Video Games
The Lord of the Rings
Music
Christmas and New Year
Science
100
In many games, this word describes the final powerful opponent you must defeat at the end of a level or the entire game.
What is a boss?
100
This creature, once called Sméagol, is obsessed with the One Ring and repeatedly calls it “my precious.”
Who is Gollum?
100
This American “King of Rock and Roll” was known for hits like “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love.”
Who is Elvis Presley?
100
In Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” how many ghosts visit Ebenezer Scrooge?
What is four?
100
This speed, about that much kilometers per second in a vacuum, is the fastest anything can travel in the universe.
What is 300,000 km/s?
200
In this classic arcade game from Japan, you guide a yellow circle through a maze, eating dots and avoiding ghosts named Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde.
What is Pac‑Man?
200
The Continent where LOTR takes place.
What is Middle Earth?
200
This Swedish group, famous worldwide, won Eurovision in 1974 with “Waterloo” and later recorded hits like “Dancing Queen.”
What is ABBA?
200
Before electric Christmas lights were invented, Christmas trees were lit with this.
What is candle?
200
This pigment gives human skin its color and helps protect against damage from ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.
What is melanin?
300
This massively multiplayer online role‑playing game from Blizzard Entertainment, became one of the most influential online games in the US and worldwide after its 2004 release.
What is World of Warcraft?
300
In “The Fellowship of the Ring,” Gandalf shouts this three‑word command to the Balrog on the Bridge of Khazad‑dûm to stop it from crossing.
What is “You shall not pass!”?
300
In Poland and Ukraine, traditional Christmas and Easter songs sung door‑to‑door by groups of people are known in English by this name.
What are carols?
300
In many Central and Eastern European homes, including in Poland and Ukraine, straw or hay under the tablecloth at Christmas symbolizes the manger of this baby.
Who is baby Jesus (or Christ)?
300
In mathematics, this famous sequence starts 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8… with each number equal to the sum of the two before it.
What are the Fibonacci numbers?
400
In this life‑simulation series, players control virtual people, build houses, and manage their needs and relationships.
What is The Sims?
400
The director of “The Lord of the Rings” film trilogy is this New Zealand filmmaker.
Who is Peter Jackson?
400
This country is where Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was born.
What is Denmark?
400
In Alpine Christmas folklore from countries like Austria and Germany, this horned, scary creature is said to punish naughty children and is often shown as the dark companion of Saint Nicholas.
Who is Krampus?
400
H₂SO₄
What is sulfuric acid?
500
The song “The Only Thing I Know for Real,” with the lyric “a wrong dong dong,” is inevitably associated with this game.
What is Need for Speed?
500
Name this place
What is Minas-tirith?
500
The composer Frédéric Chopin, famous for his piano nocturnes and polonaises, was born in this European country.
What is Poland?
500
Santa's real name.
Who is Saint Nicholas of Myra?
500
Born in Kyiv, this scientist became a pioneer of astronautics in Ukraine and the whole Soviet Union; he worked on rocketry and is sometimes called the “father of rocketry.”
Who is Sergei Korolev?