Geologic History
Supercontinent that existed 200-300 mya
Pangea
Painting depicting the famous crossing of a river on Christmas Day
Washington Crossing the Delaware
♫ "As sure as _________ rises like Olympus above the Serengeti" ♫
Kilimanjaro
Cliche role of the killer in whodunits (think Clue...)
The butler...
Composition that commemorates the defeat of Napoleon with cannons
1812 Overture
Age of the Earth (in terms of billions of years)
4 billion (4.56 by)
Unofficial ceasefire that resulted in several soccer games played by troops in WWI
Christmas Truce
Last of the seven wonders of the ancient world
Pyramids of Giza
The name of the southern detective featured in the 2019 mystery starring Ana De Armas and Daniel Craig
Benoit Blanc
German composer of the Baroque period featured three times on the Golden Record
Johann Sebastian Bach
Impact location of the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs
Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
Year the Australians lost to the emus
1932
The location that inspired the theory of natural selection
Galapagos Islands
Address of Sherlock Holmes
221B Baker Street
Rimsky-Korsakov's chaotic composition made for his opera, The Tale of Tsar Saltan
The Flight of the Bumblebee
The location in the US of the only documented case of someone being directly hit by a meteorite
Alabama, USA
Name of the fourth Arab-Israeli war that happened during Ramadan and Yom Kippur
The Yom Kippur War
First discovered location of paleolithic art set on the Iberian Peninsula, excellent Steely Dan song
Cave(s) of Altamira
British mystery writer who famously disappeared and resurfaced/was identified as an "outgoing South African guest" in an English hotel
Agatha Christie
Claudio Monteverdi's 1607 opera based on the tale of Orpheus
L'Orfeo
Period of time the dunkleosteus and coelocanth (jawed fish) are estimated to be from, "The Age of Fish"
Devonian (Paleozoic era)
Name of the Christmas bombings mission Nixon dropped on N. Vietnam as a response to "the Easter Offensive"
Operation Linebacker II
Giant Buddhist statues that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001
Bamiyan Buddhas / Buddhas of Bamiyan
This string of killings in Chicago of 1982 inspired the first mass recall of products in the US
Tylenol Murders
German patron saint of musicians and writers
St. Hildegard / Sibyl of the Rhine