Sports
The 1996 Summer Olympics were held in which U.S. City?
Atlanta, GA
He directed Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas?
Martin Scorsese
The femur is more commonly known as this bone?
Thigh Bone
The Mayan pyramid El Castillo stands at this archaeological site on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula?
Chichen Itza
This English author wrote detective fiction under the name Robert Galbraith?
J.K. Rowling
Before moving to Oklahoma City, the Thunder were based in this city?
Seattle
This fantasy trilogy earned Peter Jackson a Best Director Oscar in 2004?
The Lord of The Rings
Earth’s most common gas, making up about 78% of the atmosphere?
Nitrogen
Mount Erebus, Earth’s southernmost active volcano, is found on this continent?
Antarctica
This ancient Mesopotamian work is considered the world’s first great epic?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
This South American country hosted the first FIFA World Cup in 1930?
Uruguay
This 2017 film about a mute woman falling in love with a sea creature won Best Picture?
The Shape of Water
The part of the human brain responsible for memory consolidation?
Hippocampus
The giant statues of Ramses II at Abu Simbel had to be relocated due to construction of this dam?
Aswan High Dam
This Irish author won the Booker Prize for The Gathering in 2007?
Anne Enright
He holds the record for most career rushing yards in the NFL?
Emmitt Smith
The 1946 Frank Capra film It’s a Wonderful Life is set in this fictional town?
Bedford Falls
This boundary around a black hole marks the point of no return?
Event Horizon
The Millau Viaduct, the world’s tallest bridge, spans a valley in this European country?
France
The only American poet to decline the Pulitzer Prize, doing so in 1926?
Robert Frost
The Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius” is Latin for these three words?
Faster, Higher, Stronger
The only X-rated film to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Midnight Cowboy
This radioactive element, discovered by Marie Curie, glows faintly in the dark?
Radium
Known as the “Door to Hell,” this burning natural gas crater is located in this Central Asian country?
Turkmenistan
This Nigerian Nobel laureate wrote Death and the King’s Horseman?
Wole Soyinka
The Six Nations Championship is a competition in this sport?
Rugby Union
Name the movie from this famous quote “A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
Pyscho
The uncertainty principle is named after this German physicist?
Werner Heisenberg
The Lalibela churches, carved entirely from rock, are found in this African country?
Ethiopia
Quote this Book “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
The Great Gatsby