Q. What is this machine of James Watt's that became the heart of the Industrial Revolution?
Options: A steam locomotive · A spinning mill · Watt's steam engine · A steam tractor
Answer: Watt's steam engine
The power of steam changed the world.
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Q. Which country did the Industrial Revolution begin in first?
Options: England · The United States · Germany · France
Answer: England
The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England along with the steam engine.
Q. What powered the trains and factories of the Industrial Revolution?
Options: Oil · Electricity · Steam · Wind
Answer: Steam
They ran machines on the power of steam made by boiling water.
🇫🇷 Q. Which 1789 event in France declared people are born free and equal?
Options: The Industrial Revolution · The Russian Revolution · American independence · The French Revolution
Answer: The French Revolution
The 'French Revolution' spread the ideas of liberty and equality far and wide.
💡 Q. Which inventor lit up the night by inventing the light bulb?
Options: Bell · Newton · The Wright brothers · Edison
Answer: Edison
'Edison' made the first practical light bulb.
⚙️ Q. Who improved the steam engine and drove the Industrial Revolution?
Options: The Wright brothers · Columbus · Edison · James Watt
Answer: James Watt
'James Watt's' steam engine powered factories and trains.
Q. Which country did the United States fight in its War of Independence?
Options: England · Spain · Germany · France
Answer: England
Thirteen colonies of England won their independence!
Q. Who was the first president of the United States?
Options: Roosevelt · Jefferson · George Washington · Lincoln
Answer: George Washington
Washington, commander of the independence army!
Q. What spirit is in the US Declaration of Independence?
Options: The king is supreme · Might makes right · Money is everything · All people are created equal
Answer: All people are created equal
The declaration of July 4, 1776!
Q. When is America's Independence Day?
Options: December 25 · July 4 · January 1 · August 15
Answer: July 4
Independence Day, America's biggest holiday!
Q. Which event threw boxes of tea into the sea and sparked American independence?
Options: The Boston Tea Party · The Gold Rush · The Mayflower affair · Pearl Harbor
Answer: The Boston Tea Party
They threw tea into the sea to protest taxes!
Q. What did France give as a gift for America's 100th independence anniversary?
Options: The Louvre · The Eiffel Tower · The Arc de Triomphe · The Statue of Liberty
Answer: The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor!
Q. Which prison did citizens storm in the French Revolution?
Options: The Tower of London · Alcatraz · Newgate · The Bastille
Answer: The Bastille
The Bastille fell on July 14, 1789!
Q. What are the three ideals of the French Revolution?
Options: Liberty, equality, fraternity · Loyalty, duty, courtesy · Bread, water, salt · Power, money, fame
Answer: Liberty, equality, fraternity
The spirit of the French flag's three colors!
Q. Which queen's luxury earned the people's anger before the French Revolution?
Options: Elizabeth · Queen Victoria · Marie Antoinette · Queen Isabella
Answer: Marie Antoinette
She was the queen of Louis XVI.
Q. Which soldier became emperor after the French Revolution?
Options: Napoleon · Charlemagne · Louis XIV · De Gaulle
Answer: Napoleon
Napoleon, born on Corsica!
Q. Which famous saying is Napoleon known for?
Options: The die is cast · Know thyself · The word 'impossible' is not in my dictionary · Eureka
Answer: The word 'impossible' is not in my dictionary
He's said to have declared it while crossing the Alps!
Q. What did Napoleon create that still underlies many countries' laws?
Options: The Magna Carta · The Code of Hammurabi · The Napoleonic Code · The Great Code
Answer: The Napoleonic Code
It became the framework of modern law.
Q. Which campaign did Napoleon fail at because of the bitter cold?
Options: The Italian campaign · The Spanish campaign · The Russian campaign · The Egyptian campaign
Answer: The Russian campaign
He was brought down by the Russian winter.
Q. Which battle did Napoleon lose last?
Options: Trafalgar · Leipzig · Waterloo · Austerlitz
Answer: Waterloo
He was defeated at Waterloo in 1815.
Q. Which remote Atlantic island was Napoleon exiled to?
Options: Saint Helena · Elba · Sicily · Corsica
Answer: Saint Helena
After escaping Elba, he ended up on Saint Helena.
Q. How did the Industrial Revolution change the way things were made?
Options: Machines mass-produced instead of hands · Production stopped · Hands replaced machines · Robots did everything
Answer: Machines mass-produced instead of hands
The age of factories and machines!
Q. Who put the first steam locomotive into practical use?
Options: Watt · Ford · Stephenson · Edison
Answer: Stephenson
Stephenson! In 1829 his 'Rocket' raced before a crowd and opened the age of the train.
Q. What fueled a steam locomotive?
Options: Electricity · Only firewood · Oil · Coal
Answer: Coal
Chugga chugga! It burned coal to run.
Q. What did English factories mainly make in the Industrial Revolution?
Options: Computers · Airplanes · Cotton cloth · Cars
Answer: Cotton cloth
Spinning machines drew thread and wove cloth.
