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This 1993 Steven Spielberg film about dinosaurs brought back to life through genetic engineering was a groundbreaking special effects milestone and spawned a franchise still running today.
What is Jurassic Park?
This country is both the largest in the world by land area and spans eleven time zones.
What is Russia?
This planet in our solar system rotates on its side, with an axial tilt of about 98 degrees.
What is Uranus?
The reason a glass of ice water forms droplets on the outside on a humid day is this process, the opposite of evaporation.
What is condensation?
This is the most widely practiced religion in the world, with roughly 2.4 billion followers across every continent.
What is Christianity?
The Marvel Cinematic Universe officially launched in 2008 with this film starring Robert Downey Jr., kicking off the most commercially successful franchise in Hollywood history
What is Iron Man?
Italy is famously shaped like this piece of clothing or footwear.
What is a Boot?
This classical composer continued to write some of his most celebrated works including his Ninth Symphony after becoming completely deaf, composing entirely from memory and internal musical imagination.
Who is Ludwig Von Beethoven?
When you leave a cut apple out and it turns brown, this chemical process is responsible.
What is oxidation?
The five pillars of Islam include prayer, fasting, charity, the declaration of faith, and this obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim must attempt once in their lifetime.
What is the Hajj?
The Marvel Cinematic Universe's 2019 culminating film Avengers Endgame dethroned this James Cameron film to become the highest grossing film of all time at the worldwide box office.
What is Avatar?
This country has the most natural lakes of any nation on Earth, containing roughly 60% of the world's total.
What is Canada?
Morse code, developed in the 1830s, assigns the shortest signals — a single dot — to this letter because it is the most frequently used letter in the English language.
What is E?
This is the name for the thin layer of the Earth's atmosphere that absorbs the majority of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation.
What is the ozone layer?
The Tripitaka, also called the Pali Canon, is the earliest complete collection of scriptures belonging to this religion.
What is Buddhism?
The 1990s home video market was dominated by this format before DVD rendered it obsolete, and Hollywood studios made more money from home video sales of films like The Lion King than from their original theatrical runs.
What is VHS? (Video Home System)
This country is the largest in Africa by land area, having claimed that title after Sudan was split in 2011.
What is Algeria?
This geological supercontinent, which existed approximately 300 million years ago before breaking apart into the continents we know today, was first proposed by German meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1912.
What is Pangaea?
This is the reason your voice sounds different on a recording than it does inside your own head.
What is bone conduction? (your skull vibrates sound internally)
Sikhism was founded in the Punjab region of South Asia in the 15th century by this first Guru, whose teachings emphasized equality, service, and devotion to one God.
Who is Guru Nanak?
This actor spent three years training in martial arts and wire work for his role in The Matrix, after previously being known primarily for romantic comedies and the Bill and Ted franchise, completely reinventing his Hollywood image in the process.
Who is Keanu Reeves?
Despite being a large country, this South American nation has no Amazon rainforest — it is the only country on the continent's mainland that doesn't.
This tiny country, completely surrounded by Italy, holds the record as the world's oldest republic, having maintained its independence continuously since 301 AD.
What is San Marino?
The blue light emitted by phone and laptop screens disrupts sleep by suppressing the production of this hormone, which the brain releases in darkness to signal that it is time to sleep.
What is melatonin?
The concept of Karma, central to both Hinduism and Buddhism, differs between the two religions most significantly in how it relates to this Hindu belief that Buddhism explicitly rejects.
What is the permanent self or soul? (Atman)