History and Geography
This global conflict, sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, involved trench warfare and introduced chemical weapons.
What is World War I?
Known for their digital fluency, this generation is also increasingly associated with anxiety, activism, and redefining identity norms.
Who are Gen Z?
This artist re-recorded her albums due to a master rights dispute and is known for crafting lyrics around heartbreak, revenge, and self-reinvention.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This force attracts objects toward each other and is responsible for planetary orbits and falling apples.
What is gravity?
This organelle, known as the “powerhouse of the cell,” contains its own DNA and is thought to have originated through endosymbiosis.
What is the mitochondrion?
Canada’s Confederation was formalized with this act in 1867, creating a dominion within the British Empire.
What is the British North America Act?
This generation is credited with popularizing social media, flexible work culture, and digital entrepreneurship.
Who are Millennials?
This Canadian artist blends R&B, pop, and retro synths, and broke records with “Blinding Lights,” one of the most streamed songs of all time.
Who is The Weeknd?
This element, the lightest and most abundant in the universe, is found in the first group of the periodic table.
What is Hydrogen?
This nucleic acid stores hereditary information and undergoes semi-conservative replication, where each new molecule contains one original and one new strand.
What is DNA?
This Cold War-era structure divided East and West Berlin and symbolized ideological division until it fell in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This generation, known for its independence and skepticism, is often credited with developing the early internet but criticized for political disengagement.
Who is Gen X?
This Toronto-born rapper is known for hits like “Hotline Bling” and “God’s Plan,” and once starred on the teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Who is Drake?
A solution is a homogeneous mixture. In saltwater, identify the solute.
What is sodium chloride?
This pigment, essential for capturing light energy in photosynthesis, primarily absorbs red and blue wavelengths.
What is chlorophyll?
Are we still in an ice age? Extra 100 points if you can name what kind of period we are in.
DAILY DOUBLE!
Often nostalgic and traditional, this generation witnessed the rise of suburbia, the civil rights movement, and the Cold War.
Who are the Baby Boomers?
This breakout TV series on Netflix stars Jenna Ortega as a deadpan teenager with psychic abilities at Nevermore Academy.
What is Wednesday?
Einstein’s theory of relativity predicts that time passes differently depending on gravity and speed. What is the name of this phenomenon?
Daily Double!
What is time dilation?
This genetic diagram is used to predict the probability of offspring inheriting particular traits.
What is a Punnett square?
This treaty ended WWI and is often cited as a cause of WWII due to its harsh reparations and "war guilt" clause.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This still-developing generation is immersed in AI, algorithmic content, and digital surveillance.
Who are Gen Alpha?
This late artist is known for blending melodic rap with raw vulnerability, particularly on themes of addiction and trauma. He died of an overdose at 21.
Who is Juice WRLD?
This term refers to the theoretical process by which an object would be stretched into a long, thin shape as it falls into a black hole, due to extreme tidal forces near the event horizon. It's name sounds like a kind of food.
What is spaghettification?
This term describes a structure that has lost most or all of its original function through evolution, such as the human appendix.
What is a vestigial structure?