pop culture
This 2023 Barbie movie director also directed Lady Bird and Little Women.
Greta Gerwig
Water boils at this temperature in Celsius at sea level.
: 100°C
This ancient wonder of the world still stands today.
The Great Pyramid of Giza
A word that reads the same forwards and backwards.
A palindrome (e.g. 'racecar')
The most common reason college students visit the campus health center.
Anxiety / mental health (accept stress)
This streaming platform launched 'Wednesday' in 2022, breaking viewership records.
Netflix
This gas makes up approximately 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
Nitrogen
The year the United States declared independence.
1776
The plural of 'cactus' in formal English.
Cacti
The average American college student drinks this many cups of coffee per day
2–3 cups (accept 2 or 3)
Taylor Swift's Eras Tour became the first concert tour to gross over this dollar amount.
1 Billion
Einstein's famous equation relating energy and mass.
E = mc²
This leader of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Joseph Stalin
An oxymoron in two words: jumbo this.
Jumbo shrimp
This percentage of college students say they have pulled an all-nighter at least once.
Roughly 60%
The name of the fictional African nation in Black Panther.
Wakanda
The scientific term for the study of earthquakes.
Seismology
The name of the ship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1912.
The Titanic
This literary device uses the same consonant sound at the start of nearby words.
Alliteration
The term for the weight gain some students experience in their first year of college.
freshman 15
This video game franchise features Link, Zelda, and Ganon but is named after the princess, not the hero.
The Legend of Zelda
This scientist discovered penicillin accidentally in 1928.
Alexander Fleming
This empire, at its height, was the largest contiguous land empire in history.
The Mongol Empire
The word for a word that means the same thing as another word.
Synonym
FAFSA stands for this.
Free Application for Federal Student Aid