European Landmarks
This tower is nicknamed "La dame de fer" by locals and was the tallest man-made structure in the world for 41 years.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
West Side Story is a retelling of this Shakespeare play.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This German born theoretical physicist is responsible for the theory of mass-energy equivalence, and possibly the most famous equation in the world.
Who was Albert Einstein?
This game was being played along the Silk Road by the 7th century, and former World Champions of this game include Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen.
What is Chess?
"And Then There Were None" is the best selling novel of this British author.
Who was Agatha Christie?
This famous bell is found in the Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster in London.
What is Big Ben?
This titular Roman dictator was told to "Beware the Ides of March!"
Who was Julius Caesar?
This British scientist published The Origin of Species in 1859, introducing the concept of natural selection.
Who was Charles Darwin?
This game originated in 1943 and was adapted into a movie in 1985 featuring Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, and Christopher Lloyd.
What is Clue?
This 1960 novel about racial inequality in the American south was told from the perspective of Jean Louise "Scout" Finch.
What is "To Kill a Mockingbird?"
This amphitheatre, built under the Flavian Emperors, could hold as many as 80,000 people.
What is the Colloseum.
"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" is a line chanted by witches in this bloody Shakespeare play.
What is MacBeth?
This English scientist achieved revolutions in optics, mathematics, mechanics, and gravity, but is mostly remembered for an apocryphal incident with an apple.
Who was Isaac Newton?
This tile placement game was released in 2000, and was named after a French fortified city.
What is Carcassonne?
This Swedish bestselling novel was translated to English in 2008, and was originally titled Män som hatar kvinnor ("Men who hate women"). It was adapted into a movie in 2011, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.
What is "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"?
These standing stones were erected on the Salisbury Plain in England between 3100 BC and 1600 BC.
What is Stonehenge?
This titular Danish prince had a mother named Gertrude and a stepfather named Claudius.
Who is Hamlet?
This Polish-French scientist was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first person to be awarded a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to be awarded a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
Who was Marie Curie?
Nigel Richards is considered the greatest player of this game of all time, having won the English, French, and Spanish World Championships in the game - despite not speaking French or Spanish!
What is Scrabble?
This 1818 novel by Mary Shelley is sometimes argued to be the first true Science Fiction story.
What is Frankenstein?
This city is built on a group of 118 islands, separated by canals and linked by 438 bridges.
What is Venice?
Scans of Shakespeare's tomb indicate that this appears to be missing from the grave.
What is Shakespeare's skull?
Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best won the Nobel prize for isolating this hormone at the University of Toronto in 1921.
What is Insulin?
This game was derived from a 1903 game called The Landlord's Game, which had been intended to show the consequences of the domination of a market by a single entity.
What is Monopoly?
This is the all-time best-selling novel by a Canadian author, with over 50 million copies sold worldwide.
What is Anne of Green Gables?