Ancient STEM
This ancient Greek mathematician created this theorem connecting the lengths of a right triangle's legs to its hypotenuse using the first three letters of the alphabet.
Who was Pythagoras?
St. Petersburg
What is the Russian Empire?
He crossed the Rubicon and invaded Rome with its own army in 49 BCE
Who was Gaius Julius Caesar?
He is the namesake of St. Petersburg
Who was Peter the Great?
Algeria
What is France?
In 1713, he wrote The Law of Large Numbers.
Who was Jacob Bernoulli?
Istanbul / Constantinople
What is the Ottoman Empire?
What is the Byzantine Empire?
He crossed the Swiss Alps with an army of elephants in the second Punic war, he came from Carthage.
Who was Hannibal?
In the 1900's, St. Petersburg was changed to this in order to 'Russianize' the name from its German origins.
What is Petrograd?
The Falklands
What is the UK/Argentina/Spain for 100
This famous Russian author wrote War and Peace.
Who was Leo Tolstoy?
Kyoto
What is Japan?
This Mongol leader was born as Temujin, but history remembers him as the 'ruler of the universe', in a mongol tongue.
Who was Genghis Khan?
Russia started in this city, known as the ____an Rus.
What is Kiev?
Alaska
What is Russia?
This 'Father of Geometry' wrote ______'s Elements.
Who was Euclid?
Cape Town
What is South Africa?
This 'great' Russian empress introduced vaccination to Russia in the late 1800's by getting a smallpox vaccine herself.
Who was Catherine the Great?
He was murdered by Felix Yusupov. He died after five doses of cyanide, two gunshots to the chest, multiple beatings, and being thrown in a near frozen river.
(Hint- Ty's Favorite Russian)
Who was Grigory Rasputin?
Finland
What is Russia?
Riding the HMS Beagle to the Galapagos islands, he created this theory. (300 for the person)
What is Evolution? Charles Darwin
Ulaanbataar
What is The Mongol Empire?
This Emperor during the Pax Romana was said to have played the fiddle while Rome burned.
Who was Nero?
The year of the the first worker's rebellion in the 20th century
(Hint- <1910)
What is 1905?
South Africa
What are The Netherlands?