Pop Culture & Music
Which singer-songwriter broke records with her album Midnights and headlined the massive, global "Eras Tour"?
What gas makes up roughly 21% of Earth's atmosphere?
Oxygen
What European capital city is famous for landmarks like the the Louvre Museum and Notre-Dame Cathedral?
Paris
What president is featured on the U.S. one-dollar bill?
George Washington
Which global fast-food giant features iconic yellow "Golden Arches" in its logo?
McDonalds
What iconic superhero identity is shared by Peter Parker, Miles Morales, and Gwen Stacy in Marvel comics and movies?
Spider Man
What fundamental force keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun?
Gravity
Which South American nation has the largest population?
Brazil
In what year did Christopher Columbus first land in the Americas, initiating European exploration of the Western Hemisphere?
1492
This clothing brand is named after the Greek goddess of victory.
Nike
Which 2023 movie starring Margot Robbie became the highest-grossing film directed by a solo female director (Greta Gerwig)?
Barbie
On the pH scale, which spans from 0 to 14, what number represents a completely neutral solution like pure water?
7
What mountain range in Russia is traditionally considered the physical boundary separating the continents of Europe and Asia?
The Ural Mountains
What Roman general and dictator was famously assassinated by a group of senators on the "Ides of March" in 44 BC?
Julius Caesar
What major tech company's original 1976 logo depicted Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree?
Apple
What global K-pop sensation became the first South Korean act to top the US Billboard 200 album chart in 2018?
BTS
What organ in the human body produces insulin to regulate blood sugar levels?
Pancreas
Which landlocked East African country was historically known as Abyssinia and has its capital at Addis Ababa?
Ethiopia
Issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, what executive order declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"?
The Emancipation Proclamation
What video game company was originally founded in 1889 as a handmade playing card manufacturer?
Nintendo
Which actor played the villainous Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy and earned Oscar nominations for BlacKkKlansman and Marriage Story?
Adam Driver
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" is the common statement of which of Newton's Laws of Motion?
What narrow body of water separates southern Spain from Morocco and connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea?
The Strait of Gibraltar
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914 directly triggered the outbreak of which major global conflict?
World War 1
What international company got its start in 1997 as a DVD-by-mail rental business?
Netflix