Famous Movies
This 1994 movie, starring Tom Hanks, tells the story of a simple man who unexpectedly becomes part of major historical events in the U.S.
What is Forrest Gump?
This president, the 16th to hold the office, led the nation through the Civil War and was assassinated shortly after his second inauguration
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This language, spoken by over one billion people, is the most widely spoken language in the world
What is mandarin Chinese?
This is the largest planet in our solar system, known for its Great Red Spot
What is Jupiter?
This city, located on the banks of the Thames River, is the capital of the United Kingdom
What is London?
This 1991 movie starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins features a famous scene where Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic psychiatrist, escapes from custody
What is The Silence of the Lambs?
The President of the United States as a profession has one of the highest mortality rates of any job, with this many presidents have died of natural causes or assassination while in office
What is eight? (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, Warren Harding, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy)
This branch of the Indo-European language family includes languages like French, Spanish, and Italian
What is Romance?
This type of energy is stored in the bonds of atoms and molecules, like the energy in food or fossil fuels
What is chemical energy?
This city is known for its historic Red Square and the Kremlin
What is Moscow?
This 2010 Christopher Nolan film featuring Leonardo DiCaprio involves a group of thieves who enter people's dreams to steal secrets
What is Inception?
This U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln's second vice president, was the first to be impeached but was acquitted by the Senate in 1868
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The first known writing system developed around 3200 BC in ancient Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
The process of an object directly turning from a solid state into a gaseous state
What is sublimation?
This city, known for its iconic opera house and Harbour Bridge, is the capital of Australia
What is Sydney?
This 1980 movie, based on a Stephen King novel, features Jack Nicholson as a writer who slowly loses his sanity while staying in a remote hotel with his family
What is The Shining?
This man was the only president to have been elected to more than two terms, having been elected president four times before dying in office in 1945, just months after the start of his fourth term
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
This is the study of the physical sounds of human speech, often analyzed in terms of articulation and acoustics
What is phonetics?
This type of tree featured prominently in Michigan, which includes oaks and maples, loses its leaves in the fall
What are deciduous trees?
This city, known for its historic Acropolis and as the cradle of democracy, is the capital of Greece
What is Athens?
In this 1999 cult classic comedy, Peter Gibbons, tries to break free from his monotonous office job and the overbearing management of his company, Initech
What is Office Space?
Prior to the 2024 presidential election, this man was the only other president to have served nonconsecutive terms, having been both the 22rd and 24th president
Who is Grover Cleveland?
This term refers to the study of the meaning of words and sentences, exploring how meaning is constructed in language
What is semantics?
This force, discovered by Sir Isaac Newton, acts between two masses and is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
What is gravity?
The Netherlands features these two capital cities
What are Amsterdam and The Hague?