Advanced Science
This element has the highest atomic number that occurs naturally.
What is uranium?
This South American landmark is known as “The Lost City of the Incas.”
What is Machu Picchu?
This artist painted the “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper.”
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This invention by Alexander Graham Bell was patented in 1876.
What is the telephone?
In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words.
Who is The Terminator?
In physics, this is the term for the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
Located in Jordan, this ancient city is known for its rock-cut architecture.
What is Petra?
Known for his impressionist works, this artist painted “Water Lilies.”
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This man invented the first practical incandescent light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
This word for a friend comes from the Latin for "with whom you would eat bread."
What is a companion?
This is the term for when a solid turns directly into a gas.
What is sublimation?
This is the longest wall in the world, extending over 13,000 miles.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This Dutch artist is famous for his works “The Starry Night” and “Sunflowers.”
Who was Vincent van Gogh?
Known as the father of the computer, he conceptualized the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century.
Who was Charles Babbage?
This country's leaders have included Yusof Ishak, Benjamin Sheares and Lee Kuan Yew.
What is Singapore?
Known as the “Father of Modern Physics,” he developed the theory of quantum mechanics.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
This ancient temple complex in Cambodia is the largest religious monument in the world.
What is Angkor Wat?
This Renaissance sculptor created the “David” and painted the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling.
Who was Michelangelo?
This revolutionary product, released in 2007, reshaped mobile communications and technology.
What is the iPhone?
In 1817, Congress divided a territory that became these two states that are practically mirror images of each other.
What are Alabama and Mississippi?
This disease, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, was known as the “Black Death” in the 14th century.
What is the plague?
This tower in Italy is famous for its unintended tilt.
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
She was an influential Baroque painter known for her dramatic use of light and subject matter, such as “Judith Slaying Holofernes.”
Who was Artemisia Gentileschi?
This invention allows us to see the bones inside our body without surgery.
What is the X-ray?
The first Mexican-American mayor of a major U.S. city, Henry Cisneros was mayor of this Texas city from 1981-1989.
What is San Antonio?