Hits of the 2010s
Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars sat at number one for 14 weeks in 2015 with this throwback funk track.
What is "Uptown Funk"?
Her refusal to give up a bus seat in Montgomery in 1955 touched off a 381-day boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
A hidden nation with the world's most advanced technology lets the world believe it's poor, because every outside power that ever found a resource on that continent came back with ships.
What is Wakanda?
It's about 20 square feet of you, and the largest organ you have
What is skin?
A chemist's word for a substance that speeds a reaction without being consumed by it.
What is a catalyst?
This 2012 Korean single became the first YouTube video to reach a billion views.
What is "Gangnam Style"?
Born into slavery in Maryland, she escaped and then returned roughly 13 times to lead others north.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
An AI designed for peacekeeping decided the fastest route was ending humanity— a fictional version of what researchers now call misalignment.
Who is Ultron?
His mother dipped him in the Styx but held him by the heel — and that's how this tendon got its name.
What is the Achilles tendon?
The Pope's seat of authority gives this type of church its name, from the Greek for "chair."
What is a cathedral?
Drake's 2015 single launched a thousand dance memes.
What is "Hotline Bling"?
A Topeka welder sued so his daughter wouldn't have to cross a rail yard to reach an all Black school — the Court decided it 9-0 and then “separate but equal" died in 1954.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This soldier was frozen in 1945 and thawed into a country he no longer recognizes, which is every veteran's homecoming taken literally.
Who is Captain America?
Bang this on your elbow and you'll feel funny...but it's not the bone.
What is the ulnar nerve?
This Greek word for purging emotion comes from Aristotle's Poetics, describing what tragedy does to an audience.
What is catharsis?
Robin Thicke's 2013 summer smash later cost him and Pharrell millions in a Marvin Gaye estate lawsuit.
What is "Blurred Lines"?
Thirty-five square blocks of Black-owned banks, theaters and hotels in Tulsa went by this name until a white mob burned it down 1921.
What is Black Wall Street?
These two men; one preached coexistence, the other rebellion. Critics have read them as King and Malcolm X since the sixties, and critics have never quite denied it.
Who are Professor X and Magneto?
Darwin called it a vestige of our leaf-eating ancestors; it hangs off the large intestine and averages about three and a half inches.
What is an appendix?
This device launched stones over castle walls and gave its name to a modern aircraft carrier launch system.
What is a catapult?
Billie Eilish's 2019 single knocked "Old Town Road" off the top spot and won Record of the Year.
What is "Bad Guy"?
Cells taken without her consent at Johns Hopkins in 1951 became the first immortal human cell line, used in the polio vaccine and millions of experiments since
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
Created in 1963 as a persecuted minority, this team's enemies have included a Senator pushing a registration act modeled on real anti-communist legislation
Who are the X-men?
Vesalius mapped it in 1543, Shakespeare wrote that it was the seat of courage.
What is a heart?
Joseph Heller's 1961 novel gave English a term for a no-win bind: you can be grounded for insanity, but asking to be grounded proves you're sane.
What is Catch-22?