Pop Culture Time Machine
This British band caused “Beatlemania” in the 1960s.
Who are The Beatles?
Water freezes at this temperature in Celsius.
What is 0 degrees?
A shortened form of a word created by leaving out letters, often replaced by an apostrophe, like don’t for do not.
What is a contraction?
The U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed in this year.
What is 1776?
This musical instrument has 88 keys.
What is a piano?
This singer’s 2015 album 25 included the hit “Hello.”
Who is Adele?
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
Words that mean the opposite of each other.
This city was divided by a wall from 1961 to 1989.
What is Berlin?
This famous painting was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and recovered two years later.
What is the Mona Lisa?
This Marvel movie was the first to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
What is Avengers: Endgame?
This part of the human body controls balance.
What is the inner ear?
A word made by rearranging the letters of another word, like “listen” and “silent.”
What is an anagram?
This man invented the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This novel by George Orwell features the concept of “Big Brother.”
What is 1984?
This actor played both Wolverine in the X-Men films and starred in the musical The Greatest Showman.
Who is Hugh Jackman?
This common gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
A phrase where consecutive words start with the same sound, like Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
This empire built the Colosseum in Rome.
What is the Roman Empire?
This card suit shares its name with a gardening tool.
What is spades?
This 1994 movie featured the line, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.”
What is Forrest Gump?
This unit is used to measure the intensity of sound.
What is a decibel?
A word that sounds like what it means, like “buzz” or “clang.”
What is onomatopoeia?
This was the first successful English colony in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This classic novel begins with the line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
What is A Tale of Two Cities?