Past Imperfect
This ship sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg.
What is the Titanic?
This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”
What is Mars?
This animated family lives in Springfield.
Who are The Simpsons?
This river flows through Egypt.
What is the Nile?
This word means the opposite of “synonym.”
What is antonym?
This medieval pandemic wiped out an estimated one-third of Europe’s population.
What is the Black Death?
This scientist developed the theory of general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
Beyoncé was once part of this girl group.
What is Destiny’s Child?
This is the largest country by land area.
What is Russia?
The word “emoji” originated from this language.
What is Japanese?
The Rosetta Stone helped scholars decode this ancient writing system.
What is Egyptian hieroglyphics?
The chemical symbol for gold is this.
What is Au?
This movie features the quote, “Life finds a way.”
What is Jurassic Park?
Mount Everest is located on the border of China and this country.
What is Nepal?
This linguistic term describes a word that is spelled the same forward and backward.
What is a palindrome?
This ancient city was buried under volcanic ash in 79 AD.
What is Pompeii?
The first personal computer virus appeared in this decade.
What is the 1980s?
This HBO drama set in Baltimore is often called one of the greatest TV shows ever.
What is The Wire?
The largest country in the world with no rivers is this desert nation.
What is Saudi Arabia?
This word describes the pleasant earthy smell that comes after rain.
What is petrichor?
The “Lost Colony” vanished from this island in the late 1500s.
What is Roanoke?
This sub-atomic particle is nicknamed the “God Particle.”
What is the Higgs boson?
This cult classic TV series, canceled after one season in 2002, inspired a blockbuster film in 2005 called Serenity.
What is Firefly?
This country has the most time zones in the world.
What is France?
This term describes a word formed by combining two words, like “brunch.”
What is a portmanteau?