Land Down Under
This city in southeastern Australia, home to the artificial Lake Burley Griffin, serves as the capital of Australia.
What is Canberra?
This body of water, which serves as a maritime border between Russia and the United States, might have been responsible for the migration of early humans into the Americas during the last Ice Age.
What is the Bering Strait?
This psychological phenomenon occurs when a person persistently feels that they are under-deserving of success and incompetent at what they do, even with evidence to the contrary.
What is Imposter Syndrome?
With hits like Billie Jean and Beat It, this Michael Jackson album remains the best selling album ever, globally.
What is Thriller?
This American holds the record for the most Olympic medals ever won by a single athlete, with a total of 28 medals across four Olympic Games.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This name is used to describe a group of mammals, commonly found in various regions in Australia, that nurtures their young in a pouch found in the mother's abdomen.
What are Marsupials?
This island located between the Arctic and the Atlantic oceans is the largest non-continent island in the world, but about 80% of its landmass is covered by an ice sheet.
What is Greenland?
This term describes the tendency of people to seek out, interpret, and remember information that supports what they believe while downplaying evidence that does not support what they believe.
What is Confirmation Bias?
This 28-time Grammy winning American record producer, who also worked with musical icons Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, produced a trio of albums for Michael Jackson that launched him into solo superstardom.
Who is Quincy Jones?
This Scandinavian is widely considered to be one of the greatest chess players of all time and only trails Garry Kasparov in time spent as the highest-rated chess player in the world.
Who is Magnus Carlsen?
In 2021, the International Olympic Committee approved this Australian city's bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympics, making it the 3rd Australian city to do so.
What is Brisbane?
This precious metal is the most abundant element by mass on Earth as a whole, with the majority concentrated in the Earth's core.
What is Iron?
This theory in normative ethics prescribes actions that produces the greatest overall good for the greatest number of people.
Widely regarded as the most expensive music album ever made, this 2001 release was Michael Jackson's final studio album before his death in 2009.
What is Invincible?
Babe Ruth, widely considered to be the greatest baseball player of all time, became a first base coach for this MLB team for one year after his retirement.
Who are the (Brooklyn) Dodgers?
This song, written by a Scottish-born Australian, replaced God Save the Queen as Australia's national anthem in 1974.
What is Advance Australia Fair?
This horseshoe-shaped zone on Earth houses about two-thirds of the world's volcanos and is responsible for producing about 90% of the world's total earthquakes.
What is the (Pacific) Ring of Fire?
This philosophical problem-solving principle states that simplest explanations with the least amount of assumptions is usually the best.
What is Occam's Razor?
This 1995 Michael Jackson hit, per the Guinness World Records, is the first song to debut at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
What is You Are Not Alone?
Lionel Messi, the Argentine footballing legend, famously holds the record for the most goals scored in a calendar year, with this many goals scored in 2012 for club and country.
What is 91?
The Sydney Opera House, widely regarded as one of the world's most famous buildings, was received this designation in 2007, granting it international conservation and protection.
What is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Lake Nyos, along with a couple of other lakes in Africa, are prone to this type of natural disaster, where large disturbances in the water trigger massive clouds of CO2, which is capable of suffocating livestock and humans due to oxygen displacement.
What is a limnic eruption?
Wait, are you telling me that New Zealand is not located above Australia? This psychological phenomenon, attributed to fallacies in reconstructive memory, occurs when a mass group of people remember something incorrectly in the same way.
What is the Mandela Effect?
On December 14th, 1969, The Jackson 5 played their first number-one hit I Want You Back on this popular television variety show.
What is The Ed Sullivan Show?
The group of Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, and Novak Djokovic all have arguments as the greatest tennis player of all time, but this Englishman, although not quite as accomplished as the aforementioned trio, rounds out the "Big Four" of tennis during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Who is Andy Murray?