From the book:
What are the Seven Wonders of the World and 100 Other Great Cultural Lists, by Peter D’Epiro and Mary Desmond Pinkowish
- Who were the 3 sons of Adam and Eve?
- Who are the 3 gods of the Hindu Trinity (the Trimurti)?
- What are Kepler’s 3 Laws of Planetary Motion?
- Who are the 3 daughters of King Lear?
- What are the 3 stages of Hegel’s dialectic?
- What are the 3 Laws of Thermodynamics?
- Who are the 3 Persons of the Christian Trinity?
- Who are the 3 Musketeers?
- Who were the 3 sons of Noah?
- What are the 3 ages of Vico’s historical cycle?
- Who were the 3 Magi, and what gifts did they bring?
- What are the 3 components of the Freudian psyche?
- What 3 beasts confront Dante in Canto 1 of the Inferno?
- Who were the 3 Furies?
- Who were the 3 members of the First Triumvirate?
- Who were the 3 members of the Second Triumvirate?
- What are Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion?
- What were the 3 Temptations of Christ?
- Who were the 3 Fates?
- What were the 4 elements and their associated humors?
- What are the 4 voyages of Lemuel Gulliver?
- What are the 4 conic sections?
- What are the 4 sections of a symphony orchestra?
- What were the 4 Freedoms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
- What were the 4 chief winds in ancient Greece?
- What are the 4 Noble Truths of Buddhism?
- Which 4 U.S. Presidents were assassinated—and who were their killers?
- What are the 4 fundamental forces?
- Who are the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
- Who were the Big Four, and what nations did they represent at the Paris Peace Conference (1919)?
- Who were the 4 Brontë siblings?
- Who were the 4 Evangelists, and what were their symbols?
- What are the 4 properties of a musical tone?
- What are the 4 parts of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and their associated elements?
- What are the 4 Last Things?
- What are the 5 Pillars of Islam?
- What were the 5 events of the ancient Olympic pentathlon?
- What are the 5 basic positions of the feet in classical ballet?
- Which were the 5 Civilized Tribes?
- What are the 5 classical architectural orders?
- Who were the Russian composers known as the Mighty Five?
- What were the 5 rivers of the classical underworld?
- What are the 6 flavors of quarks?
- Who were the 6 wives of Henry VIII?
- Who were the 6 French composers known as Les Six?
- What were the 6 major European invasions of Russia since the days of Peter the Great?
- What are the 6 trigonometric functions?
- Which were the 6 Iroquois (or Allied) Nations?
- What are the 6 ranges of the human voice?
- Which were the 6 Axis Powers in World War II?
- What are the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
- What were the works of the 7 days of Creation?
- What were the 7 Hills of Rome?
- What were the 7 Liberal Arts of the medieval curriculum?
- Where do the English names of the 7 days of the week come from?
- What are the 7 kinds of plane triangles?
- What are the 7 main levels of taxonomic classification?
- Which 7 European nations were the main colonizers of Africa in 1914?
- What are the 7 sacraments?
- Who were the 7 against Thebes?
- What are the 7 Heavens of the Muslims made of—and who presides over each?
- Who were the 7 Sages of Greece?
- What are the 7 Deadly Sins?
- What are the 7 Virtues?
- What are the 7 Ages of Man according to Shakespeare?
- What were the 7 metals of alchemy and their associated gods and planets?
- What were the 7 French dynasties?
- What are the 7 voyages of Sinbad the Sailor?
- What are the 7 Last Words of Christ?
- What are the components of the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism?
- Who were the American artists known as The Eight?
- What are the 8 Beatitudes?
- Who were the 9 great gods of ancient Egypt (The Great Ennead)?
- What were the 9 royal houses of England after 1066?
- Who were the 9 Muses, and what were their associated arts?
- What are the 9 orders of angels (from lowest to highest)?
- What are the 9 Confucian Classics?
- Who were the 9 Worthies?
- Who were the 9 Lyric Poets of ancient Greece?
- What are the 9 planets, and how long do they take to orbit the sun?
- What are the 9 Circles of Dante’s Inferno?
- What are the 10 Commandments?
- What were the 10 major U.S. wars and their dates?
- What were the 10 Plagues of Egypt?
- Which were the 11 states of the Confederacy?
- What were the Latin names of the 12 months—and what did they mean?
- What were the 12 Tribes of Israel?
- Who were the 12 Olympian gods and their Roman equivalents?
- What are the 12 main branches of the Indo-European language family?
- What were the 12 Labors of Heracles?
- Who were the 12 Apostles?
- Who were the 12 Knights of the Round Table?
- What are the 12 signs of the zodiac and the sources of their names?
- Which were the 13 original U.S. states, and what do their names mean?
- What are the 13 Articles of Faith of Judaism?
- What were the 14 Points of Woodrow Wilson?
- Which were the 15 decisive battles of the world according to historian Edward Creasy in 1851?
- What are the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union and their capitals?
- What are the unofficial Homeric titles of the 18 chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses?
- What are the 20 regions of Italy?
- What are the 24 letters of the ancient Greek alphabet?