Books We've All Read
This 2008 book's protagonist is named Katniss Everdeen.
What is The Hunger Games?
Deepthroat tipped off Woodward and Bernstein about the Nixon campaign wire tapping the DNC, leading to Nixon's Resignation.
What is Watergate?
A leap year, in which calendars have 366 days instead of the usual 365, occurs this often.
What is every four years?
This organelle, known as the powerhouse of the cell, generates most of the chemical energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
These large flat discs, primarily used for music, store sound using tiny grooves that spiral along the entire surface.
What is Vinyl?
Simon and Piggy were the only boys who did not make it off the island in this book.
What is Lord of The Flies?
Dressgate details an argument about a dress being one of these two color combos.
A traditional British unit meaning two weeks.
What is a fortnight?
This 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald Novel features Jay, Daisy, and the narrator Nick living on Long Island.
What is The Great Gatsby?
An analog recording format for audio using magnetic tape, these small reversible devices were used in the original walkman.
What is a cassette tape?
Jonas is the receiver of memory, but his predecessor shares names with the title of the book.
What is The Giver?
NFL GOAT Tom Brady was suspended for four games in the 2016 season after blasphemous accusations most commonly called this.
What is deflategate?
This is how many minutes are in a year.
What is 525,600 minutes?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria sparked the beginning of this global conflict.
What is WWI?
This digital disc format was intended to supersede DVD in 2006, capable of storing hours of high definition video.
What is Blu-ray?
A boy unknowingly leads humanity to fight a horde of insect-like aliens called Buggers in this novel.
What is Ender's Game?
Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson performed at the 2004 Super Bowl but more people remember the wardrobe malfunction known as this.
What is Boobgate?
This term for a 1000-year span comes from the Latin words for "thousand" and "year".
What is a Millennium?
This landmark 1973 supreme court decision ruled that the U.S. Constitution protected a fundamental right to abortion, before being overturned in 2022.
What is Roe v. Wade?
Expected to follow competition and switch to CD format, many were surprised to see this system use ROM cartridges ranging from 4 to 64 MB.
What is the Nintendo 64?
Atticus Finch, A lawyer with the highest moral integrity, fights racial injustice in this classic.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird?
Poopgate refers to this band's tour bus dropping 800 lbs of human waste through a bridge onto a passenger boat below.
What is Dave Matthews Band?
The amount of time it takes for half of a radioactive substance to decay.
What is a half-life?
In Trigonometry, this function of an angle is defined as the ratio of the length of the opposite side to the length of the hypotenuse in right triangle.
What is Sign?
The dominant home video format in the 80's and 90's, this videocassette system beat out Sony's Betamax.
What is VHS?