music
what is the most sold single record
what is thriller
what game is jumpman from
donkey kong
This 1865 Lewis Carroll novel follows a young girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a world of tea parties and talking cards.
What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
what famous mask wearing band is from Iowa
what is SlipKnot
This 20-sided die is the most important tool in the game, used to determine if your character succeeds or fails at almost any task.
what is D20
what is the correct term for music without vocals
instrumental
what console as of 2025 has the most sells (this is counting hand held)
ps2 (which has 150million)
In this dystopian George Orwell novel, the phrase "Big Brother is Watching You" serves as a constant reminder of government surveillance.
What is 1984?
Located in West Branch, Iowa, this museum and burial site honors the only U.S. President born in the state of Iowa.
who is Herbert Hoover
This iconic, multi-eyed monster is known for its "Anti-Magic Cone" and its ability to shoot different rays from its many eye-stalks.
What is a Beholder?
what does the acronym DJ stand for
disc jockey
who made raycasting a popular coding prosses that made older games look 3d while still using 2d spites
Id software
This 1818 novel, often considered the first work of science fiction, was written by Mary Shelley during a rainy summer in Switzerland.
What is Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus)?
Robert James Waller wrote this 1992 bestseller set in Iowa in just 11 days; it was later adapted into a film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.
The Bridges of Madison County?
When a character reaches 0 Hit Points, they must roll these; three successes mean they stabilize, but three failures mean they die.
What are Death Saving Throws?
what is regarded as the first gothic song
Bella Lugosi is dead
what is the first original proses that made games 3d without 2 sprites.
Polygonal Rendering
This American author and master of "Cosmic Horror" created a terrifying mythology featuring a "Great Old One" known as Cthulhu.
who is H.P Lovecraft
This Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for her novel Gilead, set in a fictional town in southwest Iowa.
Who is Marilynne Robinson?
This is the name of the "vessel" or object that a Lich must use to store its soul in order to achieve immortality.
What is a Phylactery?
who is regarded as making hip-hop a genre
DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash.
what was the first racing game called
wipeout.
This 1764 novel by Horace Walpole is widely considered the first Gothic novel, establishing tropes like ancient curses and crumbling Italian castles.
The Castle of Otranto?
This Iowa city, once known as the "Button Capital of the World," produced 1.5 billion pearl buttons in 1916 alone, made from Mississippi River mussel shells.
What is Muscatine?
Known as the "Archmage of Shadowdale," this legendary wizard is the most famous "Chosen of Mystra" in the Forgotten Realms setting.
Who is Elminster (Aumar)?