Modern History
This 1989 event marked the symbolic end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
DNA’s double-helix structure was first identified by these two scientists.
Who are Watson and Crick?
This philosopher wrote The Republic and founded the Academy in Athens.
Who is Plato?
The world’s largest desert by area.
What is the Antarctic Desert?
This Beatle famously said the band was “more popular than Jesus.”
Who is John Lennon?
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred during this U.S. president’s term.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This law describes the inverse-square relationship of gravity between two masses.
What is Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation?
“Cogito ergo sum” (“I think, therefore I am”) was written by this thinker.
Who is René Descartes?
The Danube River flows through this European capital.
What is Budapest?
The first movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Wings (1927)?
Apartheid officially ended in this year.
What is 1994?
The first computer “bug” was literally caused by this kind of creature.
What is a moth?
The “trolley problem” is an example of this branch of philosophy.
What is ethics?
The Ring of Fire surrounds this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This director created the “Dollars Trilogy” starring Clint Eastwood.
Who is Sergio Leone?
The Meiji Restoration modernized this Asian empire in the 1800s.
What is Japan?
This mathematical concept, discovered by Cantor, proved that infinities can be of different sizes.
What is set theory / transfinite numbers?
Hegel’s system of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis is called this.
What is the dialectic?
Mount Elbrus, Europe’s highest peak, lies in this mountain range.
What are the Caucasus Mountains?
The 2000 Radiohead album that features “Idioteque” and “Everything in Its Right Place.”
What is Kid A?
This 20th-century Chinese campaign led to mass famine and industrial failure between 1958 and 1962.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The material used in quantum computers to represent qubits is typically based on this phenomenon.
What is superconductivity?
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus ends with this famous line.
What is “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”?
The only country that borders both the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
What is Russia?
In Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the black monolith symbolizes this concept.
What is human evolution / technological awakening?