Olympics
This country finished 1st overall in the 2026 Winter Olympic medal table.
Norway
This DNS record type points a domain to another domain name (not an IP).
CNAME
The word “algorithm” is derived from the Latinized name of this Persian mathematician
al-Khwarizmi
This is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
Mercury
The capital of Canada is this city (not Toronto).
Ottawa
Norway won this many gold medals, an all-time Winter Games record
18
This DNS record type maps a name directly to an IPv4 address
A record
Sardonic” traces to a plant associated with a grimacing facial expression from this Mediterranean island.
Sardina
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
mitochondria
This is the world’s largest country by land area.
Russia
This was the brand-new sport making its Olympic debut at Milano Cortina 2026.
This term describes code changes that don’t alter external behavior but improve internal structure.
Refactoring
“Quarantine” comes from a term meaning this number of days
40 days
he boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle is commonly called the
Moho (Mohorovičić discontinuity)
This country has the most time zones (including overseas territories)
France
He scored the OT game-winner for Team USA in that men’s hockey gold medal game and She scored the OT game-winner for Team USA in that women's hockey gold medal game
Jack Hughes & Megan Keller
This programming language (1995) was created at Sun Microsystems and popularized the slogan “Write once, run anywhere.”
JavaScript
The word “salary” is historically linked to this commodity.
Salt
he mass extinction that wiped out most dinosaurs is the ____
Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction
The U.S. state with the most active volcanoes is ____
Alaska
This country won its first-ever Winter Olympic medal and gold in 2026 (per the medal table summary).
Brazil
This is the term for a product change that measurably improves a metric but worsens the user experience long-term.
dark pattern? (accept “dark UX pattern”)
“Influenza” originally referred to the “influence” of this on human health.
stars / astrology
The most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere is ____
Nitrogen
This mountain range separates much of Europe from Asia in Russia and Kazakhstan.
Ural Mountain range