Movies and TV
This long running American animated television series featured episodes titled "Bart Gets an F" and "Marge vs. the Monorail".
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Carl Anderson won the 1932 Nobel Physics Prize for his discovery of this particle, which possesses the exact same mass as an electron, but carries a positive charge.
What is a positron? (I also accept anitelectron)
This long running newspaper exposed the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
What is the New York Times?
This American Poet won four separate Pulitzer Prizes for poetry and famously recited lines at JFK's inauguration.
Who is Robert Frost?
This mathematical symbol was invented in 1557 by Welsh Physician Robert Recorde to simplify drafting equations.
What is the equals sign (=)?
This 1994 Best Picture Winner beat out both Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption.
What is Forrest Gump?
Henry Cavendish discovered this sky-bound element in 1766, which he originally referred to as "inflammable air".
What is Hydrogen?
This storied American journalist's World War II CBS radio reports from London always began with the phrase, "This is London".
Who was Edward R. Murrow? (The guy had fantastic eyebrows... Look him up if you get the chance)
This famed author won both a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a Nobel Prize in Literature for works including The Grapes of Wrath.
Who was John Steinbeck?
The owners of this Racehorse, also known as "Big Red", widely considered the greatest race horse to ever live, were paid $6.08 million (equivalent to $44.1 million today) on the condition that they wouldn't race their horse for the duration of 1973.
Who was "Secretariat"?
This film won the Academy Award for Best Picture despite receiving only six Oscar nominations, the fewest of any winner since 1932.
What is Casablanca?
Arthur Eddington observed this fantastic phenomenon during the 1919 solar eclipse which supported general relativity.
What was the Gravitational bending of Starlight?
This Soviet leader denounced the cult of personality surrounding his predecessor in a famous 1956 speech.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
This American poet won four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, more than any other poet.
Who was Robert Frost?
This picturesque state is the only U.S. state whose name can be typed using letters from a single row of a standard QWERTY keyboard.
What is Alaska?
This 1950 film was the first movie to win Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.
What is All About Eve? (Oops... wrong parent)
This early chemist first proposed the periodic arrangement that became the modern periodic table in 1869.
Who was Dimitri Mendeleev?
This U.S. vice president cast more tie-breaking Senate votes than any other vice president.
Who was John C. Calhoun? (served under JQA and later Andrew Jackson)
This Sci-fi epic's 1984 movie featuring Sting permanently traumatized your son, Clive.
What is Dune?
This city, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, served as Russia's capital for over two centuries.
This director was the first to win consecutive Academy Awards for Best Director, In total they have won Best Director four times in the years: 1935, 1940, 1941 and 1952.
Who was John Ford?
(Double answer, We talked about this dad, and I think you know it. I couldn't figure out how to do double answer in Jeopardy Notation) This famous 1859 experiment, conducted by ___, used swan necked flasks to disprove the archaic theory of ___.
1: Louis Pasteur
2: Spontaneous Generation
This famed statesman has been Time Person of the Year more times than any other.
Who is FDR? (He was it three times, many people have been it twice, including Taylor Swift, Joseph Stalin, and Elon Musk) (While making this question, I looked at the Wikipedia Page, and several non people have been person of the year, including: "the computer" and "the endangered earth". They also put groups of people and titles as "person of the year". I get that fighting Ebola is noble, but "the Ebola fighters" shouldn't have gotten the title in 2014. UGHH!) (How small will this text be... I wonder) (Hi dad!) (I just remembered that I'm supposed to be recruiting you into The Syndicate
I ran out of Ideas... this is hard. I will hand you a paper with a math problem. Solve the rational equation using pencil and paper, I will time you.
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This word, coined by Horace Walpole in 1754, means a fortunate accidental discovery.
What is Serendipity?