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This player is the all-time leading scorer in NBA history.
LeBron James
"To be, or not to be" is a famous line from this Shakespeare play.
Hamlet
This composer wrote Für Elise and his Fifth Symphony, and gradually lost his hearing over his lifetime.
Beethoven
This ancient Roman arena, still standing today, once hosted gladiatorial combat and could hold up to 80,000 spectators.
The Colosseum
Leonardo da Vinci painted this famous woman's portrait, now hanging in the Louvre.
The Mona Lisa
Michael Jordan won this many NBA Championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Six (6)
The pen name of author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Mark Twain
This guitarist played the famous solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat It."
Eddie Van Halen
This ancient Greek city-state was Athens's greatest rival — famous for its warriors, its brutal military training system, and its two kings ruling simultaneously.
Sparta
This Spanish artist painted Guernica in 1937, a powerful protest against the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.
Pablo Picasso
This MLB team has won the World Series more times than any other franchise.
New York Yankees
The Iliad does not end with the fall of Troy. Instead, Homer closes the entire epic with the funeral of this character.
Hector
Paul McCartney formed this band after The Beatles broke up in 1970.
Wings
Julius Caesar was assassinated on March 15, 44 BC — a date Shakespeare immortalized with the warning to "beware" this.
The Ides of March
Michelangelo painted the ceiling of this famous chapel inside the Vatican.
The Sistine Chapel
This MLB pitcher holds the all-time record for career strikeouts, with 5,714 over 27 seasons.
Nolan Ryan
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, this animal group led the revolution — their final slogan declares that all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Pigs
Beethoven was completely deaf by the time he premiered his Ninth Symphony in 1824. According to witnesses, he had to be turned around to see this, since he couldn't hear it. Why?
To see the audience's standing ovation
Alexander the Great was tutored as a young boy by this famous Greek philosopher.
Aristotle
This Dutch painter, prolific in the 1600s, is famous for his use of dramatic light and shadow — a technique called chiaroscuro — in works like The Night Watch.
Rembrandt
He was nicknamed "Sweetness," rushed for over 16,000 career yards with the Chicago Bears, and is widely considered one of the greatest running backs ever.
Walter Payton
This Russian author wrote both Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, and is considered one of the greatest novelists in history.
Dostoevsky
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis are all legends of this American-born music genre, which originated in New Orleans in the early 1900s.
Jazz
After crossing the Alps with war elephants to surprise Rome, this Carthaginian general won battle after battle on Italian soil — but never actually sacked Rome.
Hannibal
Rembrandt's famous group portrait The Night Watch is actually set during the day — the "night" in its name is a mistake caused by this happening to the painting over centuries.
The varnish darkening with age