Physics & Chemistry
The chemical symbol for the element with atomic number 26, commonly known as iron.
What is Fe?
The ancient civilization that built the Pyramids of Giza.
Who were the Ancient Egyptians?
The author who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'.
Who was William Shakespeare?
The largest continent on Earth by land area.
What is Asia?
This mathematical constant is approximately equal to 3.14159.
What is pi?
The fundamental force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
The first President of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
In Homer's 'Odyssey', the name of the hero who journeys home after the Trojan War.
Who was Odysseus?
This largest hot desert spans much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
A polygon with eight sides.
What is an octagon?
The principle that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
The war fought between the Northern and Southern states of the U.S. from 1861 to 1865.
What was the American Civil War?
The novel by Jane Austen that features the character Mr. Darcy.
What is 'Pride and Prejudice'?
This narrow strait separates Russia and Alaska.
What is the Bering Strait?
In the equation of a straight line y = mx + b, this letter represents the slope.
What is m?
The quantum mechanics principle that it is impossible to simultaneously know both the position and momentum of a particle with infinite precision.
What is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle?
The English king whose powers were limited by the Magna Carta signed in 1215.
Who was King John?
The Russian novel that begins with the line 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'.
What is 'Anna Karenina'?
The capital city of Australia.
What is Canberra?
This famous theorem states that there are no three positive integers a, b and c that satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for integer n greater than 2; it was proven by Andrew Wiles in 1994.
What is Fermat's Last Theorem?
The scientist who developed the periodic table and arranged elements by atomic mass.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
The 1648 treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War and is credited with establishing the modern concept of state sovereignty.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
In Dante’s 'Divine Comedy', this ancient Roman poet guides Dante through Hell.
Who is Virgil?
This South American river carries the greatest volume of water of any river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
This branch of mathematics is concerned with vector spaces and linear mappings between such spaces.
What is linear algebra?