Music History
Guido d'Arezzo is credited with creating this system of five lines upon which musical notes are placed
What is a staff?
Nazis moved concentration camp prisoners away from regressing front lines through these particularly brutal trudges.
What are Death Marches?
Many believed that January 1, 2000 would result in societal collapse due to this abbreviated software bug.
What is the Y2K bug?
The SAT was an abbreviation of this during it's first administration in 1926
What is the Scholastic Aptitude Test?
This person created 95 theses that began the protestant reformation
Who is Martin Luther?
This Italian instrument-maker (b. 1644) is known for producing the best violins in history, of which 650 still survive.
Who is Antonio Stradivari?
This 1934 retreat involved the Chinese Communist Party fleeing 6,000 miles and spanned over a year, leading to the rise of chairmen Mao.
What is The Long March?
What is NORAD?
This test measures a machine's ability to exhibit intelligence equal to that of a human
What is the Turing test?
The religion of Islam began in the 1600s with the Prophet Muhammad in a cave near this city
What is Mecca?
Known today for it's choir and "Lessons and Carols" Christmas traditions, this Cambridge college was founded by King Henry VI in 1441.
What is King's college?
This route connected china to the Mediterranean and contributed to bringing the bubonic plague to Europe
What is The Silk Road?
The United States placed nuclear weapons in these two countries, prompting Soviets to place weapons in Cuba and ultimately the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What are Turkey and Italy?
This Chinese dynasty was responsible for abolishing civil service examinations used to select bureaucrats
What was the Qing Dynasty?
This was started by a professor at the University of Wittenberg in Germany sent Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences on October 31st, 1517.
What is the Protestant reformation?
Composed by Alexander Alexandrov, this nation's national anthem was wordless between 1956-1977, before communistic lyrics were adopted.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
Conceived in the 1930s, this trail runs from Mexico to Canada and is considered the cousin to Appalachian trial
What is the Pacific Crest Trail?
The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event 65 Million years ago was caused by a 6 mile wide astroid that crashed into this part of modern-day Mexico
Where is the Yucatán Peninsula?
The first hydrogen bomb was tested at this location in 1952
What is Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands?
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, located where Jesus was crucified and buried, is now home to this object that is immovable due to church by-laws.
What is a ladder?
This 13th century adulterous women, who appears as a character in Canto V of Dante's Inferno, inspired musical work from Hozier, Rachmaninoff, Rossini, and Tchaikovsky
Who is Francesca da Rimini?
Between 1830 and 1850, 60,00 Native Americans in five tribes, namely the Cherokee, were forced to relocate to Oklahoma in this event.
What is The Trail of Tears?
This unrecognised African nation was invaded in 1975 by Angola and Cuba as part of the cold war, and has been deemed as an exclave of Angola since.
What is Cabinda?
This mathematics exam is began in 1927 and is the oldest, longest, and hardest, in the world, taking over six hours and having an median score 0.
What is the Punam Exam?
This event, which resulted in Martin Luther appearing before the Holy Roman Emperor and being declared a heretic, may also be used to describe eating small tunneling animals
What is the Diet of Worms?