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This global pop star, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, took her stage name from a Queen song.
Who is Lady Gaga?
This U.S. bill got a major redesign in 2013 to add anti-counterfeiting features, including a color-shifting bell inside an inkwell.
What is the $100 bill?
This lightest element on the periodic table, atomic number 1, is also the most abundant element in the universe.
What is Hydrogen?
This Norse trickster god, associated with chaos and shapeshifting, lent his name to a Marvel villain in the "Thor" franchise.
Who is Loki?
This Wright brother piloted the first sustained, powered flight in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Who is Orville?
This British rock band briefly called themselves "The Quarrymen" before renaming after an insect.
Who are the Beatles?
This European currency, launched in 1999 for accounts and 2002 as cash, replaced the franc, deutsche mark, and lira.
What is the euro?
This precious yellow metal, atomic number 79, has a chemical symbol derived from its Latin name "aurum."
What is gold?
This Egyptian sun god, often shown with a falcon head, was said to sail a solar barge through the underworld each night.
Who is Ra?
This former British colony became the first nation to grant women the right to vote in national elections, in 1893.
What is New Zealand?
This EGOT-winning actress and comedian, born Caryn Elaine Johnson, chose a stage surname referencing a novelty gag gift.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
This 1637 Dutch speculative frenzy saw single flower bulb contracts reportedly trade for more than the price of houses before crashing.
What is Tulip Mania?
This element, atomic number 6, forms the basis of all known life and appears naturally as diamond or graphite.
What is carbon?
This nine-headed serpent grew two new heads for every one severed, and was ultimately slain by Hercules as one of his Twelve Labors?
What is the Hydra?
This Soviet cosmonaut became the first human in space in 1961, orbiting Earth aboard Vostok 1.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This French Enlightenment writer, born François-Marie Arouet, adopted a single pen name early in his career after a stint in the Bastille.
Who is Voltaire?
This African nation's currency suffered such extreme hyperinflation in the 2000s that it issued a 100-trillion-dollar note before abandoning the currency entirely.
What is the Zimbabwean dollar (or Zimbabwe)?
This liquid metal, atomic number 80, is the only metal liquid at room temperature and was once used in thermometers.
What is mercury?
This Norse apocalyptic event, foretold to bring about the death of major gods including Odin and Thor?
What is Ragnarok?
This English mathematician, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, is considered the world's first computer programmer for her 1840s notes on Charles Babbage's proposed Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This Soviet dictator, born Ioseb Jughashvili, took a revolutionary alias meaning "man of steel" in Russian.
Who is Stalin?
This precious-metal-backed monetary system, pegging currencies to a fixed quantity of metal, effectively ended worldwide when the U.S. stopped dollar convertibility in 1971.
What is the gold standard?
This element, atomic number 92, is the heaviest naturally occurring element and was used in the first nuclear weapons.
What is uranium?
This shape-shifting Greek sea god could foretell the future but only if caught and held through his transformations, giving English a word for something constantly changing.
Who is Proteus? (word being protean)
This Portuguese explorer's expedition, though he died partway through, became the first to circumnavigate the globe, completed under Juan Sebastián Elcano in 1522.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?