FAMOUS SPEECHES & WORDS
EVERYDAY CHEMISTRY
JEWISH CONTRIBUTIONS & HISTORY
FAMOUS PAINTINGS
EVERYDAY MYSTERIES
100

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this famous 1963 speech in Washington, D.C.

What is “I Have a Dream”?

100

The chemical symbol H stands for this element.

What is hydrogen?

100

This Jewish physicist developed the theory of relativity.

Who is Albert Einstein?

100

Leonardo da Vinci painted this portrait with the mysterious smile.

What is the Mona Lisa?

100

his is why your breath may appear as a cloud on a cold day.

What is condensation?

200

Winston Churchill famously spoke of fighting “on the beaches” during this war.

What is World War II?

200

Table salt is primarily made of sodium and this element.

What is chlorine?

200

This Jewish-American composer wrote songs including “White Christmas.”

Who is Irving Berlin?

200

Vincent van Gogh painted this swirling nighttime scene while in Saint-Rémy.

What is The Starry Night?

200

Metal objects often feel colder than wood because metal transfers this more quickly away from your hand.

What is heat?

300

Abraham Lincoln delivered this short speech at a Pennsylvania battlefield in 1863.

What is the Gettysburg Address?

300

This gas gives carbonated drinks their fizz.

What is carbon dioxide?

300

This Jewish psychiatrist founded psychoanalysis.

Who is Sigmund Freud?

300

This Edvard Munch painting shows a figure with hands to its face under a dramatic sky.

What is The Scream?

300

Onions can make your eyes water because cutting them releases irritating compounds containing this element.

What is sulfur?

400

John F. Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you,” during this type of speech.

What is an inaugural address?

400

Vinegar gets much of its sourness from this acid

What is acetic acid?

400

This Israeli stateswoman served as prime minister from 1969 to 1974.

Who is Golda Meir?

400

Grant Wood painted this famous image of a farmer and a woman standing in front of a house.

What is American Gothic?

400

Static electricity is caused by an imbalance of these tiny negatively charged particles.

What are electrons?

500

Franklin D. Roosevelt said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” during his first speech as this.

What is President of the United States?

500

This scale from 0 to 14 measures how acidic or basic a solution is.

What is the pH scale?

500

This Jewish-American scientist shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure and function of DNA-related enzymes.

Who is Arthur Kornberg?

500

Johannes Vermeer painted this famous portrait of a young woman wearing an exotic earring.

What is Girl with a Pearl Earring?

500

The smell after rain on dry soil is commonly known by this word.

What is petrichor?