Around the World
This tiny country located within Rome is the smallest country in the world.
What is Vatican City?
This organ produces insulin and helps regulate blood sugar.
What is the pancreas?
With 23 gold medals, this swimmer has won more Olympic gold medals than any other athlete.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This chocolate-loving vampire is the mascot of a General Mills breakfast cereal introduced in 1971.
Who is Count Chocula?
A farmhand battles criminals and an evil prince to rescue his true true love, then a scientist creates a companion for his famous monster.
What is The Princess Bride of Frankenstein?
Although the government operates from La Paz, this city is Bolivia’s constitutional capital.
What is Sucre?
The number of these particles in an atom’s nucleus determines which element it is.
What are protons?
This is the only country to have competed in every men’s FIFA World Cup.
What is Brazil?
This silent-film star created and portrayed the character known as the Little Tramp.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
A military lawyer investigates a suspicious death at Guantanamo Bay, then secret agents police alien activity on Earth.
What is A Few Good Men in Black?
This is the only country bordering both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf.
What is Iran?
Geologists use this scale, ranging from talc to diamond, to measure mineral hardness.
What is the Mohs scale?
This New York horse race is the third and final event of American racing’s Triple Crown.
What is the Belmont Stakes?
This French fashion designer popularized the little black dress and introduced the No. 5 fragrance.
Who is Coco Chanel?
A struggling woman is trained for a professional boxing career, then a young getaway driver relies on a personal soundtrack to manage his tinnitus.
What is Million Dollar Baby Driver?
This country has the world’s only national flag that is not quadrilateral.
What is Nepal?
This boundary surrounding a black hole marks the point beyond which nothing can escape.
What is the event horizon?
In 1969, this Australian became the first, and remains the most recent, man to complete a calendar-year Grand Slam during the Open Era.
Who is Rod Laver?
Named after a French philosopher and mathematician, this system identifies points using ordered pairs such as (x, y).
What are Cartesian coordinates?
A ruthless prospector builds a California oil empire, then a smuggler searches for a rare gem during Sierra Leone’s civil war.
What is There Will Be Blood Diamond?
Ouagadougou is the capital of this West African country.
What is Burkina Faso?
Named after a Norse goddess, this element has the atomic number 23 and symbol V.
What is vanadium?
In 1974, this NBA center recorded the league’s first officially recognized quadruple-double.
Who is Nate Thurmond?
This thick bundle of nerve fibres connects the brain’s left and right hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
A World War II squad crosses enemy lines to locate and bring home a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed, then a married woman in a 1917 Irish village begins an affair with a British officer.
What is Saving Private Ryan’s Daughter?