Holidays
This Mexican holiday celebrating an inspirational battle is more widely celebrated in the United States than its country of origin.
What is Cinco de Mayo?
This popular science-fiction film was based on the eponymous 1990 novel by Michael Crichton.
What is Jurassic Park?
This gas is the most common element in the makeup of stars.
What is hydrogen?
The word "democracy" originates from the language of this country where it was first invented.
What is Greece?
This Middle Eastern city was home to the House of Wisdom, an ancient library destroyed during a Mongol invasion.
What is Baghdad?
This unofficial holiday celebrates a mathematical constant that proponents claim is superior to a more famous counterpart.
What is Tau Day?
Poor Richard's Almanack was written under the pen name "Richard Saunders" by this American founding father.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This boundary surrounding a black hole is the area in which nothing, not even light, can escape its gravity.
What is an event horizon?
This activist and progressive politician ran for president of the United States under the Green Party in 2012, 2016 and 2024.
Who is Jill Stein?
This special administrative region of China is a one of the world's most important economic centers and was controlled by the United Kingdom until 1997.
What is Hong Kong?
This Hindu holiday celebrates the arrival of spring, and is also known as the Festival of Colors.
What is Holi?
Guy Montag is the protagonist of this 1950s dystopian novel.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
This famous unsolvable orbital mechanics problem was first written about by Isaac Newton.
What is the three-body problem?
This constitutional monarchy's legislature is known as the National Diet.
What is Japan?
With a population of about 2 million, this city is Japan's fifth-largest and the largest on the northern island it sits on.
What is Sapporo?
This non-religious winter holiday was established by Maulana Karenga, a member of the Black Power movement.
What is Kwanzaa?
This book, written in 1852, had a major impact on the public perception of slavery, possibly even contributing to the start of the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Makemake, named after the creator god of Rapa Nui mythology, is one of these objects.
What is a dwarf planet?
This politician was elected in 2024 as the first female leader of the most populous Spanish-speaking country.
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?
This most populous city in South Asia is located on the western coast of India's state of Maharashtra.
What is Mumbai?
This Islamic festival marks the end of the month of fasting during Ramadan.
What is Eid al-Fitr?
This 20th-century author used her hometown of Eatonville, Florida as a setting in multiple of her stories, portraying African American struggles at the time.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
A massive explosion large enough to wipe out any major city at the time, this event took place in central Siberia in 1908.
What is the Tunguska event?
This year marked the end of the long-standing monarchy in this Middle Eastern nation located next to the Persian Gulf.
What is 1979?
Naypyidaw, the new capital of this nation, is relatively uninhabited for its impressive infrastructure, including a usually empty 20-lane highway.
What is Myanmar?