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Board and pieces of Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit is a board game from Canada in which winning is determined by a player's ability to ...

Saturday Dec 15, 1979 to Present
Hittites
Hittites

The Hittites were an Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing first a kingdom i...

1750 BC to 1180s BC
Nanjing Road during Xinhai Revolution

The Xinhai Revolution, also known as the Chinese Revolution or the Revolution of 1911, was a revolut...

Tuesday Oct 10, 1911 to Monday Feb 12, 1912
Martin Luther King Image

Was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in...

Monday Nov 5, 1928 to Thursday Apr 4, 1968
Joe Biden
Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 47th ...

Friday Nov 20, 1942 to Present
Bicycle
Bicycle

A bicycle, also called a bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-powered, pedal-driven, single-tr...

1817 to Present
Facebook Image

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Men...

Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 to Present
Howard Hughes 1938 Image

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, inves...

Sunday Dec 24, 1905 to Monday Apr 5, 1976
Father's Day
Father's Day

Father's Day is a day of honoring fatherhood, paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in...

1908 to Present
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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, ...

Monday Jun 25, 1934 to Present
Ruins of Machu Picchu Inca empire
Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-C...

1438 to 1533
Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, ...

Monday Nov 30, 1874 to Sunday Jan 24, 1965
Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accola...

Wednesday Jun 4, 1975 to Present
Simon Bolivar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte-Andrade y Blanco (24 July 1783 ...

Thursday Jul 24, 1783 to Friday Dec 17, 1830
Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States from 1...

Thursday May 8, 1884 to Tuesday Dec 26, 1972
Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Juventus and captains the...

Tuesday Feb 5, 1985 to Present
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an A...

Thursday Mar 27, 1986 to Present
Shakira Image
Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, businesswoman, and philanthropist...

Wednesday Feb 2, 1977 to Present
Xanax
Xanax

Alprazolam, sold under the brand name Xanax, among others, is a short-acting benzodiazepine. It is m...

1971 to Present
Library
Libraries

The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents. Topics o...

2600 BC to Present
Prince William and Duchess Kate of Cambridge visits Sweden 02 Image

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (William Arthur Philip Louis born 21 June 1982) is a member of the...

Monday Jun 21, 1982 to Present
Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials, MJ, is an American form...

Saturday Feb 16, 1963 to Present
Battle at Soufflot barricades at Rue Soufflot

The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime ...

Wednesday Feb 23, 1848 to Jan, 1848
Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim

Carlos Slim Helú (born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor and phila...

Sunday Jan 28, 1940 to Present
Bactria Map
Bactria

Bactria was an ancient region in Central Asia. Bactria proper was north of the Hindu Kush mountain r...

26th Century BC to 10th Century
Flag of Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic, officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1...

1919 to 1933
Rwandan genocide

The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a mass slaughter of Tutsi an...

Thursday Apr 7, 1994 to Friday Jul 15, 1994
The Hillsborough Memorial

The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal human crush during an association football match at Hillsborou...

Saturday Apr 15, 1989 to Saturday Apr 15, 1989
Statue of Waghya at Raigad Fort
Waghya

Waghya, (meaning tiger in Marathi), was a mixed-breed pet dog of Maratha king Shivaji Maharaj, known...

1670s to 1680
Vodafone logo
Vodafone

Vodafone Group plc is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office is l...

Monday Sep 16, 1991 to Present
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfg...

Tuesday Jan 27, 1756 to Wednesday May 11, 1791
Raúl Castro Image
Raúl Castro

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician who is currently serving as the First Secretary of the...

Wednesday Jun 3, 1931 to Present
FIFA logo

The FIFA World Cup was first held in 1930, when FIFA, the world's football governing body, decided t...

Sunday Jul 13, 1930 to Present
Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 - image

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person t...

Tuesday Aug 5, 1930 to Saturday Aug 25, 2012
Kaka
Kaká

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born 22 April 1982, commonly known as Kaká) or Ricardo Kaká, is a ...