Q. What problem came as the shadow of the Industrial Revolution?
Options: Air that was too clean · Child labor and smoke · Farming was banned · All jobs disappeared
Answer: Child labor and smoke
Even children had to work in the factories.
Q. Why did people flock to the cities in the Industrial Revolution?
Options: To farm · To see the sea · The air was nice · To find factory jobs
Answer: To find factory jobs
Factory cities grew huge.
Q. Which city got the world's first subway?
Options: Paris · New York · Tokyo · London
Answer: London
The London Underground, 1863!
Q. Which was NOT new transportation of the Industrial Revolution?
Options: The steam locomotive · The streetcar · The electric car · The steamship
Answer: The electric car
The electric car! Steam trains and steamships changed the world back then — electric cars only spread in the 21st century.
Q. Who invented the telephone?
Options: Marconi · Edison · Bell · Morse
Answer: Bell
'Watson, come here' — the first call, by Bell!
Q. Who created the telegraph code (Morse code)?
Options: Edison · Nobel · Bell · Morse
Answer: Morse
Morse code, of dots and dashes!
Q. What record did Edison set?
Options: 10 Nobel Prizes · An Olympic gold medal · Three terms as president · Over 1,000 invention patents
Answer: Over 1,000 invention patents
The king of inventors had 1,093 patents!
Q. Which saying is Edison famous for?
Options: The die is cast · Genius is made of 99% effort · The word 'impossible' is not in my dictionary · And yet it moves
Answer: Genius is made of 99% effort
1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!
Q. Who first made a gasoline car?
Options: Diesel · Ford · Benz · Edison
Answer: Benz
Karl Benz, in 1886!
Q. Who mass-produced cars using a conveyor belt?
Options: Rolls · Ford · Benz · Ferrari
Answer: Ford
Ford's Model T became the people's car!
Q. Who invented dynamite and created a prize?
Options: Edison · Darwin · Bell · Nobel
Answer: Nobel
Nobel! He made a fortune from dynamite but was troubled that it became a weapon, so he left his money to create the Nobel Prize.
Q. Why did Nobel create the Nobel Prize?
Options: To be famous · He wanted to win a prize · He hoped invention would serve peace · To get rich
Answer: He hoped invention would serve peace
He left his fortune to those who helped humanity.
Q. Which scientist argued for evolution in 'On the Origin of Species'?
Options: Darwin · Mendel · Pasteur · Newton
Answer: Darwin
Darwin, who explored the Galápagos!
Q. Which South American islands did Darwin observe evidence of evolution on?
Options: The Maldives · The Galápagos Islands · Hawaii · Jeju Island
Answer: The Galápagos Islands
The islands of tortoises and finches!
Q. Which monk discovered the laws of heredity with pea experiments?
Options: Darwin · Pasteur · Mendel · Watson
Answer: Mendel
Mendel, the father of genetics!
Q. Which scientist studied germs and created pasteurization?
Options: Jenner · Pasteur · Fleming · Koch
Answer: Pasteur
Pasteur, of milk pasteurization!
Q. Which doctor first created the smallpox vaccine?
Options: Pasteur · Hippocrates · Jenner · Avicenna
Answer: Jenner
The vaccine was born from watching milkmaids!
Q. Which animal is the word 'vaccine' named after?
Options: The pig · The chicken · The horse · The cow
Answer: The cow
It comes from Latin 'vacca', meaning cow!
Q. Which scientist discovered X-rays and won the first Nobel Prize in Physics?
Options: Curie · Einstein · Röntgen · Faraday
Answer: Röntgen
Röntgen, and the start of hospital X-rays!
Q. Which scientist studied electricity and magnets and opened the way to the electric motor?
Options: Galileo · Volta · Newton · Faraday
Answer: Faraday
Faraday of electromagnetic induction!
Q. Which Italian scientist made the first battery?
Options: Faraday · Ohm · Ampère · Volta
Answer: Volta
The unit of voltage, the 'volt', is his name!
Q. Which US president declared the emancipation of enslaved people?
Options: Lincoln · Roosevelt · Kennedy · Washington
Answer: Lincoln
Lincoln of the Gettysburg Address!
Q. Which phrase from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is famous?
Options: Government of the people, by the people, for the people · The die is cast · Money is everything · Let there be light
Answer: Government of the people, by the people, for the people
A great speech that sums up democracy!
Q. What was the big issue of the American Civil War?
Options: Slavery · Tea taxes · Gold mines · Oil
Answer: Slavery
North and South fought over slavery.
Q. What did 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' tell the world about?
Options: The suffering of enslaved people · Animal stories · Travel spots · Recipes
Answer: The suffering of enslaved people
A novel that stirred up opposition to slavery!
Q. Which nurse cared for wounded soldiers and was called 'the lady with the lamp'?
Options: Joan of Arc · Nightingale · Marie Curie · Mother Teresa
Answer: Nightingale
Nightingale, the angel of the Crimean War!
Q. Which international organization grew out of Nightingale's work?
Options: Greenpeace · The Red Cross · UNICEF · The UN
Answer: The Red Cross
She inspired Dunant to create the Red Cross.
