Food & Drink
What Italian coffee-flavored dessert translates directly into English as "pick me up" or "cheer me up"?
Tiramisu
Which 1994 film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman was adapted from a Stephen King novella titled Rita Hayworth and...?
The Shawshank Redemption
Set in the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression,1960 novel by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mocking Bird
What planet in our solar system is known as the "Red Planet" and is home to Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system?
Mars
What German goldsmith is credited with introducing movable-type printing to Europe around 1440 with his famous Bible?
Johannes Gutenberg
What popular black tea blend gets its distinctive citrus flavor from the addition of oil extracted from the rind of the bergamot orange?
Earl Grey Tea
Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, despite having less than how many minutes of total screen time?
16 minutes (accept anything between 15 and 25 minutes)
What epic 1869 novel by Leo Tolstoy is set in the Napoleonic Wars?
War and Peace
What is the name of the closest major spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy, located about 2.5 million light-years away?
The Andromeda Galaxy
In December 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft near which coastal North Carolina town?
Kitty Hawk
What distinctively bright purple root vegetable is a staple of traditional Filipino desserts like halo-halo and crinkle cookies?
Ube
What 1999 sci-fi action classic revolutionized visual effects by pioneering the "bullet time" slow-motion camera technique?
The Matrix
In George Orwell's 1984, what is the room number in the Ministry of Love that contains each prisoner's worst nightmare?
Room 101
Discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, what celestial body was famously reclassified from a major planet to a dwarf planet by the IAU in 2006?
Pluto
What Scottish scientist famously discovered the world's first effective antibiotic, penicillin, in 1928 after returning from vacation to find a contaminated moldy petri dish?
Alexander Fleming
Which classical French mother sauce consists of a rich emulsion of egg yolk, clarified butter, and lemon juice, typically seasoned with cayenne pepper?
Hollandaise sauce
What 1974 neo-noir mystery classic directed by Roman Polanski stars Jack Nicholson as private investigator J.J. "Jake" Gittes?
Chinatown
Which 19th-century French author wrote both The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers?
Alexander Dumas
What astronomical event occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Earth and the Sun, temporarily blocking the Sun's light?
A solar eclipse
n July 1969, who became the second human to set foot on the Moon, stepping out of the Lunar Module Eagle 19 minutes after Neil Armstrong?
Buzz Aldrin
What delicate red spice, harvested by hand from the tiny stigmas of the Crocus sativus flower, is widely considered the most expensive spice in the world by weight?
Saffron
Directed by Bong Joon-ho, what 2019 thriller made Oscar history by becoming the first non-English language film to win Best Picture?
Parasite
What 1967 masterpiece by Gabriel García Márquez popularized magical realism through seven generations of the Buendía family?
One Hundred Years or Solitude
Launched in 1990 by Space Shuttle Discovery, what iconic NASA space telescope orbited Earth for decades capturing famous deep-space images before the James Webb Space Telescope was launched?
The Hubble Space Telescope
What English computer scientist invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working as a contractor at CERN in Switzerland?
Tim Berners-Lee