General
This man was Time Magazine’s Person of the Century in 1999.
Albert Einstein
This band’s 1967 album is often credited with ushering in the concept album era.
The Beatles
The only even prime number.
2
The heaviest naturally occurring element.
Uranium
The year the six colonies federated into the Commonwealth of Australia.
1901
This island nation has no rivers and imports most of its freshwater.
Malta
The first animated film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Beauty and the Beast
The name of the set containing only 0 and natural numbers.
Whole numbers
This scientist first proposed the concept of natural selection.
Charles Darwin
The British ship that brought the First Fleet to Botany Bay in 1788.
HMS Sirius
This fictional language from a 1960s sci-fi show is now taught at universities and has a full linguistic structure.
Klingon
This cult-classic film flopped in 1982 but became a sci-fi landmark after its director's cut in 1992.
Blade Runner
This 18th-century mathematician proved the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Carl Friedrich Gauss
This law states that the total pressure of a gas mixture equals the sum of the partial pressures.
Dalton’s law
This 1854 miners’ rebellion is considered a founding moment for Australian democracy.
Eureka Stockade
This ancient city, destroyed in 79 AD, had a sophisticated plumbing system and over 100 street fountains.
Pompeii
This author has sold over 500 million books and writes under several pseudonyms, including Richard Bachman.
Stephen King
The smallest number that is both a square and a cube (excluding 0).
64
These fundamental particles are responsible for holding quarks together.
Gluons
This prime minister disappeared while swimming and was never found.
Harold Holt
This country has had the most official capital cities throughout its history.
Nigeria
This underground comic series from the 1980s inspired a billion-dollar film franchise
Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles
The conjecture stating every even number >2 can be written as the sum of two primes.
Goldbach's Conjecture
This physicist’s uncertainty principle revolutionized quantum mechanics in the 20th century.
Werner Heisenberg
This 19th-century bushranger became a folk hero and wore homemade armor in his final shootout
Ned Kelly