Empires of Africa
Kuku in Algeria, Hafsid in Tunisia, and Saadi in Morocco were among the many dynasties of Africa dominated by this Abrahamic religion
What is Islam?
After first meeting this detective, John Watson assessed his ability as such: "Knowledge of Literature – nil... Knowledge of Politics – Feeble... Plays the violin well."
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
These crabs will pick up living anemones to use as their "house;" the anemones get a free ride out of it, so, good deal
What are hermit crabs?
1876: "My God, it talks!" shouted a dignitary after this man showed off the telephone at the Philadelphia World's Fair
What is Cherry Coke/Coca-Cola?
He emerged from CNN's Situation Room in 1997 to compete on Celebrity Jeopardy!, where he finished with a respectable negative $4600 final score
Who is Wolf Blitzer?
Stretching down the length of the Nile, the New Kingdom of Egypt extended into what is today this southern neighboring nation
What is Sudan?
The story of "The Wonderful Musician" who gives lessons to wild animals is included in these brothers' collection of Fairy Tales
Who are the Brothers Grimm?
On the banks of the Nile, Egyptian Plovers will fly into the mouths of these giant reptiles to pick out meat scraps from between their teeth
What are crocodiles?
1889: This still-standing structure, nicknamed "La Dame de Fer," is constructed as a temporary landmark for the World's Fair in Paris
What is the Eiffel Tower?
In 2017, she made the leap from Fox News to NBC to host Sunday Night as well as her own daytime talk show
Who is Megyn Kelly?
With one L in its name, it was a 15th century kingdom on Africa's Atlantic coast; with two L's, it's a popular West African rice dish
What is jolof/jollof?
Pianist McClintic Sphere mingles with Rachel Owlglass, Ferguson Mixolydian, and Dudley Eigenvalue, D.D.S. - among others - in this reclusive author's V
Who is Thomas Pynchon?
These small African mongooses will pop back into their manor the second they hear the cry of the drongo bird - it means a predator is probably near
What are meerkats?
1893: Riders paid 50 cents to get in one of the 36 cars of this debuting carnival staple to get a 264-foot-high view of Chicago
What is the ferris wheel?
After Brian Williams' demotion in 2015, he became the first African-American to solo anchor a weekly network news broadcast
Who is Lester Holt?
Despite their territories never overlapping, the Gold Coast colony took the name of this ancient empire after gaining independence in 1957
What is Ghana?
In between O Pioneers! and My Ántonia, she wrote The Song of the Lark based on an opera-singing friend of hers
Who is Willa Cather?
This blind species of shrimp, named for its loud snapping, maintain the burrows they share with goby fish in exchange for a decent lookout from predators
What are pistol shrimp?
1904: Nine years after Roentgen's famous discovery, one of these machines wowed the crowds in St. Louis
What is an x-ray machine?
Who is Jane Pauley?
After collapsing in 1900, the Empire of Dahomey became French Dahomey, then the Republic of Dahomey, and is now best known as this five-letter name
What is Benin?
Nocturnes, written by this Japanese-born Nobel laureate in 2009, features five stories about musicians, appropriately all happening at the close of a day
Who is Kazuo Ishiguro?
With a name that implies as much, the yellow-bellied and red-bellied species of this African bird are known to pick parasites off of much larger mammals
What are oxpeckers?
2001: Still an emerging technology today, BMW debuted a car powered by this element in Hannover
What is hydrogen?
She's the current lead anchor for CBS Evening News
Who is Norah O'Donnell?