Broadway
Before it was a beloved film, this 1975 Kander & Ebb musical set in a fictional prison introduced the world to Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly.
What is Chicago?
This Survivor: David vs. Goliath contestant, who finished as runner-up, went on to create and write the hit HBO series The White Lotus.
Who is Mike White?
This South American capital, sitting at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, is the largest city in Argentina.
What is Buenos Aires?
This Greek mathematician, often called the 'father of geometry,' compiled the foundational text Elements around 300 BC.
Who is Euclid?
This contestant holds the record for the longest winning streak in Jeopardy! history, winning 74 consecutive games in 2004. He's the current host!
Who is Ken Jennings?
This actress originated the role of Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway in 2003, launching her into superstardom.
Who is Idina Menzel?
This director's films are instantly recognizable for their symmetrical compositions, pastel color palettes, and dry deadpan humor. His works include The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom.
Who is Wes Anderson?
This island nation's capital shares its name with the country itself and sits on the southeastern tip of the island.
What is Singapore?
This is the 10th term of the arithmetic sequence where the first term is 4 and the common difference is 7.
What is 67?
This IBM supercomputer famously defeated Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a 2011 exhibition match.
What is Watson?
Joel Grey originated this iconic emcee role in a 1966 musical set in a seedy Berlin nightclub on the eve of World War II.
What is Cabaret?
This 1950 Billy Wilder film, widely considered one of the greatest ever made, centers on a reclusive screenwriter played by William Holden and a faded silent film star played by Gloria Swanson.
What is Sunset Boulevard?
This active volcano on the Italian island of Sicily is the tallest active volcano in Europe.
What is Mount Etna?
This theorem guarantees that a continuous function on a closed interval achieves both a maximum and minimum value somewhere on that interval.
What is the Extreme Value Theorem?
Jeopardy!'s iconic theme music, played during Final Jeopardy, was actually composed by this show's creator and original producer.
Who is Merv Griffin?
The Tony Award is named in honor of this theater producer and director, a trailblazing woman who co-founded the American Theatre Wing.
Who is Antoinette Perry?
This 1970 Robert Altman film, set during the Korean War, was actually a veiled critique of the Vietnam War and spawned one of the longest-running TV dramas in American history.
What is M*A*S*H?
Many are surprised to learn that this city, not Sydney, is the capital of Australia.
What is Canberra?
This is the equation of the tangent line to the curve
y = x³ - 2x at the point (2, 4).
What is
y=10x-16?
After Alex Trebek's death, this guest host's episodes generated the highest ratings during the 2021 guest host audition period, fueling fan campaigns for his permanent appointment.
Who is LeVar Burton?
This 1947 Kurt Weill and Elmer Rice musical adaptation was the first Broadway production to feature an entirely Black creative team and cast in a show not written specifically for Black performers.
This New Zealand director became only the third woman ever to win the Academy Award for Best Director, taking home the prize in 2021 for a film about a Māori family in the 1980s.
Who is Jane Campion?
This volcanic island, part of Ecuador despite sitting 600 miles offshore, inspired Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection after his 1835 visit.
What are the Galápagos Islands?
This woman, often called the first computer programmer, wrote an algorithm in the 1840s for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a machine that was never actually built.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
In 2013, Jeopardy! sparked outrage on social media when judges rejected a 12-year-old contestant's Final Jeopardy answer because he misspelled this document by adding an extra 't'.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?