Geography
What is the largest landlocked country in the world by area?
Kazakhstan
What type of rice is traditionally used to make risotto?
Arborio rice
What was the name given to the dramatic Wall Street stock market crash of October 29, 1929?
Black Tuesday
Which fictional African nation is the setting for Black Panther?
Wakanda
Which NFL team completed the only undefeated season, including the playoffs, in the Super Bowl era?
Miami Dolphins (1972)
Which two countries share the longest international land border in the world?
Canada and the United States
What is the Japanese term for the savory taste often described as the fifth basic taste?
Umami
Which major 2008 investment bank filed for bankruptcy, becoming a defining moment of the global financial crisis?
Lehman Brothers
In The Devil Wears Prada, what is the name of the fashion magazine where Andy works?
Runway
Which country unexpectedly won UEFA Euro 1992 after being invited to replace Yugoslavia?
Denmark
Which African country has coastlines on both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?
South Africa
Which French mother sauce is made with milk thickened using a butter-and-flour roux?
Béchamel
What was the name of the 1987 global stock market crash during which the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell approximately 22.6% in one day?
Black Monday
What is the name of the fictional media conglomerate controlled by the Roy family in HBO's Succession?
Waystar Royco
In the 2000 NFL Draft, what overall pick was Tom Brady?
199th overall
What is the name of the sea in the North Atlantic that has no land coastline?
Sargasso Sea
Which Italian cheese is traditionally used in cacio e pepe?
Pecorino Romano
What 1997 crisis began in Thailand after the baht came under pressure and spread across several East and Southeast Asian economies?
Asian financial crisis
What is the name of the newspaper where Clark Kent works as a reporter?
Daily Planet
Which player scored twice for France in the 1998 FIFA World Cup final against Brazil?
Zinedine Zidane
Which three countries share the island of Borneo?
Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei
What is the French culinary term for meat slowly cooked and preserved in its own fat?
Confit
Which highly leveraged hedge fund collapsed in 1998, prompting a Federal Reserve-organized private-sector rescue effort amid fears of wider market disruption?
Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM)
Which South Korean film became the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Parasite
Which Turkish striker scored the fastest goal in men's FIFA World Cup history, after just 11 seconds, in 2002?
Hakan Şükür