Literature
This Jane Austen novel opens with the line 'It is a truth universally acknowledged' and follows Elizabeth Bennet navigating love and class in 19th-century England.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
In this 1999 film, a dowdy teenager is transformed for prom, but her makeover mentor ends up falling for her — a modern retelling of a Shakespeare play.
What is 10 Things I Hate About You?
In tennis, this term describes a score of zero.
What is love?
This DC neighborhood is home to the famous Ben's Chili Bowl, a landmark eatery that stayed open during the 1968 riots.
What is U Street?
This is the only planet in our solar system not named after a Roman or Greek deity.
What is Earth?
In this novel, a young girl named Scout grows up in the American South during racial injustice, narrating her father Atticus's defense of an innocent Black man.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
A New Jersey family man discovers his entire life has been a TV show broadcast to the world.
What is The Truman Show?
This tennis tournament is the only Grand Slam played on grass courts.
What is Wimbledon?
This Smithsonian museum on the Mall is the most visited museum in the United States.
What is the National Air and Space Museum?
This element has the chemical symbol Au.
What is gold?
In this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, a mysterious millionaire throws lavish parties hoping to reunite with a lost love across the bay.
What is The Great Gatsby?
A cynical TV weatherman is sent on assignment to a small town and finds he cannot leave — waking up each morning to the same Sonny & Cher song on the radio.
What is Groundhog Day?
He holds the all-time NBA record for most career points, surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 2023.
Who is LeBron James?
This bridge connecting DC to Virginia is the only bridge over the Potomac on which pedestrians can cross, and was nearly destroyed during WWII as a security measure.
What is the Arlington Memorial Bridge?
This country is the only one in the world whose flag is not rectangular or square.
What is Nepal?
This Orwell novel's protagonist works at the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to falsify historical records — an act of irony that mirrors the novel's central theme.
What is 1984?
A programmer at a dead-end job begins receiving faxes from someone who claims the moon landing was faked — leading him down a rabbit hole that blurs reality and conspiracy.
What is The Matrix?
This quarterback led the Kansas City Chiefs to multiple Super Bowl victories in the 2020s.
Who is Patrick Mahomes?
This narrow alley in Georgetown, just one block long, is DC's oldest surviving street and was once home to laborers who built the nearby C&O Canal.
What is Pomander Walk (or Wisconsin Avenue Alley)?
This country is home to the most natural UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world.
What is China?
In this Dostoevsky novel, a poor student commits murder to test his theory that extraordinary people are above conventional morality, then grapples with guilt and paranoia.
What is Crime and Punishment?
A paroled convict and his partner, a criminal fixer, navigate existential crises, a mysterious briefcase, and intersecting storylines in 1990s Los Angeles.
What is Pulp Fiction?
This country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles in history, with five championships.
What is Brazil?
This Beaux-Arts post office on Pennsylvania Avenue was slated for demolition in the 1970s but was saved and converted into a clock tower and food hall — later becoming a hotel.
What is the Old Post Office Pavilion?
This sitcom, set in a fictional Indiana town, ran for 7 seasons and is famous for its elaborate recurring gags including 'The Pit,' 'Snake Juice,' and a horse in a hospital.
What is Parks and Recreation?