Q. Which Swiss man created the Red Cross?
Options: Nobel · Henry Dunant · Kant · Pasteur
Answer: Henry Dunant
Dunant, the first Nobel Peace Prize winner!
Q. Which right did women fight for in modern times?
Options: The right to breathe · The right to sleep · The right to vote · The right to eat
Answer: The right to vote
The women's suffrage movement!
Q. Which country first gave women the vote?
Options: France · New Zealand · The United States · England
Answer: New Zealand
New Zealand, in 1893!
Q. Which reform had Japan take in Western ways and remake the country?
Options: The Imjin War · The Meiji Restoration · The Cultural Revolution · The Industrial Revolution
Answer: The Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration of 1868!
Q. Which war was fought between Qing China and England?
Options: The Opium War · The Sino-Japanese War · The Hundred Years' War · The Crusades
Answer: The Opium War
The Opium War, over the opium trade.
Q. Which Chinese port city went to England after the Opium War?
Options: Hong Kong · Shanghai · Macau · Beijing
Answer: Hong Kong
It was only returned to China in 1997.
Q. Which big uprising rose against England in India?
Options: The Sepoy Rebellion · The Donghak movement · A candlelight vigil · The Boston Tea Party
Answer: The Sepoy Rebellion
The Sepoy Rebellion of 1857.
Q. Which country demanded that Japan open its ports?
Options: The United States · Türkiye · Mongolia · Egypt
Answer: The United States
Commodore Perry's black ships!
Q. Which tower was built for the 1889 Paris World's Fair?
Options: Tokyo Tower · The London Eye · The Eiffel Tower · The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Answer: The Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower, marking 100 years since the Revolution!
Q. How did Parisians react when the Eiffel Tower was first built?
Options: Everyone loved it · Nobody noticed · They tore it right down · Many opposed it as an eyesore
Answer: Many opposed it as an eyesore
Now it's the symbol of Paris!
Q. Which canal linked the Mediterranean and the Red Sea?
Options: The Suez Canal · The Erie Canal · The Venice canals · The Panama Canal
Answer: The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal opened in 1869!
Q. Which canal linked the Pacific and the Atlantic?
Options: The Corinth Canal · The Panama Canal · The Kiel Canal · The Suez Canal
Answer: The Panama Canal
The Panama Canal, where ships climb over a mountain!
Q. Who revived the modern Olympics?
Options: Napoleon · Hippocrates · Coubertin · Churchill
Answer: Coubertin
Revived at Athens in 1896!
Q. Which city held the first revived modern Olympics?
Options: Paris · London · Rome · Athens
Answer: Athens
Athens, Greece — the home of the Olympics!
Q. Which Russian composer wrote 'Swan Lake'?
Options: Beethoven · Mozart · Chopin · Tchaikovsky
Answer: Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky of ballet music!
Q. Which composer wrote the 'Fate' symphony (Symphony No. 5)?
Options: Bach · Mozart · Schubert · Beethoven
Answer: Beethoven
Da-da-da-DUM! Beethoven!
Q. Which hardship did Beethoven overcome?
Options: An injured leg · Losing his voice · Going blind · Going deaf
Answer: Going deaf
He wrote masterpieces even after losing his hearing!
Q. Which Austrian composer was called a genius from childhood?
Options: Beethoven · Bach · Handel · Mozart
Answer: Mozart
Mozart, composing at five years old!
Q. Which painter painted 'The Starry Night'?
Options: Picasso · Monet · Van Gogh · Da Vinci
Answer: Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh of the swirling night sky!
Q. Which yellow flower did Van Gogh love to paint?
Options: Chrysanthemums · Tulips · Roses · Sunflowers
Answer: Sunflowers
Van Gogh's sunflower series!
Q. What do we call painters like Monet who painted moments changing with the light?
Options: Abstract painters · Cubists · Impressionists · Fauvists
Answer: Impressionists
The name came from 'Impression, Sunrise'!
Q. Who sculpted 'The Thinker'?
Options: Da Vinci · Rodin · Picasso · Michelangelo
Answer: Rodin
Rodin's thinker, chin on his hand!
Q. Which fairy-tale writer wrote 'The Little Match Girl' and 'The Little Mermaid'?
Options: Andersen · The Brothers Grimm · Aesop · Perrault
Answer: Andersen
Andersen of Denmark!
Q. Which German brothers collected 'Snow White' and 'Hansel and Gretel'?
Options: The Marx brothers · The Brothers Grimm · The Montgolfier brothers · The Wright brothers
Answer: The Brothers Grimm
The Grimm brothers' fairy-tale collection!
Q. Which French brothers first flew a hot-air balloon?
Options: The Wright brothers · The Montgolfier brothers · The Lumière brothers · The Brothers Grimm
Answer: The Montgolfier brothers
The first balloon flight, 1783!
Q. Which French brothers first showed a movie?
Options: The Wright brothers · The Brothers Grimm · The Montgolfier brothers · The Lumière brothers
Answer: The Lumière brothers
The first film screening, 1895!
Q. Which French master of imagination wrote 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?
Options: Jules Verne · Andersen · Victor Hugo · Tolstoy
Answer: Jules Verne
Jules Verne, the father of science fiction!
