Poorly Described Movie Plots
A billionaire dresses up like an animal and spends his nights beating up a mentally ill clown.
What is The Dark Knight?
This mountain is the tallest on Earth when measured from base to summit, although much of its enormous height is hidden beneath the Pacific Ocean.
What is Mauna Kea
This character spent years believing his father died in an accident, was raised by his aunt and uncle, and eventually learns that his greatest enemy is also his father.
Who is Luke Skywalker
This celebrity's real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, and her stage name evolved from a childhood nickname inspired by the rum brand Bacardi.
Who is Cardi B
This European empire lasted for more than 600 years, captured Constantinople in 1453, and was formally abolished only a few years after the end of World War I.
The Ottoman Empire
A father crosses an entire ocean looking for his kidnapped son, accompanied by a woman who forgets almost everything he tells her.
What is Finding Nemo?
This desert is technically the largest desert on Earth, receiving so little precipitation that parts of its interior may go millions of years without rainfall.
What is Antarctica?
This movie’s title character appears on screen for less than 17 minutes, yet the performance won an Academy Award and became one of cinema’s most recognizable villains. The actor originally turned down the role because he considered himself too old for the character.
Who is Hannibal Lecter
This singer's legal surname is Fenty, was discovered in Barbados as a teenager, and became the first Black woman to head a luxury fashion house under the LVMH umbrella.
Who is Rihanna
This French military leader sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States, crowned himself emperor, and suffered his final military defeat in modern-day Belgium.
A man's coworkers convince him to violate company policy and steal people's ideas while they're sleeping.
What is Inception
This river flows through or along the borders of 10 countries, more than any other river in the world, before emptying into the Black Sea through one of Europe's largest wetlands.
What is the Danube River
This character is a former MIT student, inherited his father's company at age 21, and named the artificial intelligence that eventually became Vision after his family's longtime butler.
Who is Tony Stark / Iron Man?
This singer was born Destiny Hope, legally changed her first name in 2008, and is the daughter of the artist behind “Achy Breaky Heart.”
Who is Miley Cyrus
This U.S. president was the only president to serve more than two terms, communicated with Americans through “fireside chats,” and died less than a month before Germany surrendered in World War II.
Who is FDR
A Midwesterner moves east, befriends a neighbor with a questionable source of income, and accidentally becomes the middleman in a reunion between two people who haven't spoken in five years.
The Great Gatsby
This country contains more lakes than every other country in the world combined, with estimates putting its total at well over one million.
What is Canada
This character's real first name is Thomas, was raised by his grandmother, served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, and later becomes extremely wealthy after investing in a company his friend describes only as “some kind of fruit company.”
Who is Forrest Gump
This television network launched in 1981, and the very first footage it broadcast featured an astronaut planting its flag on the Moon, immediately followed by a song whose title predicted the changing music industry.
What is MTV
This diplomatic crisis began when a Soviet leader secretly placed weapons roughly 90 miles from the United States, included a U.S. naval “quarantine,” and was partly resolved through a secret American commitment involving missiles stationed in Turkey.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
Two people repeatedly encounter each other over more than a decade, spend most of that time dating other people, and eventually conclude that their biggest problem was their original theory about whether men and women can be friends.
When Harry Met Sally
This famous river flows through a desert yet supports one of the world's most densely populated corridors, travels generally northward, and empties into a sea rather than an ocean.
What is the Nile River
This character was raised by his aunt after his mother died, works as a chemistry teacher while holding a second job at a car wash, and adopts an alias inspired by a German physicist.
Who is Walter White
In 2009, this celebrity interruption became one of the defining viral moments of the early social-media era, occurring after a 19-year-old winner defeated Beyoncé for a fan-voted music-video award.
Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift at the VMAs
This European structure was accidentally opened after a government official gave a confused answer at a press conference, leading thousands of people to gather at checkpoints on the night of November 9, 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall