Sports
In basketball, this is the number of points scored by a three-point field goal.
What is 3?
This is the closest star to Earth, providing the light and heat that sustains life on our planet.
What is the Sun?
This 1994 Disney animated film features a young lion named Simba who must reclaim his kingdom from his treacherous uncle Scar.
What is The Lion King?
This is the largest continent on Earth by both land area and population, home to over 4.7 billion people.
What is Asia?
This yellow fruit, one of the world's most popular, is technically a berry and grows in clusters called hands on a large tropical plant.
What is a banana?
This annual cycling race, held in France, is the most prestigious in the world of professional road cycling.
What is the Tour de France?
This is the largest planet in our solar system, known for its Great Red Spot — a storm that has raged for hundreds of years.
What is Jupiter?
This 1997 James Cameron film became the highest-grossing movie of its time and features the famous "I'm the king of the world!" scene.
What is Titanic?
This river, flowing through northeastern Africa, is widely regarded as the longest river in the world at approximately 6,650 kilometers.
What is the Nile?
This Mexican dish, whose name means "little donkey" in Spanish, is a flour tortilla tightly wrapped around a filling of rice, beans, meat, and other ingredients.
What is a burrito?
This swimmer holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals ever won by an individual athlete, with 23 golds.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This is the term for the boundary surrounding a black hole beyond which nothing — not even light — can escape its gravitational pull.
What is the event horizon?
This non-English language film made history at the 2020 Academy Awards by becoming the first ever to win Best Picture, taking home four Oscars total.
What is Parasite (Gisaengchung)?
This small European country, completely surrounded by Italy, is the world's oldest republic and one of the world's smallest nations, perched atop Mount Titano.
What is San Marino?
This French cooking term, meaning "to jump" in English, refers to the technique of quickly frying small pieces of food in a little fat over high heat while tossing them in the pan.
What is sauté?
This country has won the FIFA World Cup the most times, claiming the trophy a record five times as of 2023.
What is Brazil?
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified this body from a planet to a "dwarf planet," causing quite a stir among scientists and the public alike.
What is Pluto?
Considered one of cinema's greatest achievements, this 1941 Orson Welles film is loosely based on the life of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and is famous for its innovative cinematography.
What is Citizen Kane?
This country shares land borders with the most other countries in the world, touching 14 nations across its vast territory spanning two continents.
What is Russia?
This spice, derived from the dried stigmas of the Crocus sativus flower, requires over 75,000 flowers to produce just one pound and is considered the most expensive spice in the world by weight.
What is saffron?
In cricket, a batsman is said to have achieved this feat when they score 100 runs in a single innings — considered one of the sport's greatest individual milestones.
What is a century (or "scoring a hundred")?
This space telescope, launched in 1990 and named after an American astronomer, was the first major optical telescope placed in Earth's orbit and revolutionized our understanding of the universe.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope? (Edwin Hubble)
This Japanese animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003 — the only hand-drawn animated film ever to win the prize at the box office without a wide U.S. release.
What is Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi)?
This narrow strip of land connecting North and South America is home to a famous canal, and its capital city is the only capital in the world that has a rainforest within its city limits.
What is Panama? (Panama City)
This ancient Roman condiment, made from fermented fish, was used so extensively throughout the Roman Empire that it functioned much like salt or soy sauce does today, and is considered a distant ancestor of Worcestershire sauce.
What is garum?