Social Science
After the Difference Engine, Charles Babbage designed this device, although it would only exist on paper.
What is the Analytical Engine?
Fayum portraits come from this Egyptian region.
What is Fayum (Faiyum)?
This protagonist attempted to create the perfect human by removing a birthmark from his wife's face.
Who is Aylmer?
What is Vaudeville?
Alan Turing created this famous theoretical device.
What is the Turing Machine?
What is the Entscheidungsproblem?
The opening at the top of The Pantheon is an example of this architectural feature, which means "eye" in Latin.
What is an oculus?
Mary Shelley wrote this novel, considered to be the first post-apocalyptic novel.
What is "The Last Man"?
Georges Méliès’s 1902 film Voyage dans la lune was inspired by this1865 Jules Verne novel.
What is From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes?
This building had the largest dome in the world until the sixteenth century.
What is the Pantheon?
This Frenchman created the method of differences, a simpler way to calculate logarithmic tables.
Who is Gaspard de Prony?
The ancient Egyptian process of embalming a human corpse took this amount of days to complete.
What is 72?
The Kitchen Debate featured Richard Nixon and this Soviet leader.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Georges Méliès’s British Animatograph camera was a pirated copy of a camera invented by this famous inventor.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This director was responsible for the 1927 German science-fiction film Metropolis.
Who is Fritz Lang?
Ada Lovelace is considered the world's first programmer because of an algorithm she wrote to compute this series of numbers.
What are Bernoulli numbers?
In the embalming process, the corpse is packed with this substance, a natural compound of sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate
What is dry natron?
What is Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery?
This popular composer wrote the score for "L’assassinat du Duc de Guise".
Who is Camille Saint-Saëns?
Mary Shelley married this Romantic poet.
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
Alan Turing, known for his codebreaking work in WWII, worked on developing electromechanical bombes at this location in England.
What is Bletchley Park?
The Roman conquest and colonization of Egypt began in this year.
What is 30 CE?
Edgar Allen Poe wrote this story about a man's hot air balloon trip to the moon.
What is “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall”?
Georges Méliès enlisted this colorist to create hand-tinted versions of his 1902 film Voyage dans la lune.
Who is Élisabeth Thuillier?
These four authors make up the Old Guard of the Golden Age.
Who are Bester, Asimov, Campbell, and Heinlein?