Coffee
V.G. Characters
Cinema
Japanese History
Astronomy
100
This popular Italian coffee drink combines espresso with a small amount of steamed milk and a lot of steamed foam.
What is a cappuccino?
100
Who is Master Chief?
100
This 1997 epic romance is famous for the line, “I’m the king of the world!”
What is Titanic?
100
The main city firebombed during WWII in Japan.
What is Tokyo?
100
This is the name of the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
What is the Milky Way?
200
This method of brewing coffee involves pouring hot water over ground coffee in a filter, allowing it to drip slowly into a pot or carafe.
What is drip coffee (or pour-over)?
200
Who is Tracer?
200
This Japanese filmmaker directed Spirited Away, an animated masterpiece that won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003.
Who is Hayao Miyazaki?
200
During World War II, these Japanese pilots carried out suicide missions by deliberately crashing their planes into Allied ships.
What are Kamikaze pilots?
200
This type of galaxy has a flat, rotating disk with spiral arms extending from a central bulge.
What is a spiral galaxy?
300
This country is the world’s largest producer of coffee, famous for its Arabica beans.
What is Brazil?
300
Who is Tony Hawk?
300
This 1927 silent film, directed by Fritz Lang, is a German expressionist classic set in a dystopian city.
What is Metropolis?
300
This 1945 event marked only the second time a nuclear weapon was used in warfare, targeting a Japanese city.
What is the bombing of Nagasaki?
300
This European/American space telescope, launched in 1990, has provided deep-field images revealing thousands of distant galaxies.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
400
This method of brewing coffee originated in the Middle East and involves boiling finely ground coffee with water and sugar in a special pot called a cezve.
What is turkish coffee?
400
Who is Duke Nukem?
400
This 1954 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa inspired the Hollywood western The Magnificent Seven.
What is Seven Samurai?
400
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Who is Emperor Hirohito?
400
This is the hottest layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, visible during a total solar eclipse.
What is the corona?
500
This coffee brewing device uses a metal mesh to separate coffee grounds from hot water when pushed down.
What is a French press?
500
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Who is Mason?
500
This French film director is known for the silent film The Rules of the Game and influential works in early cinema.
Who is Jean Renoir?
500
This is the name of the code that Samurai were required to follow.
What is Bushido?
500
This is the name for a rapidly spinning neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation observed as pulses.
What is a pulsar?