History
The name of the ancient trade route that connected the East with the West.
What is the Silk Road?
Between 4:00 PM and 4:50 PM, the minute hand on Big Ben covers this many degrees.
What is 300 degrees.
The name of the red pigment found in vertebrates that transports oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
Iambic pentameter is a type of metric line used in English verse, most famously by William Shakespeare. While "iambic" describes the unstressed/stressed pattern of each two-syllable "foot," the word "pentameter" indicates this number of feet within a given line.
What is five?
Mozart's age when he wrote his first symphony.
What is 8?
The Parthenon was dedicated to this Greek goddess.
Who is Athena?
This type of symmetry can be found in Starfish, whose limbs radiate from one central point.
What is radial symmetry
This element is named after the Greek word for "greenish-yellow" and produces a gas of the same color.
What is chlorine?
This 1897 novel sees Abraham Van Helsing chasing down the title character in his namesake castle in modern-day Romania.
What is Dracula?
The lead singer of the rock band Queen, known for his four-octave vocal range.
Who is Freddie Mercury?
The inventor credited with creating the first printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
Mathematical in nature, ocean waves often follow this type of function, which is used to describe cyclic oscillations.
What is a sine wave?
The first vaccine developed was for this disease.
What is smallpox?
The first mention of dragons in Greek literature can be found in this epic poem, which describes Agamemnon wearing a blue dragon design on his sword belt and a three-headed dragon seal on his breastplate.
What is the Iliad?
The term for the area around and between the subjects of an image in art.
What is negative space?
These two countries fought in the Hundred Year's War.
Who are Britain and France
This British computer scientist and mathematician is known for leading the team of cryptographers who broke the German Enigma Code during World War II.
Who is Alan Turing?
The number of elements in the periodic table.
What is 118?
Agatha Christie's "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" are two novels who take their titles from lines in this Shakespeare play.
What is Macbeth?
Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michaelangelo are all artists from this period.
What is the Italian Renaissance
The Bubonic Plague started in Europe in this year.
What was 1347?
In math, the ! symbol is used to indicate a ________, which represents the product of the sequence of every positive integer leading up to the given number.
What is a factorial?
The speed of light in meters/second
What is 299,792,458 m/s
This New York neighborhood gives its name to the literary and cultural "Renaissance" movement of the 1920s that celebrated African American art, music, and literature.
What is Harlem?
This painting features a farmer holding a pitchfork beside his daughter.
American Gothic