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The football world cup final held in England in 1966 was won by this European nation.
Who is England?
This series of fortifications is often mistakingly credited with being able to be seen from space and being the longest man-made structure in the world.
What is the Great Wall of China?
Canada
Mexico
What is the United States of America?
This German-born theoretical physicist is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest minds of all time and developed the theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
3 x 17
What is 51?
The funeral of this Princess killed in a car crash in Paris was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion worldwide.
Who is Diana Spencer? (Diana, Princess of Wales)
This statue depicted the god of the sky and thunder in ancient Greek religion was seated in its sanctuary in Olympia.
What is the Statue of Zeus?
Finland
Norway
What is Sweden?
This English mathematician told a story of how he was inspired to formulate his theory of gravitation by watching an apple fall from a tree.
Who is Issac Newton?
208/4
What is 52?
This benefit concert held on the 13th of July 1985 was created to raise funds for relief of a famine in Ethiopia, an estimated 1.9 billion people in 150 nations tuned in.
What is Live Aid?
These Babylonian structures were described as a remarkable feat of engineering and is the only one of the 7 ancient wonders of the world to not have its location definitively established.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Andorra
France
Gibraltar
Portugal
Morocco
What is Spain?
This Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and is the only person to win the Nobel Prize in 2 scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
112
What is 121?
This hostage situation in South Kensington,London lasted 6 days from the 30th of April to the 5th of May 1980 and its conclusion halted programming to broadcast the scenes to millions across the UK.
What is the Iranian Embassy siege?
This historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan has been estimated to have been settled in the 4th century BC and it also appeared in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
What is Petra?
Cambodia
China
Laos
What is Vietnam?
This English chemist and X-ray crystallographer’s work was vital to the understanding of the structure of DNA and many believe she should have been awarded a Nobel Prize along with Watson, Crick and Wilkins but the Nobel committee did not grant posthumous nominations.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
53 x 4
What is 500?
This boxing match taking place in Zaire (Now DRC) in October 1974 between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali was at the time the record holder for most watched live television broadcast.
What is The Rumble in the Jungle?
This ancient tomb was built between 353 and 350 BC in present Bodrum, Turkey for Mausolus and is the origin of the word mausoleum.
What is the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus?
Botswana
Mozambique
Zambia
South Africa
What is Zimbabwe?
This Russian chemist is best remembered for his periodic law and creating a far sighted version of the periodic table and element 101 is named after him.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev
The derivative of 2x3-6x+143
What is 6x2-6?