Pop Culture/Music
This 1982 album remains the best-selling album of all time globally.
What is Thriller?
This term refers to a perfect score in a single game of ten-pin bowling.
What is a 300?
This fruit is known for keeping doctors away when eaten daily.
What is an apple?
This African country has the most official languages — 11 in total.
What is South Africa?
This document, signed in 1215, limited the powers of the English monarchy and is considered a foundational text in the development of constitutional law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This K-pop supergroup, known for songs like “Dynamite” and “Butter,” took the world by storm.
What is BTS?
This soccer club has won the most UEFA Champions League titles.
What is Real Madrid?
This dairy product is made by churning cream.
What is butter?
This river is the longest in the world.
What is the Nile?
This 13th-century leader united the Mongol tribes and created the largest contiguous land empire in history.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This artist legally changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in 1993 during a dispute with his record label.
Who is Prince?
This tennis player has the most Grand Slam singles titles in the Open Era as of 2024.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
This French culinary term refers to the preparation and arrangement of food before cooking, meaning “everything in its place.”
What is mise en place?
Mount Everest lies on the border of these two countries.
What is Nepal and China?
This fell in 1989, symbolizing the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This elusive British street artist, whose work has appeared on album covers and city walls, directed the 2010 documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Who is Banksy?
This country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles.
What is Brazil?
This rare spice, derived from the stigma of a crocus flower, is the most expensive by weight.
What is saffron?
This is the smallest country in the world by land area.
What is Vatican City?
This empire was ruled by Julius Caesar before becoming the Roman Empire.
What is the Roman Republic?
This 2023 film featured a character who delivers the monologue “It is literally impossible to be a woman,” and became both a box office success and cultural flashpoint.
What is Barbie?
This athlete famously won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This flavor-enhancing compound, discovered in seaweed broth by Kikunae Ikeda, is the basis of the “fifth taste” known as umami.
What is monosodium glutamate (MSG)?
This remote island, an overseas territory of Norway, is located in the South Atlantic and was used as a whaling station.
What is Bouvet Island?
This intellectual movement of the 17th–18th centuries emphasized reason and individualism, laying the groundwork for modern democracies.
What is Enlightenment?