Sports Facts
He’s known as “The King” of basketball and has won four NBA championships with two different teams.
What is LeBron James
This 7.1-magnitude quake struck the Tingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China on January 7 2025, killing at least 126 people.
What is the 2025 Tibet earthquake?
This is the largest country in the world by land area.
Russia
This 1994 Disney animated classic features songs like “Circle of Life” and “Hakuna Matata.”
What is The Lion King?
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This golfer won his first Masters Tournament in 1997 by a record 12 strokes.
Tiger Woods
In March 2025, a 7.7-7.9 magnitude earthquake along the Sagaing Fault hit near Mandalay in Myanmar, causing over US $11 billion in damage.
What is the 2025 Myanmar earthquake?
This river flows through Egypt and is often called the lifeblood of the nation.
What is the Nile River?
In Titanic, this actor famously said, “I’m the king of the world!”
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
Water changes from a liquid to a gas at this temperature in Celsius at sea level.
What is 100°C?
This Yankee slugger was known as the “Sultan of Swat.”
Babe Ruth
A flash flood on August 5 2025 in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, India, triggered by a possible glacial lake outburst or landslide, left several missing and at least five dead.
What is the 2025 Uttarakhand flash flood?
Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, sits on the border between these two countries.
What are Nepal and China (Tibet)?
This film franchise features a theme park filled with cloned dinosaurs.
What is Jurassic Park?
This part of the cell is known as the “powerhouse” because it produces energy in the form of ATP.
What is the mitochondrion or mitochondria
He was the first quarterback to win seven Super Bowl titles.
Tom Brady
Between September 25 and October 16 2025, heavy rains, aided by three tropical cyclones, triggered flooding in northern and north-central regions of this country, causing economic losses estimated at US $1.42 billion.
What are the 2025 Northern Vietnam floods?
This desert, the largest hot desert on Earth, covers much of northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This 1942 classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman is set during World War II and features the famous line, “Here’s looking at you, kid.”
What is Casablanca?
This type of bond forms when atoms share one or more pairs of electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
This Argentine soccer star won the 2022 FIFA World Cup and has played for Barcelona and Inter Miami.
Lionel Messi
On May 16 2025, an EF3 tornado traveled more than 20 miles through the greater area of this U.S. city, causing about US $1.6 billion in damage—the first deadly tornado there since 1959.
What is the 2025 St. Louis tornado?
This South American capital city sits high in the Andes Mountains at about 9,000 feet above sea level, making it one of the world’s highest capitals.
What is Quito (Ecuador)
This 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick is based on a Stephen King novel and features the line, “Here’s Johnny!”
What is The Shining?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s Third Law of Motion?