Movies
This action-scifi film was confirmed by its co-director to be a trans allegory.
What's interesting about the Matrix?
A highly efficient, heavy vehicle that requires specially-built paths to function.
What are trains?
They're the largest producer of oxygen on Earth.
What is special about algae and other oceanborne plants?
Started by the second and restored by the third president, the institution is the largest still-operating collection of works today.
What is the Library of Congress?
The planet that has only revolved around the sun once since its discovery.
What is Neptune?
Despite being the second-most high grossing film (adjusting for inflation), the movie did not have any dramatic impact on culture or any feature of its writing particularly outstanding.
What was "Avatar", anyway?
They were the first civilization to lock their doors with keys.
What's an interesting fact about the Egyptians?
It is an even more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
What is Methane?
The author of the first novel regarded as science fiction.
Who is Mary Shelley?
The longest-lived type of star to fuse ordinary hydrogen
What is a red dwarf?
The song by a famous Disney villain that had more than one singer in its original release.
What's special about "Be Prepared"?
It is first known material humanity wrote on, which is nearly immune to fire.
Why is clay special?
An animal, commonly regarded as prehistoric, that still existed in the time of ancient egypt.
What are wooly mammoths?
Written by a Florentine exile, the work has formed the basis for how many modern Christians imagine the afterlife.
What is "The Inferno"/"The Divine Comedy"?
The planet with a hexagon on it
What's more interesting about Saturn than it's rings?
The fictional metal featured both as a plotpoint and an explanation for many impossible feats in a decade-long cinematic universe.
What is Vibranium?
An instrument that has existed since the 1st century BC and commonly regarded as the most complicated humanmade device before the industrial revolution.
What is a pipe organ?
A skilled female paleontologist and fossil collector most remembered in a tongue-twister.
Who was Mary Anning?
The longest known poem, who features the exile and return of a royal and their allies.
What is the Mahābhārata known for in the western world?
As we send more things into space, this material will make it ever harder to successfully send more.
What is space debris/space junk?
The animation studio founded before Disney and the more technically innovative of the two, combining 2D animation and film.
What was Fleisher Studios?
The society whose number system still exists in how we tell time.
Who were the Babylonians?
These unlike most, these three kinds of apids build colonies.
How are honey, stingless, and bumblebees different from other bees?
The basis of the "five-man band" in media, and the inspiration for an entire subgenre of modern media.
What is "The Journey to The West"?
The property that allows black holes to loose mass over time.
What is Hawking Radiation?