Thursday Apr 22, 1982 to Present
Lacoste logo Image
Lacoste

Lacoste is a French company, founded in 1933 by tennis player René Lacoste and André Gillier. It sel...

Sunday Jan 1, 1933 to Present
Civil War USA Coll
USA civil war

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought between the Union and the Confede...

Friday Apr 12, 1861 to Tuesday May 9, 1865
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Meditation

Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness or focusing the ...

5th Millenium BC to Present
Kheops-Pyramid

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid comple...

26th Century BC to Present
HTC Image
HTC

HTC Corporation is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Xindian District, New T...

Thursday May 15, 1997 to Present
Windmills
Wind turbine

A wind turbine, or alternatively referred to as a wind energy converter, is a device that converts t...

1st Century to Present
Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and...

Saturday May 4, 1929 to Wednesday Jan 20, 1993
Palace of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I. It ended the s...

Saturday Jun 28, 1919 to Saturday Jan 10, 1920
Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho

Brazilian former professional footballer and ambassador for Barcelona. He played mostly as an attack...

Friday Mar 21, 1980 to Present
Etruscan mother and child

The Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy covered a territory, at its greatest extent, of roughly w...

900 BC to 27 BC
Bernard Arnault

Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault (born March 5, 1949) is a French billionaire business magnate, and art ...

Saturday Mar 5, 1949 to Present
Theodelinda married Agilulf

The Kingdom of the Lombards also known as the Lombard Kingdom; later the Kingdom of Italy, was an ea...

568 to 774
El Castillo (pyramid of Kukulcán)

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for i...

2000s BC to 1697
Brexit
Brexit

Brexit (a portmanteau of "British" and "exit") is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the...

Friday Jan 31, 2020 to Friday Jan 31, 2020
League of Legends logo

League of Legends (LoL) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by R...

Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 to Present
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights a...

1797 to Monday Nov 26, 1883
Carter G. Woodson

Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Associat...

Sunday Dec 19, 1875 to Monday Apr 3, 1950
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Memorial day

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering and honoring the military per...

Saturday May 30, 1868 to Present
Sculpture of Shep

Shep was the name given to a herding dog that appeared at the Great Northern Railway station one day...

1930s to Monday Jan 12, 1942
AirPods
Airpods

AirPods are wireless Bluetooth earbuds designed by Apple. They were first released on September 7, 2...

Wednesday Sep 7, 2016 to Present
Bob Marley Image
Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician. Considered one of the pioneers o...

Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 to Monday May 11, 1981
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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between ...

1941 to 1945
Walt Disney Image
Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pionee...

Thursday Dec 5, 1901 to Thursday Dec 15, 1966
Zlatan Ibrahimović - image

Zlatan Ibrahimović is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for LA Galaxy. Primar...

Saturday Oct 3, 1981 to Present
Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern (born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician who has served as the 40...

Saturday Jul 26, 1980 to Present
Lady Liberty under a blue sky

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a c...

1865 to Present
Donald Trump
Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician who was the 45th president of the U...

Friday Jun 14, 1946 to Present
Eagle of Zeus, Ptolemaic mint

The Ptolemaic Kingdom was an Ancient Greek state based in Egypt during the Hellenistic Period. It wa...

305 BC to 30 BC
Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister ...

Wednesday Oct 27, 1897 to Tuesday May 1, 1945
Best Buy opens its 800th store in Chicago, Illinois
Best Buy

Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richf...

Monday Aug 22, 1966 to Present
First Sino-Japanese War Image

The First Sino-Japanese War, also known as the Chino-Japanese War, was fought between China and Japa...

Wednesday Jul 25, 1894 to Wednesday Apr 17, 1895
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American internet and aerospace entrepreneur, me...

Sunday Jan 12, 1964 to Present
The logo of Adidas with the three stripes - image
Adidas

Adidas AG is a multinational corporation, founded and headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, that...

Thursday Aug 18, 1949 to Present
Placeholder Image of a failed image.

The 1932 Changma earthquake occurred at 10:04:27 local time (02:04:07 UTC) on 25 December. With an e...

Sunday Dec 25, 1932 to Sunday Dec 25, 1932
Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a lea...

