Classic Literature
What is the name of the lion character is C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series?
Aslan
What was the name of the character that travelled back in time in the 1985 film Back To The Future?
Marty McFly
In what year did The Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show?
1964
Where was pasta originally consumed?
China
What is the scientific method?
Observation, Experimentation, and Analysis (acceptable)
Observation, Research, Hypothesis Formulation, Experimentation, Analysis, Conclusion (exact)
What did Bilbo Baggins find in the dark tunnels of the Misty Mountains in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit?
The Ring, or The One Ring, or The Ring to Rule them All.
Indiana Jones is famously terrified of what animal?
Snakes
Which band is widely credited with the bringing together the elements of metal into a consistent sound such that it was granted its own genre moniker?
Black Sabbath
What cheese product is made from the left over milk whey from other cheeses?
Ricotta
What is Isaac Newton's second law of motion?
Force = Mass * Acceleration (F=MA)
In the narration of H.P. Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness, to what location does the narrator recall venturing with a group of explorers and encountering unexplainable horrors?
Antarctica
What is the name of the on-board AI in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
HAL 9000
In music theory, what combination of notes constitute a major chord?
A root, third, and fifth (acceptable)
1, 3, 5 (acceptable)
Root, major third, and a perfect fifth (exact)
What is the most consumed meat in the world?
Pork
Which mathematical operation is used to find the area under a curve or function?
Integration or the Integral
What was the name of the ship that brought Dracula to England in Bram Stoker's Dracula?
The Demeter
Master Yogurt taught the ways of this mysterious metaphysical power to the protagonist, Lone Starr, in the 1987 film Spaceballs
The Schwartz
Where was house music created?
Chicago
What is a cooked mixture of fat and flour, used as a thickening agent in sauces, soups, and stews?
A Roux
What concept in statistics is used to describe the average distance of a distribution of values from the mean?
Standard Deviation
What was the name of the king of Troy in Homer's The Illiad?
Priam
Beatrix Kiddo, AKA the Bride in the Kill Bill films, was trained by which kung fu master?
Pai Mei
Which chart-topping 1970's rock band made frequent references to Tolkien in their music?
Led Zeppelin
Which fruit is believed to be the first cultivated fruit crop?
Figs
What kind of particles are the force carriers in the standard model?
Bosons