21st Century World Leaders
This New Zealand Prime Minister won her second term in a landslide 2020 election.
Who is Jacinda Ardern?
The actress best known for playing Princess Leia.
Who was Carrie Fisher?
This book, the first in a trilogy authored by Leigh Bardugo, also shares its name with a Netflix series, making its screen debut in 2021.
What is Shadow & Bone?
This dessert, traditionally made with filo pastry, nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey, originated in the Ottoman Empire.
What is baklava?
This cold desert is the largest desert in the world.
What is the Antarctic desert?
Kim Jong-un became the Supreme Leader of North Korea following the 2011 death of this man, his father and the second Supreme Leader of North Korea.
Who is Kim Jong-il?
This American singer-songwriter is known for such hits as Purple Rain and When Doves Cry.
Who was Prince?
This 2018 film is based on Angie Thomas' debut YA novel of the same name.
What is The Hate U Give?
While this cookie sandwich made of egg whites and almond meal is often associated with France, it was actually first made by an Italian chef.
What is a macaron?
This desert in North Africa is as big as China in square miles.
What is the Sahara?
This European leader has a doctorate in quantum physics and is widely described as the 'de facto' leader of the European Union, and consequently the most powerful woman in the world.
Who is Angela Merkel?
This American professional boxer was nicknamed "The Greatest", and is lauded as the best heavyweight boxer of the 20th century.
Who was Muhammad Ali?
This 1980 horror flick, based on the Stephen King novel by the same name, was filmed in-part at Oregon's Timberline Lodge.
What is The Shining?
This South Asian dessert is made from doughy balls soaked in sweet syrup, and its name translates to "rose berry" in English.
What is Gulab jamun?
Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California is largely comprised of these two distinct deserts.
What are the Mojave and Colorado deserts?
This Nordic Prime Minister is the youngest in the world.
Who is Sanna Marin?
This author, former prisoner of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, detailed his horrifying experience surviving the Holocaust in his autobiographical novel, Night.
Who was Elie Weisel?
This 1999 rom-com starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
What is 10 Things I Hate About You?
The most popular iteration of this shaved-ice dessert from Korea features sweetened condensed milk and red bean.
What is bingsu?
The Dorob National Park, a hot desert and filming location for Mad Max: Fury Road, is in this African country.
What is Namibia?
This former Uruguayan president was known as "the world's humblest head of state" for donating about 90% of his salary to charities.
Who is José Mujica?
These two actors, one of Harry Potter fame and the other best known for Growing Pains, share a first name.
Who were Alan Rickman and Alan Thicke?
Mads Mikkelsen stars as this title character in a 2013 TV series, a character also played by Anthony Hopkins in a major motion picture, and first appearing in the book "Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris.
Who is Hannibal (or Dr. Hannibal Lector)?
There is a debate between Australia and New Zealand on who invented this dessert, named after a Russian ballerina.
What is pavlova?
This critically endangered ungulate is native to the Gobi desert, but only about 1100 of them exist in the wild today, the rest of the living population are domesticated.
What is the Bactrian camel?