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World Fairs

YGK These World's Fairs

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The city and year of the first ever “World’s Fair” London, 1851
The event largely organized by Prince Albert and held in the “Crystal Palace” The Great Exhibition
The structure nearly three times larger than St. Paul’s Cathedral that housed the Great Exhibition The Crystal Palace
The exhibitor who brought a prototype of his “Navy” pistol to the 1851 fair Samuel Colt
The pioneer of daguerreotypes who was an exhibitor at the 1851 fair Mathew Brady
The ship that won a boating race held in conjunction with the Great Exhibition, leading to the "America's Cup" America
The feature that cost a penny to use and debuted as the world’s first of them Pay toilets (or modern pay toilets)
The year the Crystal Palace was destroyed by a fire 1936
The city and year of the iconic World's Fair featuring the Eiffel Tower Paris, 1889
The centerpiece of the 1889 fair and the tallest structure in the world at the time The Eiffel Tower
The elaborate interpretation of Egypt’s capital that was an exhibit on the Champ de Mars Streets of Cairo
The popular attraction at the 1889 fair in which various indigenous and other non-white people were put on display A “human zoo”
The reason the Eiffel Tower plans to dismantle were scrapped 20 years later Its usefulness in telegraphy
The city and year of the fair nicknamed the “Columbian Exposition” Chicago, 1893
The event that was given its nickname to honor the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyages World’s Columbian Exposition
The pool representing Columbus’s voyage that served as the 1893 fair's centerpiece Massive pool
The debut attractions at the 1893 fair The first Ferris Wheel, first chocolate brownies, and first “squished penny” souvenirs
The mayor of Chicago who was assassinated during the final days of the 1893 fair Carter Harrison
The serial killer and his "Murder Castle" often tied to the 1893 fair (connection likely minimal) H. H. Holmes
The book by Erik Larson that details the 1893 fair and associated crimes The Devil in the White City
The city and year of the fair held to honor the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase St. Louis, 1904
The debut at the 1904 fair The X-ray machine
The popular song inspired by the 1904 fair “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis”
The 1904 fair featured daily re-enactments of battles from this war, often with real participants Second Boer War
The city originally awarded the 1904 Summer Olympics before they were re-located to St. Louis Chicago
The novelist who suffered a brain hemorrhage while visiting the 1904 fair and died two days later Kate Chopin
The city and year of the first full-scale world’s fair after World War II Brussels, 1958
The lasting symbol of the Brussels fair, a 335-foot model of a unit cell of an iron crystal The Atomium
The Atomium is approximately how many times larger than the iron cell it represents? 165 billion times larger
The piece of electronic music by Edgard Varèse played in a specialized pavilion designed by Le Corbusier Poème électronique
The event where the first universal poll to rank the greatest films was held Brussels fair (1958)
The film that topped the universal poll at the Brussels fair Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin
The city and year of the fair focused on technology and aerospace Seattle, 1962
The name of Seattle's 1962 fair Century 21
Structures built for the 1962 fair that are still standing today The Space Needle and a monorail
The building that housed the Project Mercury capsule that took Alan Shepard to space “World of Science” building
The U.S. president who intended to attend the closing of the 1962 fair but was unable to due to the Cuban Missile Crisis John F. Kennedy
The current name for the fairgrounds of the 1962 fair Seattle Center
The city and year of the fair themed around the burgeoning Space Age New York, 1964
The massive stainless-steel globe that served as a key symbol of the 1964 fair The Unisphere
The Pope who allowed Michelangelo’s Pietà to be relocated to the 1964 fair’s Vatican Pavilion Pope John XXIII
The person who designed several animatronic attractions for the 1964 fair, including the first "It's a Small World" ride Walt Disney
The movie in which a pair of observation towers left over from the 1964 fair provide a key plot point Men in Black
The city and year of one of the biggest world fairs in history Montreal, 1967
One highlight of the 1967 fair, a complex of hundreds of interlocking concrete buildings intended as a model community Moshe Safdie’s “Habitat 67”
The architect who designed the U.S. Pavilion (a geodesic dome) at the 1967 fair Buckminster Fuller
The museum the U.S. Pavilion was later converted into The Biosphere
The French president who addressed a crowd in Montreal and declared “Long live a free Quebec!,” angering many Canadian politicians Charles de Gaulle
The city and year of the “specialized” fair focused on energy Knoxville, 1982
The structure built for the 1982 fair, a 266-foot tower topped with a golden sphere The Sunsphere
The debut at the Knoxville fair An early version of the touch screen and the introduction of Cherry Coke
The fictional name for the Sunsphere in an episode of The Simpsons where it was a shop for discount wigs The “Wigsphere”
The city and year the most recent world fair was scheduled for (postponed due to COVID-19) Dubai, 2020 (or 2021)
The artifacts featured in the U.S. pavilion in Dubai Thomas Jefferson’s copy of the Qur’an and a moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission
The person who won the 2021 World Chess Championship held at the Dubai fair Magnus Carlsen
The body that formally opposed the 2021 fair shortly before it began, citing the UAE’s human rights record The European Parliament
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