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This blockbuster franchise features characters like Groot, Gamora, and Star-Lord.
What is Guardians of the Galaxy?
This MLB team broke the longest championship drought in major American sports by winning the 2016 World Series after 108 years.
What are the Chicago Cubs?
This 2018 animated film featured a groundbreaking multiverse concept and introduced versions of Spider-Man including Peni Parker and Spider-Man Noir.
What is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse?
This type of chemical bond results from the transfer of electrons between atoms, typically forming between metals and nonmetals.
What is an ionic bond?
This Italian dish features flat pasta sheets layered with meat sauce, béchamel, and cheese.
What is lasagna?
This singer’s 2023–2024 “Eras Tour” became the highest-grossing concert tour in history.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This NBA franchise, originally founded in Buffalo, later moved to San Diego before settling in Los Angeles in 1984.
What are the LA Clippers?
This HBO series, created by Mike Judge, follows the turbulent rise of a startup called Pied Piper in Silicon Valley.
What is Silicon Valley?
This theoretical form of matter, proposed to make up about 27% of the universe, interacts gravitationally but not electromagnetically, making it invisible to telescopes.
What is dark matter?
This Japanese dish consists of raw fish or seafood served with vinegared rice and sometimes seaweed.
What is sushi?
This 2019 South Korean film made history as the first non-English movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
This legendary footballer won the Ballon d’Or five times before 2015 and is still the all-time leading scorer for Real Madrid.
Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?
This cult-classic 2004 TV show about a socially awkward high schooler named Jerri Blank was actually a prequel to a fictional memoir created by its star, Amy Sedaris.
What is Strangers with Candy?
In ecology, this term describes a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its environment relative to its abundance.
What is a keystone species?
This French pastry is flaky, buttery, and often shaped like a crescent.
What is a croissant?
This British electronic music duo, formed in 1998, is known for the hits “Windowlicker” and “Go Ahead, Boys” under the Warp label.
Who are Aphex Twin?
This Olympic distance runner famously won gold in both the 5,000m and 10,000m at the 2012 and 2016 Games, becoming the first British athlete to achieve the “double-double.”
Who is Mo Farah?
This 2013 film by Bong Joon-ho, based on a French graphic novel, follows the last remnants of humanity aboard a perpetually moving train divided by class.
What is Snowpiercer?
This branch of physics studies the behavior of matter and energy at scales of atoms and subatomic particles.
What is quantum mechanics?
This Filipino dish consists of pig’s blood, vinegar, and garlic, often cooked with pork meat and sometimes served with rice.
What is dinuguan?
This Grammy-winning band’s name is a reference to a character from The NeverEnding Story and is known for experimental albums like Merriweather Post Pavilion.
What is Animal Collective?
This tennis player won 14 Grand Slam singles titles in the 1990s and was known for his powerful serve-and-volley style.
Who is Pete Sampras?
This 1995 neo-noir film, directed by Michael Mann, is famous for its downtown L.A. shootout and the first on-screen meeting between Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
What is Heat?
This effect in general relativity describes the bending of light from a distant star or galaxy as it passes near a massive object, often used to detect dark matter.
What is gravitational lensing?
This traditional Swedish dish consists of fermented herring, often pickled with lye, and is considered an acquired taste.
What is surströmming?