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In 2003, Adrien Brody became the youngest Best Actor winner for portraying Władysław Szpilman in this film.
What is The Pianist?
The Great Red Spot is a massive storm on this planet that has raged for at least 300 years.
What is Jupiter?
The prime numbers 11 and 13 form an example of this type of prime pair separated by only two.
What are twin primes?
The shortest complete sentence in English is often said to be this one-word command.
A plumber named Jumpman first appeared in this 1981 arcade game before getting his own series.
What is Donkey Kong?
The only sequel to win Best Picture, this 1974 crime film starred Al Pacino as Michael Corleone.
What is The Godfather Part II?
This theoretical boundary surrounding a black hole marks the point beyond which nothing can escape.
What is the event horizon?
The number 5 is the only prime number that ends in this digit besides itself.
What is 5?
This longest river in the world by some measurements flows through northeastern Africa and empties into the Mediterranean.
What is the Nile?
The opening of this 2011 RPG famously begins with the line “Hey you, you’re finally awake.”
Only three films have won the “Big Five” Oscars (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay); one of them is this 1975 thriller starring Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy.
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
Astronomers believe the center of our galaxy contains this supermassive black hole.
What is Sagittarius A*?
The sum of the first three prime numbers equals this number.
What is 10?
This Shakespeare play contains the famous line “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
In this 1998 RPG, the bombing mission against Mako Reactor 1 serves as the game’s opening mission.
What is Final Fantasy VII
This 2015 Best Picture winner was the first film since 1952 to win the award with only six total Oscar nominations.
What is Spotlight?
In 2017 astronomers detected ‘Oumuamua, the first known visitor to our solar system from outside it of this type.
What is an interstellar object?
This prime number is the next one after 97.
What is 101?
The shortest war in recorded history occurred in 1896 between Britain and this island sultanate.
What is Zanzibar?
The original 1996 entry in this monster-collecting series begins in Pallet Town with Professor Oak.
What is Pokèmon Red and Blue?
This actress won Best Actress for portraying Virginia Woolf in 2003, wearing a famous prosthetic nose.
Who is Nicole Kidman?
The 1977 “Wow!” signal detected by astronomer Jerry Ehman was a mysterious burst of radio energy from the direction of this constellation.
What is Sagittarius?
This ancient Greek mathematician described a method for generating primes by eliminating multiples in a list.
Who is Eratosthenes?
This Einstein paper on special relativity is sometimes called one of his four “annus mirabilis” papers, written during this remarkably productive year.
What is 1905?
This 2007 game begins with the player waking up in a mysterious testing facility run by GLaDOS.