Music
This “King of Pop” released the album Thriller in 1982.
Michael Jackson
The basic unit of life is known by this four-letter word
cell
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
Pacific Ocean
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Abraham Lincoln
This basketball superstar starred with Bugs Bunny in the 2021 film Space Jam: A New Legacy.
LeBron James
This British band recorded the albums Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The Beatles
This scientist formulated the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.
Isaac Newton
This narrow strait separates Alaska from Russia.
Bering Strait
The Great Wall was primarily built to protect this country from invasions.
China
This long-running animated series features the fictional town of Springfield and characters like Homer, Marge, and Bart.
The Simpsons
The musical term “forte” tells musicians to play at this volume level.
Loud
In genetics, these non-coding DNA sequences are removed from mRNA during RNA processing.
Introns
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia in Russia.
Ural Mountains
This 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand helped spark this global conflict.
World War I
This singer became the first woman to win Album of the Year four times at the Grammy Awards.
Taylor Swift
This jazz trumpeter released the influential 1959 album Kind of Blue.
Miles Davis
This process converts atmospheric nitrogen into biologically usable ammonia, often carried out by bacteria in legume root nodules.
Nitrogen fixation
This landlocked country’s capital is Ulaanbaatar.
Mongolia
The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) divided newly discovered lands between Spain and this other European power.
Portugal
This actor played a Harvard math prodigy in Good Will Hunting, a film he also co-wrote and won an Oscar for.
Matt Damon
This composer of the Four Seasons was a major figure of the Baroque era.
Antonio Vivaldi
This law states that the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume at constant temperature.
Boyle’s Law
This country contains both the geographic North Pole’s closest capital city and the archipelago of Svalbard.
Norway
This French military leader crowned himself Emperor in 1804.
Napoleon Bonaparte
This actress became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress at the Oscars for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Michelle Yeoh