Inventions
This invention, introduced in the 1980s, allowed music to be stored and played digitally on shiny optical discs.
What are CDs?
These were the three "Gs" that motivated Europeans to explore.
What was God, Glory, and Gold?
This 1994 film features a character who says, “Life is like a box of chocolates.”
What is Forrest Gump?
This country has the most natural lakes in the world.
What is Canada?
This is the mascot of the University Mr. Bean graduated from.
What is Demon Deacons?
This was the name and species of the first successfully cloned mammal in 1996?
What is Dolly the Sheep?
These were warrior chieftains who became lords in a new kind of Japanese feudalism during the Warring States period.
What are daimyo?
This director is known for films such as Inception, Interstellar, and The Dark Knight.
Who is Christopher Nolan?
This river flows through 11 countries, more than any other river in the world.
What is the Danube?
This is Mr. Bean's favorite band.
What is Pearl Jam?
In this year, Ray Tomlinson invented the system that allowed messages to be sent between computers using the “@” symbol, a.k.a. email.
What is 1971?
The basic spirit of Renaissance society was this, a word meaning worldly rather than spiritual.
What is secular?
This 2019 South Korean film became the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
What is Parasite?
This African nation has a capital city whose name means “new flower.”
What is Ethiopia (Addis Abada)?
Mr. Bean started his teaching career in this year.
This technology, developed during World War II under the code name “magnetron,” made modern microwave ovens possible.
What is radar?
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between Russia and Japan over control of these two territories.
What is Korea and Manchuria?
This 2015 film directed by George Miller revitalized a classic franchise with the subtitle “Fury Road.”
What is Mad Max: Fury Road?
This landlocked country is the only one in the world bordered exclusively by other landlocked countries.
What is Uzbekistan?
What is 12?
This technology, first implemented in 1997 and now common in toll collection and contactless payments, uses radio waves to identify tagged objects.
What is RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)?
She was Henry VIII's second wife, who gave birth to Queen Elizabeth I, and was later beheaded.
Who was Anne Boleyn?
In this 1998 film, the villain says, “How many men does it take to deliver a message?” before launching a flaming arrow.
What is Mulan?
This capital city sits at a higher elevation than any other national capital in the world.
What is La Paz, Bolivia?
Mr. Bean has lived in 7 states, name 5.
What is NJ, NY, NC, ME, CT, VA and FL?