Sports
In baseball, three strikes result in this.
What is an out?
This 1919 treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This country currently has the largest population in the world.
What is India?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This 1985 film features a time-traveling DeLorean.
What is Back to the Future?
The Olympic event combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
What is biathlon?
This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Incas?
This sea lies between northeastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Red Sea?
This particle, discovered in 1932, is electrically neutral and found in the nucleus of atoms.
What is the neutron?
This 1979 sci-fi horror film features the “Xenomorph” alien, designed by H.R. Giger.
What is Alien?
This swimmer has won the most Olympic medals of all time.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This Chinese dynasty was overthrown in 1912, ending over 2,000 years of imperial rule.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
This desert, covering parts of Mongolia and China, is the coldest desert in the world.
What is the Gobi Desert?
This scale measures earthquake magnitude using logarithms and was developed in 1935.
What is the Richter scale?
In The Godfather series, this actor plays Michael Corleone, the youngest son who becomes head of the family.
Who is Al Pacino?
The tennis tournament played annually on clay courts in Paris.
What is the French Open?
This 1215 English document limited the powers of King John.
What is the Magna Carta?
This African country has the most pyramids in the world.
What is Sudan?
The study of fungi, including mushrooms and molds, is called this.
What is mycology?
This 2019 South Korean film became the first non-English-language movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
What is Parasite?
The country that won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930.
What is Uruguay?
This treaty in 1494 divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This Central Asian country is the only one entirely above 1,000 meters in elevation on average.
What is Kyrgyzstan?
This type of galaxy is characterized by an ellipsoidal shape and little to no ongoing star formation.
What is an elliptical galaxy?
Question: This director is known for using “long takes” and “tracking shots,” and made the 2014 war film Birdman.
Who is Alejandro G. Iñárritu?