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This 7'4" French wrestler fought the likes of Hulk Hogan, Antonio Inoki, and the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Who is Andre the Giant?
400
This Scottish physician's discovery of penicillin has been called "the single greatest victory ever achieved over disease".
Who is Alexander Fleming?
400
This oil painting by John Everett Millais depicts a William Shakespeare character's suicide.
What is Ophelia?
400
With a population of about 210,000, this Icelandic capital is more than ten times the size of Iceland's second-largest town, Akureyri.
What is Reykjavík?
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This 7'6" NBA All-Star helped grow basketball in his homeland of China.
Who is Yao Ming?
800
This English nurse significantly reduced mortality rates by improving living conditions for patients and enhancing hygiene for staff in the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
800
This ancient Roman statue depicts a member of this Western European barbaric people dying from a mortal wound.
Who are the Gauls?
800
Colombo, the capital of this South Asian island nation, has a population of 5.6 million people, much more than the second largest city, Kandy, whose population is about 125,000.
What is Sri Lanka?
800
The Hindu deity Ganesha is depicted as a being with four arms and the head of this animal.
What is an elephant?
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This Ancient Greek physician and philosopher laid the foundation for modern medicine and procedure, to the point that all doctors take an oath named after him.
Who is Hippocrates?
1200
Ilya Repin painted the moment this infamous Russian Czar killed his son in a moment of madness.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
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Addis Ababa, the capital of this country on the Horn of Africa, has ten times the population of the second largest city in the country, Adama.
What is Ethiopia?
1200
Ammit, a funeral goddess from this ancient culture's mythology, is depicted as a hybrid of a crocodile, lion, and hippopotamus.
What is Egypt?
1600
This 7'2" basketball Hall of Fame member became famous for his finger wag taunt after blocking shots.
Who is Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo, or "Mount Mutombo"?
1600
This French pharmacist invented a food process (bearing his name) in which packaged foods are treated with heat to kill bacteria.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
1600
A fresco on the Greek island of Corfu depicts this slain Trojan prince being dragged by Achilles' chariot.
Who is Hector?
1600
San Jose, the capital of this Central American country, has 2.1 million more people than its second-largest city, Puerto Limon, population 58,000.
What is Costa Rica?
1600
This type of angel from Ancient Judaism is a snake and bird hybrid, said to fly around the throne of god while carrying hot coals and repeatedly crying "holy".
What are seraphs?
2000
Some believe this 7'7" Sudanese basketball player was actually in his 40s when he began his NBA career, as his actual birth year is unknown.
Who is Manute Bol?
2000
Emil von Behring has been called a "savior of children" for his development of an antitoxin against this throat-born disease, one which had a high mortality rate amongst children.
What is diphtheria?
2000
French-German painter Elie Marcuse depicts this Biblical king dying on his own sword, surrounded by his sons and shield-bearer.
Who is Saul?
2000
Monrovia is the capital and home to almost a third of the population of this West African coastal country.
What is Liberia?
2000
Winged genies are half-man, half-bird hybrids that repeatedly appear in artworks of this ancient Mesopotamian civilization.
What is Assyria?