World Geography
This African country has three capital cities: Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Cape Town.
What is South Africa?
This 1961 structure divided a city for 28 years until its fall in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This Beatles album cover features the band crossing a London street in single file, with Paul famously barefoot.
What is Abbey Road?
This 2010 Christopher Nolan film ends on an ambiguous shot of a spinning top that may or may not fall.
What is Inception?
This is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight.
What is the bat?
This is the only country in the world that spans four hemispheres (north, south, east, and west).
What is Kiribati?
This 1917 revolution led to the overthrow of the Russian monarchy and eventually brought the Bolsheviks to power.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This composer wrote "The Four Seasons," a set of four violin concertos depicting each season.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This trilogy, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's novels, was directed by Peter Jackson and filmed in New Zealand.
What is The Lord of the Rings?
This country invented pizza in its modern form, specifically in the city of Naples.
What is Italy?
This strait, one of the world's most critical oil transit chokepoints, separates Iran from the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
This 1953 CIA and MI6-backed coup overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, largely over his nationalization of the oil industry.
What is the 1953 Iranian coup d'état (Operation Ajax)?
This American singer-songwriter is known as "The Boss" and hits like "Born to Run" and "Born in the U.S.A."
Who is Bruce Springsteen?
This director is known for distinctive symmetrical shots and quirky films like "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Moonrise Kingdom."
Who is Wes Anderson?
This board game, first published in 1935, involves buying and trading properties like Boardwalk and Park Place.
What is Monopoly?
This is the only country that borders both France and Spain, tucked in the Pyrenees mountains.
What is Andorra?
This 1980s policy of restructuring in the Soviet Union, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev, aimed at reforming the economy and political system.
What is Perestroika?
This 1971 album by Marvin Gaye, tackling war, poverty, and injustice, is considered one of the most influential soul albums ever made.
What is "What's Going On"?
This 1994 film, told out of chronological order, follows a boxer, a gangster's wife, and two hitmen in Los Angeles.
What is Pulp Fiction?
his is the only food that never spoils, and archaeologists have found edible 3,000-year-old jars of it in Egyptian tombs.
What is honey?
his sea is actually a lake — the largest inland body of water in the world — bordered by Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, and others.
What is the Caspian Sea?
This 1969 event marked the first time humans set foot on the moon, watched live by roughly 600 million people worldwide.
What is the Apollo 11 moon landing?
This composer went completely deaf later in life yet continued to compose, including his famous 9th Symphony.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This 1997 Japanese animated film by Hayao Miyazaki centers on a war between forest gods and industrial humans.
What is Princess Mononoke?
This is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name.
What is Q?