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This form of government grants power to a small group of people, often distinguished by royalty, wealth, or military control
What is an Oligarchy?
This artist is known as the “King of Pop” and released the album Thriller in 1982.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Who is the inventor of Calculus
Who is Isaac Newton or Gottfried Leibniz?
This ancient trade route connected the East and West, facilitating the exchange of silk, spices, and ideas.
What is the Silk Road?
This part of the human body has no pain receptors, even though it controls the rest of your body.
What is the brain?
This psychological phenomenon occurs when people stand by during an emergency because they assume someone else will intervene
What is the Bystander Effect?
This music streaming platform launched in Sweden in 2008 and helped popularize playlist culture.
What is Spotify?
What do you call a 12-sided polygon
What is Dodecagon?
This continent is the only one without a permanent indigenous human population.
What is Antarctica?
Often served with a side of 'slaw,' this classic American sandwich features shredded pork or beef slow-cooked in a tangy sauce.
What is Pulled Pork?
This concept explains why you shouldn't continue a project just because you've already spent money on it that you can't get back.
What is the Sunk Cost Fallacy?
This Netflix series revived interest in Kate Bush’s 1985 song “Running Up That Hill.”
What is Stranger Things?
Which planet in our solar system is the hottest, despite not being the closest to the Sun?
What is Venus?
The Rosetta Stone was the key to deciphering this ancient writing system.
What are Hieroglyphics?
In a famous 1845 poem, this bird perches upon a 'bust of Pallas' and repeats the word 'Nevermore'.
What is a Raven?
This tactic, often used in the US Senate, involves speaking for a long time to obstruct or delay a vote on a bill.
What is a Filibuster?
This singer made headlines in 2024 after becoming the most-awarded artist in Grammy history.
Who is Beyoncé?
Where in the human body would you find the three smallest bones
What is the middle ear?
The "Ring of Fire," known for its frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, is located around the basin of this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What is the name for the plastic or metal tip on the end of a shoelace?
What is an aglet?
What 1905 work argues that the psychological anxiety caused by the doctrine of predestination led individuals to seek worldly success as a 'sign' of their salvation—thereby creating the moral framework necessary for modern industrial capitalism to flourish?
Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
This genre of music originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and is closely associated with Bob Marley.
What is reggae?
The first four digits of the Golden Ratio(φ)
What is 1.618?
This pigment, historically made from crushed semi-precious lapis lazuli stones, was the most expensive blue paint used in Renaissance art.
What is Ultramarine?
Which is the only sea in the world that has no coastlines?
What is the Sargasso sea.