Revolutionaries and Reformers
This civil rights leader delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Martin Luther King Jr
This company launched the iPhone in 2007, redefining the smartphone industry.
Apple
In Norse mythology, this hammer-wielding god is the son of Odin.
Thor
This “King of Pop” released Thriller in 1982, still the best-selling album of all time.
Water turns into this state of matter when it freezes at 32°F (0°C).
What is a solid?
This nonviolent Indian leader led the Salt March in 1930 to protest British taxation.
Mahatma Gandhi
This company created the first commercially successful graphical operating system with Windows 3.0 in 1990.
Microsoft
In Hindu mythology, this blue-skinned deity is often depicted playing a flute and is known for his teachings in the Bhagavad Gita.
Krishna
This British band’s 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is often considered one of the greatest ever.
The Beatles
Humans see lightning before hearing thunder because light travels faster than this type of wave.
Sound
Known as “The Iron Lady,” she became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Margaret Thatcher
This 1970s invention by Ray Tomlinson became the first widely used method of digital communication.
Emails
Anubis, the jackal-headed god of embalming and the afterlife, appears in this ancient mythology.
This singer became the youngest artist ever to sweep all four major Grammy categories in 2020.
Billie Eilish
This gas makes up about 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Nitrogen
This Russian revolutionary wrote The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels
This chip manufacturer’s “8086” processor became the foundation of modern PC architecture.
Intel
This trickster god of Norse mythology is known for shapeshifting and causing mischief among the gods.
Loki
This Seattle band’s 1991 album Nevermind helped bring grunge into the mainstream with its hit “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
Nirvana
This force keeps your car moving forward when you hit the brakes — the reason you lurch ahead.
Inertia
This South American liberator helped free countries like Venezuela and Colombia from Spanish rule.
Simón Bolívar?
This 2016 breakthrough in artificial intelligence saw Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeat a world champion in this strategic board game.
In Egyptian mythology, this sun god travels across the sky in a solar boat each day. He also plays receiver for the Lions
Ra
This King of Rock and Roll had his first No. 1 hit in 1956 with “Heartbreak Hotel.”
Elvis Presley
This scientific term describes the upward force that keeps objects floating in water; Archimedes famously discovered it.
Buoyancy