Unexpected Winners
At the 1980 Winter Olympics, this U.S. team shocked the heavily favored Soviet hockey team in the event later called the “Miracle on Ice.”
Who are the Men's Hockey Team?
Founded in 1636, this is the oldest university in the United States, a fact that their alumni looooooooove to tell you.
What is Harvard?
This massive communist superpower dissolved in 1991 into 15 independent republics.
What is the Soviet Union?
This mammal lays eggs rather than giving birth to live young, making it one of only a few living monotremes.
What is the Platypus?
During a Christmas Eve office party, a New York police officer becomes trapped in a skyscraper taken over by terrorists.
What is Die Hard?
This candidate unexpectedly won the 1948 U.S. presidential election after newspapers famously predicted his defeat.
Who is Harry Truman?
This university in New Haven, Connecticut is one of the eight Ivy League schools.
What is Yale?
This East Asian nation ceased to exist after World War II when it was divided into North and South.
What is Korea?
This animal has the largest brain of any creature known to have lived on Earth.
What is a sperm whale?
Twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a young defendant, with nearly the entire film unfolding in a single jury room over one evening.
What is 12 Angry Men?
This small film about a boxer went the distance and won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1976, defeating several larger studio productions.
What is Rocky?
This university in England counts dozens of prime ministers and famous scientists among its alumni and is the older of England's two most famous rivals.
What is the University of Oxford?
This country existed from 1949 to 1990 and was commonly known as East Germany.
What is the German Democratic Republic?
This animal's fingerprints are so similar to humans' that they have reportedly confused forensic investigators.
What is the koala?
This George Lucas film follows teenagers cruising, driving, and searching for romance and adventure during one summer night in California.
What is American Graffiti?
It's not from the bottom of the ocean, but this computer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a landmark 1997 match.
What is Deep Blue?
This Massachusetts university is famous for science and engineering and has a campus across the river from Harvard.
What is MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)?
This country united much of the Balkans for most of the 20th century before breaking apart in the 1990s.
What is Yugoslavia?
This mammal has such a slow metabolism that algae can grow in its fur, creating a tiny ecosystem.
What is the sloth?
During one hot summer day in a Brooklyn neighborhood, racial tensions slowly build until they erupt into violence in this Spike Lee directed masterpiece.
What is Do The Right Thing?
Against overwhelming odds, this racehorse became the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years in 1973.
Who is Secretariat?
This California university was founded during the Gold Rush era and later gave its name to a famous computer valley nearby.
What is Stanford?
This country once controlled modern Slovakia and Chechia before dissolving peacefully in 1993 in the “Velvet Divorce.”
What is Czechoslovakia?
This mammal's babies are called pups, it sleeps while floating, and it sometimes holds hands to avoid drifting apart.
What is the sea otter?
Gary Cooper stars in this western as a sheriff who prepares to leave town with his new bride, but learns that a vengeful outlaw is arriving on the 12 o'clock train, forcing him to search for help that may never come.
What is High Noon?