The Royal Quiz

If you’re playing Monopoly competitively, the prize money for the Monopoly World Championship is $20,580 – this is the same amount that is in the game’s bank. The tokens of the game were inspired by charm bracelets.

The world’s first-ever female engineer, Eliya Zamfirescu, graduated from the Royal Academy of Technology Berlin in 1912. She worked at the Geological Institute of Romania for several years before managing a hospital for soldiers. When she retired, she continued her streak of selflessness, becoming an activist for disarmament.

For approximately 200 years, microscope technology remained relatively unchanged. In the 1850s, however, Carl Zeiss, a German engineer, developed improvements for the device! Joseph Jackson Lister also helped eliminate the unequal bending of light hitting the microscope lens, leading to further improvements!