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This metric and acronym measures the total monetary value of the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders.
What is GDP?
This religion was founded by the author L Ron Hubbard and has been described as a blend of science and spirituality. Notable members include the actor Tom Cruise and singer Isaac Hayes.
What is Scientology?
This entirely wooden constructed city was built in 1420 to house the emperor’s family and spans over 720,000 square feet.
Where is The Forbidden City?
Hip Hop emerged in this New York borough north of Harlem.
Where is the Bronx?
Until 2020, Adobe Flash was developed in a company based in this Silicon Valley city home to the Winchester Mystery House.
Where is San Jose?
This philosopher authored no texts and is mainly known through posthumous “dialogues” from classical writers. He went on trial in 399 BC for corrupting the youth of Athens and was sentenced to death by hemlock poisoning.
Who was Socrates?
This religion was developed in the middle east. Its name is derived from the arabic word Baháʼ (بهاء), meaning glory or splendor.
What is Bahai?
This landmark in South Asia directly translates to “City Temple” and was originally a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu.
What is Angkor Wat?
This Los Angeles rapper and former member of N.W.A. shares his name with a common beverage refreshment.
Who is Ice Cube?
The Flash game "Happy Wheels" was popularized by this mustachioed and bearded youtuber.
Who is Markiplier?
This Scottish economist is known as the father of capitalism. He wrote The Wealth of Nations which laid the foundations for classical free market economic theory.
Who was Adam Smith?
The founder of this cult based in Jonestown, Guyana is best known for instructing his followers to drink poisoned flavor-aid.
Who was Jim Jones?
The 19 workers saved by the safety net on this infamous bridge are collectively known as the “Half-Way-to-Hell Club.”
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
This Russian composer wrote the piece "Montagues and Capulets," also known as "Dance of the Knights" as well as "The Love of Three Oranges."
Who was Sergei Prokofiev?
The game "Papa's Burgeria" is modeled on a business format of which this multinational chain is the SECOND largest.
What is Burger King?
This famous Florentine political scientist is best known for writing The Prince, a treatise arguing that rulers should excuse deception and violence if it would grow their power. He also inspired an alias of the hip hop musician Tupac Shakur.
Who was Niccolo Machiavelli?
This Black nationalist movement and organization was founded in 1930 by Wallace Fard Muhammad. Notable former members include Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X.
What is the Nation of Islam?
This famous landmark is the largest waterfall (by length) in the world and borders Brazil and Argentina.
Where is Iguazu Falls?
This city is home to the rappers Playboi Carti, Outkast, Migos, and Gucci Mane.
Where is Atlanta?
This year in which Adobe Flash was founded saw the death of Tupac Shakur and the renomination of Al Gore as Vice President in the Democratic National Convention.
When was 1996?
This controversial academic theory theorized by George Kelling and James Wilson links disorder to serious crime. It is named after a metaphor for a destroyed glass opening.
What is the broken windows theory?
This set of millenarian beliefs emerged in the south pacific after WW2. Its adherents hope for the arrival of goods and merchandise or “cargo” from more advanced societies.
What are Cargo Cults?
This famous statue is dedicated to the Battle of Stalingrad and depicts Nike, the goddess of victory, raising her sword towards the eastern front during WWII.
What is "The Motherland Calls"?
The title of this waltz by composer Johann Strauss II refers to a large Central European river.
What is "The Blue Danube"?
The titular character in this animated choose-your-own-path Flash game shares his first name with the inventor of the Model T and a Cold War diplomat.
Who is Henry Stickmin?