of the wrestling competition at the funeral games of Patroclus; they would later have a much deadlier quarrel over the armor of Achilles
Who are Ajax and Odysseus?
In 217 BCE, the Carthaginian general Hannibal defeated a Roman consular army in a notoriously foggy battle on the shores of this lake
What is Lake Trasimene?
This posthumous Tolkien work on the First Age of Middle-Earth also provided source material for volumes like The Fall of Gondolin and Beren and Lúthien
What is The Silmarillion?
This 1962 book by Rachel Carson documented the environmental hazards of the pesticide DDT, spurring a grassroots environmental movement resulting in the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency
What is Silent Spring?
This chief city of Arcadia (and hometown of Philopoemen and Polybius) was founded shortly after the Battle of Leuctra as a bulwark against Spartan power in the Peloponnese
What is Megalopolis?
Titled with an enigmatic asterisk, this forthcoming superhero movie starring Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan will be the 36th film entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
What is Thunderbolts*?
This African country is the only country in the world with a firearm on its flag, based on the country's first flag after achieving independence from Portugal in 1975
What is Mozambique?
The Villa of Livia, located at this site just north of Rome, is famous both for its beautiful garden frescoes and a stately portrait statue of Augustus
What is Prima Porta?
Dinosaurs are often classified broadly in one of three groups: "sauropods", "theropods", and these "bird-hipped" dinosaurs that include Triceratops and Stegosaurus
What are ornithischians?