History
The Magna Carta was originally issued during the reign of this English king.
Who is King John?
This country has four official national languages.
What is Switzerland?
This planet rotates in the opposite direction to most planets in the Solar System.
What is Venus?
English belongs to this branch of the Indo-European language family.
What is Germanic?
George Orwell wrote this allegorical novella about a farm.
What is Animal Farm?
This empire's capital was moved from Rome to Constantinople in AD 330.
What is the Roman Empire?
This strait separates Europe from Asia while connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara.
What is the Bosporus?
The SI unit "pascal" measures this quantity.
What is pressure?
The letters æ, ø and å are all part of the modern alphabet of this Scandinavian language.
What is Danish / Norwegian?
This Shakespeare play features the line "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
What is Hamlet?
This agreement, signed in 1648, ended the Thirty Years' War.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This Central Asian country is the world's largest landlocked nation.
What is Kazakhstan?
This force keeps electrons bound to atomic nuclei. DAILY DOUBLE
What is the electromagnetic force?
This language isolate is spoken in the western Pyrenees.
What is Basque?
This Shakespeare tragedy begins with three witches declaring, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
What is Macbeth?
This emperor won the Battle of Austerlitz, often called the "Battle of the Three Emperors."
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Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This city hosts the headquarters of NATO.
What is Brussels?
The only mammals capable of true powered flight.
What are bats?
The Greek letter from which the Latin "P" ultimately derives is this one.
What is rho?
Scout Finch narrates this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Although remembered as a brilliant general, he ultimately lost the Battle of Zama.
Who is Hannibal?
This self-declared republic is recognised by only one UN member state.
What is Northern Cyprus?
This subatomic particle was first proposed by Wolfgang Pauli to explain missing energy in beta decay.
What is the neutrino?
The English word "island" gained its silent "s" because Renaissance scholars incorrectly associated it with this Latin word.
What is insula?
At the Battle of Actium, this queen's unexpected withdrawal prompted Antony to follow her, contributing to their defeat.
Who is Cleopatra?