Easily Mispronounced
Celebrity Cameos
It's Hidden In The Logo
Units Named After People
When Are They Gonna Say The Title?
Rivers
100
This Italian appetizer consists of toasted bread served with olive oil, salt, diced tomatoes, and basil.
What is bruschetta?
100
Though dressed similarly to John Wick, this actor actually plays a dramatized version of himself in the film Always Be My Maybe.
Who is Keanu Reeves?
100
The logo for this tech conglomerate is an orange smile that stretches from A to Z.
Ironically, of the thousands of software engineers it employs, few are likely smiling on a regular basis while at work.
What is Amazon?
100
This measure of temperature was named after a Swedish astronomer who originally proposed an inverted version, making 0 the boiling temperature of water.
What is celsius?
100
This grunge anthem by Nirvana never actually says its title in the lyrics.
Sensible, since adolescents never adhere to the rules anyway.
What is "Smells Like Teen Spirit?"
100
This is the longest river in China, just barely beating out the Yellow River by a few hundred miles.
What is the Yangtze River?
200
Though it's spelled the same as one of the largest cities in Texas, this street in New York doesn't quite have the same sound.
South of this street is appropriately known as "SoHo".
What is Houston Street?
200
This Star Wars film had two well-known cameos. Simon Pegg played Unkar Plutt, the Crolute junk boss that tries to buy the protagonist's droid. Daniel Craig played a stormtrooper who eventually falls to the protagonist's Jedi mind tricks.
What is Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
200
The negative space in the logo for this purple and orange shipping colossus is intentionally in the shape of an arrow.
What is FedEx?
200
For his work in the field of classical mechanics and his second law of motion (F = ma), a unit of force was named after this English polymath who, among many other things, was known for telling John Locke that he tried staring at the sun to see what it would do.
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
In this song, Ground Control gets in contact with Major Tom but never once says the title.
What is "Space Oddity?"
200
This is the longest river in North America.
What is the Missouri River?
300
This city in Massachusetts is known as the "Heart of the Commonwealth".
Its baseball team is lovingly known as the WooSox.
What is Worcester?
300
Tropic Thunder had no shortage of Hollywood firepower in its cast. This actor, most known for starring in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies and The Great Gatsby, appeared in one of the trailers for the movie's fake films, Satan's Alley.
Who is Tobey Maguire?
(2:06)
300
This ice cream parlor chain has a logo that conveniently informs customers how many flavors they originally had on offer.
What is Baskin-Robbins?
300
The SI unit of magnetic flux density shares a name with the most valuable car brand in the world which has a market cap of $1.5 trillion despite generating just $104 billion in revenue, 11th among auto manufacturers.
What is a tesla?
300
Though Chumbawamba never says it in the song, the title of the band's most popular song comes from a British slang term for aggressive speech-making.
What is "Tubthumping?"
300
This river is the embodiment of all sacred waters in Hindu mythology and believers often bathe in it.
What is the Ganges?
400
This French term typically refers to small, bite-sized appetizers that prepare you for the main event.
What are hors d'oeuvre's?
400
This Disney child actor and former on-again/off-again romantic partner of Justin Bieber appeared alongside economist Richard Thaler to explain collateralized debt obligations in The Big Short.
Who is Selena Gomez?
400
The logo for this World Series team works on two levels. It looks like a baseball glove and also spells out the team's initials.
Who are the Milwaukee Brewers?
400
The concept of horsepower was developed by a Scottish inventor and chemist who later became the namesake of this SI unit of power, equal to 1 joule per second.
What is a watt?
400
This song by Rush is one of the band's most popular despite containing no lyrics. Its title references the IATA identification code for Toronto Pearson International Airport.
The song's introduction spells the title in Morse Code.
What is YYZ?
400
Every St. Patrick's Day, this river is dyed bright green with a proprietary, plant-based powder.
What is the Chicago River?
500
If you've ever been to New Orleans, chances are you've dropped by this street with a much tougher pronunciation than Bourbon or Frenchmen Street.
What is Tchoupitoulas Street?
500
Long before Disney bought out his comic book IP, he appeared in The Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement as a foreign wedding guest.
Because his character wasn't a native English speaker, he never go to use his real life catchphrase, "Excelsior
Who is Stan Lee?
500
This triangular chocolate has a bear hidden in its mountainous logo, a nod to Bern, the city of Bears and where the candy's first chocolate factory was located.
What is Toblerone?
500
This unit is used to measure the spiciness of peppers and was named after the pharmacist who developed it.
A jalapeno ranges between 2,500 and 8,000 while a habanero, which I had to eat for losing my fantasy football league, ranges between 100,000 and 350,000.
What is a Scoville heat unit?
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500
This song by The Who combines the names of two of Pete Townshend's main inspirations, an Indian spiritual master and an American minimalist composer.
What is "Baba O'Riley"?
500
This river flows through Paris and there are 37 bridges within the city limits that pedestrians can use to cross.
What is the Seine River?
600
In one of the most statistically unlikely events in sports history, the football team for this English city won the Premier League in 2016, beating 5,000/1 odds.
What is Leicester?
600
This famous Canadian actor and former minority owner of Mint Mobile appeared in cult classic Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle as an operating room nurse, questioning Kumar's preferred sedative.
Who is Ryan Reynolds?
(0:26)
600
At first glance, the logo for this brand of consumer audio products simply looks like a B but it's also an image of a person wearing the headphones.
What is Beats by Dre?
600
The faraday gem is an HTTP client library. It may or may not have a relation to English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday, who lent his name to this measure of electric capacitance.
What is a farad?
600
The title of this song by Led Zeppelin has no connection to the lyrics. It's named after a stray Labrador retriever that hung out near the studio when recording Led Zeppelin IV.
Keeping in the theme of nonsensicality, the song is notoriously tricky to transcribe because of its wonky time signature changes.
What is "Black Dog?"
600
In addition to the Nile, these two rivers surrounded the Fertile Crescent and flowed through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?