Music
This British singer-songwriter's 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road included the songs "Bennie and the Jets" and "Candle in the Wind."
Who is Elton John?
This African country completely surrounds the small kingdom of Lesotho.
What is South Africa?
This 1215 English document is often considered an early foundation of the principle that rulers are subject to the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
In The Lord of the Rings, this character carries the One Ring for much of the story.
Who is Frodo Baggins?
This element has the chemical symbol Au.
What is gold?
In basketball, a player who records double digits in three statistical categories has achieved this.
What is a triple-double?
This American artist's 2016 album Lemonade was accompanied by a film and explored themes of infidelity, identity, and Black womanhood.
Who is Beyoncé?
Despite being the world's largest island, this territory is geographically considered part of which continent?
What is North America?
The 1803 purchase of this territory nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1999 film starring Keanu Reeves features a protagonist named Neo who discovers that his reality is a computer simulation.
What is The Matrix?
This organelle is often called the "powerhouse of the cell" because it produces much of the cell's ATP.
What is the mitochondrion?
This country has won more FIFA World Cup men's championships than any other nation.
What is Brazil?
Before becoming a solo superstar, this artist was a member of the Minneapolis-based group The Revolution and performed the 1984 album Purple Rain.
Who is Prince?
The Danube River flows through more countries than any other river in the world. It eventually empties into this body of water.
What is the Black Sea?
Who was the U.S. president during most of the Civil War?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
In Breaking Bad, Walter White originally teaches this subject before becoming involved in the drug trade.
What is chemistry?
This phenomenon occurs when light bends as it passes from one medium into another because its speed changes.
What is refraction?
In baseball, this statistic measures the average number of earned runs a pitcher allows per nine innings.
What is ERA (Earned Run Average)?
This 1967 Beatles album features "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "A Day in the Life," and its famous colorful military-band-inspired cover.
What is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
This country has territory in both Europe and Asia and contains the city formerly known as Constantinople.
What is Turkey?
In what year did the Titanic sink?
What is 1912?
This 1972 Francis Ford Coppola film begins with a wedding scene and follows the Corleone crime family.
What is The Godfather?
This fundamental particle carries the electromagnetic force and is the quantum particle associated with light.
What is a photon?
This tennis tournament is played on the famous grass courts of the All England Club.
What is Wimbledon?
Which artist became the first person to win Album of the Year at the Grammys four times?
Who is Taylor Swift?
This landlocked country is completely surrounded by South Africa and is one of only three sovereign states in the world completely surrounded by another country.
What is Lesotho?
This 1453 event is traditionally considered the end of the Byzantine Empire and brought Constantinople under Ottoman control.
What is the Fall of Constantinople?
This 1957 film directed by Sidney Lumet takes place almost entirely in a jury deliberation room and centers on a murder trial.
What is 12 Angry Men?
This principle of physics states that no two identical fermions can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously.
What is the Pauli exclusion principle?
This athlete became the first person to win eight Olympic gold medals at a single Olympic Games, accomplishing the feat in Beijing in 2008.
Who is Michael Phelps?