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This city—not Sydney or Melbourne—is Australia’s capital.
Canberra
This fruit is the main ingredient in classic guacamole.
What is an avocado?
At sea level, pure water freezes at this temperature on the Fahrenheit scale.
What is 32°F?
Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in this decade.
What are the 1960s?
Founded in New York in 1958 under the initials WRK, this agency’s full name included two of its founders’ surnames.
What was Wunderman, Ricotta & Kline?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This grain is slowly cooked in broth to make risotto.
What is a rice?
Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons are called these.
What are isotopes?
The Berlin Wall opened and began coming down in this year.
What is 1989?
Wunderman is credited with pioneering a customer-rewards program for this financial-services company.
What is American Express?
This strait separates Spain and Morocco and connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
This savory taste is considered the fifth basic taste and is associated with foods like mushrooms and miso.
What is umami?
This German Nobel laureate advanced quantum theory by introducing his revolutionary 1927 Uncertainty Principle, which states you cannot simultaneously know a particle's exact position and momentum.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
This 1962 standoff over Soviet missiles in Cuba brought the U.S. and USSR close to nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
On January 1, 2024, the group formerly known as Wunderman Thompson MAP adopted this name.
What is VML MAP?
This strait separates Spain and Morocco and connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
This savory taste is considered the fifth basic taste and is associated with foods like mushrooms and miso.
What is umami?
In 1926, this Austrian physicist developed wave mechanics and introduced the equation that bears his name for describing a quantum system’s wave function.
Who was Erwin Schrödinger?
This 1962 standoff over Soviet missiles in Cuba brought the U.S. and USSR close to nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This direct-marketing pioneer gave his surname to Wunderman.
Who was Lester Wunderman?
This landlocked country lies between Russia and China; its capital is Ulaanbaatar.
What is Mongolia?
This French aromatic base is traditionally made from onion, carrot, and celery.
What is mirepoix?
This British chemist’s X-ray diffraction research, including work associated with Photo 51, provided crucial evidence for DNA’s double-helix structure.
Who was Rosalind Franklin?
In October 1904, Russian warships sailing to fight Japan fired on British fishing trawlers they mistook for enemy torpedo boats in this incident.
What was the Dogger Bank incident?
In 2018, Wunderman combined with this agency, founded in 1864, to form Wunderman Thompson.
What is the J. Walter Thompson Company?