TV/Movies
This AMC drama, set in the 1960s advertising world, follows Don Draper, whose mysterious past slowly unravels.
What is Mad Men?
This artist’s fanbase is known as the “Hive,” and her 2022 album Renaissance paid homage to dance and house music.
Who is Beyoncé?
10 seconds: Solve for x: 3x−7=11
What is 6?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell” because it produces most of the cell’s ATP.
What is the mitochondria?
This 1648 treaty ended the Thirty Years’ War and is often credited with establishing the modern system of sovereign nation-states.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
In this 2014 film, a washed-up actor famous for playing a superhero attempts a Broadway comeback, portrayed by Michael Keaton.
What is Birdman?
This HBO series about a wealthy, dysfunctional media family centers on the Roys and their company Waystar RoyCo.
What is Succession?
10 seconds: A square has side length 5. This is its perimeter.
What is 20?
This law states that for a constant amount of gas at constant temperature, pressure and volume are inversely proportional.
What is Boyle’s Law?
This 1899–1902 conflict saw Britain use concentration camps during its war against two Boer republics in southern Africa.
What is the Second Boer War?
This Netflix sci-fi series features a town where children vanish and a girl with psychokinetic abilities, known only as Eleven, appears.
What is Stranger Things?
This director of Get Out and Us first rose to fame as one half of a sketch comedy duo with Keegan-Michael Key.
Who is Jordan Peele?
30 seconds: A triangle has base 10 and height 6. What is its area?
What is 30?
This principle states that it is impossible to simultaneously know both the exact position and exact momentum of a particle.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
This 1932–1933 man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine is widely attributed to Stalin’s policies of forced collectivization.
What is the Holodomor?
This 2007 film by Paul Thomas Anderson stars Daniel Day-Lewis as oilman Daniel Plainview, whose ambition leads to isolation and madness.
What is There Will Be Blood?
This 2016 album by Frank Ocean, released as a visual album on Apple Music, followed his long hiatus after Channel Orange.
What is Blonde?
10 seconds: If f(x)=5x, this is f^1(x).
What is 5?
This boundary separates Earth’s crust and mantle and is named after a Croatian seismologist.
What is the Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho)?
This 1954 agreement temporarily divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel following French defeat at Dien Bien Phu.
What is the Geneva Accords?
This FX series, starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, follows two deep-cover Soviet spies posing as an American married couple during the Cold War.
What is The Americans?
This 2022 album by Kendrick Lamar features the track “The Heart Part 5” (released ahead of it) and explores themes of trauma and identity, marking his final project with Top Dawg Entertainment.
What is Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers?
30 seconds: If f(x) = 2x² − 3x, what is f(2)?
What is 2?
This principle states that no two electrons in an atom can have the same set of four quantum numbers.
What is the Pauli Exclusion Principle?
This 1794 law in revolutionary France abolished slavery in French colonies, only to be reversed and later reinstated permanently in 1848.
What is the Abolition of Slavery in the French colonies (1794 decree)?