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This 1999 film introduced Neo, Morpheus, and the choice between red and blue pills.
What is The Matrix?
This annual New York event is famous for celebrity red-carpet fashion and themed dress codes.
What is the Met Gala?
This George Orwell novel features Big Brother, Newspeak, and Room 101.
What is 1984?
This Andean empire built Machu Picchu.
What is the Inca Empire?
This gas, not oxygen, makes up about 78% of Earth’s air.
What is nitrogen?
This 2001 animated film was the first movie to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
What is Shrek?
This designer’s 1947 debut collection became famous for the “New Look.”
Who is Christian Dior?
This Jane Austen novel opens with the line, “It is a truth universally acknowledged...”
What is Pride and Prejudice?
This archduke’s assassination in Sarajevo helped trigger World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This SI unit of electric current is equal to one coulomb per second.
What is an ampere?
This Netflix series helped Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” return to global charts in 2022.
What is Stranger Things?
This American designer helped revive Gucci in the 1990s with sleek, provocative luxury fashion.
Who is Tom Ford?
This Dostoevsky novel follows Raskolnikov after he murders a pawnbroker.
What is Crime and Punishment?
This 1868 political shift restored imperial rule and helped modernize Japan.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This line of latitude around 23.5° north marks the northernmost place where the Sun can appear directly overhead.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
This Japanese director co-founded Studio Ghibli and directed Spirited Away.
Who is Hayao Miyazaki?
This British designer is associated with “bumster” trousers and dramatic runway shows like the spray-painted dress finale.
Who is Alexander McQueen?
This fictional town in One Hundred Years of Solitude is founded by José Arcadio Buendía.
What is Macondo?
This 1648 peace settlement ended the Thirty Years’ War in Europe.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This constant is approximately 6.022 × 10²³ particles per mole.
What is Avogadro’s constant?
This 1995 anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii is often linked to the visual influence behind The Matrix.
What is Ghost in the Shell?
This Japanese designer behind Comme des Garçons is known for avant-garde fashion that challenges conventional beauty.
Who is Rei Kawakubo?
This James Joyce novel follows Leopold Bloom through one day in Dublin.
What is Ulysses?
This Aztec capital fell to Hernán Cortés and his allies in 1521.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This paradox asks why we have not found evidence of alien civilizations despite the huge number of possible worlds.
What is the Fermi paradox?