Literature
“To be or not to be” is a famous line from this Shakespeare play.
What is 'Hamlet'?
This tech uses wheels, tracks and an engine to help us travel long distances on land.
What is a train?
He was the first Emperor of France, crowned in 1804.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This national dish of Spain is a rice dish typically made with saffron and seafood.
What is paella?
This programming language was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia.
What is Java?
He is known for his horror novels, including “Carrie” and “The Shining.”
Who is Stephen King?
This tech uses sound waves to create an image of body tissue.
What is an ultrasound?
He was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This European soup is made from onions and beef stock, usually served with cheese-topped croutons.
What is French onion soup?
This open-source operating system written in way more than three lines of code was named for a short poetry form.
This epic poem by Homer is about the fall of Troy.
What is 'The Iliad'?
Known as the father of the computer, he conceptualised the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century.
Who is Charles Babbage?
The 'A Life of Service' speech was delivered on her 21st birthday, making a lifelong pledge to her people.
Who is Queen Victoria?
A traditional side dish of Ethiopia, typically made from teff flour.
What is injera?
Development process that combines features of other development models into a cyclical process, including several phases, one of which is risk analysis.
This French novelist is famous for “Les Misérables.”
Who is Victor Hugo?
This outdated pocket tech is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages.
What is a pager?
Delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, this speech is known for the phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The Caesar salad was invented in this country.
Where is Mexico?
Common in mathematics along with the toolbar in Microsoft Excel, these two letters are collectively used to represent the word "function".
What is Fx?
“The Trial” and “The Metamorphosis” are works by this Czech author.
Who is Franz Kafka?
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This tech can explore the surfaces of planets and moons. Some versions can take pictures and test samples of rocks and dirt.
This leader’s reform policies of Glasnost and Perestroika led to the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
This Japanese dish is a type of fermented soybean.
What is natto?
Kubernetes had a different name until it was open sourced by Google in 2014. Prior to that, it was known by a four-letter name of an alien species in the "Star Trek" franchise.
What is 'Borg'?