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This is the portion of a company's profit paid out to its shareholders, often distributed quarterly.
What is a Dividend?
This high-energy song from the movie RRR made history in 2023 by becoming the first song from an Indian film to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
What is "Naatu Naatu"?
This French phrase, meaning "everything in its place," refers to the practice of prepping all ingredients before you start cooking.
What is Mise en place?
Covering about 30% of the Earth's surface, this is the largest and deepest of the world's five oceans.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is the specific name of the "boundary" around a Black Hole from which nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is the Event Horizon?
You calculate this "total value" of a company by multiplying its current share price by its total number of outstanding shares.
What is Market Capitalization (Market Cap)?
For two years, Indian moviegoers obsessively asked the question: "Why did this loyal soldier kill Baahubali?"
Who is Kattappa?
This scale is used to measure the "heat" or pungency of chili peppers, ranging from 0 for bell peppers to millions for "Carolina Reapers."
What is the Scoville Scale?
Known by the chemical symbol "Hg," this is the only metal that remains in a liquid state at room temperature.
What is Mercury?
Named after a Dutch astronomer, this giant "cloud" of icy objects is located at the very edge of our solar system and is the source of many comets.
What is the Oort Cloud?
This investment strategy involves regularly buying a fixed dollar amount of an asset, regardless of its price, to reduce the impact of volatility.
What is Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA)?
This legendary actor, known for his baritone voice, actually faced a string of 12 consecutive flops early in his career before the 1973 hit Zanjeer changed everything.
Who is Amitabh Bachchan?
Often called the "fifth taste," this savory or meaty flavor profile was identified by Japanese scientists and is found in foods like soy sauce and Parmesan.
What is Umami?
Where is the quote "big brother is watching you" from?
1984 George Orwell
In 2022, this massive space telescope—the successor to the Hubble—began sending back the deepest and sharpest infrared images of the distant universe.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)?
To estimate how many years it will take for your money to double at a fixed annual interest rate, you divide this "numerical" rule by that rate.
What is the Rule of 72?
This 2024 dystopian sci-fi epic brought together legends from both North and South India, starring Prabhas alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Kamal Haasan.
What is Kalki 2898 AD?
At over $5,000 per pound, this spice—harvested by hand from the stigmata of a specific crocus flower—is the most expensive in the world.
What is Saffron?
Entirely surrounded by the city of Rome, this is the smallest independent country in the world by both area and population.
What is Vatican City?
To leave Earth’s gravity behind, a spacecraft must reach this speed, which is approximately 7 miles per second (or 25,000 mph).
What is Escape Velocity?
This 9-letter legal term describes the obligation of a financial advisor to act solely in the best interest of their client, rather than for their own gain.
What is a Fiduciary (Duty)?
Proving that talent starts early, this late superstar actress was only 13 years old when she played the role of Rajnikanth's stepmother in the Tamil film Moondru Mudichu.
Who is Sridevi?
These two names actually refer to the same plant: one typically refers to the fresh leaves, while the other refers to the dried seeds.
What are Cilantro and Coriander?
Of the 26 letters in the English alphabet, this is the only one that does not appear in the name of any US State.
What is the letter Q?
This is the term for the "habitable zone" around a star where the temperature is just right for liquid water to exist on a planet’s surface.
What is the Goldilocks Zone?