Video Games
What was the first game to introduce a proper saving system?
The Legend of Zelda
When this author was born, Halley's comet was visible to the naked eye. 76 years later, the author passed away the day after Halley's comet was closest to the Earth. Who was this author?
Mark Twain (aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
What was the smallest dinosaur's name (genus)?
Compsognathus
Some of the velociraptor noises in Jurassic Park are actually which animals mating?
Tortoises
A 1986 Diana Wynne Jones novel that was adapted for the screen by Japanese director and animator Hayao Miyazaki in 2004 focuses on an ambulatory edifice belonging to a character with what name, as per its title?
Howl
Although now proven to be incorrect, what video game was considered to have the first easter egg and was a key plot point in Ernest Cline's "Ready Player One"
Adventure (1980) - Atari
While waiting to board a crowded train around 1864, Robert was knocked by the crowd between the train and the platform. The train had begun to move, and luckily Edwin lifted the young man to safety. Later, Robert's father and Edwin's younger brother were the main characters of what historical event?
Abraham Lincoln's assassination (Robert Lincoln, Edwin Booth)
The dinosaur sequence in Disney's Fantasia features which piece of music?
The Rite of Spring
In 1975's Jaws, Martin Brody's actor famously ad libbed to Captain Quint that he's going to need a bigger boat. What was the name of Quint's vessel?
The Orca
In Shinto mythology, Japan's first human emperor is said to be a direct descendant of what goddess of the sun?
Amaterasu
What is the maximum number of Power Stars a player can collect in Super Mario 64?
120
In 1911, when the RMBS Olympic collided with a British warship, this ship stewardess probably thought that was going to be her most eventful job. In 1912, she was proven wrong when she was one of 706 survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Later in 1916, she narrowly survived the sinking of the HMHS Britannic.
Violet Jessup
What is the name (genus) of the biggest dinosaur we know of?
Dreadnoughtus - weighed about 59.3 tonnes, which is more than eight and a half times as much as a male African elephant
While everyone knows the first rule of Fight Club is don't talk about Fight Club, what item is in every scene of the movie?
A Starbucks cup
When did the beloved Studio Ghibli Museum in Mitaka open?
2001
Player reaction to a simulated disease in a computer game resembled historical records about plagues so closely that epidemiologists are using the data evaluate scenarios related to a potential future virus outbreak. What was the computer game in which this happened?
World of Warcraft
On Dec 20, 1921, John drowned in a flash flood and is considered one of the first of 96 fatalities attributed to building the Hoover Dam. 14 years later on Dec 20 1935, John's only son, Patrick, fell to his death and is the last death attributed to the dam. What is John and Patrick's family (last) name?
Tierney
Who coined the term 'dinosaur'?
Richard Owen
Which two movies that Steven Spielberg were involved in started from the same script?
E.T. and Poltergeist
There are only about five remaining speakers of what isolate language, spoken by its namesake indigenous people on the island of Hokkaido in Japan?
Ainu
Forest Frontiers, Dynamite Dunes, and Leafy Lake were the three initial "scenarios" in the first game from what video game franchise
RollerCoaster Tycoon
On Aug 6 1945, this gentleman was in Hiroshima for a business trip and survived the nuclear bomb that was dropped that day. He returned to his home in Nagasaki, only to go through the experience all over again on Aug 9, 1945, and survived. He later died at 93 from stomach cancer.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi
How are the two groups of dinosaurs differentiated?
Hip bones
Which Star Wars characters appear in Indiana Jones?
R2-D2 and C-3PO
Japan is made up of islands. How many islands does Japan have in total?
6,852