Famous Scientists
He proposed the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This empire was famous for building roads and aqueducts across the Mediterranean.
What is the Roman Empire?
This famous waterfall lies on the border between the US and Canada.
What is Niagara Falls?
This British author created the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Who is Arthur Conan Doyle?
A four-sided figure with all sides equal and all angles right is called this.
What is a square?
This scientist developed the theory of relativity, changing our understanding of space and time.
Who is Albert Einstein?
In 1215, King John of England signed this document limiting royal power.
What is the Magna Carta?
This Asian country is known as the “Land of the Rising Sun.”
What is Japan?
This American poet wrote The Raven and Annabel Lee.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This number is the first prime number.
What is 2?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, known for research on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
This conflict between the US and Britain in the early 19th century is sometimes called “The Second War of Independence.”
What is the War of 1812?
This desert, located in southwestern Africa, is known for its towering red sand dunes.
What is the Namib Desert?
This Russian composer wrote the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
This type of puzzle consists of intersecting horizontal and vertical clues.
What is a crossword?
This astronomer is credited with heliocentrism, the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This French leader rose to power after the Revolution and became Emperor in 1804.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This U.S. national park is famous for its geothermal features, including geysers like Old Faithful, and is mostly located in Wyoming.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This Italian Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
If you flip a fair coin three times, this is the probability of getting exactly two heads.
What is 3/8?
This Russian chemist formulated the periodic law and created a table arranging elements by increasing atomic weight.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
This event in 1588 saw a Spanish fleet defeated by the English navy, changing European naval dominance.
What is the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
This volcanic mountain, the highest in Africa, rises from Tanzania’s plains to 5,895 meters.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
This 19th-century Russian novelist wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina, exploring morality, society, and human psychology.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
This U.S. state is known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes.”
What is Minnesota?