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Through the Centuries

To move forward, we have to go backwards.

1

Sporting powdered wigs rose to popularity in the 17th century as a practical way to hide scarring and baldness caused by what disease?

2

Which of the following composers were not born in the 1700s - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven or Johann Sebastian Bach?

3

Initially criticised by leading artists and intellectuals, what was constructed as the centrepiece of the 1889 World's Fair?

4

In 1954, doctors performed the first successful human organ transplant. Which organ was transplanted?

5

Used to collectively describe people born between the early 2010s and mid-2020s, what name based on a Greek letter has been given to the demographic cohort succeeding Generation Z?

Through the Centuries

It’s About Time

Tick tock. Tick tock.

6

To accommodate the slight discrepancies between Atomic Time and Observed Solar Time, what kind of “second” was added to the year on December 31st 2016?

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