Video Games
This game, created by Nintendo, is one of the best‑selling video games of all time and remains a key reason for the company’s success.
What is Super Mario Bros.?
This hobbit from the Shire is chosen to carry the One Ring to Mount Doom.
Who is Frodo Baggins?
This British band, recorded hits like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Will Rock You,” and “We Are the Champions.”
What is Queen?
The main character in the movie “Home Alone” is this young boy who’s accidentally left behind at Christmas.
Who is Kevin McCallister?
This English naturalist wrote “On the Origin of Species” and proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This Polish game series from CD PROJEKT RED, based on novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, follows monster hunter Geralt of Rivia.
What is The Witcher?
This loyal hobbit and gardener is Frodo’s best friend and travels with him all the way to Mount Doom.
Who is Samwise Gamgee (or Sam)?
This US state, with cities like Nashville and Memphis, is strongly associated with country music and rock ’n’ roll.
What is Tennessee?
This sweet, spicy drink, often served warm at Christmas markets in Europe, is made from wine heated with sugar and spices like cinnamon and cloves.
What is mulled wine (or glühwein)?
These cells in your blood, help your body fight infections from bacteria, viruses, and other foreign invaders.
What are white blood cells (or leukocytes)?
This Ukrainian‑developed first‑person shooter series, is set in the dangerous, irradiated Zone around a real nuclear power plant.
What is S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
This dark land ruled by Sauron is home to Mount Doom and the fortress of Barad‑dûr.
What is Mordor?
This traditional form of Filipino music uses gongs arranged in rows and is found across many southern Philippine cultures, especially among Muslim communities.
What is kulintang music?
This movie sparks debate on whether it is actually a Christmas movie but the main character takes on a terrorist during Christmas in this 1988 film.
What is Die Hard?
In space science, this term describes the minimum speed needed for an object to orbit Earth just above the atmosphere, roughly 7.9 kilometers per second.
What is the first cosmic velocity (or first cosmic speed)?
Captain Price is a recurring character in this first‑person shooter franchise.
What is Call of Duty?
Who said this: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." (Hint: he also had a fight with Balrog).
Gandalf
Karaoke is hugely popular in the Philippines; this machine, sometimes seen in streets and bars, is a coin‑operated karaoke system often rented for parties.
What is a videoke machine?
Which of Santa’s reindeer help him save Christmas?
Who is Rudolph?
This hardness scale, often abbreviated with letters like HRC or HRB, measures how resistant a material is to indentation and is commonly used for metals.
What is the Rockwell scale (or Rockwell hardness scale)?
This Ukrainian esports team, known by a Latin name meaning “born to win,” has won CS:GO Major, PGL Major Stockholm 2021.
What is Natus Vincere (or NaʼVi)?
How many members are in the fellowship?
What is 9?
Eminem’s full real name.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III.
This Ukrainian folk song, adapted by Mykola Leontovych as “Shchedryk,” became world‑famous in English under this title.
What is “Carol of the Bells”?
In physics and engineering, this term describes a system whose response depends not only on its current input, but also on its past history, such as a magnet that “remembers” previous magnetic fields.
What is hysteresis?