Big Numbers, But Harder
The overall surface area of a standard doubles tennis court in square metres (1 decimal place)
260.9 m²
Ebenezer Scrooge changed his miserly ways after being visited by three ghosts on this date
Christmas Eve
This Canadian pop culture icon hosted Jeopardy! for 37 seasons following its revival in 1984
Alex Trebek
The designs for the nuclear weapons made for the Manhattan Project were produced at this location in New Mexico
Los Alamos Laboratory
Initially uploaded in 2005, the viral “LEEROOOOY JENKINS!” clip originated from this online game
World of Warcraft
The distance of 1 nautical mile in metres (whole numbers)
1,852 m
This country queen founded a free children's book gifting program in Tennessee called The Imagination Library
Dolly Parton
He hosts the Youtube interview show with hot questions and even hotter wings
Sean Evans
Because people believed this 1999 found footage horror film was real, the lead actress’s mother received many sympathy letters from watchers who thought her daughter was dead or missing
The Blair Witch Project
The elevation of Mount Everest as of 2020 in metres (2 decimal places)
8,848.86 m
This nation gifts Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting their royal family during WWII
The Netherlands
If you’re British and have got talent, you may run into this British presenting pair on your way to the stage
Ant and Dec
The massive collaborative undertaking that was the Human Genome Project began in 1990 and ended in this year
2003
This peer-to-peer file sharing site launched in 1999 was famously embroiled in a lawsuit with Metallica
Napster
Density of 1 cubic metre of room-temperature tungsten in kilograms (whole number)
19,254 kg
MSF is an acronym for this charity that provides medical aid in war-torn countries
Doctors Without Borders
He was the first host of the American run of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter
Drew Carey
Established in 1971 and mainly run by volunteers, this is the name of the first digital library
Project Gutenberg
When ‘.com’ launched in 1985 as one of the first generic top-level domains, it was meant for these type of entities
Commercial entities
The distance of Earth’s circumference as measured around the equator in kilometres (3 decimal places)
40,075.017 km
Henry Dunant received the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 for spurring the establishment of this international humanitarian organisation
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
This charismatic Scotsman hosted The Late Late Show prior to James Corden
Craig Ferguson
This early chapter of the Space Race was NASA’s first high-profile mission as a full fledged agency
Project Mercury
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sent the first mail message between two computers on the ARPANET, introducing this now-familiar address syntax designating the user's system address
‘@’ symbol