Badminton
This attacking shot is one you could probably use in a pickup line.
What is a smash?
These are the English settlers associated with the journey to find a new land.
Who are the pilgrims?
This is the main dessert associated with Thanksgiving. It became more widely enjoyed after 19th-century innovations in canned food made the materials needed for this pastry more readily available.
What is pumpkin pie?
This internet trend involved people biting into laundry detergent pods for fun.
What is the Tide Pod Challenge?
This element, with atomic number 6, is the basis of all known life and is found in diamonds, graphite, and all organic molecules.
What is carbon?
This Chinese badminton Olympian is considered one of the greatest of all time, winning two Olympic gold medals in men’s singles.
Who is Lin Dan?
Although she did not attend the 1621 feast, this Powhatan woman is often mistakenly associated with Thanksgiving due to her role in early English settlement stories.
Who is Pocahontas?
This sweet-tart condiment can be served whole-berry or in a jellied cylinder with visible can ridges.
What is cranberry sauce?
This song is Taylor Swift's most-streamed song on Spotify.
What is "Cruel Summer"?
This is the portion of the brain involved in controlling and processing what you see.
What is the occipital lobe?
In modern scoring, a point can be won on any single sequence of back-and-forth shots, known as this.
What is a rally?
This ship carried the group of English settlers who would celebrate the feast later referred to as the first Thanksgiving.
What is the Mayflower?
Though popular at Thanksgiving today, this root crop originally came from the Andes and was once feared as poisonous in Europe.
What are potatoes?
This app originally launched as Douyin in China and became a global hub for short-form videos and viral trends.
What is TikTok?
This annual men’s cycling race, first held in 1903, spans over 3,000 kilometers across France and features the famous yellow jersey worn by the overall leader.
What is the Tour de France?
A player would be awarded this if they pulled a beer bottle from their bag, drank it in public, and hurled it at their opponent during a match.
What is a red card?
This Italian explorer, sailing under the Spanish flag in 1492, is often credited with “discovering” the Americas, though Indigenous peoples were already living there.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This is the bread base inside your Thanksgiving Turkey.
What is stuffing?
In 2024, this music genre blending hyper-pop, electronic, and punk influences recently became popular.
What is hyper-pop?
This 19th-century German philosopher challenged traditional morality and famously declared, “God is dead."
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
Traditional shuttles were originally made from the feathers of this bird.
What is a goose/duck?
Columbus set sail in 1492, aiming to reach this region by crossing the Atlantic.
What is India?
This is a fundamental crop in the origins of Thanksgiving. Its name has a Spanish origin, and the food is typically grilled with butter or Cajun seasoning in the modern era.
What is maize?
This type of social media content, often under 60 seconds, has dominated 2024 feeds.
What is short-form video content?
This is the product of differentiating the function (x3sin(x))/ex, where x is a random variable.
What is (3x2sin(x) + x3cos(x) - x3sin(x))/ex ?