Olympic Sports
This is the exact number of interconnected rings featured on the official Olympic flag.
What is five?
This massive structure was built across northern China to protect the empire from invading nomadic groups.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This 1997 romantic disaster film won 11 Oscars and features a famous scene on the bow of a ship where Jack yells, "I'm the king of the world!"
What is Titanic?
This type of molten rock is called magma when it is underground, but changes its name to this once it erupts onto Earth's surface.
What is lava?
Rather than actual lawn care, telling someone to "go touch grass" is a viral internet insult telling them to do this action.
What is go outdoors? (Also accepted: leave the computer)
First-place Olympic medals are actually made mostly of this material, covered only by a thin layer of gold plating.
What is silver?
This Tudor king famously broke away from the Catholic Church just so he could marry his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
Who is Henry VIII?
This 2003 fantasy epic is the only third film in a trilogy to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King?
This famous 800-mile-long fault line runs through California and forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific and North American plates.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
While it sounds like a culinary disaster, telling someone to "let them cook" actually means you want to give them the freedom to do this action.
What is do their thing? (Also accepted: show their skills)
This classic long-distance footrace honors a legendary Greek soldier who ran from the site of a battle to Athens.
What is a marathon?
The discovery of this famous black stone slab in 1799 finally allowed historians to crack the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This 2022 sci-fi comedy-drama swept the Oscars with 7 wins, including Best Picture, while exploring multiple parallel dimensions.
What is Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Sandwiched directly between the outer crust and the super-heated core, this massive layer makes up most of Earth's volume.
What is the mantle?
If a Gen Alpha kid completely loses their temper or flies off the handle during a video game, they are said to be doing this two-word explosive action.
What is a crash out? (Also accepted: crashing out)
As of the Tokyo Games, this American "Flying Fish" holds the all-time record for the most Olympic gold medals.
Who is Michael Phelps?
Residents of this ancient Roman city were buried in ash when Mount Vesuvius violently erupted in the year 79 AD.
What is Pompeii?
This 1991 psychological horror film starring Anthony Hopkins is one of only three movies to ever sweep the "Big Five" Academy Awards.
What is The Silence of the Lambs?
Located in the western Pacific Ocean, this crescent-shaped trench is famously known as the deepest place on Earth.
What is the Mariana Trench?
To keep a physical streak going, kids will tell you they are mewing, a viral silent gesture where they point to this sharp facial feature.
What is the jawline? (Also accepted: the jaw / chin)
This fast-paced team sport, played on ice with sticks and a puck, is often considered the fastest game on Earth.
What is ice hockey?
This large Italian city-state was the birthplace of Marco Polo and ruled Mediterranean trade routes for centuries with its iconic canals.
What is Venice?
Directed by Christopher Nolan, this 2023 biographical drama about the father of the atomic bomb dominated the 96th Academy Awards by winning 7 Oscars.
What is Oppenheimer?
This is the scientific, "aurora" name given to the spectacular northern lights that illuminate polar skies.
What is Aurora Borealis?
While it sounds like you are ordering breakfast, if a kid tells you that you are "waffle-ing," they mean you are doing this annoying action instead of making a point.
What is rambling? (Also accepted: talking too much / hesitating)