The Usual Suspects
This teenage brother duo solves mysteries in a long-running series that began in 1927 and often involves hidden clues and secret passages.
Who are the Hardy Boys?
Two teenagers meet at a party and make everyone else’s lives dramatically worse.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
His New Deal programs helped respond to the Great Depression.
Who if Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This theory explains how species change over time through natural selection.
What is Evolution?
Margaret Hamilton did double duty in the Wizard of Oz, playing both Miss Gulch and this iconic green villain.
Who is the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba)?
This mystery writer turned sleuth solves crimes in the town of Cabot Cove on Murder, She Wrote.
Who is Jessica Fletcher?
This Danish prince spends so long thinking about revenge that nearly everyone dies first.
Who is Hamlet?
He is the only U.S. president to resign from office after the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This theory describes the origin and expansion of the universe from a single extremely dense point.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
This calm onboard artificial intelligence in 2001: A Space Odyssey begins making lethal decisions while insisting everything is under control. Of course, that would NEVER happen today.
Who is HAL 9000?
This young detective uses logic and encyclopedic knowledge to solve neighborhood cases in Donald J. Sobol’s book series.
Who is Encyclopedia Brown?
In this play that was an inspiration for the television series Succession, a king gives away his power before checking whether his children actually like him.
What is King Lear?
He is known for the “Great Society” programs and major civil rights legislation.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This theory proposed that continents slowly move across Earth’s surface over geological time.
What is Continental Drift?
This authoritarian nurse maintains strict control over a psychiatric ward, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, symbolized by her use of scheduled routines and a glass observation booth.
Who is Nurse Ratched?
This bumbling French detective created by Blake Edwards is famous for tripping through cases with surprising success, usually solving a case involving a famous pink diamond.
Who is Inspector Clouseau ?
“Now is the winter of our discontent” opens this play about a famously scheming English king.
What is Richard III?
His administration is associated with stagflation and the Camp David Accords.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This theory in physics suggests that the fundamental nature of reality may be built from tiny vibrating “strings” rather than point particles.
What is String Theory?
Not associated with the wizarding world, this bitter businessman in It’s a Wonderful Life profits from others’ misfortune and clashes with George Bailey throughout the story.
Who is Mr. Potter?
This masked vigilante is often called “The World’s Greatest Detective” and operates in Gotham City.
Who is Batman?
This larger-than-life, boastful knight in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 is known for his wit, cowardice, and love of drink, and is often considered Shakespeare’s greatest comic creation.
Who is Falstaff?
He was the first U.S. president to win a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This theory in physics describes how light and matter behave at extremely small scales in probabilistic terms.
What is Quantum Theory (Quantum Mechanics)?
This tax-collecting antagonist in the Robin Hood legends enforces Prince John’s rule, imposes harsh levies on the people, and repeatedly clashes with the outlaw who steals from the rich to give to the poor.
Who is the Sherriff of Nottingham?