Museums
The Vatican has an entire museum devoted to these darn people of ancient Etruria.
Who are the Etruscans?
Washington Irving’s tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale.
What is Rip Van Winkle?
In 1984, this 17th century Quaker who governed a colony was made an honorary U.S. citizen.
Who is William Penn?
Name the largest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
This country consumes the most chocolate per capita.
What is Switzerland?
The Mona Lisa is housed in this museum.
What is The Louvre?
This author died a mysterious death in Baltimore on October 7th, 1849. His last words were "Lord, help my poor soul."
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
He was born William Jefferson Blythe in 1946.
Who is Bill Clinton?
This is the color of blood when it's inside the body.
What is dark red?
Name the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world.
What is Angel Falls?
(located in Venezuela)
This museum holds the Guinness World Record as having the world's largest collection of paintings.
What is The State Hermitage Museum?
He was an American author who wrote novels from the 1920's through the 1950's. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature in 1954.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida.
Who was Walt Disney?
Name the hardest substance in the human body.
What is tooth enamel?
This is the only continent without an active volcano.
What is Australia?
This museum features a 94-foot-long model of a blue whale and the Hayden Planetarium.
What is the American Museum of Natural History in New York City?
Name Walt Whitman's 1865 poem about the death of Abraham Lincoln.
What is O Captain My Captain?
Subject of a 2003 film, his 1947 obituary said he fathered at least 100 and died of a heart attack at 14 at a California ranch.
Who is Seabiscuit?
The human body has this number of ribs.
What is 24?
This country contains both the highest and lowest points of elevation in South America.
What is Argentina?
This museum, opened in Spain's Basque Country in 1997, was designed by architect Frank Gehry and features mostly avant-garde art.
What is The Guggenheim Bilbao?
Essay by Henry David Thoreau that is an analysis of the individual’s relationship to the state that focuses on why men obey governmental law even when they believe it to be unjust.
What is Civil Disobedience?
The name of this animal that died in 1885 after being struck by a train that subsequently derailed lives on as an adjective
What is Jumbo?
Name the flap that covers your windpipe, keeping food out.
What is the Epiglottis?
According to the UN's 2020 World Happiness Report, this country has the happiest inhabitants.
What is Finland?