History
This 18th-century document, primarily authored by Thomas Jefferson, formally justified colonial separation from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This Islamic legal and ethical framework derives primarily from the Qur’an and Hadith.
What is Sharia?
This Nickelodeon series, created by Butch Hartman, follows a teenage boy who gains ghost powers after an accident in his parents’ lab.
What is Danny Phantom?
This principle, often attributed to William of Ockham, states that entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
What is Occam’s Razor?
This 1941 film by Orson Welles is frequently cited as one of the greatest films ever made.
What is Citizen Kane?
This 1648 treaty ended the Thirty Years’ War and laid foundations for the modern nation-state system.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This branch of Buddhism emphasizes the bodhisattva ideal and became dominant in East Asia.
What is Mahayana Buddhism?
This Disney Channel animated series featured a teenage girl secretly working as a cheerleader-spy and battling villains like Dr. Drakken.
What is Kim Possible?
This 1859 book by Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection.
What is On the Origin of Species?
This Italian film movement of the 1940s emphasized nonprofessional actors and post-war realism.
What is Italian Neorealism?
This 1919 treaty imposed heavy reparations on Germany and is often cited as a contributing factor to the rise of Nazism.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This 16th-century German monk’s Ninety-Five Theses sparked the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This Cartoon Network show follows a blue macaw and a raccoon working at a park, known for surreal humor and 80s nostalgia.
What is Regular Show?
This thought experiment by Schrödinger illustrates paradoxes of quantum superposition.
What is Schrödinger’s Cat?
This 1999 film popularized the “red pill/blue pill” metaphor in discussions of simulated reality.
What is The Matrix?
This 1804 legal code consolidated post-Revolution French laws and influenced civil law systems worldwide.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
In Hindu philosophy, this term refers to the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.
What is samsara?
This animated series featured a secret intergalactic war between alien species disguised as Earth children, known as “Kids Next Door.”
What is Codename: Kids Next Door?
This philosopher argued in Being and Nothingness that “existence precedes essence.”
Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
This director is known for nonlinear storytelling in films such as Pulp Fiction.
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
This 1978 set of economic reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping shifted China toward a “socialist market economy.”
What is the Reform and Opening-Up policy?
This 325 CE council, convened by Emperor Constantine, addressed the Arian controversy and produced a foundational Christian creed.
What is the First Council of Nicaea?
This Nickelodeon show centered on Ned Bigby dispensing middle school survival tips.
What is Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide?
This cosmological model describes the rapid exponential expansion of the universe immediately after the Big Bang.
What is cosmic inflation?
This film became the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?