History
This Italian explorer sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 under the Spanish flag, landing in the Americas
Christopher Columbus
This American pop star's massive, record-breaking global concert tour celebrating her career catalog is called "The Eras Tour"
Taylor Swift
This multi-platinum pop star famously made her film acting debut playing the character Ally alongside Bradley Cooper in the 2018 remake of A Star Is Born
Lady Gaga
This mountain range spans Asia and contains the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest
the Himalayas
In biology, this cellular structure is commonly nicknamed the "powerhouse of the cell" for generating energy
mitochondria
He died on the Ides of March in 44 BC
Julius Caesar
This viral movie phenomenon, driven by simultaneous 2023 theatrical release dates, combined a pink doll and an atomic bomb
Barbenheimer
This 1987 romantic drama features the legendary duet "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," which plays during the famous final dance lift
Dirty Dancing
Located in Egypt, this strategic artificial waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea directly to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
This billionaire tech entrepreneur is the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, and famously purchased Twitter
Elon Musk
Signed in 1215, this English document limited the power of the King and laid the groundwork for modern constitutional law
Magna Carta
In 2022, this actor shocked the world by slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during the live Oscars broadcast
Will Smith
This 1994 Quentin Tarantino film features John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson arguing about what a Quarter Pounder is called in France
Pulp Fiction
This is the 2nd longest river in Europe
The Danube
This irrational mathematical constant, approximately equal to 3.14159
Pi (π)
This Chinese dynasty, which ruled from 206 BC to 220 AD, established Confucianism as state doctrine and gave its name to China's majority ethnic group
Han Dynasty
This member of the British royal family stepped away from royal duties and published a bombshell memoir titled Spare
Prince Henry
This director is known for mind-bending, high-concept films like Inception, Interstellar, and Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan
This massive engineering marvel, opened in 1914, uses a system of locks to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Panama Canal
This fictional, highly destructive mineral from the DC Comics universe comes in various colors, but its most famous green variety can strip Superman of his superpowers
Kryptonite
This Italian navigator and explorer was the first to demonstrate that the Americas were a distinct continent rather than the eastern coast of Asia, a realization that led mapmakers to name the New World after him
Amerigo Vespucci
This massively popular social deduction video game became a global pop culture phenomenon during 2020 lockdowns, popularized by streamers accusing each other of being "sus"
Among Us
This British singer-songwriter made a cameo appearance as a singing soldier in Game of Thrones before his chart-topping music appeared in the romance film Me Before You
Ed Sheeran
This landlocked European state is uniquely co-ruled by two princes: the Bishop of Urgell and the President of France
Andorra
This iconic 1980s puzzle invented by a Hungarian architecture professor has 43 quintillion possible configurations but can technically be solved in 20 moves or fewer
Rubik's Cube
This 1945 conference saw the "Big Three" leaders—Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin—meet in a Crimean resort town to plan the post-WWII reorganization of Europe
Yalta Conference
This specific late-night television segment, hosted by James Corden, became a viral internet sensation by having mega-celebrities like Adele and Paul McCartney sing along to their own hits in a moving vehicle
Carpool Karaoke
This American pop star brought "Can't Stop the Feeling!" to the top of European charts when he wrote and performed it for the 2016 animated movie Trolls
Justin Timberlake
This strategic body of water, separating Oman and Iran, is a crucial global oil transit chokepoint connecting to the Persian Gulf
Strait of Hormuz
Developed by Mojang, this blocky sandbox video game holds the title of the best-selling video game of all time, surpassing 300 million copies sold
Minecraft
This 1648 diplomatic breakthrough ended the Thirty Years' War and established our modern geopolitical system of state sovereignty
Peace of Westphalia
In 2020, millions of viewers became obsessed with the bitter feud between Carole Baskin and this eccentric big cat keeper
Who is Joe Exotic? (or the Tiger King)
This German pop-rock band, fronted by twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz, dominated European youth culture in the mid-2000s after translating their breakout German hit "Durch den Monsun" into the English single "Monsoon"
Tokio Hotel
This landlocked nation, entirely surrounded by South Africa, is known as the "Kingdom in the Sky" due to its high altitude
Lesotho
This chemical compound, commonly known as glucose, has the molecular formula \(C_6H_{12}O_6\)
sugar (glucose)
This Mesopotamian code of law from around 1750 BC is famous for establishing the legal principle of "an eye for an eye
Code of Hammurabi
This fashion designer birthed one of the internet's greatest memes after leaving a hilariously formatted comment featuring her full name and a purple heart emoji on a Valentine's Day Instagram post by Bella Hadid
Donatella Versace
This Italian composer created the most recognizable whistle in cinema history with his legendary spaghetti western scores, such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Ennio Morricone
This vast, deep lake in Siberia holds roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface freshwater, making it the largest by volume
Lake Baikal
This pioneering British computer scientist cracked the Enigma code during WWII and formalized early concepts of AI
Alan Turing
This series of commercial and defensive networks among merchant guilds dominated maritime trade along the coast of Northern Europe from the 13th to the 17th centuries
Hanseatic League
This niche internet aesthetic, combining elements of pastoral English life, vintage clothing, and traditional crafts, exploded in popularity on TikTok in 2020
Cottagecore
This English pop star and former member of Take That had a massive global hit in 1997 with "Millennium," which famously sampled the opening strings from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice
Robbie Williams
Separating the countries of Sweden and Finland, this northern arm of the Baltic Sea is the northernmost basin of the sea
Gulf of Bothnia
This particle is the fundamental unit of electric charge and orbits the nucleus of an atom
electron
This 1815 battle in modern-day Belgium marked the final military defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, forcing his permanent exile to the remote island of Saint Helena
What is the Battle of Waterloo
After winning the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden in 2012 with the global smash hit "Euphoria", this pop star made history in 2023 by winning the contest a second time with her song "Tattoo"
Loreen
This German composer is the mastermind behind some of Hollywood's most epic modern themes, winning Oscars for his work on both The Lion King and Denis Villeneuve's Dune
Hans Zimmer
This autonomous arctic archipelago belongs to Norway, lies far north of the mainland, and is famous for its polar bear population
Svalbard
In computing, this unit of digital information is equal to 1,024 gigabytes
terabyte