Q. Which writer wrote 'Les Misérables' (the story of Jean Valjean)?
Options: Jules Verne · Dickens · Victor Hugo · Goethe
Answer: Victor Hugo
Jean Valjean and his loaf of bread — Hugo's work!
Q. Which English writer created Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol'?
Options: Shakespeare · Hugo · Dickens · Tolstoy
Answer: Dickens
Charles Dickens's masterpiece!
Q. Why did people rush to the American West in the 'Gold Rush'?
Options: Because of dinosaur fossils · Because gold was found · Because it snowed · Because they liked the sea
Answer: Because gold was found
The California Gold Rush of 1849!
Q. What were blue jeans first made for?
Options: As a king's clothes · As pajamas · As a uniform · As tough work pants for miners
Answer: As tough work pants for miners
Levi's jeans, made for Gold Rush miners!
Q. How did the modern camera change the world?
Options: Books disappeared · Moments could be captured exactly as they were · Travel ended · Painting disappeared
Answer: Moments could be captured exactly as they were
Moments of history were preserved in photographs!
Q. Which city has the observatory that sets world standard time?
Options: London (Greenwich) · Beijing · New York · Paris
Answer: London (Greenwich)
The Greenwich Observatory marks zero degrees!
Q. What was true of children's lives in the Industrial Revolution?
Options: They all went to school · They played video games · Some worked long hours in factories · They all traveled
Answer: Some worked long hours in factories
Child labor was banned by law later on.
Q. Why did modern school education spread widely?
Options: Lots of toys · Because of vacations · Because of school lunch · Educating citizens became important to every country
Answer: Educating citizens became important to every country
It's the age when compulsory education began!
Q. Which country first started a modern postal system with stamps?
Options: Egypt · England · China · The United States
Answer: England
The Penny Black stamp of 1840!
Q. What was the world's first stamp called?
Options: The Queen Red · The Big Ben · The Gold Stamp · The Penny Black
Answer: The Penny Black
A black stamp with Queen Victoria on it!
Q. Which 19th-century country was called 'the empire on which the sun never sets'?
Options: Rome · Only Spain · England · Mongolia
Answer: England
The British Empire, with colonies all over the world.
Q. What did 19th-century European powers do in Africa and Asia?
Options: They stayed away · They made them colonies · They handed out gifts · They only visited
Answer: They made them colonies
It's the painful history of imperialism.
Q. How would people in a colonized country have felt?
Options: Nothing at all · Grateful · Wanting to win back their freedom · Delighted
Answer: Wanting to win back their freedom
Many countries went through this same pain.
Q. Which city is famous for the first modern department stores and arcades?
Options: Cairo · Paris · Seoul · Delhi
Answer: Paris
Paris, the city of shopping!
Q. What fueled the lamps lighting 19th-century streets at night?
Options: Fluorescent light · LEDs · Only candles · Gas
Answer: Gas
Gas lamps lit the streets. Electric lights came next!
Q. Who wrote 'The Wealth of Nations' and is called the father of economics?
Options: Keynes · Marx · Nobel · Adam Smith
Answer: Adam Smith
Adam Smith of the 'invisible hand'!
Q. Why did modern court systems become important?
Options: To get rid of trials · So kings could do as they pleased · To protect equality before the law · To punish more harshly
Answer: To protect equality before the law
An age where everyone gets a fair trial!
Q. What good use was dynamite first put to?
Options: Tunnel and mine work · Fireworks · Toys · Cooking
Answer: Tunnel and mine work
It was made to do construction safely and fast.
Q. What role did modern newspapers play in society?
Options: The role of picture books · Spreading news widely and shaping public opinion · The role of cookbooks · Wasting paper
Answer: Spreading news widely and shaping public opinion
They became the eyes and ears of citizens!
Q. What's the biggest difference between night before the light bulb and after?
Options: Night disappeared · Day got longer · The Moon got brighter · People could work and play at night too
Answer: People could work and play at night too
The human day got longer!
Q. Who invented the phonograph (the sound-recording machine)?
Options: Morse · Tesla · Edison · Bell
Answer: Edison
Edison recorded 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'!
Q. Which inventor created the AC electric system and competed with Edison?
Options: Faraday · Tesla · Bell · Watt
Answer: Tesla
Nikola Tesla, whose name became an electric car company!
Q. What is this machine of James Watt's that became the heart of the Industrial Revolution?
Options: A steam locomotive · A spinning mill · Watt's steam engine · A steam tractor
Answer: Watt's steam engine
The power of steam changed the world.
Q. What is this early steam locomotive built by Stephenson?
Options: A spinning mill · The Rocket · A world's fair · The Panama Canal
Answer: The Rocket
The famous locomotive that opened the age of the train.
Q. What is this machine that spins many threads at once?
Options: The spinning jenny · The Suez Canal · A steam tractor · A world's fair
Answer: The spinning jenny
An invention that drove the Industrial Revolution.
Q. What are these machines that weave cloth?
Options: Watt's steam engine · The Panama Canal · A spinning mill · The power loom
Answer: The power loom
Factories could now make cloth in huge amounts.
