Movies
Coffee
Seattle & Austin
Trains
Cloud & Rain
100
In the movie ‘All the President’s Men’, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman broke this story
What is Watergate Scandal?
100
Most popular coffee drink in South India.
Kumbakonam degree filter coffee
100
The Purple & Gold team had one of these as their first Mascot:
Vikings, Indians, Huskies, Frosties
What are Indians?
100
World’s slowest bullet train is between these two cities
What is San Francisco & Los Angeles?
100
I am very happy. I am here.
What is cloud 9?
200
This Bollywood's most popular film clocked over 1,000 weeks at a Mumbai cinema theater.
What is 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' (The Brave Hearted Will Take Away The Bride)?
200
Most popular coffee drink in Europe.
Cappuccino
(Espresso is most popular in the world)
200
Seattle is (allegedly) home to the world’s first gas station. Which year was this gas station put up?
1907, 1911, 1912, 1918
What is 1907?
200
Fastest trains today fly because of this
What is maglev?
Maglev trains use magnetism to levitate above the tracks on which they travel.
200
Microsoft's cloud computing platform released in 2010
What is Azure?
300
Tom Cruise goes by this name in the Mission Impossible series.
What is Ethan Matthew Hunt?
300
This country is the largest producer of coffee.
What is Brazil?
300
This is a festival that celebrates the convergence of tech, film, music, education, and culture. Usually happens in mid-March every year.
What is South by Southwest aka SXSW?
300
What was the term that was coined when steam engines were introduced, and people had to compare it with current day transportation.
What is horsepower?
300
Raindrops are not actually shaped like teardrops. In fact, the most common raindrop is of this shape.
What is a hamburger?
also Spherical
400
This is a technique in photography.
What is Photomontage?
You take several photos of one subject and arrange them together to create a single image.
400
Light Roasts, Dark Roasts - one has more caffeine.
What is Light Roast?
More roasting - loses a little caffeine.
400
This popular drum weighs over 500 pounds, is eight feet in diameter, and is almost a century old.
What is Big Bertha Drum?
400
Slowest train in the world is in India. It runs at this speed
What is 10 km per hour?
The Mettupalayam-Ooty Nilgiri passenger train is the slowest train, running at 10 kilometers per hour, or 6.2 miles per hour.
400
This type of cloud is composed entirely of ice crystals and is found at very high altitudes.
What is Cirrus?
500
Patriot Games movie was shot at this university
What is Unites States Naval Academy?
500
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world.
The coffee is roasted after being eaten, digested and expelled by the Palm Civet. They only eat the very best, sweetest and freshest coffee cherries.
Palm Civet is native to this country.
What is Indonesia?
500
This is the original name of the city of Seattle
Washington, New York, Springfield, Salem
What is New York?
500
A luxurious train between these two European cities
What is Paris and Venice?
Train name - Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
500
The African nation of Botswana name their currency as Pula to indicate that this is precious for Botswana.
What is rain?
600
Matrix code idea was made out of this
What is Japanese Sushi Recipes?
600
This country consumes the most coffee per person.
What is Finland?
(12 kg/person/year)
600
John Goodenough, a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering, at UT Austin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 for his part in developing this.
What is lithium-ion battery?
600
This phone company born from a railroad company
What is Sprint?
SPRINT (Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications)
600
There’s a spot in this country on Earth that has never seen rain.
What is Northern Chile/ Southern Peru?