Sports
Drafted straight out of high school in 1996, this NBA legend spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers and retired as the third all-time leading scorer.
Kobe Bryant
This offbeat 1998 Coen Brothers comedy, featuring a bowler named "The Dude," achieved cult classic status despite its initial lukewarm box office.
The Big Lebowski
This natural force keeps planets orbiting the Sun and your feet on the ground
gravity
After being exiled from Cuba, this revolutionary returned on the yacht Granma to help lead a successful uprising in 1959
Fidel Castro
Before starring as Leslie Knope on “Parks and Recreation,” this actress was a cast member and writer on “Saturday Night Live
Amy Poehler
This annual yacht race, first held in 1851 and named after the schooner that won the inaugural event, is regarded as the oldest international sporting trophy.
America’s Cup
This 2019 South Korean film became the first non-English-language film to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
Parasite
Developed in the 17th century, this branch of mathematics uses symbols and letters to represent numbers and quantities in formulas and equations.
What is algebra
The Magna Carta, signed in 1215, was forced upon King John of this country by his barons
England
This workplace sitcom is set at Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania and is based on a UK series of the same name.
The Office
Originating in Canada, this sport played on ice with brooms and a stone.
curling
This Phil Collins song won the Oscar for Best Original Song for its appearance in the 1999 animated film "Tarzan.
You’ll Be in My Heart
Marie Curie was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields: Physics and this branch of science.
Chemistry
This ancient North African city, a rival of Rome, was famously destroyed at the end of the Third Punic War in 146 BCE
Carthage
Created by Norman Lear, this groundbreaking 1970s sitcom tackled social issues and starred Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker.
What is All in the Family
In 1973, this tennis star defeated Bobby Riggs in the celebrated “Battle of the Sexes” match, advancing the conversation about gender equality in sports.
Billie Jean King
This 2001 French film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, follows a whimsical young woman as she sets out to improve the lives of those around her in Paris.
Amélie
This computer programming language, developed by Guido van Rossum and named after a British comedy group, is widely used for web development, AI, and data science.
Python
The "Trail of Tears" refers to the forced relocation of this Native American nation from their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River to present-day Oklahoma
The Cherokee
This show, which premiered in 1987, followed the Bundy family in Chicago and was one of the first original sitcoms broadcast by Fox.
Married... with Children
At the 1980 Winter Olympics, the U.S. men's ice hockey team pulled off a stunning upset against this heavily favored national team, an event dubbed the “Miracle on Ice.”
the Soviet Union
The 1995 crime film “Heat” starred these two Oscar-winning actors together on screen for the first time, in a classic coffee shop scene.
Al Pacino and Robert De Niro
This famous equation, devised by James Clerk Maxwell, describes how electric and magnetic fields propagate and interact to create electromagnetic waves.
Maxwell’s equations
This 17th-century astronomer was tried by the Inquisition for advocating heliocentrism—the view that the Earth revolves around the Sun
Galileo Galilei
On this critically acclaimed sitcom, the Bluth family often met in their model home in Orange County, California, and their banana stand was famously “always money.
Arrested Development?