History
This 1648 treaty ended the Thirty Years’ War and reshaped European sovereignty.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This British singer broke streaming records in 2021 with the album 30.
Who is Adele?
This 2004 teen comedy gave us the Plastics and the rule “On Wednesdays we wear pink.”
What is Mean Girls?
This short-form video app owned by ByteDance became the defining platform of Gen Z culture.
What is TikTok?
The CRISPR gene-editing system was adapted from a natural defense mechanism found in this type of organism.
What are bacteria?
This 1803 U.S. land deal nearly doubled the size of the nation.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1994 hit by Oasis is considered a defining Britpop anthem.
What is “Wonderwall”?
This 1980s movie stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode and redefined the “final girl” trope.
What is Halloween?
This British computer scientist proposed the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
This 1996 cloned sheep became the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.
What is Dolly?
This British Prime Minister led the UK through most of World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This 1996 song by Alanis Morissette became a defining anthem of 90s female rock.
What is “Ironic”?
In this 2017 space epic, Dom and Cooper venture into a wormhole to save humanity.
What is Interstellar?
In 2022, this telescope successfully imaged the first-ever direct photograph of a black hole in visible wavelengths.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
This 1983 breakthrough technique, invented by Kary Mullis, allows exponential amplification of specific DNA sequences.
What is PCR (polymerase chain reaction)?
This 1978 agreement between Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin aimed to bring peace to the Middle East.
What are the Camp David Accords?
This rapper won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
This 1954 epic starring Marlon Brando is a retelling of Homer’s Iliad.
What is Helen of Troy?
This term describes the computational process of teaching a model using large datasets so it can predict outcomes or generate content.
What is machine learning?
This coenzyme, also known as vitamin B3, plays a key role in redox reactions as NAD+ and NADH.
What is niacin?
This Chinese admiral led seven maritime expeditions during the Ming dynasty in the 15th century.
Who is Zheng He?
This artist popularized heavy use of Auto-Tune in mid-2000s with hits like “Buy U a Drank” and “Bartender.”
Who is T-Pain?
This 1927 German expressionist silent film depicts a dystopian city divided between workers and elites.
What is Metropolis?
In 1997, this IBM supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
What is Deep Blue?
This term describes the phenomenon where a single gene influences multiple phenotypic traits.
What is pleiotropy?