Ancient history
This ancient civilization built the Pyramids of Giza and was ruled by pharaohs
Egypt
Players pull wooden blocks out of a tower one by one and place them on top, trying not to let the entire structure collapse.
jenga
A high schooler gets bitten by a genetically modified arachnid and gains superpowers in this blockbuster franchise.
spider man
This is the specific boundary surrounding a black hole from which nothing, not even light, can escape its gravitational pull.
What is the event horizon?
This is the mathematical term for the answer you get when you multiply two or more numbers together.
product
Code named for this Babylonian king, it is one of the earliest and most complete written legal codes, famous for "an eye for an eye."
Hammurabi
In this classic recess game, players throw a ball into the air, call out a number, and everyone scatters until that number's player catches it and yells "Spud!"
What is Spud (or Call Ball)?
A young girl is accidentally transported into a magical world where she has to work in a bathhouse for spirits to save her parents, who were turned into pigs.
What is Spirited Away?
This is the term for a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass
supernova
This type of triangle has three sides of entirely different lengths and three different angles.
What is a scalene triangle?
In 44 BCE, this Roman dictator was assassinated on the Ides of March by a group of senators
Julius Caesar
Players use a small plastic hand to delicately launch tiny colorful plastic bugs into a battery-operated, vibrating bed
bed bugs
This 1942 romantic drama set in North Africa features the classic line, "Here's looking at you, kid.
What is Casablanca
This specific type of highly dense, rapidly rotating neutron star emits regular beams of electromagnetic radiation, resembling a cosmic lighthouse.
pulsar?
This term describes the total distance around the outside edge of a circle.
circumference?
The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and this North African city-state.
Carthage
In this strategic tile-placement game, players score points by claiming completed medieval roads, cities, monasteries, and fields using little wooden figures called "meeples."
What is Carcassonne?
This 2016 musical romance starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone won six Oscars and features a famous tap-dance scene overlooking Los Angeles.
What is La La Land?
This is the name of the largest moon in our solar system; it orbits Jupiter and is even larger than the planet Mercury.
What is Ganymed
In a right triangle, this trigonometric function is calculated by dividing the length of the adjacent side by the length of the hypotenuse.
What is cosine
In 44 BCE, this Roman dictator was assassinated on the Ides of March by a group of senators.
Julius Caesar
This complex European strategy game requires players to compete for territory on a hex-grid map by commanding giant, diesel-powered mechs in an alternate-history 1920s Europe.
What is Scythe?
A group of elite pilots must fly a dangerous mission through a narrow canyon to destroy an unauthorized uranium enrichment plant in this massive 2022 legacy sequel.
What is Top Gun: Maverick?
Located on Mars, this giant shield volcano is the tallest mountain in the entire solar system, standing three times higher than Mount Everest.
Olympus Mons
This mathematical concept describes a self-similar, never-ending geometric pattern that repeats its shape at every scale, like a snowflake or a fern leaf
What is a fractal?