Legendary Literature
In Greek mythology, this poet is credited with composing The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
This physicist’s theory of general relativity redefined our understanding of gravity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This Austrian composer wrote the Moonlight Sonata.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This country has the most official languages, 11 in total.
What is South Africa?
In Blade Runner, this actor played Rick Deckard, a “blade runner” hunting replicants.
Who is Harrison Ford?
Harper Lee won a Pulitzer Prize for this 1960 novel exploring racial injustice in the Deep South.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
The CRISPR-Cas9 system allows scientists to do this to genes.
What is gene editing?
The Beatles’ concept album featuring “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is this 1967 release.
What is Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?
This U.S. state’s panhandle touches both the Gulf of Mexico and Alabama.
What is Florida?
This 1982 Ridley Scott film introduced the terrifying xenomorph.
What is Alien?
This Russian author wrote The Brothers Karamazov, often called the pinnacle of 19th-century literature
What is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
This element, atomic number 79, is highly valued for its malleability and conductivity.
What is gold?
This jazz musician, nicknamed “Satchmo,” is famous for hits like What a Wonderful World.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
The Danube River flows through more countries than any other European river. Name one of them besides Germany.
What is Austria? (also acceptable: Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Moldova, Ukraine)
In The Lord of the Rings, this creature guides Frodo and is obsessed with the One Ring.
Who is Gollum?
n Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realist world, this town of Macondo experiences the repeated rise and fall of the Buendía family.
What is Macondo?
In neuroscience, this lobe of the brain is primarily responsible for reasoning, planning, and problem-solving.
What is the frontal lobe?
Known as the “King of Pop,” he released the album Thriller in 1982.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This desert, the largest hot desert in the world, spans much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
In Star Wars, this planet is home to the Wookiee Chewbacca.
What is Kashyyyk?
This English author created the dark, introspective character of Holden Caulfield.
Who is J.D. Salinger?
This Italian scientist improved the telescope and championed heliocentrism in the 17th century.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This musical term indicates gradually getting louder.
What is crescendo?
The city of Timbuktu is located in this West African country.
What is Mali?
This director created a post-apocalyptic vision in the Mad Max series.
Who is George Miller?