Currency
This currency is used across most of the European Union and replaced many national currencies in 1999.
What is the Euro?
This game features buying properties, building houses and hotels, and sending opponents to jail.
What is Monopoly?
This food is often sold from carts in New York City and nicknamed a “dirty water” version because of how it is kept warm.
What is a hot dog?
This invention by Thomas Edison made it possible to light homes and streets without flame. Though we are not sure what popped over his head when he had the idea.
What is the light bulb?
Rita Moreno won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in this three-word-titled musical adaptation of a Broadway hit.
What is West Side Story?
This currency is used in Japan and is one of the most traded currencies in the world.
What is the yen?
In this word game, players use letter tiles to form words on a board for points.
What is Scrabble?
This Mexican street food consists of grilled corn on the cob coated with mayo, cheese, chili powder, and lime.
What is elote?
This 15th-century invention by Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized the spread of information by allowing books to be mass-produced.
What is the printing press?
Joel Grey won Best Supporting Actor for playing the flamboyant master of ceremonies in this Berlin-set musical from director Bob Fosse.
What is Cabaret?
This currency is used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein and is known for its stability.
What is the Swiss franc?
This game involves guessing a hidden character by asking yes-or-no questions about appearance and traits.
What is Guess Who?
This Thai street food is a stir-fried noodle dish often made with shrimp, peanuts, bean sprouts, and egg.
What is Pad Thai?
This invention by the Sony Corporation in 1979 allowed people to listen to music privately using portable cassette players.
What is the Walkman?
Robert De Niro won Best Supporting Actor for portraying a young Vito Corleone in this 1974 crime epic.
What is the Godfather II?
This currency is used in India and shares its name with a historical term meaning “silver coin.”
What is the rupee?
This game tests steady hands as players perform “surgery” on a patient named Cavity Sam while avoiding an electric shock.
What is Operation?
This Middle Eastern street food is meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie and often served in pita with vegetables and sauce.
What is shawarma?
This invention, first developed in ancient China, allowed people to find direction using Earth’s magnetic field.
What is the compass?
Meryl Streep won Best Supporting Actress for playing a conflicted wife and mother in this 1979 courtroom drama about divorce.
What is Kramer vs. Kramer?
Prior to 1999, this was the currency in Italy, with an exchange rate of 10,000 of them = basically nothing.
What is the lire?
This game is known more for its elaborate mechanical setup than actual competition, featuring gears, ramps, a falling cage, and pieces of cheese.
What is Mousetrap?
This Vietnamese street food is a baguette sandwich filled with meats, pickled vegetables, and herbs.
What is banh mi?
This invention by Alexander Fleming was discovered accidentally when mold killed bacteria in a petri dish.
What is penicillin?
Morgan Freeman won Best Supporting Actor for playing Eddie “Scrap-Iron” Dupris, a former boxer who becomes a mentor in this Clint Eastwood-directed boxing drama.
What is Million Dollar Baby?