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Created by a Soviet software engineer in 1984, this iconic puzzle game requires you to clear lines using falling shapes.
What is Tetris?
Savings, Gymnast, Scale
What is Balance?
In 1932, the Australian military was famously "defeated" by a population of these large, flightless birds during a failed population control operation.
What are Emus?
Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of massive wire fraud and conspiracy following the sudden 2022 collapse of this cryptocurrency exchange.
What is FTX?
The 79 AD destruction of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was triggered by the eruption of this stratovolcano.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
Released in the year 2000, this Sony system holds the record as the best-selling video game console of all time.
What is the PS2?
Election, Dungeons & Dragons, Military
What is a Campaign?
Though its name literally translates to "empty orchestra" in Japanese, this popular entertainment activity has been filling rooms with amateur vocals since the 1970s.
What is Karaoke?
The massive 2001 accounting scandal at this Houston-based energy company famously led to the downfall and dissolution of the auditing firm Arthur Andersen.
What is Enron?
Rats are commonly blamed as the root cause of the 14th-century Bubonic Plague, but the devastating pandemic was actually transmitted by these tiny, blood-sucking parasites.
What are Fleas?
Featuring lore and worldbuilding by author George R.R. Martin, this massive 2022 action RPG tasks players with reclaiming the "Lands Between".
What is Elden Ring?
River, Blood, Memory
What is a Bank?
In general relativity, this is the theoretical "point of no return" around a black hole, past which even light cannot escape.
What is the Event Horizon?
Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to over 11 years in prison for defrauding investors about the capabilities of the Edison machines created by this blood-testing startup.
What is Theranos?
A stuck-open relief valve and operator error in 1979 triggered the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history at this Pennsylvania facility.
What is Three Mile Island?
This classic historical RTS franchise tasks players with gathering resources to advance their civilizations from the Dark Age to the Imperial Age.
What is Age of Empires?
Surf, Home, Toe
What is Turf?
Salve, Gratias Ago, Vale
What is Latin?
This former NASDAQ chairman orchestrated the largest Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding thousands of investors out of an estimated $64.8 billion before his 2008 arrest.
Who is Bernie Madoff?
The catastrophic atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 were triggered by the dropping of these two chillingly named weapons.
What are "Little Boy" and "Fat Man"?
These are the names of the red, pink, cyan, and orange ghosts that relentlessly pursue the title character in a 1980 arcade maze classic.
Who are Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde?
Sh*t, Roman Empire, Spirit
What is Holy?
At over 4,300 miles long, this is the longest continental mountain range in the world, stretching across seven different countries.
What are the Andes?
Passed by Congress in direct response to the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals, this sweeping 2002 piece of legislation established strict new rules for corporate governance and audits of public companies.
What is Sarbanes-Oxley?
The most powerful earthquake ever recorded, the 1960 9.5-magnitude Valdivia earthquake in Chile, was caused by the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath this tectonic plate.
What is the South American Plate?