Pop Culture
This global pop star released the album 1989 and re-recorded it in 2023.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This is the largest desert in Australia.
What is the Great Victoria Desert?
ANZAC Day commemorates Australian and New Zealand troops who fought at this location in World War I.
What is Gallipoli
This yellow fruit is a popular source of potassium.
What is a banana?
This sport is played on an oval field and involves a red ball and goalposts.
What is AFL
H2O is the chemical formula for this substance.
What is Water?
This superhero franchise features characters like Rocket Raccoon and Groot.
What is Guardians of the Galaxy?
This country is home to both the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Rainforest.
What is Brazil?
This iconic wall once divided Berlin during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Vegemite is made from this yeast-based by-product.
What is brewer’s yeast?
This athlete holds the world record for the 100m sprint.
Who is Usain Bolt?
This part of the cell is often called the “powerhouse”.
What is the mitochondrion?
This British TV series about time travel and a blue police box has been running since 1963.
What is Doctor Who?
The capital city of Canada is not Toronto, but this city.
What is Ottawa?
This English monarch had six wives and broke away from the Catholic Church.
Who is Henry VIII
This Italian dish is made with layered pasta, sauce, and cheese, and often includes mince.
What is Lasagna?
This country has won the most FIFA World Cups.
What is Brazil?
This planet is known for its rings.
This show set in Hawkins, Indiana features a character named Eleven and creatures from the "Upside Down".
What is Stranger Things?
The river that runs through Baghdad is called this.
What is the Tigris
The French Revolution began in this year.
What is 1789?
Saffron, used in paella, is derived from this part of a flower.
What is the stigma?
This scoring term in tennis means zero.
What is love? Baby don't hurt me. No More.
The speed of light is approximately this many kilometers per second.
What is 300,000 km/s?
This South Korean film won Best Picture at the Oscars in 2020.
What is Parasite?
This African country has the highest population on the continent.
What is Nigeria?
This ancient civilisation built Machu Picchu.
What is the Inca civilisation?
This East Asian dish consists of fermented cabbage and is a staple in Korean cuisine.
What is kimchi?
This Olympic sport combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
What is biathlon?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s Third Law of Motion?
This American rapper made history with his album To Pimp a Butterfly and won the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
This is the deepest point in Earth's oceans.
What is the Mariana Trench?
The Treaty of Versailles officially ended this war.
What is World War I?
This chemical process makes bread rise by producing carbon dioxide from yeast.
What is fermentation?
In cricket, a ball that spins sharply from off to leg for a right-handed batter is known as this.
What is a leg break?
The genetic code of living organisms is written in this molecule.
What is DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)?