World Affairs
This country formally left the European Union in January 2020, in a process nicknamed as a blend of its name and the word exit
What is Britain?
This ride-hailing company, co-founded by Travis Kalanick, went public on the stock market in 2019
What is Uber?
This Greta Gerwig-directed film about a famous doll was the highest-grossing movie of 2023
What is Barbie?
This AI company, founded by former OpenAI researchers and led by Dario Amodei, created the chatbot Claude.
What is Anthropic?
This is the longest river in the world, flowing through northeastern Africa
What is the Nile?
This British prime minister resigned in 2022 after just 49 days in office, the shortest tenure in the country's history
Who is Liz Truss?
This nickname for a startup valued at over a billion dollars was coined by venture capitalist Aileen Lee in 2013
What is a unicorn?
This Indian film's song, Naatu Naatu, won the Oscar for best original song in 2023.
What is RRR?
This vaccine technology, used in some Covid-19 vaccines, instructs cells to build their own immune response using messenger molecules.
What is mRNA?
This Central Asian nation is the largest landlocked country in the world by area
What is Kazakhstan?
This Gulf nation hosted the COP28 climate summit in late 2023
What is UAE?
In January 2021, retail investors organized on the Reddit forum WallStreetBets to drive up this video game retailer's stock price, inflicting roughly $20 billion in losses on hedge funds that had bet against it.
What is GameStop?
This 2024 film, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, overtook Mamma Mia! to become the highest-grossing movie ever based on a Broadway musical.
What is Wicked?
This pharmaceutical giant's cancer drug Keytruda is consistently one of the best-selling medicines in the world.
What is Merck?
This East African nation, once known as Abyssinia, is the only African country never to be colonized by a European power (aside from a brief Italian occupation)
What is Ethiopia?
This political and economic bloc of ten Southeast Asian nations was founded in Bangkok in 1967
What is ASEAN?
In 2018, this American retail giant paid roughly $16 billion for a 77 percent stake in Flipkart, India's largest e-commerce company at the time — its biggest acquisition ever.
What is Walmart?
This musician holds the record for the most Grammy wins of all time, with more than 30 awards
Who is Beyonce?
This space telescope, launched in December 2021 as Hubble's successor, captures unprecedented infrared images of the early universe.
What is the James Webb Telescope?
This strait, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, separates the Malay Peninsula from the Indonesian island of Sumatra
What is the Strait of Malacca?
This U.S. initiative, named after the sitting Secretary of State, provided over $13 billion to rebuild Western European economies after World War II
What is the Marshall Plan?
This March 2023 collapse of a tech-focused California lender was one of the biggest U.S. bank failures since 2008
What is Silicon Valley Bank?
This 1975 film's mechanical shark, nicknamed "Bruce" after the director's lawyer, malfunctioned so often that Spielberg was forced to keep it mostly off-screen — a limitation now credited with making the film scarier.
What is Jaws?
This 2023 mission made India the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the moon, and the first ever near its south pole
What is Chandrayaan-3?
This country ties with Russia for sharing land borders with the most other nations in the world — 14 each.
What is China?