Sports
This sport is known as “America’s pastime.”
What is baseball?
This 1997 film about a doomed ocean liner won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture.
What is Titanic?
This planet is the closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
The giant panda’s diet is made up almost entirely of this plant.
What is bamboo?
This U.S. state is famous for its potatoes and has Boise as its capital.
What is Idaho?
This long-running animated sitcom set in Springfield features Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.
What is The Simpsons?
In basketball, this player is often referred to as “His Airness.”
Who is Michael Jordan?
“Life finds a way” was famously said by Jeff Goldblum’s character in this 1993 dinosaur blockbuster.
What is Jurassic Park?
Water is made of hydrogen and this element.
What is oxygen?
This process by which plants make their own food uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.
What is photosynthesis?
Mount Everest lies on the border of Nepal and this country.
What is China?
This 1990s sitcom followed six friends living in New York City, often seen at Central Perk café.
What is Friends?
The “Ironman Triathlon” consists of swimming, biking, and this third endurance event.
What is running?
This director is known for mind-bending films like Inception and Interstellar.
Who is Christopher Nolan?
This part of the cell is known as the “powerhouse.”
What is the mitochondrion?
This largest species of shark is a gentle filter feeder, despite growing up to 40 feet long.
What is the whale shark?
The Nile River flows into this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
In Breaking Bad, Walter White’s alter ego in the drug trade goes by this name.
Who is Heisenberg?
This country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles in men’s soccer.
What is Brazil?
The 2018 Marvel film that became the first superhero movie to be nominated for Best Picture.
What is Black Panther?
The force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
This flightless bird, native to New Zealand, lays the largest egg relative to its body size.
What is the kiwi?
This African desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
This Netflix series about a 1980s group of kids battling supernatural forces in Hawkins, Indiana, features a girl known only by a number.
What is Stranger Things?
In golf, this score term means three under par on a single hole.
What is an albatross?
“Here’s looking at you, kid” is a line from this 1942 classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
What is Casablanca?
DNA is shaped like this kind of helix.
What is a double helix?
The world’s tallest tree species, found in California, is this type of redwood.
What is the coast redwood?
This European capital city straddles the Danube River.
What is Budapest?
This British crime drama, starring Idris Elba as a troubled detective, first premiered on the BBC in 2010.
What is Luther?
The first modern Olympic Games were held in this city in 1896.
What is Athens?
This 1958 Alfred Hitchcock thriller, now considered one of the greatest films of all time, was a box-office disappointment upon its release.
What is Vertigo?
Marie Curie won her second Nobel Prize in 1911 for her discovery of this element.
What is radium?
Unlike most mammals, the platypus and echidna share this rare method of reproduction.
What is laying eggs?
The world’s deepest lake, located in Siberia, is this.
What is Lake Baikal?
This cult sci-fi series created by Joss Whedon in 2002 was canceled after one season, but its fanbase led to the 2005 film Serenity.
What is Firefly?