Science
What planet is known as the Red Planet?
Mars
Who built the first freely programmable computer?
Konrad Zuse
Which band was Freddie Mercury the lead singer of?
Queen
Who co-founded Pixar?
Steve Jobs
Which series follows Walter White becoming Heisenberg?
Breaking Bad
What theoretical radiation is emitted by black holes due to quantum effects?
Hawking radiation
Who is Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude named after?
Claude Shannon
Which instrument was Jimi Hendrix famous for playing?
Electric guitar
Which movie features the quote “May the Force be with you”?
Star Wars
Which fantasy series is based on the books “A Song of Ice and Fire”?
Game of Thrones
What invisible object has gravity so strong that light cannot escape?
A black hole
What is the maximum number of hosts in a /24 IPv4 subnet (usable addresses)?
254
Which Swedish pop group won Eurovision before becoming world famous?
ABBA
Which director made “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs”?
Quentin Tarantino
Which show features the characters Eleven, Mike, and Dustin?
Stranger Things
What force keeps planets in orbit around the Sun?
Gravity
What does HTML stand for?
HyperText Markup Language
Which producer was central to the creation of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”?
Quincy Jones
Which 1999 film popularized “bullet time” visual effects?
The Matrix
In which city is most of “The Wire” set?
Baltimore
Who helped pioneer quantum field theory?
Richard Feynman
In relational databases, what property ensures that either all operations in a transaction are completed or none are?
Atomicity (the "A" in ACID)
Which German band is often credited as a major influence on electronic music and synth-pop?
Kraftwerk
Which Japanese director made “Seven Samurai” and influenced many Western filmmakers?
Akira Kurosawa
Which German sci-fi series uses time travel and a 33-year cycle as its central idea?
Dark