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This 2023 film directed by Greta Gerwig became a global box office hit, bringing the iconic Mattel doll to life in a bright pink world.
What is Barbie
This playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet.
What is Shakeshere
In 2023, this NFL quarterback led the Kansas City Chiefs to a Super Bowl victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.
Who is Patrick Mahomes
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies' independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence
This planet, known as the Red Planet, is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system.
What is Mars
This singer is known as the “Queen of Pop” and released hits like “Like a Virgin” and “Material Girl.”
Who is Madonna
This is the term for a comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile
This sport is known as “America’s pastime.”
This is the capital city of the United States.
What is Washington D.C.
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity
This artist is famous for his parodies of famous songs during the 80s. Some of his song’s include Eat It and Fat
Who is Weird Al Yankovic
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification
This tennis tournament is played annually on grass courts in London and is the oldest of the four Grand Slam tournaments.
What is The Championships, Wimbledon
This Cold War-era wall, built in 1961, divided a German city until it fell in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall
This organelle is responsible for holding all of the DNA in the cell.
What is the Nucleus
This HBO fantasy series, based on novels by George R. R. Martin, features noble families like the Starks and Lannisters competing for the Iron Throne.
What is Game of Thrones
This literary device occurs when the audience knows something important that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony
This athlete won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the most ever won in a single Olympic Games.
Who is Micheal Phelps
This city is where the Constitutional Convention was held is often called the city of brotherly love.
What is Philidelphia, Pennsylvania
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s 3rd law of motion
This 1941 film directed by Orson Welles centers on publishing magnate Charles Foster Kane and is famous for the line “Rosebud.”
What is Citizen Kane
In poetry, this term refers to a metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, commonly found in Shakespeare’s plays.
What is an iamb
This country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles in men’s soccer history.
What is Brazil
DAILY DOUBLE: This 1648 series of treaties ended the Thirty Years’ War and reshaped the political map of Europe.
What is the Peace of Westphalia
This measurement is the result of mass times velocity
What is momentum