Geography
This is the largest country in the world by land area.
What is Russia?
This 1993 blockbuster features a theme park where cloned dinosaurs escape and wreak havoc.
What is Jurassic Park?
This ancient civilization built the pyramids at Giza.
Who were the Ancient Egyptians?
A word like "buzz" or "hiss" that imitates the sound it describes is an example of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
This element makes up roughly 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
Before going solo, Sting fronted this band.
What is The Police?
Nike takes its name from the Greek goddess of this concept.
What is victory?
This is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any U.S. state.
What is Q?
This European country is often described as being shaped like a boot.
What is Italy?
The fictional media conglomerate at the center of Succession has this name.
What is Waystar Royco?
This 1803 transaction approximately doubled the territory of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A word formed from the initial letters of a phrase and pronounced as a word, such as NASA, is called this.
What is an acronym?
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle famously involves a particle's position and this other physical quantity.
What is momentum?
This artist's real name was Farrokh Bulsara.
Who is Freddie Mercury?
This company's name was inspired by the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, although its founders altered the spelling.
What is Google?
A standard pair of dice has this total number of pips.
What is 42?
The world's largest island that is not considered a continent is this one.
What is Greenland?
In The Truman Show, Truman Burbank unknowingly lives his entire life inside a massive television studio located beneath a dome in this fictional town.
What is Seahaven?
The assassination of this Austrian archduke in Sarajevo helped trigger World War I.
Who was Franz Ferdinand?
This punctuation mark shares its name with the Greek word meaning "limb" or "member."
What is a colon?
This organelle is primarily responsible for producing ATP in eukaryotic cells.
What is the mitochondrion (or mitochondria)?
This singer-songwriter wrote "Nothing Compares 2 U," later made famous by Sinéad O'Connor.
Who is Prince?
Before entering the book business, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reportedly considered giving the company this magical-sounding name.
What is Cadabra?
Salvador Dali arrived at a 1955 lecture in Paris driving a white Rolls-Royce stuffed to the roof with nearly 1,000 pounds of this cruciferous vegetable, which he claimed shared a perfect logarithmic spiral with rhinoceros horns.
What is cauliflower?
This Asian country is the world’s largest landlocked nation.
What is Kazakhstan?
This 1988 film blended live‑action and animation and earned an Oscar for its groundbreaking visual effects.
What is "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"?
This empire captured Constantinople in 1453.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This word describes a word or phrase that reads the same forward and backward, such as “racecar.”
What is a palindrome?
Named after a German physicist, this temperature scale begins at absolute zero and does not use the word “degrees.”
What is Kelvin?
The Beatles' final studio album to be recorded, though not their final one released, was this.
What is Abbey Road?
In 1997, Apple acquired this company founded by Steve Jobs, bringing Jobs back to Apple.
What is NeXT?
In Roman numerals, this number is represented by XLIX.
What is 49?
This European country has coastlines on both the Adriatic and Ionian Seas and borders Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, and North Macedonia.
What is Albania?
Three films have won the "Big Five" Oscars: It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and this 1991 film.
What is The Silence of the Lambs?
In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from this country for $7.2 million.
What is Russia?
This term describes a word that is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning and may have a different pronunciation, such as “lead” the metal and “lead” a team.
What is a homograph?
The boundary around a black hole -- beyond which nothing can escape -- is called this.
What is the event horizon?
This jazz trumpeter released the landmark 1959 album Kind of Blue.
Who is Miles Davis?
This company's famous three-pointed star represents its ambition to produce engines for transportation on land, sea, and air.
What is Mercedes-Benz?
Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, this is the only one still largely standing today.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This country is the only nation in the world that borders both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
What is South Africa?
This actor directed and starred in Unforgiven, which won the 1993 Best Picture Oscar.
Who is Clint Eastwood?
The Defenestration of Prague in 1618 helped ignite this European conflict.
What is the Thirty Years' War?
This term describes a word or phrase created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase, such as “silent” becoming “listen.”
What is an anagram?
This planet has the slowest rotation of any planet and spins in the opposite direction from most planets.”
What is Venus?
This legendary guitarist performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock in 1969.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
This global company began in 1889 as a playing-card manufacturer in Kyoto, more than 90 years before releasing the Donkey Kong arcade game.
What is Nintendo?
Excluding jokers, a standard deck contains this many "one-eyed" face cards.
What is 3?