Fun Facts
Humans share roughly 60% of their DNA with this common grocery store fruit
What is a banana?
This streaming platform, home to Stranger Things and Wednesday, crossed 300 million subscribers in 2024
What is Netflix?
The powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondria?
Apple, Mango, Banana, Carrot
Carrot (the only vegetable)
This male protagonist attends a school of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Who is Harry Potter?
This is the only body part that cannot heal itself
What is tooth enamel? (or tooth)
This social media platform, originally called "Musically," rebranded and became the most downloaded app globally for several consecutive years
What is TikTok?
This is the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, WhatsApp
LinkedIn — the only one primarily professional/career-focused
This is a literary term for when an author hints at future events earlier in the story
What is foreshadowing?
Oxford's dictionary contains around 170,000 words, but the average person only actively uses this many
What is 20,000 words? (or 15,000–30,000 range)
Oppenheimer won Best Picture at this award ceremony in 2024 — the 96th of its kind
What is the Academy Awards (Oscars)?
Einstein's famous equation relating energy, mass, and the speed of light
What is E=mc²?
Repetition, balance, breathlessness, logos
Logos, not a part of the six rhetorical tools learned at the beginning of COMM 103
This Shakespeare play features the line "What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet"
What is Romeo and Juliet? (Act 2, Scene 2)
This country has the most natural lakes in the world, containing about 60% of the global total
What is Canada?
This 2024 science fiction film, directed by Denis Villeneuve, was the second part of a story set on a desert planet called Arrakis
What is Dune: Part Two?
This natural phenomenon occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Earth and the Sun
What is a solar eclipse?
Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Mother Teresa, Elon Musk
Elon Musk — the only one who has never won a Nobel Prize
This Shakespeare play features the line "To be or not to be, that is the question"
What is Hamlet? (Act 3, Scene 1)
A group of crows is called this, fitting their dark reputation
What is a murder?
This Filipino boxing legend, also a former senator, is widely considered one of the greatest boxers of all time
Who is Manny Pacquiao?
The scientific term for animals that maintain a constant internal body temperature regardless of environment
What are endotherms (or homeotherms)?
SDG 1, SDG 4, SDG 7, SDG 13
SDG 7 — the others deal with people (poverty, education, climate); SDG 7 is about affordable clean energy (reasonable explanations are accepted)
George Orwell's 1984 introduced this term for a government that surveils and controls everything
What is Big Brother?