Books We've All Read
An orphaned boy discovers he is a famous part of a hidden magical world and leaves behind his abusive relatives to attend a boarding school for magic.
Driven by dry desert winds, these seasonal infernos regularly ravage the northern forests and southern canyons of this Pacific coast state.
In 2020, this 7-member vocal powerhouse became the first South Korean group to top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with their smash hit "Dynamite."
This flightless bird native to New Zealand lays the largest egg in relation to its body size of any bird species in the world—weighing up to a quarter of its total weight.
What is the kiwi?
This vehicle is an omnipresent, hyper-reliable compact car from Japan that has been a staple of global driveways for over half a century. It is widely considered the ultimate default choice for students, commuters, and driving enthusiasts alike.
What is a Civic?
This 1925 novel is set in the roaring 20s centered around the life of an eccentric "new money" playboy. After years of chasing his "green light" dreams, his sins catch up to him with a bullet in his back while going for swim.
What is the Great Gatsby
The event was a catastrophic 24-hour ancient natural disaster where a mountain blew its top and deleted a bustling coastal society in Rome from the map using airborne rock and superheated gas.
This 18th-century Austrian child prodigy composed his first symphony at age 8 and his final masterpiece, the Requiem, on his deathbed at just 35.
Who is Mozart?
Before writing The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, this Oxford professor served as a linguist and codebreaker during World War I.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
This track is a massive mid-2000s dance-pop anthem that served as the breakthrough, career-defining number-one hit for a then-rising star from Barbados. Some one go rescue her.
What is SOS.
Set in the 1930's deep south, an innocent black man is wrongfully convicted of raping a white women, largely due to racial prejudice of a small town.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Occurring in 1986 Russia, this event was the most severe industrial and nuclear accident in history, triggered by a routine safety test that went catastrophically wrong in the middle of the night.
What is Chernobyl?
This Motown sibling group shook up the charts in 1970 by becoming the first act to have their first four singles, including "I Want You Back" and "ABC," all hit No. 1.
Commissioned by Thomas Jefferson, the historic 1804 expedition of Lewis and Clark was primarily tasked with finding this legendary, continuous water route to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Northwest Passage? (Also accept What is a water route to the Pacific?)
This medication is a highly potent, fast-acting prescription tranquilizer that slows down the central nervous system. Healthcare providers typically prescribe it for the short-term relief of severe anxiety and panic disorders
What is Xanax?
A charismatic middle-eastern carpenter turns into a traveling public speaker, gathers a dedicated following by performing unexplained miracles, an upsets local authorities by breaking social norms. After a brief but intense period of popularity, he is arrested due to a betrayal by one of his close friends and receives the death penalty
What is the Bible?
An offshore drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico causing the largest marine oil spill in petroleum history.
What is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Who is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?
Like a human fingerprint, no two cats share the same pattern on this specific physical feature, which is textured with a distinct arrangement of bumps and ridges.
What is the nose?
This group is a powerhouse four-member pop phenomenon from Northern Europe that dominated global radio waves in the 1970s with impossibly catchy melodies and elaborately coordinated, glittery stage outfits. With hits such as Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
A brilliant but isolated young boy is recruited to play complex war games in a high-tech training academy. He excels and becomes the top of his class, only to realize the war games were not games at all, unintentionally eradicating an entire alien species.
What is Ender's Game?
In 2020, due to years of institutional neglect, 2,750 tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate caught fire inside a waterfront warehouse in Lebanon. The resulting supersonic shockwave shattered infrastructure up to 10 kilometers away, leaving tens of thousands homeless and killing over 200 people in this City.
What is Beirut?
This white artist infamously beat out Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid MAAD City for Best Rap Album at the 56th Grammy Awards, receiving so much public scrutiny that he later texted Kendrick to apologize.
Who is Macklemore?
The only letter of the English alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of elements
What is the letter J?
This Christopher Nolan film follows a nameless secret agent is recruited into a shadow organization to prevent World War III, but instead of using a standard time machine, the characters use technology that reverses their entropy, causing them to move backward through time while the rest of the world moves forward.