Geography
Africa's tallest peak, it is a dormant volcano in Tanzania.
What is Kilimanjaro?
This 2019 South Korean film was the first non-English-language movie to win Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
Odysseus spends ten years trying to get home to this island kingdom.
What is Ithaca?
This ancient wonder in Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.
What is the Great Pyramid (or Pyramid of Khufu/Cheops)?
The love of money is the root of all evil was said in this famous book?
What is the Bible?
It is the only state in the United States that borders exactly one other state.
What is Maine?
With four Best Actress wins, she holds the record for most acting Oscars.
Who is Katharine Hepburn?
In this Dostoevsky novel, the student Raskolnikov murders a pawnbroker and is tormented by guilt.
What is Crime and Punishment?
This 1919 treaty officially ended World War I but imposed harsh reparations on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
What is the name of the vast, cold desert that stretches across parts of northern China and Mongolia?
What is the Gobi Desert?
This strait separates Spain from Morocco
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
Stefani Germanotta is better known by this stage name.
Who is Lady Gaga?
Compiled by his disciples after his death, this collection of Confucius's sayings and conversations is known in Chinese as the Lunyu.
What are the Analects?
The Code of Hammurabi, one of the earliest written legal codes, was created in this ancient Mesopotamian civilization around 1750 BCE.
What is Babylon (or Babylonian Empire)?
In the Sushi Bar, in Building F of the Chase Plano Campus, the server lady greets each customer with this saying
A. Hey Boss
B. Hello Maam/Sir
C. What would you like
D. Hi
A. Hey Boss
Thanks to overseas territories scattered from the Caribbean to the South Pacific, this European country, not Russia, spans the most time zones in the world.
What is France?
France covers 12 time zones, or 13 if you count its Antarctic claim, which beats Russia's 11. Places like French Guiana, Réunion, Tahiti, and New Caledonia are legally part of France, so the sun is almost always up somewhere in the country.
At the 2017 Oscars, La La Land was mistakenly announced as Best Picture instead of this actual winner.
What is Moonlight?
In this Mesopotamian epic, a king of Uruk searches for immortality after his friend Enkidu dies
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This tsar founded St. Petersburg in 1703 as Russia's "window to the West."
Who is Peter the Great?
What is JP Morgan's full name
John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913)
The company's full legal name is JPMorgan Chase & Co., formed in 2000 when J.P. Morgan & Co. merged with Chase Manhattan.
Paired with the Huai River, this mountain range forms the traditional dividing line between northern and southern China.
What are the Qinling Mountains?
In The Wizard of Oz, Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as this character until the aluminum dust makeup put him in the hospital.
Who is the Tin Man?
Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, battles a giant marlin in this 1952 Hemingway novella.
What is The Old Man and the Sea?
Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra at this naval battle in 31 BC.
What is the Battle of Actium?
It's the only letter of the alphabet that doesn't appear in any element's symbol on the periodic table.
What is J?