Deck 1 – History

First emperor of China – Qin Shi Huang
Ancient civilization known for the creation of democracy – The Greeks
The last pharaoh of Egypt – Cleopatra VII
Famous battle 300 Spartans fought – The Battle of Thermopylae
The first emperor of Rome – Augustus (Octavian)
The first king of England – Æthelstan
Led the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 – William the Conqueror
Document, signed in 1215, limited the powers of the English king – Magna Carta
The first Holy Roman Emperor – Charlemagne
He authored the 95 Theses – Martin Luther
Empire ruled by Suleiman the Magnificent – The Ottoman Empire
Wrote “The Prince,” a political treatise on ruling Niccolò – Machiavelli
Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire – Hernán Cortés
The queen of England during the Spanish Armada – Elizabeth I
Known as the “Father of Modern Physics” – Galileo Galilei
The year the French Revolution began – 1789
German philosopher known for “Critique of Pure Reason” – Immanuel Kant
Country that gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1830 – Greece
Event that triggered the start of World War I – The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This treaty ended World War I – Treaty of Versailles
Year that USA entered World War II – 1941
The project that developed the atomic bomb – The Manhattan Project
The year the Berlin Wall fell – 1989
This U.S. President initiated the New Deal – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The first human to travel into space – Yuri Gagarin
The primary purpose of the Marshall Plan – To rebuild Europe after World War II
The Arab Spring Movement began in this country – Tunisia
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean Amelia -Earhart
He discovered penicillin – Alexander Fleming
Event known as “the shot heard ’round the world” – The Battles of Lexington and Concord
British naval officer who won the Battle of Trafalgar – Admiral Horatio Nelson
The primary focus of the Suffragette movement – Women’s right to vote
The alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II is called – The Axis Powers
British monarch during World War I – King George V
The leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis -Nikita Khrushchev
Major 1986 nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union – The Chernobyl disaster
Roman emperor famously fiddled while Rome burned – Nero
Leader of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War – Mikhail Gorbachev
Oldest known civilization in the world – Sumerian
The ancient city of Petra located in this country – Jordan
The main city of the Minoan civilization – Knossos
The last Pharaoh of Egypt – Cleopatra VII
Code of Hammurabi originated in this ancient civilization – Babylonian
Considered the ‘Father of History’ – Herodotus
Large empire was founded by Cyrus the Great – The Persian Empire
Ancient civilization built the Machu Picchu – The Inca
Central market place in ancient Athens – Agora
Wrote the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” – Homer
The first major Chinese dynasty – The Shang Dynasty
The Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare – Athena
Ancient Egyptian sun god’s name – Ra
Macedonian king who created a vast empire in 4th century BC – Alexander the Great

Deck 2 – Crossword

Crustacean took time to get down to work (6) Shrimp
Perform a function at a level above (5) Doing
A nasty cut in timber (4) Wood
Disdain on the rise (5) Scorn
Fight and you’ll get ahead! (4) Bout
Count is in hiding (6) Recess
Something fishy in the news (4) Item
Cat and rat chase (3) Act
Metal that sounds like it should be ringing (4) Peal
Tired of eating runny egg (7) Exhaust
After work, something to eat (5) Pasta
Meeting place for bees (6) Apiary
Fate takes top off plant (7) Destiny
Hidden within flowers, see a key part (5) Sepal
Cave in, making man lose grip (8) Collapse
Cat chases a rodent (5) Avert
Part of the ship is fast (4) Mast
Found in dark area, a sweet fruit (6) Cherry
One left for the weekend (5) Friar
Bird found in train carriage (7) Carotid
Sun in the sky (4) Star
It’s worn at the head (4) Helm
Teach arithmetic using new methods (8) Instruct
Bird that’s going somewhere (6) Egrets
River horse (12) Hippopotamus
Flower from France (3) Lis
Area of a circle (6) Sector
Searched for goods (7) Foraged
A harsh noise (6) Rattle
Light refractor (5) Prism
Looked over (4) Eyed
Wise person (4) Sage
Vehicle for hire (3) Cab
A great fire (5) Blaze
Period of time (3) Era
Spiral movement (5) Twirl
Bright star (6) Sirius
Small hill (5) Knoll
US state ends in a cross (6) Kansas
Bird seen in Somerset often (6) Merlin
Part of chicken is ready (4) Drum
This person is in Paris, for example (2) E.g.
Split as a fruit (6) Banana
No beginning to change (5) Alter
Receptacle for holding holy water (5) Stoup
A record of a journey, possibly sea (7) Journal
Paper gets a translation of French into Greek (7) Papyrus
After cold start, shift gears slowly (5) Creep
Court order to return a vehicle (6) Revoke
Bowler, for example, found in street (6) Strata
Aim to get right (5) Sight
Played with dice (4) Cast

