Famous Hosers
This television personality hosted Jeopardy for 37 seasons.
Alex Trebek
Known as "The Thunder from Down Under," this Australian swimmer won five Olympic gold medals and dominated the early 2000s.
Ian Thorpe
In 1936, this king abdicated the throne to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson.
Edward VIII
The rulers of this empire, founded by Babur in 1526, included Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan.
Mughal Empire
This best-selling home computer, released in 1982, featured a MOS 6510 processor and a famous SID sound chip.
Commodore 64
Paul Henderson scored the most famous goal in Canadian hockey history in the 1972 Summit Series to defeat this country.
The Soviet Union
This egg-laying mammal, one of only five monotremes in the world, has a venomous spur on its hind legs.
The Platypus
This Scottish castle, often called "the Queen’s beloved retreat," was purchased by Prince Albert in 1852.
Balmoral Castle
Carved out of rock in Maharashtra, these UNESCO-listed caves contain stunning Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain sculptures.
Ellora Caves
This programming language, developed by Niklaus Wirth and popular in the '80s, emphasized structured programming and teaching.
Pascal
This Canadian funny man, known for his rubber-faced expressions, starred in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Mask.
This Australian prime minister disappeared while swimming in 1967 and was never found.
Harold Holt
In 1979, the IRA assassinated this royal family member by bombing his boat off the coast of Ireland.
Lord Mountbatten
This Indian prime minister was assassinated in 1984 following Operation Blue Star.
Indira Ghandi
This high-capacity floppy disk format, introduced in the late '80s, eventually replaced the 5.25-inch floppy.
3.5-inch Floppy Disk
This Canadian astronaut became famous for staging Space Oddity aboard the International Space Station.
Chris Hadfield
This Australian tennis star, nicknamed "Rocket," is the only player to have won two calendar year Grand Slams.
Rod Laver
In 1688, this Catholic king was deposed during the Glorious Revolution and replaced by his daughter and son-in-law.
This deity, known as the destroyer in the Hindu trinity, is often depicted with a third eye and a trident.
Shiva
This Intel processor, released in 1985, powered the IBM PC/AT and later became the foundation of modern x86 architecture.
Intel 80386
This Canadian author wrote the Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian novel adapted into an award winning TV series.
Margaret Atwood
This long serving Australian PM was dismissed by the Governor General in 1975, causing a national crisis.
Gough Whitlam
This 16th-century queen was known as "Bloody Mary" for her persecution of Protestants.
Mary I
This last Viceroy of India oversaw the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947.
Lord Mountbatten
This IBM-developed language, introduced in the 1950s, was still widely used in the 1980s for enterprise and banking applications.
Cobol