Anatomy 101
This is the longest bone in the human body, located in your thigh.
What is the femur?
This country was the first to send a human into space.
What is the Soviet Union? (Yuri Gagarin, 1961)
This Italian artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This annual cycling race, spanning about three weeks, finishes on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
What is the Tour de France?
This film tells the true story of Chris Gardner, a homeless salesman who became a stockbroker, starring Will Smith.
What is The Pursuit of Happyness?
This organ produces insulin as well as digestive enzymes.
What is the pancreas?
This woman was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This Renaissance artist sculpted and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This American football play involves a quarterback throwing the ball far downfield to a receiver, often as a desperation move.
What is a "Hail Mary"?
This 2010 film depicts the founding of Facebook and the legal battles that followed, based on Aaron Sorkin's screenplay.
What is The Social Network?
This is the medical term for your voice box.
What is the larynx?
This man is credited as the first person to circumnavigate the globe, though he died partway through the voyage that finished it.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan? (his expedition completed the trip, but he died in the Philippines)
This art period, spanning roughly the 14th to 17th centuries, marked a "rebirth" of classical learning and values in Europe.
What is the Renaissance?
This boxer, known for the "rope-a-dope" strategy, famously defeated George Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This 2015 film depicts the 2008 financial crisis through the eyes of investors who predicted the housing market collapse.
What is The Big Short?
This part of the brain, located at the back, is primarily responsible for balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
This was the first successful vaccine ever developed.
What is the smallpox vaccine? (developed by Edward Jenner)
This term describes the technique, pioneered by Renaissance artists like Brunelleschi, of creating the illusion of depth on a flat surface using a vanishing point.
What is linear perspective?
This tennis player holds the record for most Grand Slam singles titles among men, with 24 as of early 2024.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
This 2021 film follows tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams and their father's coaching methods, starring Will Smith.
What is King Richard?
This is the term for the space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are released.
What is the synapse?
This woman was the first to win a Nobel Prize, and remains the only person to win it in two different sciences.
Who is Marie Curie? (Physics and Chemistry)
This art movement, emerging in New York in the 1940s-50s, included artists like Jackson Pollock and was the first American movement to achieve international influence.
What is Abstract Expressionism?
This golf tournament, held annually at Augusta National, is known for awarding a green jacket to its winner.
What is the Masters?
This 2017 film depicts British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's early days in office during WWII, starring Gary Oldman.
What is Darkest Hour?