European Trivia
This ancient structure in Rome could seat over 50,000 spectators and hosted gladiator battles.
What is Colosseum?
This type of rock is made from compacted plant material and is burned for energy, though it contributes heavily to air pollution.
What is coal?
This phenomenon occurs when a massive star collapses under its own gravity, forming a region from which not even light can escape.
What is a black hole?
This popular brunch-time meal combines breakfast and lunch.
What is brunch?
This 2017 horror film features a demonic clown terrorizing children in the town of Derry.
What is It (2017)?
This English playwright wrote Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet and is often called the greatest writer in the English language.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This shiny black volcanic glass was used by early humans to make tools and weapons.
What is obsidian?
This layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer that protects Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays.
What is the stratosphere?
This word blends “smoke” and “fog” to describe polluted air.
What is smog?
Director Wes Craven also directed this 1996 meta-horror film that plays with slasher movie tropes.
What is Scream (1996)?
This sweet hazelnut spread was invented in Italy and became a global breakfast staple.
What is Nutella?
This process describes how molten rock cools and solidifies to form igneous rocks.
What is crystallization?
This is the year the Apollo 11 land humans on the Moon for the first time.
What is 1969?
This term merges “mock” and “documentary” to describe a fictional film presented like a documentary.
What is mockumentary?
In this 2002 film, a videotape curses anyone who watches it to die in seven days.
What is The Ring (2002)?
This Scandinavian country is famous for its fjords and was the birthplace of the explorer Leif Erikson.
What is Norway?
This precious blue stone was used by ancient Egyptians and often confused with sapphire.
What is lapis lazuli?
Earth’s outermost layer, made mostly of solid rock, is called this.
What is the earth's crust?
A blend of “biological” and “technology,” this field explores the integration of living systems and machines.
What is biotech?
This 1973 film about a killer known as “Leatherface” takes place in Texas.
What is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
This treaty laid the foundation for the modern European Union and introduced the concept of EU citizenship.
It was signed in this year.
What is 1992?
This three-type classification includes igneous, sedimentary, and this third kind of rock formed by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
The first country that successfully took an artificial satellite into space.
What is the Soviet Union?
This term fuses “binary” and “digit,” and is the fundamental unit of digital data in computing.
This 2007 Japanese horror film was remade into an American version titled The Grudge.
What is Ju On (2003)?