Scientific breakthrough
This scientist discovered the neutron in 1932
Who is James Chadwick?
This African country has the exclave of Cabinda, separated from its main territory by the Democratic Republic of the Congo
What is Angola?
This author created Hercule Poirot
Who is Agatha Christie?
This empire's capital was Constantinople until its conquest in 1453
What is the Byzantine empire?
This constant is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
What is Pi?
Double jeopardy: This physicist formulated the exclusion principle in 1925
Who is Wolfgang Pauli?
This country borders both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf
What is Iran?
This epic poem tells of Odysseus's long journey home after the Trojan War
What is The Odyssey?
This empire's capital, Baghdad, was captured by the Mongols in 1258
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
This branch of mathematics studies properties that remain unchanged under continuous deformations
What is Topology?
This experiment, conducted in 1887, provided evidence against the existence of the luminiferous ether
What is the Michelson–Morley experiment?
This country has the world's only national flag that is not quadrilateral
What is Nepal?
This Russian novelist wrote The Brothers Karamazov
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
This ancient empire's capital, Persepolis, was burned after Alexander the Great's conquest
What is the Achaemenid Persian Empire?
This theorem states that every nonconstant polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root
What is the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra?
This equation describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes over time
What is the Schrödinger equation?
This sovereign state is doubly landlocked and lies between Switzerland and Austria
What is Liechtenstein?
This novel by Gabriel García Márquez follows seven generations of the Buendía family
What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?
This West African empire reached its height under Mansa Musa in the 14th century
What is the Mali Empire?
This theorem guarantees that every integer greater than 1 can be expressed uniquely as a product of prime numbers, apart from order
What is the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic?
This mathematician proved the incompleteness theorems published in 1931
Who is Kurt Gödel?
This strait separates Russia's Chukotka Peninsula from Alaska
What is the Bering strait?
This unfinished Franz Kafka novel features a protagonist known only as K., attempting to navigate an inaccessible legal authority
What is The Trial?
This empire, ruled by the Inca dynasty, had its capital at Cusco before the Spanish conquest
What is the Inca empire?
This conjecture states that every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers
What is Goldbach's conjecture?