World Capitals
This German capital used to have a wall dividing its East and West sides.
Berlin
Plato used this allegory of people confined in an enclosed space looking at shadows on the wall to explore the way we perceive reality and truth.
The Cave
This movie currently holds the record as the highest grossing film of all time.
Avatar (2009)
H2O is the chemical formula for water, but add another oxygen molecule to make H2O2, and you have this poisonous and disinfecting substance.
Hydrogen Peroxide
Six letters, starting with S. To make something smaller, or slang for a psychologist.
Shrink
Located in southern Ontario, this is Canada’s capital city.
Ottawa
This philosopher coined the phrase “I think, therefore I am.”
Rene Descartes
This film is the most recent recipient of the Academy award for Best Picture.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
This outer boundary of a black hole represents “the point of no return” for light and anything else unfortunate enough to get this close.
Event horizon
Eight letters, starting and ending with an E. To increase rapidly, or to become more intense or serious.
Escalate
This capital city of the Philippines lent its name to a certain type of envelope that is made with plants indigenous to the country.
Manila
This ancient philosopher was sentenced to death via the poisonous plant hemlock for “corrupting the youth” with his endless questions.
Socrates
The Godfather trilogy was directed and co-wrote by this legendary American filmmaker.
Francis Ford Coppola
This term, which is central to the second law of thermodynamics, is used to describe the universe’s gradual loss of energy and momentum until it eventually reaches a completely uniform state of “heat death.”
Entropy
Six letters, ending with a Y. A lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
Apathy
This capital city of Peru is located along the coast, but the vast Andes Mountains are still very visible in the distance.
Lima
This philosophical argument proposes that there is no such thing as free will, and instead all actions and events have already been predetermined by external factors.
Determinism
This classic American film is centered on protagonist Scarlett O’Hara as she faces trials and tribulations brought on by the American Civil War.
Gone with the Wind
This is the term for a liquid mixture in which the minor component (the solute) is uniformly distributed within the major component (the solvent).
A solution
Four letters, the second letter is O. A French term for a sudden, violent, and/or unlawful seizure of power from a government.
Coup
Not to be confused with the neighboring country’s capital city of Budapest, this is the capital of Romania.
Bucharest
This German philosopher with an impressive mustache wrote notable works such as “Beyond Good and Evil” and “Thus Spoke Zarathustra.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
This film about World War I combat pilots was the first to ever win an Academy award for Best Picture.
Wings
Protons, neutrons, and electrons are the basic building blocks for atoms. These even smaller subatomic particles are the building blocks for protons and neutrons.
Quarks
Ten letters, starting with T. Very great in amount, scale, or intensity. Informally, something extremely good or impressive.
Tremendous