Science & Logic
The chemical symbol for gold.
What is Au?
The first animated film ever nominated for Best Picture.
What is Beauty and the Beast (1991)?
The process of yeast converting sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
What is fermentation?
This person was the 43rd President of the United States.
Who is George W. Bush?
This singer famously interrupted Taylor Swift’s 2009 VMA speech.
Who is Kanye West?
This planet spins on its side, making its axis nearly parallel to its orbit.
What is Uranus?
The color of the pill Neo takes in The Matrix to learn the truth.
What is the red pill?
This clear Japanese rice wine is often served warm.
What is sake?
The Treaty of Versailles officially ended this major war.
What was World War I?
The only letter not appearing in any U.S. state name.
What is Q?
The theoretical point where gravity is so strong that even light cannot escape.
What is a black hole?
The 1994 film where a man waits at a bus stop with a box of chocolates.
What is Forrest Gump?
Made with rum, mint, lime, and soda, this cocktail hails from Cuba.
What is a mojito?
The Civil War was fought between the Union and this opposing side.
Two fathers and two sons go fishing. They catch three fish, one each. How is this possible?
There are three people — a grandfather, father, and son.
In physics, E = mc² describes the relationship between energy, mass, and this constant.
What is the speed of light?
The Shakespeare play that begins with the three witches chanting “Double, double toil and trouble.”
What is Macbeth?
Champagne can only legally come from this country.
What is France?
This empire built Machu Picchu.
What is the Inca Empire?
This planet spins backward compared to most others.
What is Venus?
The paradox where a cat can be simultaneously alive and dead, until observed.
What is Schrödinger’s cat?
The dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 takes its title from the temperature at which this substance burns.
What is paper?
The spice derived from the crocus flower — the world’s most expensive.
What is saffron?
This Asian war, fought from 1950–1953, technically never ended with a peace treaty.
What is the Korean War?
The year the iPhone was first released.
What is 2007?