Arts
The technique of painting on wet plaster so pigments bond with the wall is called this.
What is fresco?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This ancient civilization built the world’s first known system of writing called cuneiform.
What is Sumer?
This company’s smartphone exploded due to battery issues in 2016.
What is Samsung (Galaxy Note 7)?
The year the first Thanksgiving feast is believed to have taken place.
What is 1621?
The architectural style characterized by pointed arches and flying buttresses.
What is Gothic?
What metal reacts with aluminum, making it brittle?
What is gallium?
Liquid metal embrittlement
This U.S. President served the shortest term, dying just 31 days after taking office.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This software bug caused the Mars Climate Orbiter to fail in 1999.
What is a metric-imperial unit conversion error?
This U.S. President made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Which music genre lilterally means "new trend" in Portuguese?
Bossa Nova
Scoptophobia is the fear of what?
What is being stared at?
The shortest war in history lasted about 38 minutes. Name the countries involved.
What is Britain and Zanzibar?
Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar on 27 August 1896.
This company lost $440 million in 45 minutes due to a trading algorithm glitch.
What is Knight Capital?
This food, now a Thanksgiving staple, was not served at the 1621 feast but became popular in the 19th century.
What is pumpkin pie?
In poetry, what is the term for a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter?
What is a sonnet?
The rare phenomenon where water boils and freezes at the same time.
What is the triple point?
The city of Constantinople fell to this empire in 1453.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This social network shut down after a massive data breach in 2018.
What is Google+?
The Wampanoag leader who negotiated peace with the Plymouth settlers in 1621.
Who is Massasoit?
In music theory, what is the term for a composition that uses two or more independent melodic lines simultaneously?
What is counterpoint?
The name for the hypothetical smallest possible length in physics.
What is the Planck length?
The first university in the world, founded in the 9th century, is located in this modern-day country.
What is Morocco?
This programming error caused the Ariane 5 rocket to explode in 1996.
What is an integer overflow?
The first written account of the 1621 harvest feast was recorded by this English settler.
Who is Edward Winslow?