World History
This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu.
The Inca Empire
This element has the chemical symbol Fe.
Iron
This 1994 film features the line “Life is like a box of chocolates.”
Forrest Gump
This country is home to the city of Marrakech.
Morocco
This author wrote 1984.
George Orwell
This 1066 battle led to William the Conqueror becoming King of England.
Battle of Hastings
This phenomenon causes light to bend when it passes from one medium into another.
Refraction
In The Matrix, Neo is offered a choice between these two colored pills.
Red and blue
The Danube River flows through more national capitals than any other river; name two of them.
Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade
This Shakespeare tragedy features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Hamlet
This treaty, signed in 1919, formally ended World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers.
Treaty of Versailles
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
Mitochondria
This actor played both Dr. Emmett Brown and the villain Judge Doom.
Christopher Lloyd
The Strait of Malacca separates the Malay Peninsula from this large Indonesian island.
Sumatra
In Dante’s Divine Comedy, this poet guides Dante through Hell and Purgatory.
Virgil
This Byzantine emperor ordered the compilation of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
Justinian I
This principle states that no two electrons in an atom can have the same set of four quantum numbers.
Pauli exclusion principle
This 1957 film by Akira Kurosawa inspired The Magnificent Seven.
The Seven Samurai
This African country has coastlines on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
Morocco
This Russian novel begins with the famous idea that happy families are alike, while unhappy families are unhappy in their own way.
Anna Karenina
This 1648 series of treaties is commonly credited with ending the Thirty Years’ War.
The Peace of Westphalia
This hypothetical particle is proposed as the quantum mediator of gravity, but has never been experimentally detected.
Graviton
Only three films have won the “Big Five” Oscars: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay. Name one.
It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, or The Silence of the Lambs
This country contains the world’s northernmost point on the African mainland, at Cape Angela.
Tunisia
In Ulysses, James Joyce modeled the novel’s structure and episodes on this ancient Greek epic.
The Odyssey