Q. What is this place, lined with machines?
Options: A spinning mill · The Brooklyn Bridge · The Crystal Palace · The Rocket
Answer: A spinning mill
A factory of the Industrial Revolution.
Q. What is this ship that crossed the sea even without wind?
Options: A steamship · A steam tractor · A Ferris wheel · The power loom
Answer: A steamship
It crossed the oceans on the power of steam.
Q. What is this photo about?
Options: A steam tractor · The spinning jenny · A steam locomotive · A Paris Métro entrance
Answer: A steam locomotive
Railways were the great artery of the Industrial Revolution.
Q. What is this photo about?
Options: The Brooklyn Bridge · A steam tractor · The Crystal Palace · The spinning jenny
Answer: A steam tractor
Steam engines were used in farming too.
Q. What is this, the world's first of its kind, opened in 1863?
Options: A world's fair · The London Underground · The Crystal Palace · A steam tractor
Answer: The London Underground
At first, steam locomotives ran underground.
Q. What is this Art Nouveau subway entrance?
Options: The Suez Canal · A steam tractor · A steam locomotive · A Paris Métro entrance
Answer: A Paris Métro entrance
A work of art designed by Guimard.
Q. What is this New York bridge finished in 1883?
Options: Watt's steam engine · The Brooklyn Bridge · The Rocket · The London Underground
Answer: The Brooklyn Bridge
At the time it was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
Q. What is this canal linking the Mediterranean and the Red Sea?
Options: A steamship · The Suez Canal · A Paris Métro entrance · A steam locomotive
Answer: The Suez Canal
It made the sea route to Asia far shorter.
Q. What is this canal linking the Pacific and the Atlantic?
Options: Watt's steam engine · A steam locomotive · The Panama Canal · A Paris Métro entrance
Answer: The Panama Canal
It has stepped locks where ships climb over a mountain.
Q. What was this glass building that housed the 1851 London world's fair?
Options: The Panama Canal · The Crystal Palace · A steam tractor · A world's fair
Answer: The Crystal Palace
It was an amazing building made only of glass and iron.
Q. What was this event where countries showed off their inventions?
Options: A steam locomotive · The spinning jenny · A steam tractor · A world's fair
Answer: A world's fair
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 Paris fair.
Q. What first appeared at the 1893 Chicago fair?
Options: The Suez Canal · The Crystal Palace · The Ferris wheel · A steam tractor
Answer: The Ferris wheel
It was America's answer to the Eiffel Tower.
Q. What is this machine that sent signals by electricity?
Options: A penny-farthing bicycle · A Nobel Prize medal · A telegraph · A Kodak camera
Answer: A telegraph
News raced along the wires like light.
Q. What is this device that sent news in dots and dashes?
Options: The periodic table · A gas lamp · The first Benz car · A Morse code key
Answer: A Morse code key
SOS in Morse code is ···---···.
Q. What is this first machine Bell invented?
Options: The periodic table · A typewriter · Bell's telephone · Edison's light bulb
Answer: Bell's telephone
'Watson, come here' was the first call.
Q. What is this that Edison made practical?
Options: A typewriter · A Kodak camera · Edison's light bulb · A sewing machine
Answer: Edison's light bulb
The invention that lit the night like day.
Q. What is this sound-capturing machine Edison invented?
Options: A penny-farthing bicycle · Braille · The phonograph · Edison's light bulb
Answer: The phonograph
The first machine ever to store sound.
Q. What is this first one Benz made in 1886?
Options: A Tesla coil · A typewriter · The first Benz car · Braille
Answer: The first Benz car
A carriage with no horse — the start of the car!
Q. Which was the first car mass-produced on a conveyor belt?
Options: The periodic table · A Nobel Prize medal · The Ford Model T · The Wright Flyer
Answer: The Ford Model T
It opened the age of cars for everyone.
Q. What is this first airplane of the Wright brothers, from 1903?
Options: The Wright Flyer · A gas lamp · Röntgen's X-ray · An early camera
Answer: The Wright Flyer
A great first flight of 12 seconds and 36 meters.
Q. What is this giant thing that flew the sky before airplanes?
Options: The phonograph · The Cinématographe · The first Benz car · A Zeppelin airship
Answer: A Zeppelin airship
It was a giant balloon-ship of the sky.
Q. What is this that the Montgolfier brothers invented?
Options: The Penny Black (first stamp) · The phonograph · A Zeppelin airship · A hot-air balloon
Answer: A hot-air balloon
Humanity's first tool for traveling the sky.
Q. What was the first photographic method, made on a silver plate?
Options: A daguerreotype · Röntgen's X-ray · A Nobel Prize medal · A sewing machine
Answer: A daguerreotype
The age of photography began.
Q. What is this photo about?
Options: A penny-farthing bicycle · A Tesla coil · A hot-air balloon · An early camera
Answer: An early camera
An old camera with bellows on it.
Q. Which camera is famous for 'You press the button'?
Options: A Kodak camera · A penny-farthing bicycle · A stethoscope · A Nobel Prize medal
Answer: A Kodak camera
It opened an age where anyone could take photos.