Deck 3 – Mixed

Is considered the “Father of Geometry” – Euclid
Euclid’s most famous work – Elements
Greek mathematician accurately estimated the value of pi -Archimedes
He wrote “Arithmetica” – Diophantus of Alexandria
The shape of the DNA molecule – Double helix
Mathematician known for the Cartesian coordinate system – René Descartes
Known as the “Prince of Mathematicians – Carl Friedrich Gauss
Name of the book by Isaac Newton that laid the foundations for calculus – “Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica” (Principia)
Artist produced works called ‘Les Demoiselles – D’Avignon’ and ‘Guernica’ Picasso
Ancient Chinese text contains the earliest known magic squares – “I Ching” or “Book of Changes”
Pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens – Mark Twain
First woman known to have made significant contributions to math – Hypatia of Alexandria
Rossini opera is about a Barber in this city – Seville
Part of Spain did Don Quixote live – La Mancha
Dutch painter is famous for his works like “The Starry Night” and “Sunflowers” – Vincent van Gogh
Mathematician’s name is associated with the famous “Last Theorem” – Pierre de Fermat
Considered the father of modern probability theory – Pierre-Simon Laplace
Wrote “Disquisitiones Arithmeticae” – Carl Friedrich Gauss
Pop art American artist created works like “Campbell’s Soup Cans”? – Andy Warhol
Developed the theory of sets and introduced the concept of cardinality – Georg Cantor
Developed the concept of a Turing machine – Alan Turing
Greek philosopher is credited with founding formal logic – Aristotle
French impressionist painter famous for his water lily paintings, including “Nympheas”? – Claude Monet
Mathematical constant known as Euler’s number – e (approximately 2.718)
Discovered the binomial theorem – Isaac Newton
First to provide a rigorous proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra – Carl Friedrich Gauss
Number of lines in a Shakesperean sonnet – 14
Credited with the invention of analytic geometry – René Descartes
What is the maximum break in snooker? – 147
Known for his work on the incompleteness theorems in mathematical logic – Kurt Gödel
Introduced the concept of imaginary numbers – Rafael Bombelli
Wrote Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Formulated the laws of planetary motion based on empirical data – Johannes Kepler
Collaborated on ‘The Communist Manifesto’ with Friedrich Engels – Karl Marx
Introduced the concept of a mathematical limit – Archimedes
Ancient civilization used a base-20 number system – The Mayans
Name of the painting that features a melting clock – The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí
Considered the father of modern algebra – François Viète
Artist is known for painting his pet monkey into his works – Rembrandt
Food item inspired Salvador Dalí’s famous painting – The Persistence of Memory Melting cheese
Formulated the famous “Konigsberg Bridge Problem” in graph theory – Leonhard Euler
Famous painter was left-handed but trained himself to be right-handed at a young age – Michelangelo
Surrealist artist believed he was the reincarnation of his dead brother – Salvador Dalí
Considered the father of the digital computer – Charles Babbage
Video game franchise features a character named Master Chief -Halo
This metallic color is used on the background of ‘The Kiss’ by Klimt – Gold
Mathematician introduced the concept of a matrix – James Joseph Sylvester
Known for his work on the foundations of topology – Henri Poincaré
Main contribution of Georg Cantor to mathematics – Creation of set theory
Formulated the law of large numbers in probability theory – Jacob Bernoulli
Mathematician is known for his work on the theory of functions of a complex variable – Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Considered the father of modern mathematical logic – George Boole

Deck 4 – Blank

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