Movies/Shows
This 2014 sci-fi film stars Matthew McConaughey and uses real equations from physicist Kip Thorne.
Interstellar
This social media platform rebranded to a single letter in 2023, confusing nearly everyone.
X (was Twitter)
The discovery of graphene involved peeling graphite with this surprisingly low-tech laboratory tool.
Scotch Tape
UNC’s main library is named after this U.S. president.
Woodrow Wilson
This board game was originally designed as a critique of capitalism.
Monopoly
White Walkers (“Intelligent Leaders”) + Wights (revived zombie hoard)
The term “Stan” originated from a song by this rapper before becoming mainstream internet slang.
Eminem
CRISPR technology was adapted from a defense mechanism found in this type of organism.
Bacteria
This stretch of Franklin Street is famous for late-night food decisions that feel brilliant at 1 a.m. and regrettable by morning.
The section near Cosmic Cantina
This number is irrational, approximately 1.618, and appears in art and nature.
The Golden Ratio
What are two movies in which the “Wilhelm Scream” was used?
Star Wars, Monsters Inc., Indiana Jones…
This celebrity legally changed their name to a symbol in the 1990s due to a dispute with their record label. (____ Rogers Nelson)
Prince
AXS was founded at what year, in which state.
1902 in The University of Wisconsin–Madison
This academic building’s lecture halls are notorious for poor signal and students silently panicking during exams.
TBH most of them (I was thinking Genome…)
This Twitch emote, often spammed during chaos, depicts a cartoon animal.
Pepe the Frog
This film’s entire plot is structured around the protagonist’s inability to form new memories, forcing the story to unfold in reverse.
Memento
In 2023, this celebrity briefly became the most-followed person on Instagram, surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo.
Lionel Messi
This thought experiment challenges the idea of strict determinism in physics using quantum randomness.
Schrödinger’s Cat
Approximately this percentage of UNC undergraduates are from North Carolina. (+/- 5%)
80%
What genre of Video Game does Olivia primarily play? (Abbreviation + definition, Hint: 6 letters in abbreviation)
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG)
The phrase “I am the one who knocks” comes from this Emmy-winning AMC series.
Breaking Bad
The term “quiet quitting” refers not to leaving a job, but to doing this instead.
Only the duties explicitly required.
This phenomenon causes time to pass more slowly for objects moving at speeds close to light.
Time Dilation
What does Todd Austell REALLLLLY need in his office?
Friendship bracelets and a foam ball pit.
There are three light switches outside a room. Only one turns on a bulb inside the room, which you cannot see from outside. You can enter the room only once. How do you determine the correct switch?
Turn on one switch, wait, turn it off, turn on the second switch, then enter: hot bulb = first, on bulb = second, off/cold bulb = third — Will accept other reasonable answers.