Q. What is this that the Lumière brothers invented?
Options: A Nobel Prize medal · A Tesla coil · A stethoscope · The Cinématographe
Answer: The Cinématographe
The history of movies began.
Q. What is this photo about?
Options: Braille · A sewing machine · The Wright Flyer · A Nobel Prize medal
Answer: A sewing machine
Making clothes got dozens of times faster.
Q. What is this photo about?
Options: The Wright Flyer · A sewing machine · A telegraph · A typewriter
Answer: A typewriter
A machine that stamps out letters.
Q. What is this old bicycle with a huge front wheel?
Options: A Morse code key · A safety bicycle · A Tesla coil · A penny-farthing bicycle
Answer: A penny-farthing bicycle
The bigger the front wheel, the faster — but dangerous!
Q. Which bicycle replaced the penny-farthing?
Options: A daguerreotype · Marconi · A safety bicycle · A Zeppelin airship
Answer: A safety bicycle
Two wheels the same size made it safe.
Q. What is this photo about?
Options: A telegraph · The Penny Black (first stamp) · A stethoscope · The phonograph
Answer: A stethoscope
The doctor's must-have tool was invented.
Q. What is this first photo ever taken of the bones inside a body?
Options: A Kodak camera · Röntgen's X-ray · A daguerreotype · A telegraph
Answer: Röntgen's X-ray
It's a photo of Mrs. Röntgen's hand.
Q. What is this device of Tesla's that makes lightning?
Options: The Cinématographe · Edison's light bulb · A Tesla coil · The phonograph
Answer: A Tesla coil
He's the inventor who opened the age of AC electricity.
Q. Who is this figure who invented wireless communication?
Options: Marconi · A Tesla coil · A Morse code key · A Nobel Prize medal
Answer: Marconi
He sent a signal across the Atlantic without wires.
Q. What is this prize left behind by the inventor of dynamite?
Options: A Nobel Prize medal · A penny-farthing bicycle · A Kodak camera · The periodic table
Answer: A Nobel Prize medal
A prize given to those who help humanity.
Q. What is this table of elements Mendeleev made?
Options: Edison's light bulb · Bell's telephone · The periodic table · A Zeppelin airship
Answer: The periodic table
The map of chemistry was complete.
Q. What is this, the world's first of its kind, from 1840?
Options: A stethoscope · The Penny Black (first stamp) · An early camera · A telegraph
Answer: The Penny Black (first stamp)
A black stamp with Queen Victoria on it.
Q. What is this writing that Louis Braille created?
Options: The phonograph · A Zeppelin airship · The first Benz car · Braille
Answer: Braille
Letters you read with your fingertips.
Q. What lit the streets before electricity?
Options: A gas lamp · A hot-air balloon · Braille · The Wright Flyer
Answer: A gas lamp
The gas lamp! At dusk, there was a job where someone walked the streets with a long pole, lighting them one by one.
Q. What is this document announced in 1776?
Options: A Meiji-era train print · The suffragettes · The US Declaration of Independence · A rickshaw
Answer: The US Declaration of Independence
It declared that 'all men are created equal'.
Q. What is this painting of America's founders signing?
Options: The storming of the Bastille · The suffragettes · The black ships · The Declaration of Independence painting
Answer: The Declaration of Independence painting
July 4 is America's Independence Day.
Q. What is this cracked bell, a symbol of American independence?
Options: The Liberty Bell · Abraham Lincoln · The Battle of Waterloo · The Battle of Trafalgar
Answer: The Liberty Bell
It's an American treasure, in Philadelphia.
Q. Which event started the French Revolution in 1789?
Options: The Gettysburg Address · The Battle of Waterloo · The storming of the Bastille · Napoleon
Answer: The storming of the Bastille
The revolution began as citizens stormed the prison.
Q. What is this execution device used in the French Revolution?
Options: Nelson's Column · The US Declaration of Independence · The guillotine · Queen Victoria
Answer: The guillotine
Louis XVI met his end here too.
Q. Who was driven from the throne by the French Revolution?
Options: Emperor Meiji · The Declaration of Independence painting · Marie Antoinette · The Gold Rush
Answer: Marie Antoinette
She was the last queen of Versailles.
Q. Who is the subject of this painting, crossing the Alps?
Options: Abraham Lincoln · The transcontinental railroad · The Liberty Bell · Napoleon
Answer: Napoleon
It's the heroic image David painted.
Q. Which battle did Napoleon lose last?
Options: Abraham Lincoln · The Battle of Waterloo · A Meiji-era train print · The guillotine
Answer: The Battle of Waterloo
'Waterloo' became a byword for bitter defeat.
Q. Which US president led the emancipation of enslaved people?
Options: Abraham Lincoln · The Declaration of Independence painting · A Meiji-era train print · A covered wagon
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
He's famous for the 'of the people, by the people, for the people' speech.
Q. This is a photo of Lincoln's most famous speech. Where was it?
Options: The Declaration of Independence painting · The transcontinental railroad · The black ships · The Gettysburg Address
Answer: The Gettysburg Address
A speech of just two minutes went down in history.
