Geography with a Twist
This U.S. state has the longest coastline—even longer than Florida and California combined.
What is Alaska?
This Steven Spielberg movie famously used theme music to build suspense for a shark.
What is Jaws?
This war officially ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
What is the American Revolutionary War?
Water boils at 100°C, which equals this temperature in Fahrenheit.
What is 212°F?
A word meaning “a perfect example of something,” like a model student.
What is a paragon?
This African river, featured in many explorers’ journals, flows north into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile?
This TV series holds the record for most Emmy wins for a scripted show.
What is Game of Thrones?
This ancient city was buried in volcanic ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
What is Pompeii?
This element makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
A word that sounds like another word but has a different meaning and spelling.
What is a homonym?
This country is the smallest by land area in South America.
What is Suriname?
In The Matrix, Neo is offered a red pill and this color pill as the alternative.
What is blue?
He was the first European to reach India by sea.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Humans have 23 of these chromosomal pairs, for a total of this many chromosomes.
What is 46?
The category of words where the whole is suggested by a part (like calling a car “wheels”).
What is synecdoche?
This European capital city sits on two continents.
What is Istanbul?
This 1994 film is the only animated movie to win a Golden Globe for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy).
What is The Lion King?
This empire controlled large parts of the Middle East and Eastern Europe for over 600 years until 1922.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The force that keeps planets in orbit around stars.
What is gravity?
This 10-letter word means “to reduce the force or seriousness of something.”
What is mitigate?
This landlocked Asian nation has the highest capital city in the world.
What is Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)?
This director is the only person to win back-to-back Oscars for Best Director in the 2010s.
Who is Alejandro González Iñárritu?
This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu.
Who were the Inca?
This part of the brain is responsible for memory and is shaped somewhat like a seahorse.
What is the hippocampus?
A word formed from initial letters, spoken as a word itself, like NASA.
What is an acronym?