Geography
This river, the second-longest in the world, flows through 9 countries.
What is the Nile?
The part of the human brain responsible for balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
his actor voiced both Mufasa in The Lion King
Who is James Earl Jones?
The first manned moon landing occurred in this year.
What is 1969?
This board game was banned in the Soviet Union for decades because it was considered “a symbol of Western capitalism.”
What is Monopoly?
This desert is technically the largest in the world.
What is Antarctica?
In probability, this problem involves choosing between doors?
What is Monty Hall?
In Inception, Cobb’s totem was this object.
What is a spinning top?
This city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
When Napoleon’s army invaded Egypt in 1799, French soldiers discovered this artifact that later became the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The deepest point on Earth is this trench in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Mariana Trench?
This unsolved problem in mathematics asks whether every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers.
What is the Goldbach Conjecture?
In The Matrix, Neo’s real name was this.
What is Thomas Anderson?
This war was fought between Athens and Sparta in the 5th century BCE.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
The word “nerd” was first coined by this famous children’s author.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
This U.S. state has the longest coastline of any state
What is Alaska?
This rare five-letter word describes when three celestial bodies line up.
What is syzygy?
The “Red Room” in Twin Peaks is also known by this surreal name.
What is the Black Lodge?
When the Great Library of Alexandria was destroyed, much of its knowledge was lost forever. But fragments of Greek science and philosophy survived because they had been translated into this language and preserved in the Islamic Golden Age.
What is Arabic?
This video game was the first ever played in space (aboard a Soyuz spacecraft).
What is Tetris?
This mountain is the tallest from base to peak, not sea level to peak.
What is Mauna Kea (Hawaii)?
This paradox in cosmology asks why the night sky is dark if the universe is infinite and filled with an endless number of stars.
What is Olbers’ Paradox?
In Fight Club (1999), director David Fincher spliced in brief single-frame appearances of this object before it officially appears in the story.
What is a Starbucks coffee cup?
This empire’s capital was Tenochtitlán.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This word is the only English word that ends in “mt.”
What is dreamt?