Sports IQ
In this sport, a “hat trick” means one player scores three times in a single game.
What is hockey or soccer?
This movie franchise features a school called Hogwarts, houses such as Gryffindor and Slytherin, and a villain known as “He Who Must Not Be Named.”
What is Harry Potter?
This Japanese dish usually features vinegared rice and may include raw fish, vegetables, or seaweed.
What is sushi?
This ancient civilization developed along the Nile River and is known for pharaohs, pyramids, and hieroglyphics.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This term describes a song, joke, dance, or image that spreads quickly across the internet.
What is a meme or viral trend?
This baseball statistic counts how many runs a batter helps bring in through hits, walks, sacrifice flies, and similar plays.
What are RBIs?
In The Hunger Games, this fictional nation is divided into districts and ruled from the Capitol.
What is Panem?
This Mexican dish traditionally consists of a tortilla folded around fillings such as meat, beans, cheese, or vegetables.
What is a taco?
This ancient empire built roads, spread Latin, and controlled much of the Mediterranean world.
What is the Roman Empire?
This app became famous for short-form videos, trending sounds, and algorithm-driven feeds.
What is TikTok?
In football, this position is usually responsible for calling plays and receiving the snap.
What is quarterback?
This Pixar movie follows a rodent who secretly becomes a chef in Paris.
What is Ratatouille?
This Italian dessert contains layers of coffee-soaked ladyfingers, mascarpone cream, and cocoa powder.
What is tiramisu?
This medieval pandemic devastated Europe in the 1300s and contributed to major social and economic changes.
What is the Black Death?
This artist rerecorded several earlier albums with “Her Version” added to the titles.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This tennis term means a score of zero.
What is love?
In Stranger Things, this alternate dimension mirrors the real world but is darker, colder, and more dangerous.
What is the Upside Down?
This popular Middle Eastern dip is made mainly from chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice, and garlic.
What is hummus?
This Chinese dynasty is often associated with porcelain, maritime trade, and the voyages of Zheng He.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This term describes anxiety that others are having rewarding experiences without you.
What is FOMO?
This country is strongly associated with the haka, performed by its national rugby team before matches.
What is New Zealand?
This Marvel character is also known as the “Sorcerer Supreme” and uses the Eye of Agamotto.
Who is Doctor Strange?
This spice, often associated with Indian cooking, gives many curries their bright yellow color.
What is turmeric?
This empire captured Constantinople in 1453 and lasted until after World War I.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This video game features a shrinking storm circle, building mechanics, and a large-scale battle royale mode.
What is Fortnite?
In basketball, this defensive strategy has players guarding areas of the court rather than specific opponents.
What is zone defense?
In Star Wars, this planet is the home world of Luke Skywalker.
What is Tatooine?
This cooking method uses hot air circulating around food, making it popular in both ovens and air fryers.
What is convection?
This 1215 English document limited royal authority and influenced later ideas about due process and constitutional government.
What is Magna Carta?
This singer is known for albums such as After Hours, Starboy, and Dawn FM.
Who is The Weeknd?
This Olympic event combines cross-country skiing with rifle shooting.
What is the biathlon?
This Christopher Nolan movie involves dreams within dreams and uses the phrase “kick” to describe waking someone up.
What is Inception?
This Korean side dish is made from fermented vegetables, most commonly cabbage or radish.
What is kimchi?
This revolution began in 1789 and included the storming of the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, and the rise of a "short man".
What is the French Revolution?
This term describes the online practice of criticizing or rejecting a public figure after controversial behavior.
What is cancel culture?
In baseball, this rare achievement occurs when a pitcher allows no hits, no walks, no errors, and no runners to reach base.
What is a perfect game?
In The Lord of the Rings, this creature corrupts Sméagol after he possesses the One Ring.
Who is Gollum?
This flavor category, often described as savory or meaty, is considered the fifth basic taste along with sweet, salty, sour, and bitter.
What is umami?
This term describes the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Americas, Europe, and Africa after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This awards show gives out gramophone-shaped trophies to honor achievements in music.
What are the Grammy Awards?
In chess, this special move allows the king and rook to move on the same turn, but only under certain conditions.
What is castling?
This sitcom’s series finale was watched by over 50 million people in 2004 and ended with the main characters leaving their New York apartment keys behind.
What is Friends?
What French word refers to a small baked pastry often filled with cream or fruit?
What is tart?
This political idea claimed that monarchs received their authority directly from God and were not answerable to the people.
What is divine right?
This internet term describes intentionally misleading visual or written content designed to attract clicks, often by exaggerating what the content actually offers.
What is clickbait?