Olympic Games
This recent Olympic Games was packed with controversy ranging from Zika to Doping to Money Laundering and Terrorism.
What were the Rio 2016 Olympic Games?
This famously-renamed city was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire from 330 to 1453.
What was Constantinople?
This controversial German philosopher would work alongside Friedrich Engels to write numerous pieces articulating the ideology of Communism.
Who was Karl Marx?
Adam Sandler is voice cast as this famous vampire in the Hotel Transylvania series.
Who is Dracula?
This female being in Norse mythology is a daughter of Loki and rules over a realm of punishment bearing her own name.
Who is Hel?
The ancient Olympic Games were held in honor of this Greek God.
Who is Zeus?
These twins were left for dead by the King of Alba Longa, but were saved by a she-wolf and one of which would go on to found the city of Rome.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
This Chinese philosopher was arguably the most influential philosopher ever, with his works providing philosophical underpinnings across East Asia even today.
Who was Confucius?
This 2019 crime thriller film shocked audiences with a good performance by Adam Sandler.
What is Uncut Gems?
This Italian Writer famously wrote a series of books, one of which included him traveling through the Christian realm of punishment.
Who was Dante Aligheri?
This city is the only city to have its Olympic Games postponed or canceled twice.
What is Tokyo?
This early Germanic people were led by Alaric during the infamous 410 Sack of Rome.
Who were the Visigoths?
This English Philosopher believed that without an absolute monarchy there would be "continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
This 1996 sports comedy film starring Adam Sandler won an MTV Movie Award for "Best Fight."
What is Happy Gilmore?
This Greek realm of punishment serves double duty as a place to punish wicked souls and as a prison for the pre-Olympian Titans.
What is Tartarus?
The nation of Taiwan officially uses this name during the Olympics to appease China as established in the 1979 Nagoya Resolution.
What is Chinese Taipei?
This Roman Emperor oversaw the Empire at its greatest territorial extent.
Who was Trajan?
This Russian-American philosopher famously invented the Objectivist ideology described as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute".
Who was Ayn Rand?
This 2015 science fiction film produced by Adam Sandler portrayed an alien race invading Earth using video game characters. It was a box office flop.
What is Pixels?
Ancient Egyptian mythology had no realm of punishment, instead wicked souls were devoured by this demon with the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a hippopotamus, and the head of a crocodile.
What is Ammit?
This nation was the only Warsaw Pact country to not participate in the 1984 Soviet-led Olympic boycott.
What is Romania?
This Roman mystery religion was inspired by Zoroastrian and Greek worship and was popular among the Imperial Roman Army from about the 1st to the 4th-century CE.
What was Mithraism?
English Enlightenment Philosopher John Locke believed the fundamental natural rights were to these three things.
Adam Sandler's 2011 film Jack and Jill, often considered one of the worst films ever made, features this influential American actor ending up in a romantic relationship with Adam Sandler's "sister."
Who is Al Pacino?
This Buddhist Cold Naraka traps the sinner for 2.56×10^21 years, all the while, the entire body cracks into pieces and the internal organs are exposed to the cold, also cracking.
What is Mahāpadma or the Great Lotus Naraka?