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This 2019 film became the first South Korean movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
This is the chemical symbol for tungsten.
What is W?
This country completely surrounds Lesotho.
What is South Africa?
George Orwell's real name was Eric Arthur Blair. He wrote this dystopian novel published in 1949.
What is 1984?
This is the only mammal capable of true sustained flight.
What is a bat?
In The Office, this is the name of the company that buys Dunder Mifflin.
What is Sabre?
Humans have this many pairs of chromosomes.
What is 23?
Despite being associated with Europe politically, this country is geographically located in both Europe and Asia and has Istanbul on both continents.
What is Turkey?
This empire was ruled by Mansa Musa, one of history's wealthiest individuals.
What is the Mali Empire?
n music, a standard piano has this many keys.
What is 88?
This artist's 2016 album Blonde was released alongside the visual album Endless.
Who is Frank Ocean?
This phenomenon explains why the sky appears blue due to the scattering of sunlight by molecules in Earth's atmosphere.
What is Rayleigh scattering?
This African country has more pyramids than Egypt.
What is Sudan?
The Rosetta Stone helped scholars decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics because it contained the same text in three scripts, including this ancient language.
What is Ancient Greek?
This element has the atomic number 79.
What is gold?
In Succession, the fictional media conglomerate founded by Logan Roy is called this.
What is Waystar Royco?
This particle carries the electromagnetic force and is its own antiparticle.
What is the photon?
The only two doubly landlocked countries in the world are Liechtenstein and this country.
What is Uzbekistan?
This Russian author wrote Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
In Greek mythology, this figure was condemned to eternally push a boulder uphill, only for it to roll back down
Who is Sisyphus?
his 1999 movie features the line, "I see dead people."
What is The Sixth Sense?
In genetics, this enzyme creates RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
What is RNA polymerase?
This is the world's largest island that is not considered a continent.
What is Greenland?
n Homer's Odyssey, this character spends 20 years away from Ithaca before returning to his wife Penelope
Who is Odysseus?
This number is known as the "golden ratio" and is approximately 1.618.
What is phi (φ)?