Geography
This is the world's largest country by land area, and its capital is Moscow.
What is Russia?
The chemical symbol Cu stands for this metallic element.
What is Copper?
In this year, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
When is 1776?
In The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen lives in this district, known for its coal mining.
What is District 12?
This longtime host has presented the American version of Survivor since its first season in 2000.
Who is Jeff Probst?
The Danube River empties into this sea, which borders Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey.
This organ produces insulin, which helps regulate blood sugar levels.
What is the Pancreas?
This French military leader crowned himself emperor in 1804 and was defeated at Waterloo in 1815.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
In The Lord of the Rings, this character carries the One Ring for much of the journey to Mount Doom and was once known as Sméagol.
Who is Gollum?
In Survivor, this type of vote occurs when a contestant believes the majority is voting for someone else, only to discover that the votes were secretly directed at them.
What is a Blindside?
This African country completely surrounds the independent nation of Lesotho.
This part of the brain helps control balance and coordinate movement.
What is the Cerebellum?
Signed in 1919, this treaty formally established peace between Germany and the Allied Powers after World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This Japanese filmmaker directed Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke.
Who is Hayao Miyazaki?
In Survivor, what is the term for a player who survives till the Final Tribal Council but does not receive any votes to win the game?
What is a Zero-Vote Finalist?
This city straddles Europe and Asia, separated by the Bosporus Strait.
What is Istanbul?
Unlike DNA, this molecule contains ribose sugar and uses uracil instead of thymine.
The Ottoman Empire captured this city in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
In The Silence of the Lambs, what is the name of the imprisoned psychiatrist who assists FBI trainee Clarice Starling in her investigation?
Who is Hannibal Lecter?
In Survivor, when two or more players deliberately vote between multiple targets to protect against an idol play, what is this strategy called?
What is a Split Vote?
This landlocked South American country has both Spanish and Guaraní as official languages.
What is Paraguay?
During cellular respiration, this molecule accepts electrons at the end of the electron transport chain, allowing the process to continue.
What is Oxygen?
At this 1884–1885 conference, European powers negotiated rules concerning their colonization of Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
In Dante's Divine Comedy, this ancient Roman poet guides Dante through Hell and most of Purgatory.
Who is Virgil?
In Survivor, what is the term for when a player intentionally votes against their own alliance's agreed-upon target to secretly help eliminate someone else? (Hint: includes the name of a DnD class)
What is a Rogue Vote?