Geography
This term describes the movement of people from rural to urban areas—especially strong in China since 1980.
What is urbanisation?
This Australian city is the most isolated major capital in the world.
What is Perth?
This organ in the human body pumps blood through your circulatory system.
What is the heart?
This American singer-songwriter’s massive “Eras Tour” broke global records and boosted local economies.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This 2023 film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling became the highest-grossing movie directed by a woman.
What is Barbie?
This mountain chain, stretching 7,000 km along South America’s west coast, is the world’s longest.
What are the Andes?
This U.S. state is the only one made up entirely of islands.
What is Hawaii?
This force pulls objects toward the centre of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This Argentinian football legend won the 2022 FIFA World Cup and now plays for Inter Miami.
Who is Lionel Messi?
This animated 2023 sequel follows Miles Morales as he faces The Spot across multiple dimensions.
What is Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?
This Asian capital was formerly known as Edo until 1868.
What is Tokyo?
This sport, invented in Canada in 1891, was originally played with a soccer ball and peach baskets.
What is basketball?
This part of a plant carries out photosynthesis.
What is the leaf? (or What are chloroplasts?)
This South African–born tech entrepreneur owns SpaceX and is known for launching the Starship rocket.
Who is Elon Musk?
This 2023 sci-fi epic by Denis Villeneuve sees Paul Atreides rise to power on Arrakis.
What is Dune: Part Two?
This world-famous canyon in Arizona exposes nearly two billion years of Earth’s geological history.
What is the Grand Canyon?
This bird is the world’s largest and cannot fly.
What is the ostrich?
This simple machine is found in seesaws, crowbars, and scissors.
What is a lever?
This American scientist and TV presenter is known for his phrase “Science rules!”
Who is Bill Nye?
This 2019 animated film from Laika features a yeti named Everest and follows three children travelling across China to return him to Mount Everest.
What is Abominable?
These winds, blowing from subtropical highs to the equator, helped early explorers sail west.
What are the trade winds?
This author wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda.
Who is Roald Dahl?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This British monarch ascended the throne in 2022 following Queen Elizabeth II’s passing.
Who is King Charles III?
This Christopher Nolan film about the “father of the atomic bomb” won multiple Oscars in 2024.
What is Oppenheimer?