Subcontinent Showdown
This river, considered sacred by Hindus, flows through Varanasi and empties into the Bay of Bengal.
What is the Ganges (Ganga)?
This term describes AI systems that can engage in human-like conversation, such as ChatGPT or Claude.
What is a large language model (or chatbot)?
This Venezuelan leader, who died in 2013, declared his country a socialist state, nationalised industries, and was closely allied with Cuba.
Who is Hugo Chávez?
An overweight feline.
What is a "fat cat"?
A side-eyeing, slightly worried-looking Shiba Inu named Kabosu inspired this viral image and its own cryptocurrency.
What is "Doge"?
This Sri Lankan city served as the commercial capital and was the site of major civil war conflict between the government and the LTTE.
What is Colombo?
This chip manufacturer, whose stock surged dramatically after the AI boom, produces the GPUs most commonly used to train and run AI models.
What is NVIDIA?
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by a member of this ideological group, who opposed Gandhi's stance on Hindu-Muslim unity.
What is the RSS (or Hindu nationalist movement)?
A sneaky glance at a tiny body of water.
What is a "creek peek"?
This 2007 music video prank tricks users into clicking a link that leads to Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up"
What is Rickroll?
The 1947 partition of British India created two new states — India, and this nation that would later split in 1971.
What is Pakistan?
In AI data centres, this unit of measurement — often in megawatts or gigawatts — describes the total electrical power a facility consumes.
What is power usage (or power draw / wattage)?
This Venezuelan opposition leader won the 2024 presidential election according to independent vote tallies, but was denied power after Nicolás Maduro claimed victory.
Who is Edmundo González?
A person ordained to spread the gospel who also teaches school classes.
What is a preacher teacher?
This cartoon frog, originally created by Matt Furie, became an omnipresent internet reaction image for feeling sad or smug.
Who is Pepe the Frog?
Known as the "Swiss of the East," this Himalayan kingdom only opened to tourists in 1974 and measures national success using "Gross National Happiness."
What is Bhutan?
This process — used in data centres to prevent GPU overheating — is increasingly shifting from air cooling to this liquid-based alternative as chip densities rise.
What is liquid cooling (or immersion cooling)?
Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo, was assassinated in 1961 with complicity from this Western intelligence agency, which has since declassified involvement.
What is the CIA?
An educational guidebook or instruction manual published strictly once every 365 days.
What is an annual manual?
A video of a 2017 Turkish chef dramatically sprinkling a seasoning down his forearm onto a steak earned him this viral nickname.
Who is Salt Bae?
The Simla Agreement of 1972 established this contested region's status as a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan, following the Indo-Pakistani War.
What is Kashmir?
Microsoft, Google, and Meta have all signed long-term agreements to purchase electricity from this zero-carbon energy source to power AI data centres — a source that had been largely dormant since the 1970s.
What is nuclear energy (or nuclear power)?
This Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. A UN investigation later concluded his murder was premeditated and carried out by Saudi agents.
Who is Jamal Khashoggi?
The official study of the religious faith and doctrines specifically regarding the science of planet Earth.
What is theology geology?
This fictional yellow sponge clutches his hips and mimics someone's speech pattern using alternating capital letters.
What is Mocking Spongebob?