MOVIES
This Pixar film's title character spends most of the movie cleaning up humanity's leftovers while holding hands with a plant-loving robot.
What is WALL-E?
Despite its name, this sea is actually a landlocked lake bordered by five countries.
What is the Caspian Sea?
This element has the chemical symbol K because of its Latin name, kalium.
What is potassium?
This wall fell in 1989, becoming a symbol of the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This board game's four railroad spaces are Reading, Pennsylvania, B&O, and this one.
What is Short Line Railroad?
Although the movie won Best Picture, its title character appears on screen for fewer than 20 minutes and is known mainly through a box of chocolates.
Who is Forrest Gump?
This African nation contains both Mount Kilimanjaro and the island of Zanzibar.
What is Tanzania?
The force that keeps planets in orbit is described by this universal law developed by Isaac Newton.
What is the law of gravitation?
This explorer completed the first circumnavigation of Earth, although he died before the voyage ended.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The only U.S. president to serve more than two terms.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This Christopher Nolan film reveals its protagonist's memory condition through scenes presented in reverse chronological order.
What is Memento?
The world's largest desert is located on this continent.
What is Antarctica?
A light-year measures this, not time.
What is distance?
The year 1066 is famous for this battle that changed English history
What is the Battle of Hastings?
This chess piece can move any number of squares diagonally.
What is a bishop?
In this movie, a mathematician sees his college roommate for years before realizing the roommate never existed.
What is A Beautiful Mind?
This capital city sits on two continents at once.
What is Istanbul?
This scientist spent years aboard the HMS Beagle before publishing a theory of natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This ruler was exiled to Elba, escaped, and then lost at Waterloo.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
The author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
The first feature-length film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture while also featuring a fictional sled as a central symbol.
What is Citizen Kane?
This country's national flag is the only non-rectangular national flag in the world.
What is Nepal?
The only planet in our solar system that rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?
This ancient library, one of the greatest centers of learning in history, stood in Egypt.
What is the Library of Alexandria?
This mathematical constant is known as Euler's number.
What is e?