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This stone helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This process lets plants turn sunlight into sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
The day of the week, "Wednesday" is named after this god?
Who is Woden (or Odin)?
This channel launched in 1981 with “Video Killed the Radio Star.”
What is MTV?
This free operating system is represented by a penguin mascot.
What is Linux?
This famous battle in 1066 ended Anglo-Saxon rule in England
What is the Battle of Hastings
This object is so dense that not even light can escape it.
What is a black hole?
These twin brothers were raised by a she-wolf.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
This long-running anime follows Monkey D. Luffy and his crew searching for a legendary treasure.
What is One Piece?
This story helped define cosmic horror by making human civilization seem like a brief accident in an ancient universe.
What is “The Call of Cthulhu”?
This philosopher lived in a barrel, scorned social decency, and supposedly told Alexander the Great to stop blocking his sunlight.
Who is Diogenes
This supercontinent existed before breaking apart into today’s continents.
What was Pangaea?
This Old Anglo-Saxon hero fights Grendel and later a dragon.
Who is Beowulf?
This 1984 mockumentary gave us the phrase “turn it up to eleven.”
What is This Is Spinal Tap?
In this story about chained people, the sun represents a higher truth beyond the world of appearances.
What is the Allegory of the Cave?
This president’s first White House reception became so chaotic that the crowd reportedly had to be distracted with liquor on the lawn.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This boundary marks the point around a black hole beyond which escape is impossible.
What is the event horizon?
This Greek king led the army against Troy and later met a grim fate after returning home.
Who is Agamemnon?
This dark satire follows a wealthy Wall Street banker with a violent double life.
What is American Psycho?
This paradox asks whether a ship is still the same ship after every plank is replaced.
What is the Ship of Theseus?
This mysterious group attacked Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean kingdoms around 1200 BCE, and may have been responsible for a dark age.
What is the Sea Peoples?
This famous thought experiment involves a cat that is both alive and dead simultaneously until observed.
What is Schrödinger’s cat?
This giant ash tree connects the nine worlds.
What is Yggdrasil?
This anonymous UK street artist is known for stencil-style political graffiti.
Who is Banksy?
This is the reconstructed ancestor of Sanskrit, Persian, Greek, Latin, English and many European languages.
What is proto-Indo-European?