“My mama always said life was like a_______.”
Box of chocolates
Forrest Gump (1994)
The Basket Case band who’ll take you on a Time of Your Life down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Green Day
The three typical flavours in a tub of Neopolitan ice cream
Vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry
The moon-sized superweapon which destroyed Alderaan from space
The Death Star
In conspiracy culture, this Enlightenment secret society is associated with an eye inside a triangle
Illuminati
“In another life, I would have really liked just doing _______ with you.”
Laundry and taxes
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
This basin of this river is understood to be the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilisation
Yellow River
The Trinity is a Christian doctrine about God existing as these three persons
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
The name of the most powerful atomic weapon ever tested
Tsar Bomba
In 2019, more than 2 million people responded to a sardonic Facebook event about storming this notoriously classified military facility in Nevada, US
Area 51
"You will always remember this as the day that you almost caught _______!"
Captain Jack Sparrow
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth after the Sun, is classified as this type of star
Red Dwarf
The three First Generation starter Pokémon in Pokémon Red and Blue
Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle
In 79 CE, a series of pyroclastic flows from this mountain buried an ancient Roman city
Mount Vesuvius
The hacker collective Anonymous commonly represented themselves wearing the mask of this explosive historical figure’s face
Guy Fawkes
"I love the smell of napalm _______."
In the morning
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The name of the titular machine from the documentary Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Deep Blue
The three types of triangle as classified by the length of their sides
Equilateral, isosceles, and scalene
The hive-mind insectoid race from the StarCraft game franchise who specialise in rushing and swarming opponents
Zerg
Imaginative minds can contribute to the online archives of this fictional organisation by compiling reports of anomalous phenomena
SCP Foundation
"Open the _______, HAL."
Pod bay doors
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
This fictional character turns into a blueberry after eating a prototype three-course dinner gum
Violet Beauregarde
The three Jonas musician brothers
Nick, Joe, and Kevin
When this high-energy scientific research device was first activated in 2008, there were fears it would create a black hole which would swallow the Earth
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Project Normandy was a covert operation in the 1970s by this not-so-cruisey group wherein they planned to take over the city of Clearwater, Florida
Church of Scientology