The Cold War
This 1961 event involved a concrete barrier dividing a European city, becoming the most famous physical symbol of East–West division.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This consulting detective and his companion chronicled mysteries like ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Who are Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson?
This empire controlled much of Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean at its height, and is known for its system of roads, law, and aqueducts.
What is the Roman empire?
This beloved film series is based on a children’s book about a bear from Peru who arrives in London with a fondness for marmalade sandwiches
What is Paddington?
This MLB team, known for its iconic pinstripes, has won more championships than any other team in baseball history.
What are the Yankees?
This event in 1962 brought the world closest to nuclear war after missiles were discovered in a Caribbean nation.
What is the Cuba Missile Crisis?
This folk-rock vocalist who plays guitar and this partner who provides harmonies created songs like ‘the Boxer’ and ‘Sound of Silence
Who are Simon and Garfunkel?
The sun never set on this empire as its naval dominance allowed it to control key trade routes during the 18th and 19th centuries, especially across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Children step through a piece of furniture into a frozen realm ruled by a powerful magical figure locked in eternal winter.
What is the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?
This NBA team from Chicago rose to global fame in the 1990s behind a superstar who won six championships in that decade.
What are the Chicago Bulls?
This intelligence agency operated on the Soviet side and became notorious for espionage, surveillance, and political control.
What is the KGB?
In this comic strip, an imaginative boy often drags his stuffed tiger into adventures, sometimes confronting teachers, parents, and schoolyard bullies
What is Calvin and Hobbes?
This empire built by Genghis Khan became the largest contiguous land empire in history before fragmenting.
Answer: Mongol Empire
What is the Mongol empire?
Scientists bring prehistoric creatures back to life on an isolated island attraction, but containment systems fail with catastrophic results in this Spielberg classic.
What is Jurassic Park?
This team is named after pioneers from the Gold Rush era and has a history of multiple championship runs.
Who are the San Francisco 49ers?
This program was a massive U.S. effort to provide economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This president and this prime minister worked closely during World War II to coordinate the Allied strategy in Europe.
Who are Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill?
This empire fell in 1453 when its capital, Constantinople, was conquered.
What is the Byzantine empire?
A patient in a controlled medical institution observes how authority is maintained through strict routines and psychological dominance.
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
This Canadian NHL team from Toronto is one of the league’s most valuable franchises and has a long championship drought since its last Stanley Cup in 1967.
What are the Maple Leafs?
This policy introduced in the 1980s aimed to increase openness and restructuring in a major communist state, accelerating political change.
What is Glasnost and Perestroika?
This masked vigilante of Gotham City and the teenage partner trained to fight alongside him battle crime together.
Who are Batman and Robin?
This empire in central Mexico was conquered in 1521 after the fall of its capital, Tenochtitlán.
What is the Aztec empire?
Two longtime friends take a week-long road trip through a California wine region, where one is focused on celebration before a wedding and the other is quietly unraveling after personal setbacks.
What is Sideways?
This English soccer club plays in London and is known as “The Gunners.”
What is Arsenal?