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An English television provider, it aired programs such as Planet Earth and Doctor Who.
What is the British Broadcast Corporation/BBC?
A cause for the death of 66% of Europeans, this disease formed round, bucolic pustules on its victims and was caused by flea bites from rats.
This American painter is famous for both his brown Afro and dulcet voice. He is best known for his painting television program where he instructed viewers how to draw landscape paintings.
Who is Bob Ross?
This ‘H’ element, first on the periodic table, is one of the foundational elements to life on our planet. Two of these combined with oxygen create water, the ether required life on Earth.
What is Hydrogen?
This North American mountain range spanning the eastern side of the United States was once known for its abundance of coal. Its length stretches states such as West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This animated cartoon hosted "Chris McLean" satirized reality competition shows such as "Survivor" and aired on Cartoon Network.
What is the "Total Drama" series? (also, "Total Drama Island/Action/World Tour)
This 18th century pamphlet was published by Thomas Paine in the colonies wherein he advocated for the colonies to separate from England.
What is Common Sense?
This Manhattan art museum features works from famous painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol.
What is the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)?
Known for her research on radioactivity this Polish-born French physicist's laboratory is still radioactive.
Who is Marie Curie?
This UNESCO heritage site in Southeast Asia is featured on the flag of Cambodia, the country where it is located.
What is the Angkor Wat?
This attractive actor starred in 2002's "The Pianist" as the lead role.
Who is Adrien Brody?
Standing at 6'8'' this Russian leader was known for his love of shipbuilding and Enlightenment ideals. He also founded the city of St. Petersburg
Who is Peter the Great?
The blue pigment seen in many mosques and paintings of the Arabic and North African regions often came from this gem discovered in Afghanistan.
The scientific classification for bears, this genus is named after a Latin named constellation which comes in both its major and minor forms.
What is 'Ursa'?
Site of the House of Wisdom of the Abbasid Empire, this great walled city is one of the most historically important cities in all of Iraq.
What is Baghdad?
A MoTown classic trio, these ladies pioneered a new sound in the 60s with their hits "Baby Love" and "You Can't Hurry Love".
Who are The Supremes?
Australia lost a war against this flightless terrestrial bird on account of their size and flock behavior.
What is an Emu?
This painting by American painter Edward Hopper depicts an evening scene at a classic American diner named "Phillies".
What is "Nighthawks"?
Due to ocean acidification and rising sea temperatures, this process is known to kill coral reefs leaving behind white graveyards of calcium carbonate skeletons.
What is coral bleaching?
This land formation stretches down from the Pyrenees Mountains down to the straits of Gibraltar. A select style of aged ham, sliced thin from pigs fed exclusively on acorns is named after this region.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
Known for writing in the style of magic realism, this Latin American novelist wrote both “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera”.
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
Plucked from Christian families in the Balkans, these elite corps of the Ottoman sultan were Europe's first modern military which employed the widespread use of gunpowder.
Who are the Janissaries?
Artist of the famous work “The Great Wave off of Kanagawa”, this Japanese naturalist painter is world-renowned for his woodblock prints.
Who is Hokusai?
This Danish astronomer once owned 1% of all Denmark’s GDP, a fortune-telling little person, and two different islands where he looked to the stars. His theories eventually inspired Kepler’s theses.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
The site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, this Ukrainian city has now been reclaimed by nature. Its inhabitants rushed from their homes leaving many items left precisely where they were when the citizenry departed.
What is Pripyat?