While the "Game of Thrones" series overall has an 89% positive score on this review aggregation platform, its eighth season now sits at 55% (with the audience "Popcornometer" at 30% positive)
Rotten Tomatoes
This mountain range is generally accepted as the border between Europe and Asia
Ural Mountains
In the 1986 Chicago classic film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," Ferris and friends visit this building, which they remark as "the tallest building in the world" (a title it did hold at that time)
Sears Tower (also accept Willis Tower)
This organelle found in animal, plant, and fungi cells produces ATP (ademosine triphosphate) which supplies chemical energy to the rest of the cell. It sure is a powerhouse!
Mitochondrion (accept Mitochondria)
The fourth-most populous city in Virginia
RICHmond
This actress plays Daenerys Targaryen, the heir of the Targaryen dynasty
Emilia Clarke
This hypersaline lake's shores are the lowest points on Earth, at nearly 1500 feet below sea level
Dead Sea
This building, currently the third-tallest in the city and the tallest in the world architected by a woman, is covered with six colors of glass so as to mimic the various colors in the waves of the Chicago River
St. Regis Hotel
This greenhouse gas is causing 3/4 of global warming in the current climate crisis
Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)
A large flightless bird of either Sub-Saharan or Somali origin
OstRICH
"Game of Thrones" was a TV adaptation of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" book series by this American author
George R. R. Martin
This Canadian island province has the smallest population and land area but highest population density across Canada
Prince Edward Island (PEI)
The Cloud Gate sculpture, colloquially known as "the Bean," was designed by this British artist, who faced controversy for copyrighting the super-dark pigment Vantablack
Anish Kapoor
Assuming gravity acts at 10 m/s^2 and ignoring air resistance, this is the distance a ball would drop in one second
5 meters
The author of "Jurassic Park"
Michael CRICHton
After HBO turned its filming locations there into tourist attractions, this UK constituent country attributed a sixth of its overall tourism to "Game of Thrones" alone
Northern Ireland
La Rinconada, a town located high up in the Andes in this country, is the highest settlement in the world, clocking in at more than 16,500 feet above sea level
Peru
This Chicago-based department store entrepreneur was also the main initial benefactor of the third-most-visited museum in Chicago
Marshall Field
In our solar system, this planet is the furthest from the sun that doesn't have any moons
Venus
The smell of rain, or Greek for "stone blood"
PetRICHor
A 2011 article by the New York Times cites this 15th century English conflict between the houses of Lancaster and York as a key inspiration for the overarching conflicts of "Game of Thrones"
War of the Roses
A portion of this country on the Arabian peninsula temporarily seceded earlier this year, though it reunified within a week
Yemen
This man became the first African-American mayor of Chicago in 1983, previously serving in the Illinois House, Illinois Senate, and US House
Harold Washington
The chemical reaction described by 2 H₂ + O₂ -> 2 H₂O is an example of this kind of reaction
Combustion
The southeastern Dutch city known as the birthplace of the Euro
MaastRICHt