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In 2003, Adrien Brody became the youngest Best Actor winner for portraying Władysław Szpilman in this film.

What is The Pianist?

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The Great Red Spot is a massive storm on this planet that has raged for at least 300 years.

What is Jupiter?

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The prime numbers 11 and 13 form an example of this type of prime pair separated by only two.

What are twin primes?

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The shortest complete sentence in English is often said to be this one-word command.

What is Go?
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A plumber named Jumpman first appeared in this 1981 arcade game before getting his own series.

What is Donkey Kong?

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The only sequel to win Best Picture, this 1974 crime film starred Al Pacino as Michael Corleone.

What is The Godfather Part II?

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This theoretical boundary surrounding a black hole marks the point beyond which nothing can escape.

What is the event horizon?

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The number 5 is the only prime number that ends in this digit besides itself.

What is 5?

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This longest river in the world by some measurements flows through northeastern Africa and empties into the Mediterranean.

What is the Nile?

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The opening of this 2011 RPG famously begins with the line “Hey you, you’re finally awake.”

What is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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Only three films have won the “Big Five” Oscars (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay); one of them is this 1975 thriller starring Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy.

What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

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Astronomers believe the center of our galaxy contains this supermassive black hole.

What is Sagittarius A*?

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The sum of the first three prime numbers equals this number.

What is 10?

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This Shakespeare play contains the famous line “Brevity is the soul of wit.”

What is Hamlet?
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In this 1998 RPG, the bombing mission against Mako Reactor 1 serves as the game’s opening mission.

What is Final Fantasy VII

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This 2015 Best Picture winner was the first film since 1952 to win the award with only six total Oscar nominations.

What is Spotlight?

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In 2017 astronomers detected ‘Oumuamua, the first known visitor to our solar system from outside it of this type.

What is an interstellar object?

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This prime number is the next one after 97.

What is 101?

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The shortest war in recorded history occurred in 1896 between Britain and this island sultanate.

What is Zanzibar?

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The original 1996 entry in this monster-collecting series begins in Pallet Town with Professor Oak.

What is Pokèmon Red and Blue?

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This actress won Best Actress for portraying Virginia Woolf in 2003, wearing a famous prosthetic nose.

Who is Nicole Kidman?

500

The 1977 “Wow!” signal detected by astronomer Jerry Ehman was a mysterious burst of radio energy from the direction of this constellation.

What is Sagittarius?

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This ancient Greek mathematician described a method for generating primes by eliminating multiples in a list.

Who is Eratosthenes?

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This Einstein paper on special relativity is sometimes called one of his four “annus mirabilis” papers, written during this remarkably productive year.

What is 1905?

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This 2007 game begins with the player waking up in a mysterious testing facility run by GLaDOS.

What is Portal?
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