World History
Cuneiform is the earliest known method for doing this common activity.
What is writing?
What is 'love'?
Deoxyribonucleic acid was discovered in 1869 by Friedrich Miescher. Today we simply call it this.
What is DNA?
The chicken or the egg?
What is the egg (causal paradox)?
The deserts of Nevada are home to a "top-secret" Air Force Base called Groom Lake. Since a supposed UFO landed there in the 50s it's been known by this numerical nomenclature.
What is Area 51?
The 19th Amendment to this document gave women the right to vote in the United States.
What is the Constitution?
Your and you're. Their and there. Pin and pen. These are considered _____, grammatically speaking.
What are homophones?
In 1610, Galileo used a rudimentary telescope to observe the phases of Venus to prove this person's model of the solar system was correct, where Earth rotates around the sun and not the other way around.
Who is Copernicus?
Brad Pitt or lasers?
Fort Sumter in South Carolina was the spot upon which this conflict began.
What is the American Civil War (or the War Between the States)?
Near the end of World War I, a pandemic called this had broken out. It would end up killing nearly 1/3 of the population of Europe before it was done.
What is the Spanish Flu?
Radar. Civic. Level. Detartrated. These four words share a commonality in the English language. What is it?
What is: they are all palindromes?
Louis Pasteur discovered this after realizing that heat caused milk and wine to sour. His pasteurization process eliminates these now.
What are germs?
Telephone or lightbulb?
What is the telephone (1876)? [The lightbulb was 1879]
King Leonidis led this many Spartans to defend their lands against Xerxes' Persian army. There were many more people from other parts of the empire but we will always remember, "This! IS! SPARTA!"
What are 300?
No one, even the king, is above the law! This was declared by this famous document from 13th-Century Britain.
What is the Magna Carta?
Silver. Month. Orange. Purple. None of these words do this (unless you're Eminem).
What is rhyme with anything else in the English language?
Before turning 26, this most famed scientist created or discovered:
Calculus, color is a property of light (prisms), the reflecting telescope, physics, and gravity.
What have you done today?
Who was Sir Issac Newton?
GPS (global positioning system) or the smartphone?
What is GPS (1978)? [The smartphone was invented in 1994]
This nation was the first to send a human to space. They were definitely 'strong like bull'.
What is Russia?
This alliterative-named scientist was the first to observe the rings of Saturn. Since he was one of the few people around with a telescope at the time, it would've been tough to be anyone else.
Who was Galileo Galilelei?
Sometimes an octothorpe is used to tell an automated phone system you are done. Or it could be used to promote something on social media. "Octothorpe winning" just doesn't have the same ring to it...
What is hashtag (hex or pound)?
In 1915, this German scientist published his "theory of general relativity," redefining gravity not as a force but as a curvature of spacetime caused by the presence of mass and energy. E=mc2, indeed!
Who was Albert Einstein?
Starbucks or Star Wars?
What is Starbucks (1971)? [Star Wars was released in 1977]
These three nations made up the Axis Powers (the losing side) during World War II.
Who were Germany, Japan, and Italy?