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Tube stations were used as this during the second world war.
What are air raid shelters?
This ruler was tutored by Aristotle, and a notable library was built in a city bearing his name.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This comedy show has been running on TV since the 1980s and is known for one of its characters to be named after a Greek poet!
What is the Simpsons?
Socrates didn't write down any of the works we have today. But rather what we know were written by his students. Most notably this person.
Who is Plato?
Read Socrates defence and apology - great works.
This well known technology icon said in 2004 "[E-mail] spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time."
Who is Bill Gates?
London underground trains were originally powered by this.
What is steam?
The Great Sphinx of Giza is believed to represent the Pharaoh Khafre. But it is part of the old ancient Egyptian kingdoms. The new kingdom Pharaohs stop these great large works of burial architecture because of this reason
What is because people robbed there stuff?
This comedy actor is best known for her trophy wife character born in Columbia. Columbia happens to also be where she was really born.
Who is Sofia Vergara?
These languages inscribed on the Rosetta Stone
What are ancient Egyptian (2 scripts - of hieroglyphic, demotic) and Greek?
The doctor whose reaction when Trump suggested people inject disinfectants
Who is Deborah Birx?
These are the tube stations with the shortest distances between them
What are Leicester Square and Covent Garden stations? 260 metres
This ruler is known by a second name that kind of sounds like an effervescent drink from north-western France.
Who is Charles the Great (Charlemagne)?
This character on Seinfeld complains about pigeons breaking the deal of getting out of the way from cars
Who is George Costanza?
Algebra finds its roots from this part of the world
Where is Egypt and the Middle East?
Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians - where people started using linear and quadratic equations
Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi wrote the The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing also known at al-jabra. The Arabic word for restoration, al-jabru, is the root of the word algebra.
This practice of draining blood out of people that originated in ancient Egypt and Greece was thought to be a good medicinal practice and also led to one of America's first Presidents to end his life.
What is bloodletting?
These European metros (2 cities) are busier than the London underground.
What are Paris and Moscow?
A fictional "great," this man resides on Long Island and throws absolutely bangin' parties.
Who is the Great Gatsby
In this science themed show - a main character said this about engineers:
"I never said you're not good at what you do. It's just that what you do isn't worth doing."
Who is Sheldon Cooper?
Big bang theory
At its peak, this empire covered the most contiguous territory in human history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
People believe this thing that was going to trigger the end of the world because it smashed tiny little particles together.
What is the Hadron Collider?
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) laboratory in Geneva will switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — a $6 billion particle accelerator
This tube station has the most exits to street level.
It's not Bank. What is Charing Cross? (13 exits)
This Russian tsar trained a bear to serve drinks at parties, instituted a tax on beards, and gave an anatomy lesson to a crowd using the head of his own mistress, who he decapitated himself.
Who is Peter the Great?
According to Rachel from Friends - this is Chandler Bing's job
What is a transponster?
Christopher Columbus went out to prove the world was round, but this is not true, because any educated person by 1400s was already aware of this. It was as early as this time by these people that humans knew the world is round.
Who are the ancient Greeks - 2500 years ago?
It was this company that started the ideas, but didn't continue investing and let them go to people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that led to personal computers, graphical images on computers for people to interact with and even wired networks.