Who Am I?
I became the first woman prime minister of an Islamic nation. I served two terms as prime minister, in 1988–90 and in 1993–96. My father was executed in 1979 during the rule of a military dictator. I was the leader of the opposition party and had been campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for January 2008 when I was assassinated by suicide bombing. Who am I?
Benzair Bhutto
My original ceiling was covered in the traditional byzantine motif of a blue star field on a blue background by Pier Matteo d'Amelia. Later, Michelangelo re-painted it with nine scenes from the Old Testament. It took him four years to paint the frescoed ceiling. I was named after Pope Sixtus IV who was a major contributor to the art that I contain. I am the location for papal conclaves and many other important services.
Sistine Chapel
I am the birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, with the first iteration of the festival dating back to 776 BC. But I have hosted the Modern Olympics Games just twice, in 1896 and again in 2004.
Greece
Should have taken turns on the plank
Titanic
In its salad days, nitrous oxide was strictly a party toy, since it made people howl like hyenas. But a friend of the dentist took too much of the stuff at a laughing-gas stage show and gashed his leg. The friend hadn't realized he'd hurt himself. Nitrous oxide later became an early form of ___
Anesthesia
I described my works as “hand-painted dream photographs.” I applied the methods of Surrealism, tapping deep into the non-rational mechanisms of my mind—dreams, the imagination, and the subconscious—to generate the unreal forms that populate my work. Utilizing what I call “the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling,” I claim that I made my paintings with “the most imperialist fury of precision,” but only “to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality.”
Salvador Dalí
Alongside the Statue of Liberty and the White House, I have become one of the most recognizable symbols of the US. In the early 1920s, Doane Robinson, a South Dakota historian, proposed sculpting me into people who were relevant to the west in an attempt to bring tourists into the region. He said Sioux chief Red Cloud, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Meriwether Lewis and William Clark would be perfect for the monument. When Gutzon Borglum signed on as lead sculptor and architect of the project, however, he decided to feature somebody else.
Mount Rushmore
I am the largest country in the world without a river?
Saudi Arabia
Dude's been punching himself all along
Fight Club
With the end of World War II, Percy Spencer, an engineer, was looking for other uses for the magnetron, which generated the electromagnetic radiations for radar systems. While Spencer was standing next to the device one day, a chocolate bar in his pocket melted. The magnetron worked even better on popcorn. This led to the discovery of a very common household appliance called ___
Microwave
Despite the world first taking notice of me during the Cuban Revolution, I wasn’t Cuban by birth. I was born in Argentina into a middle-class family with Spanish and Irish background. I am still hailed as a hero in Cuba, where my face is on the three-peso banknote. i also held two positions in Cuba during my lifetime- the Finance Minister and head of the National Bank of Cuba! Who am I?
Che Guevara
Plenty of man-made structures can be spotted from space, including the Great Pyramids of Giza and the greenhouses of Almeria. And contrary to popular belief, the Great Wall of China cannot be seen from space. I am the only living structure that can be spotted from outer space? What am I?
The Great Barrier Reef
I am famed for my love for and long history of myths and legends, it is no surprise that a unicorn is my national animal.
Scotland
Country girl has to choose between guy who wants to control her life and guy who wants to keep her hostage. The latter is marginally nicer, but the deciding factor is his library. Which Disney classic Am I?
Beauty and the Beast
In 1870 Thomas Adams was experimenting with chicle, the sap from a South American tree, as a substitute for rubber. After mounting failures, the dejected inventor popped a piece into his mouth. He liked it! As a Result Adams New York No. 1 became the first mass-produced ___ in the world.
Chewing gum
A death mask is usually made by taking a cast or impression from the corpse. And I did just that, crafting moulds out of hundreds of severed heads, including Queen Marie Antoinette and Maximilien Robespierre. My business was built out of beheadings and
created one of the world's most iconic museums out of it. Who am I?
Madam Tussaud
I am also known as the "Hiroshima of the chemical industry". Soon after the disaster, lawyers from my native country and around the world sensed a nice mass torts case with a fat chunk of the damages going their way. To try and put a stop to this, the central government passed a law which gave them the sole power to represent the victims of the tragedy and to disburse the compensation under the doctrine of 'parens patriae'. The case was filed in the US first since it was believed that a higher amount of damages could be claimed. However, the court denied jurisdiction on the grounds that it would be far easier to hear the case in my native country. Which event am I?
Bhopal Gas Tragedy
The first Europeans to reach me were the Portuguese led by Francisco de Almeida. At the time, I was nothing more than a group of seven islands. The Portugese named me 'Bom Bahia' meaning "good harbour". In 1661, the islands were given to England as part of the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza's dowry on her marriage to King Charles II of England.
Bombay
His wife is brutally murdered by a serial killer and his son is left physically disabled. In a twisted turn of events, his son is kidnapped and he has to chase the kidnapper for thousands of miles with the help of his new found friend who is mentally disabled. Which 2003 film am I?
Finding Nemo
In 1928, halfway through an experiment with bacteria, the scientist went on vacation. Slob that he was, he left a dirty petri dish in the lab sink. When he got back, he found bacteria had grown all over the plate, except in an area where mold had formed. This discovery lead to the invention of ___
Penicillin
I am a famous musician and I sold the most CDs in the year 2016, beating out Adele, Drake, and Beyoncé, even though all of those artists had Grammy-winning hits that year. Who am I?
Mozart
After World War II began, U.S. soldiers sent overseas, developed a craze for the the Toll House cookies leading to a nation-wide increase in the sales of Nestlé’s semi-sweet chocolate used in its making. Witnessing this, Andrew Nestlé offered Ruth Graves Wakefield a deal to buy the rights to her recipe, as well as the rights to use her and the Toll House name when advertising his acquisition. I am the amount for which Ruth accept the business proposal. What am I?
One dollar and a lifetime supply of Nestlé chocolate
I am the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. The evidence of civilization in me dates back to 9000 BC.
Damascus, Syria
A series of naps
Inception
In the 16th century, a Dutch shipmaster used heat to concentrate wine in order to make it easier to transport, with the idea of adding water to reconstitute it when he arrived. But he realised that concentrated wine is better than watered-down wine.
As a result 'Burnt wine,' or 'brandewijn' in Dutch, became a big hit. Call it ___, since after a few drinks of the stuff, there's no way you can pronounce brandewijn so a bartender can understand what you're ordering.
Brandy