2000s Movies
This 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan featured Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart.
What is The Dark Knight?
This British band famously sang “Hey Jude.”
Who are The Beatles?
This country is both the most populous nation and the largest in East Asia.
What is China?
This 1867 act united Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into a new country.
What is Canadian Confederation?
This molecule carries genetic information in most living organisms.
What is DNA?
This Pixar movie about an aquatic father searching for his son became a classic after its 2003 release.
What is Finding Nemo?
This classic rock anthem begins with the lyric, “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?”
What is “Bohemian Rhapsody”?
This massive mountain range separates Nepal from Tibet.
What are the Himalayas?
This 1989 trade agreement between the U.S. and Canada eventually expanded to include Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
These are the basic structural and functional units of life.
What are cells?
This 2000 Ridley Scott epic won the Oscar for Best Picture and starred Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius.
What is Gladiator?
This band from Boston released More Than a Feeling in 1976.
Who is Boston?
This river, known as the Ganga in India, is considered sacred in Hinduism.
What is the Ganges River?
This U.S. President issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This green pigment allows plants to perform photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
This 2006 Martin Scorsese crime thriller is set in Boston won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is The Departed?
This Fleetwood Mac album, featuring “Go Your Own Way,” became one of the best-selling of all time.
What is Rumours?
This country, shaped like a teardrop, lies just off the southeast coast of India.
What is Sri Lanka?
This 1849 event caused a rush of settlers to California.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This type of cell division produces four genetically unique daughter cells.
What is meiosis?
This 2007 film by the Coen Brothers featured the line, “What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?”
What is No Country for Old Men?
This rock legend is known for setting his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
This Southeast Asian country was once known as Siam.
What is Thailand?
This expedition, led by two men, explored the Louisiana Territory from 1804 to 1806.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
This evolutionary process describes when organisms better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?