Sunday Oct 7, 1900 to Wednesday May 23, 1945
Nelson Mandela Image

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and ph...

Thursday Jul 18, 1918 to Thursday Dec 5, 2013
 Dahomey Amazons

The Dahomey Amazons were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which existed ...

1645 to Nov, 1979
Virus Microscope Infection

SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as-yet-uncertain animal reservoir....

Friday Nov 15, 2002 to Saturday May 1, 2004
KFC
KFC

KFC (short for Kentucky Fried Chicken) is an American fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Lo...

1952 to Present
Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire was a Greek state in Western Asia, during the Hellenistic Period, that existed f...

312 BC to 63 BC
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who develope...

Friday Mar 14, 1879 to Monday Apr 18, 1955
Alfred Nobel Image
Alfred Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish businessman, chemist, engin...

Monday Oct 21, 1833 to Thursday Dec 10, 1896
Bill Gates Image
Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, p...

Friday Oct 28, 1955 to Present
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, popularly known as Kate Middleton, is a member of the British royal...

Saturday Jan 9, 1982 to Present
Warren Buffett

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanth...

Saturday Aug 30, 1930 to Present
United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international pea...

Wednesday Oct 24, 1945 to Present
Sherry Dyson
Sherry Dyson

Sherry Dyson is Mathematical expert. She was known because of his husband Chris Gardner. Chris is a ...

1950s to Present
Greenland

The Denmark expedition, also known as the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, was an ...

Aug, 1907 to Tuesday Jul 21, 1908
Sepp Blatter Image
Sepp Blatter

Joseph "Sepp" Blatter is a Swiss football administrator who was the eighth President of the FIFA (Fr...

Tuesday Mar 10, 1936 to Present
Lula da Silva Image
Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 27 October 1945), popularly known simply as Lula, is a Brazilian pol...

Saturday Oct 27, 1945 to Present
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami

The 1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami resulted from the volcanic activities of Mount Unzen (in the S...

Monday May 21, 1792 to May, 1792
Dollar Tree
Dollar Tree

Dollar Tree, formerly known as Only $1.00, is an American multi-price-point chain of discount variet...

1986 to Present
Current Bhutan flag

The national flag of Bhutan is one of the national symbols of Bhutan. The flag features a dragon fro...

1949 to Present
Photograph taken showing the body of Will Brown after being burned by a white lynch mob - Red Summer
Red Summer

Red Summer is the period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacis...

Apr, 1919 to Dec, 1919
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large terr...

27 BC to 395
Sooronbay Jeenbekov

Sooronbay Sharipovich Jeenbekov is a Kyrgyz politician, and the President of Kyrgyzstan. He official...

Sunday Nov 16, 1958 to Present
Depiction of the earthquake in an engraving from 1696, possibly showing Catania - 1693 Sicily earthquake

The 1693 Sicily earthquake struck parts of southern Italy near Sicily, Calabria, and Malta on Januar...

Sunday Jan 11, 1693 to Sunday Jan 11, 1693
Romulus and his twin brother Remus
Roman Kingdom

The Roman Kingdom, also referred to as the Roman monarchy, or the regal period of ancient Rome, was ...

750s BC to 509 BC
Linux logo Tux Image
Linux

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating...

Tuesday Sep 17, 1991 to Present
Willis Carrier Image

Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an American engineer, best known f...

Sunday Nov 26, 1876 to Saturday Oct 7, 1950
Prince Harry Image
Prince Harry

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charl...

Saturday Sep 15, 1984 to Present
Ancient China
Ancient China

This is a timeline of Ancient Chinese dynasties, comprising important legal and territorial changes ...

21st Century BC to 221 BC
Penicillin
Penicillin

Penicillin (PCN or pen) is a group of antibiotics, derived originally from common moulds known as Pe...

1928 to Present
Samsung wordmark (Logo) - image
Samsung

Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It compr...

Tuesday Mar 1, 1938 to Present
Pablo Picasso image
Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and...

Monday Jun 10, 2019 to Sunday Apr 8, 1973
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