WW1
This 1914 assassination of an Austrian archduke helped trigger World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This was Germany’s strategy of fast, coordinated attacks using tanks, aircraft, and infantry.
What is Blitzkrieg?
This civil rights leader delivered the speech “I Have a Dream” in 1963.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
This governing body organizes the Soccer World Cup and was founded in 1904.
What is FIFA?
The chemical name for this important liquid is Dihydrogen Monoxide.
What is water?
This 1916 battle between Germany and France became one of the longest and bloodiest battles of WWI.
What was the Battle of Verdun?
The Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943 that helped lead to the fall of Mussolini.
What was Operation Husky?
This U.S. president gave the short but powerful Gettysburg Address during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This swimmer won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This process in plants converts carbon dioxide and water into glucose using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
The first country to develop and deploy tanks in World War I, debuting the Mark I tank during the Battle of the Somme on September 15, 1916.
Where is Great Britain?
The Desert Fox.
Who was Erwin Rommel?
This speech delivered in Berlin in 1963 included the phrase “Ich bin ein Berliner.”
Who was John F. Kennedy?
This country has the most number of Olympic sports, orignating from itself.
Where is Great Britain?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell” because it produces ATP through cellular respiration.
What is the mitochondrion?
A secret coded message from Germany to Mexico in 1917, proposing a military alliance against the United States.
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
This Allied deception plan convinced Germany that the D-Day invasion would occur at Pas-de-Calais instead of Normandy.
What was Operation Fortitude?
Which activist said, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world".
Who was Mahatma Gandhi?
The Only Tennis Grand Slam tournament played on Clay courts.
What is is the French Open?
This English physicist published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687, laying the foundation for classical mechanics.
Who was Isaac Newton?
In this battle in 1918, Allied troops began to push the Germans back toward the East, away from Paris, it was the decisive battle in the final defeat of the Central Powers and led to the Armistice.
What was the Battle of Argonne Forest? or the Meuse Argonne Offensive?
This military unit was specially raised in the desert, and made use of unconventional fighting tactics against the Axis powers, becoming the first ever special forces group in the world.
What is the SAS?
Shaken, not stirred..
Who is James Bond?
This soccer player has won the most number of FIFA world cups in the history of the game, winning 3 of them.
The only person to win in two different scientific fields.