Straight Outta Compton
Historical Capitals
The Soundtrack
Literal Movie Plots
States of Matter
100

Tita's Birthplace

Where is Guadalajara?

100

This city was the capital of the Aztec Empire, built on a lake and later becoming modern Mexico City.

What is Tenochtitlan

100

This country classic from 1967, later a 1970 #1 hit by Lynn Anderson, shares its name with a thorny flowering shrub.

What is ‘(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden’?

100

A neglected young boy is left behind by his family and is forced to defend his home from two burglars using incredibly violent, makeshift booby traps

What is Home Alone?

100

This "liquid metal" was famously used in old-fashioned thermometers

What is Mercury?

200

May 1st

What is Pablo's birthday?

200

Founded in 762 AD as the Abbasid Caliphate’s capital, this Iraqi city became a global hub of learning during the Islamic Golden Age.

What is Baghdad?

200

This Ohio band preached ‘de-evolution’ and are best known for their 1980s top-20 hit with a whip-cracking chorus and matching red plastic headgear

Who is Devo?

200

A literal pest becomes a top-tier French chef by pulling on a guy’s hair like a marionette.

What is Ratatouille?

200

Unlike most substances, this common compound actually expands and becomes less dense when it freezes into a solid.

What is Water (or Ice)?

300

This U.S. state is home to the city of Compton, located in Los Angeles County

What is California?

300

Before Tokyo, this Japanese city served as the imperial capital for over 1,000 years until 1868.

What is Kyoto?

300

This album was recorded in 1968 at a Northern California prison

What is Johnny Cash: Live at Folsom Prison?

300

A billionaire theme park owner tries to harvest the pure souls of tourists in order to power an ancient ritual that will allow him to rule the world with a giant protoplasmic monster.

What is Scooby-Doo?

300

In a gas, this is the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles.

What is Temperature?

400

Compton is known by this nickname because it is located exactly in the geographical center of Los Angeles County.

What is the Hub City?

400

Founded by Peter the Great in 1703, this Russian city replaced Moscow as the capital until 1918.

What is St. Petersburg?

400

This California new wave trio’s 1981 debut Beauty and the Beat featured a gossipy hit that Hilary Duff later covered to kick off her 2004 sophomore album

What is ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’ by The Go-Go's?

400

A legendary mustache travels to the Outback to show a bunch of guys that just because he prefers a rifle doesn't mean he's bad with a handgun.

What is Quigley Down Under?

400

In chemistry, this "Point" is the specific temperature and pressure where a substance can exist as a solid, liquid, and gas all at once.

What is the Triple Point?

500

N.W.A.'s 1991 second (and final) studio album made history by being the first rap album to do this on the Billboard 200 chart.

What is debut at #1?

500

This Rhineland city served as the capital of West Germany from 1949 until reunification moved the capital back to Berlin.

What is Bonn?

500

In 1998, Mexican telenovela La Mentira starring Kate del Castillo and Guy Ecker had this theme song by Vicente Fernandez

What is ‘Me Voy a Quitar de En Medio’?

500

Four men in jumpsuits are hired to clean a hotel's ballroom but end up covered in green slime and eventually get into a rooftop battle with a prehistoric shape-shifting god.

What is Ghostbusters?

500

This German chemist is considered the "Father of Nuclear Chemistry" for his 1938 discovery of Nuclear Fission, the splitting of a heavy atomic nucleus into two.

Who is Otto Hahn?