World History
John Locke argued that all people are born with these three basic "natural rights."
life, liberty, and property
This global phenomenon became the first K-pop group to top the US Billboard 200 album chart with Love Yourself: Tear.
BTS
Unlike almost all other creatures on Earth, it is the male of this unique marine species that carries embryos and gives birth.
Seahorse
OpenAI launched this viral generative chatbot in late 2022, officially kicking off the modern artificial intelligence boom.
ChatGPT
This song from Disney’s Frozen became a worldwide hit with the lyrics “The cold never bothered me anyway.”
Let it Go
This political ideology and feeling of intense loyalty to one's ethnic group acted as a unifying force in Italy but tore the Austro-Hungarian Empire apart.
Nationalism
Bringing together the Merc with a Mouth and a clawed mutant, this 2024 film shattered box office records to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever.
Deadpool and Wolverine
Primates like Koko the gorilla and Washoe the chimpanzee famously learned to communicate with humans using this non-verbal system.
Sign language
Apple finally abandoned its proprietary Lightning cable and switched to this universal charging port standard starting with the iPhone 15
USB-C Charger
This song by Olivia Rodrigo includes the lyric “good 4 u, you look happy and healthy.”
What is Good 4 U?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism are remembered by this four-letter acronym as the long-term causes of WWI.
M-A-I-N
In this massively popular anime series, high schooler Yuji Itadori swallows a cursed finger and joins a secret society of sorcerers.
Jujutsu Kaisen
Despite the popular myth, these slow-moving mammals don't hang upside down because they are lazy, but because their low-calorie leaf diet gives them an incredibly slow metabolism.
Sloths
This video-conferencing app became a global household name during the 2020 pandemic for remote school and working from home.
Zoom
This artist headlined the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show while revealing her pregnancy during the performance
Rihanna
World War II officially began in Europe when Germany launched a blitzkrieg invasion of this neighboring country on September 1, 1939.
Poland
Vincent van Gogh painted this swirling, blue-and-yellow night sky from the window of his asylum room in France.
The Starry Night
Known for living in tight-knit underground towns, these rodents are crucial to the North American prairie ecosystem, serving as a primary food source for dozens of predators.
prairie dogs
Harvard dropout Bill Gates co-founded this software empire, which created the Windows operating system.
Microsoft
This legendary band from Liverpool included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr
The Beatles
This physical barrier was erected in 1961 to stop citizens from fleeing communist East Germany into the democratic western sector of the city.
Berlin Wall
This Mexican painter is universally celebrated for her raw, vibrant self-portraits that honor her indigenous culture and express her physical pain.
Frida Kahlo
This microscopic, eight-legged animal is famous for its near-indestructibility, surviving the vacuum of outer space and extreme radiation.
Water bear/tardigrade
Along with CSS, this foundational markup language is used to build and structure almost every page on the World Wide Web.
HTML
This artist became the first woman to win Album of the Year four times at the Grammys
Taylor Swift