Who was the first man in space?
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This famous ship carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is skin?
This long-running animated show features a family from Springfield and debuted in 1989.
What is The Simpsons?
This red fruit is often mistaken for a vegetable.
What is a tomato?
This is the name given to a group of stars that form a recognizable pattern in the night sky.
What is a constellation?
This ruler of Ancient Egypt was the last active pharaoh and famously known for her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Who is Cleopatra?
This is the term for a baby goat.
What is a kid?
This fantasy epic directed by Peter Jackson features a quest to destroy a ring.
What is The Lord of the Rings?
This French dessert, whose name means "burnt cream," features a caramelized sugar top.
What is crème brûlée?
This was the first human-made satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
This event, beginning in 1347, killed an estimated 25-30 million people in Europe.
What is the Black Death (Bubonic Plague)?
This word describes both a computer mistake and a creepy little insect that lives in your walls.
What is a bug?
This sassy TV character spent much of the 90s teaching us how to "pivot!" and hosting trivia games with insane rules.
Who is Ross Geller (Friends)?
This is the name for the Japanese technique of frying food in a light batter.
What is tempura?
This term describes a region in space with a gravitational pull so strong that even light cannot escape.
What is a black hole?
This French military leader crowned himself Emperor in 1804.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This day of the week is named after the Norse god of thunder.
What is Thursday?
This Parks and Recreation character loves waffles, woodworking, and violently hates government bureaucracy.
Who is Ron Swanson?
This fancy French word for tiny appetizers actually just means “outside the work.”
What are hors d'oeuvres?
This celestial body is sometimes called Earth’s "evil twin" because of its thick, toxic atmosphere and extreme heat.
What is Venus?
This medieval "weapon" was actually a siege machine that hurled giant rocks, and sometimes cows, at castle walls.
What is a trebuchet?
This word refers to the fear of long words and ironically is one of the longest words in the dictionary.
What is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?
This 1982 sci-fi classic directed by Ridley Scott features a dystopian future and replicants.
What is Blade Runner?
This spicy chili pepper measures over one million Scoville Heat Units and was once considered the hottest in the world.
What is the ghost pepper?