What Am I? — Five Clues
GPS (Global Positioning System)
Engineers warned that unusually cold temperatures could compromise rubber O-ring seals, but the launch proceeded on January 28, 1986.
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
This planet has a gigantic storm called the Great Red Spot that has persisted for centuries and is larger than Earth in diameter historically, though it has been shrinking.
Jupiter
Before becoming an action superstar, this actor played Mr. Freeze on Batman & Robin, but much earlier appeared as Hercules in the 1970 film Hercules in New York.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I am the only country that borders both Spain and France, and I'm one of Europe's smallest sovereign states.
Andorra
Rosetta Stone
The crew ignored multiple iceberg warnings while maintaining high speed across the North Atlantic. The ship struck an iceberg shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912.
sinking of the Titanic
This moon of Saturn has lakes, rivers, clouds, and rain—but instead of liquid water, its surface lakes are primarily methane and ethane.
Titan
Before becoming one of Hollywood's biggest stars, this actor was killed by Freddy Krueger in his film debut, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and later starred on 21 Jump Street.
Johnny Depp
I am a U.S. state bordered by exactly one other U.S. state, but I share an international border with Canada and have thousands of miles of coastline.
Maine
gravitational waves
Operators conducting a late-night safety test disabled or bypassed several safety systems and placed an unstable reactor into conditions that culminated in explosions on April 26, 1986.
Chernobyl disaster
This type of stellar remnant can pack more mass than the Sun into a sphere roughly the size of a city, with matter so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh around a billion tons on Earth.
neutron star
Before Jurassic Park and Pulp Fiction, this actor had small roles in films including Coming to America and played a criminal who attempts to rob a restaurant in the movie's famous hold-up scene.
Samuel L. Jackson
I am a landlocked South American country bordered by Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia, and my capital sits on the Paraguay River.
Paraguay
cosmic microwave background
In 1981, suspended walkways in a Kansas City hotel collapsed during a crowded dance after a design change effectively doubled the load on a critical connection.
Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
These extraordinarily magnetic neutron stars can possess magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's, and occasionally produce enormous bursts of X-rays and gamma rays.
magnetar
Long before Breaking Bad, this actor appeared as Dr. Tim Whatley, Jerry's dentist, on Seinfeld and played astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.
Bryan Cranston
I am an African country completely surrounded by South Africa, making me one of only three sovereign countries in the world entirely enclosed by another country.
Lesotho
Antikythera mechanism
In 1940, aerodynamic forces caused this newly opened suspension bridge to twist violently before a large section of its roadway collapsed into Puget Sound just months after opening.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse? (“Galloping Gertie”)
Discovered in 2017, this elongated interstellar object became the first confirmed object observed passing through our Solar System from interstellar space. Its Hawaiian name roughly means “scout” or “first distant messenger.”
Oumuamua
Before The Lord of the Rings made him internationally famous, this actor appeared in Witness, Young Guns II, and Carlito's Way, and played Master Chief John Urgayle in G.I. Jane.
Viggo Mortensen
I am a country with coastlines on both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The Tropic of Capricorn crosses me, and I border both Mozambique and Namibia.
South Africa