Q. Which war split the United States in two starting in 1861?
Options: The US Declaration of Independence · The Opium War · The Civil War · The black ships
Answer: The Civil War
North and South fought over slavery.
Q. Which movement demanded the vote for women?
Options: The Liberty Bell · Queen Victoria · The suffragettes · A Meiji-era train print
Answer: The suffragettes
A 'Votes for Women!' badge.
Q. Which English queen ruled 'the empire on which the sun never sets'?
Options: The Gold Rush · Queen Victoria · Emperor Meiji · Napoleon
Answer: Queen Victoria
She led the British Empire's heyday for 64 years.
Q. Which sea battle did Admiral Nelson win?
Options: Emperor Meiji · The Liberty Bell · The Battle of Trafalgar · The Battle of Waterloo
Answer: The Battle of Trafalgar
It blocked Napoleon from taking the seas.
Q. Who is the subject of this statue in London's Trafalgar Square?
Options: The US Declaration of Independence · Nelson's Column · Assembling the Statue of Liberty · Queen Victoria
Answer: Nelson's Column
A column honoring the hero of the sea battle.
Q. Which event had people rushing west in search of gold?
Options: Marie Antoinette · The Declaration of Independence painting · The Gettysburg Address · The Gold Rush
Answer: The Gold Rush
People flocked to California in 1849.
Q. Which wagon did the pioneers of the West travel in?
Options: Nelson's Column · A covered wagon · The Declaration of Independence painting · The Opium War
Answer: A covered wagon
They headed west with their families and belongings aboard.
Q. Which railroad linked America's east and west?
Options: The transcontinental railroad · The guillotine · The suffragettes · Emperor Meiji
Answer: The transcontinental railroad
A golden spike marked its completion in 1869.
Q. What did they call Perry's fleet that appeared in Japan in 1853?
Options: The storming of the Bastille · The black ships · The Declaration of Independence painting · A rickshaw
Answer: The black ships
The black ships' arrival made Japan open its doors.
Q. Who was at the center of Japan's modernization (the Meiji Restoration)?
Options: Emperor Meiji · Napoleon · The Gold Rush · Assembling the Statue of Liberty
Answer: Emperor Meiji
Japan began taking in Western ways.
Q. What new thing appears in this ukiyo-e from Japan's opening era?
Options: A Meiji-era train print · The Liberty Bell · A rickshaw · Assembling the Statue of Liberty
Answer: A Meiji-era train print
It shows the train arriving in Japan.
Q. What is this wheeled vehicle pulled by a person?
Options: Napoleon · A rickshaw · The Gettysburg Address · The Gold Rush
Answer: A rickshaw
It was transportation in East Asia's opening era.
Q. Which war did England and Qing China fight in 1840?
Options: The Opium War · Emperor Meiji · The Liberty Bell · The Civil War
Answer: The Opium War
This war handed Hong Kong to England.
Q. What is this statue being assembled in Paris?
Options: A rickshaw · The US Declaration of Independence · A covered wagon · Assembling the Statue of Liberty
Answer: Assembling the Statue of Liberty
It was France's gift of friendship to America.
Q. Who is this scientist who announced the theory of evolution?
Options: Jenner's vaccination · A Galápagos tortoise · Charles Darwin · Alfred Nobel
Answer: Charles Darwin
He changed biology with 'On the Origin of Species'.
Q. Which ship did Darwin sail around the world on?
Options: Jenner's vaccination · The Beagle · A Galápagos tortoise · Nightingale
Answer: The Beagle
A five-year voyage became the seed of evolution theory.
Q. What is this book Darwin wrote?
Options: A Galápagos tortoise · Charles Darwin · The Beagle · On the Origin of Species
Answer: On the Origin of Species
The book that showed living things evolve.
Q. Which island tortoise inspired Darwin?
Options: Charles Darwin · Louis Pasteur · On the Origin of Species · A Galápagos tortoise
Answer: A Galápagos tortoise
Their shells were different on each island.
Q. Who is this scientist who created pasteurization?
Options: Louis Pasteur · The Beagle · Alfred Nobel · A Galápagos tortoise
Answer: Louis Pasteur
He made milk safe to drink.
Q. Who made the first vaccine, which stopped smallpox?
Options: Louis Pasteur · Alfred Nobel · Jenner · Charles Darwin
Answer: Jenner
Jenner! He noticed that milkmaids rarely caught smallpox, made a vaccination using cowpox, and opened the door to vaccines.
Q. Who is this nurse called 'the lady with the lamp'?
Options: Jenner's vaccination · Louis Pasteur · Nightingale · A Galápagos tortoise
Answer: Nightingale
She's the mother of modern nursing.
Q. Who invented dynamite and created a prize?
Options: Alfred Nobel · Louis Pasteur · The Beagle · Jenner's vaccination
Answer: Alfred Nobel
He created the Nobel Prize with his fortune.
Q. What is this giant statue in New York Harbor?
Options: Big Ben · The Statue of Liberty · The Eiffel Tower · The Arc de Triomphe
Answer: The Statue of Liberty
A symbol of liberty, holding a torch.
