17th Century
The laws of motion and gravity were founded by this man
Sir Isaac Newton
1799 France saw a coup led by this man
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Belgium Revolution created this country
Belgium
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and The Who were all part of this movement
The British Invasion
Monty Python made a movie about this fictional story
The Holy Grail
This king was crowned King of France in 1643 and ruled for 72 years
King Louis XIV
Peter the Great founded this city in 1703
St. Petersburg
The first Church of Latter Day Saints opens for this religion
Mormonism
The Apollo Program in NASA saw this many missions
(bonus 200 if you can name all 12)
12
(1,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17)
11
Remember remember the 5th of November because of this act of treason
The Gunpowder Plot
This is the first prime minister of England
Robert Walpole
The Spanish Inquisition ended in this year
1834
In 1960 a crew reached this deepest point of the Earth
The Mariana Trench
This criminal was the boss of the Winter Hill Gang
Whitey Bulger
This Massachusetts university was founded in 1636
Harvard
This pirate was killed in a North Carolina inlet by Robert Maynard
Blackbeard (Edward Teach)
The Texas Revolution created this short lived country
The Republic of Texas
This man was the first director of NASA
Wernher Von Braun
The Danube River flows through this many capitals
(Bonus 200 if you can name them)
4 (Belgrade, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava)
In 1699, Thomas Savery demonstrated this machine in front of the Royal Society
The Steam Engine
In 1715, this classical composer was born
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alfred Nobel invented this explosive
Dynamite
Astronauts were given these cars on a $1-a-year lease in the 1960s
Corvettes
This famous singer became an 8th degree blackbelt in Karate
Elvis Presley