🧬Science & Invention
He developed the theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein
This philosopher taught Plato.
Socrates
This actress danced with Fred Astaire and starred in Easter Parade.
Judy Garland
This is the longest river in the world.
Nile River
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
Nitrogen
This is the process by which plants make their food using sunlight.
photosynthesis
This city was buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D.
Pompeii
Casablanca was set during this war.
World War II
This landlocked country is bordered by France, Germany, and Belgium.
Luxembourg
This is the hardest naturally occurring substance.
Diamond
The Wright brothers made their first powered flight in this U.S. state.
North Carolina
The Colossus of Rhodes was one of these.
the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
He starred as George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life.
James Stewart
This Asian capital was formerly known as Edo.
Tokyo
These are the only mammals capable of true flight.
Bats
This part of the brain controls memory.
hippocampus
This Roman emperor fiddled while Rome burned.
Nero
This was the first feature-length animated film by Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
This is the only country that is also a continent.
Australia
This famous female scientist discovered radium and polonium.
Marie Curie
This 20th-century scientist refused the Nobel Prize in physics... twice.
Paul Dirac
In Greek mythology, this hero completed twelve labors.
Hercules
This Alfred Hitchcock film featured a man watching neighbors through a camera.
Rear Window
The Prime Meridian runs through this capital city.
London
The process by which cells divide into two identical copies.
mitosis