Notable Authors
Fairy Tales
Famous Scientists
Classic Science Fiction/Horror
Historical Events
100
The author of 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Who is Jules Verne?
100
This Hans Christian Anderson tales concerns an evil mirror, two children, and an isolated snow palace.
What is the Snow Queen?
100
E=MC2
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
This tale details an expedition to an island near New Zealand and the release of an old slumbering being with a tentacled head.
What is the Call of the Cthulhu?
100
Oh the humanity!
What is the Hindenberg?
200
A 19th century American author known for white suits, a caustic wit, and social satire.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
This rat catcher took children when he was not paid for his services rendered.
Who is the Pied Piper of Hamelin?
200
This bigamist came up with a paradoxic thought experiment to explain an aspect of quantum mechanic involving a box, poison, and a helpless kitty.
Who is Erwin Schrodinger?
200
This novel is the creation of Edgar Rice Burroughs and details a feral child found of the feral coast of Africa.
What is Tarzan of the Apes?
200
This day will live in infamy!
What is the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?
300
This Rhode Island author is known for pulpy works concerning the unknown horrors and sleeping old gods.
Who is H.P. Lovecraft?
300
This germanic figure is the dark companion of Santa Klaus who kidnaps, beats, and eats naughty children.
Who is the Krampus?
300
This Russian chemist started the process of developing the Periodic Table as we know it today.
Who was Dmitri Mendeleev?
300
This 1864 work by Jules Verne details a trip from an Icelandic volcano to an Italian one, all underground.
What is Journey to the Center of the Earth?
300
This American war featured the pursuit of Panch Villa.
What is the Mexican-American War?
400
This Irish author penned an 1897 book that has never been out of print about a certain vampire.
Who is Bram Stroker?
400
This Russian folklore figure flies around in a mortar, wields a pestle, and lives in a house with chicken legs.
Who is Baba Yaga?
400
An Austrian monk who first determined the simplest rules of heredity.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
400
This H.G. Wells novella details Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index. He goes mad and dies badly.
What is the Invisible Man?
400
This event was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346–53.
What is the Black Death?
500
This Scottish author is known for the novels: Kidnapped! Treasure Island, and the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
500
This tale concerns the ability to spin straw into gold.
Who is Rumpelstiltskin?
500
This meteorologist came up with the theory of plate tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
500
This 2001 cartoon featured a Japanese warriors quest to defeat the evil that is Aku.
What is Samurai Jack?
500
First thought to occur in the Middle East some 12000 years, this event is one of the seminal events in human history that has allowed our species to achieve the populations we have today
What is the invention of agriculture?