17th-Century Europe
In 1688, English king James II was overthrown (relatively) peacefully and replaced with William and Mary in this event, which firmly established England as a constitutional monarchy.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
In 2006, a controversial decision was made by the International Astronomical Union to demote this celestial body to the status of a "dwarf planet."
What is Pluto?
Colors of the rainbow.
What is yellow?
This American swimmer is the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 total medals across four Olympic games.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This first name of an eight-time Olympic gold medalist considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time.
Who is Usain Bolt?
The Thirty Years' War began with a bang as Bohemian rebels threw Austrian nobles out of a window, but it ended more calmly, as a peace was signed in 1648 in this German region. (DAILY DOUBLE)
What is Westphalia?
This telescope was launched in 2021 as the next generation of space telescopes after the Hubble Space Telescope, and full color images taken by it started to be released in 2022.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
American presidents, by last name.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The Summer Olympics are in Paris in 2024; they were first in Paris in this year.
What is 1900?
This term, meaning declining to accept something.
What is refusal?
In 1683, this famed Polish cavalry unit destroyed the Ottoman army at the Battle of Vienna, leading to the end of Ottoman expansion into Europe.
What are the Winged Hussars?
In 2019, scientists revealed the first images of this type of celestial body, from one of these bodies at the center of the M87 galaxy.
What is a black hole?
European capitals.
What is Zagreb?
The United States, along with 65 other countries, boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow mainly because of this event.
What is the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
This second largest city in South Korea.
What is Busan? (Pusan also accepted)
This French intellectual was a well-regarded philosopher said to have laid the foundations for rationalism, but he also was an excellent mathematician and is considered the father of analytic geometry.
Who is Rene Descartes?
Since the 1990s, nearly 6,000 exoplanets have been discovered using a variety of different techniques; this technique utilizes the observed dimming of stars when a planet passes in front of it.
What is the transit method?
American national parks (includes US territories).
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What is Zion National Park?
The Winter Olympics originally were the same year as the Summer Olympics; the first Winter Olympics on the modern schedule was in 1994 in this Northern European city.
What is Lillehammer?
This term, defined as the capability of something to be fit for a situation.
What is usability?
This painting technique regarding the effect of light was utilized quite often in Baroque art, including by Vermeer and Rembrandt.
What is chiaroscuro?
This cosmic phenomenon predicted by Einstein was first directly observed in 2015 by the LIGO detector, which earned its contributors the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017.
What are gravitational waves?
Elements of the periodic table.
What is zirconium?
This team won the most medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
What is the Unified Team?
This future capital of Indonesia.
What is Nusantara?