Q. What is this iron tower built in Paris in 1889?
Options: The US Capitol · The Statue of Liberty · The Eiffel Tower · Neuschwanstein Castle
Answer: The Eiffel Tower
At first people called it an eyesore!
Q. What is this tower under construction?
Options: The Palais Garnier · The Eiffel Tower under construction · The Moulin Rouge · The Statue of Liberty
Answer: The Eiffel Tower under construction
A magic trick of iron, assembled in just two years.
Q. What is this photo about?
Options: The Eiffel Tower · The Palais Garnier · Park Güell · Big Ben
Answer: Big Ben
The clock tower of London's Houses of Parliament.
Q. What is this photo about?
Options: The Moulin Rouge · Big Ben · Victoria Falls · Tower Bridge
Answer: Tower Bridge
The London bridge that opens in the middle.
Q. What is this Paris arch that Napoleon built?
Options: The Arc de Triomphe · Victoria Falls · The Eiffel Tower · The Titanic
Answer: The Arc de Triomphe
An arch celebrating victory in war.
Q. What is this white house where the US president lives?
Options: The Eiffel Tower under construction · Tokyo Station · The Eiffel Tower · The White House
Answer: The White House
It's been the president's office since 1800.
Q. What is this domed US congressional building?
Options: The US Capitol · Neuschwanstein Castle · La Sagrada Família · The Eiffel Tower under construction
Answer: The US Capitol
The symbol of Washington, D.C.
Q. Which Paris theater is the setting of 'The Phantom of the Opera'?
Options: The White House · Victoria Falls · The Palais Garnier · The Eiffel Tower under construction
Answer: The Palais Garnier
It's famous for its lavish staircase.
Q. Which German castle was the model for the Disney castle?
Options: Neuschwanstein Castle · Big Ben · Tower Bridge · The Eiffel Tower under construction
Answer: Neuschwanstein Castle
The name means 'new swan stone'.
Q. Which cathedral, designed by Gaudí, is still being built?
Options: The Arc de Triomphe · La Sagrada Família · Tokyo Station · Big Ben
Answer: La Sagrada Família
It's been under construction for over 140 years.
Q. What is this colorful park Gaudí made?
Options: The White House · Park Güell · Tower Bridge · The Moulin Rouge
Answer: Park Güell
A park like a candy house from a fairy tale.
Q. What is this Paris venue with the red windmill?
Options: The Eiffel Tower · The Moulin Rouge · The White House · Biltmore Estate
Answer: The Moulin Rouge
The name means 'red windmill'.
Q. What is this grand mansion of America's 'Gilded Age'?
Options: Park Güell · Tokyo Station · Biltmore Estate · The Moulin Rouge
Answer: Biltmore Estate
It's the largest private home in America.
Q. Which New York building looks like a clothes iron?
Options: The Statue of Liberty · The Flatiron Building · The Palais Garnier · Tower Bridge
Answer: The Flatiron Building
A symbol of the earliest skyscrapers.
Q. What is this red-brick Japanese train station built in 1914?
Options: La Sagrada Família · The Titanic · Tokyo Station · The Flatiron Building
Answer: Tokyo Station
A symbol building of Japan's modernization.
Q. Which African waterfall did Livingstone name?
Options: La Sagrada Família · Biltmore Estate · Victoria Falls · The Moulin Rouge
Answer: Victoria Falls
Locals call it 'the smoke that thunders'.
Q. Which ship sank on its first voyage in 1912?
Options: The Flatiron Building · Tower Bridge · The Titanic · The Moulin Rouge
Answer: The Titanic
It was called 'the unsinkable ship', but...
Q. What is this pond painting by Monet?
Options: A Victorian dress · Impression, Sunrise · Sunflowers · Monet's Water Lilies
Answer: Monet's Water Lilies
The masterpiece of Monet, the painter of light.
Q. Which Monet painting gave 'Impressionism' its name?
Options: Impression, Sunrise · Monet's Water Lilies · Sunflowers · A Victorian dress
Answer: Impression, Sunrise
He painted a harbor at sunrise.
Q. What is this swirling night sky Van Gogh painted?
Options: Monet's Water Lilies · Sunflowers · The Starry Night · A Victorian dress
Answer: The Starry Night
It's Van Gogh's most famous painting.
Q. What is this painting of the yellow flower Van Gogh loved?
Options: Sunflowers · The Starry Night · A Victorian dress · Impression, Sunrise
Answer: Sunflowers
Van Gogh painted several sunflower canvases.
Q. What is this ballet work by Tchaikovsky?
Options: A Victorian dress · The Starry Night · Swan Lake · Sunflowers
Answer: Swan Lake
The story of a princess turned into a swan.
Q. What is this clothing of 19th-century European women?
Options: Sunflowers · A Victorian dress · Monet's Water Lilies · Swan Lake
Answer: A Victorian dress
They cinched the waist and puffed out the skirt.
Q. Which games were revived in Athens in 1896?
Options: The World Cup · A world's fair · The World Athletics Championships · The modern Olympics
Answer: The modern Olympics
Coubertin brought the ancient Olympics back to life.