Anime vs. Animation
A neurotic clownfish traverses the ocean with a forgetful blue tang to find his abducted son.
What is Finding Nemo?
True or False: In Quitman, Georgia, it is illegal to let your chickens cross the road.
True! (It is a real law to ensure owners keep their poultry contained).
This scientist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation after supposedly watching an apple fall from a tree.
Who is Isaac Newton?
In this famously punishing educational game, players must manage their resources, ford rivers, and try to keep their pioneer family from dying of dysentery.
What is The Oregon Trail?
Released by Apple in 1993, this early personal digital assistant (PDA) was widely mocked for its inaccurate handwriting recognition—a flaw that was famously parodied on The Simpsons.
What is the Apple Newton (or MessagePad)?
Two brothers use forbidden alchemy to try and resurrect their mother, losing their physical bodies in the process and going on a quest to find the Philosopher's Stone.
What is Fullmetal Alchemist (or Brotherhood)?
True or False: In Arizona, it is illegal for a donkey to sleep in a bathtub.
True! (Enacted in 1924 after a local dam broke and flooded a town, washing away a sleeping donkey in a tub).
This theoretical physicist developed the theory of general relativity and is famous for the mass-energy equivalence formula, E=mc².
Who is Albert Einstein?
Released in 1993, this pioneering puzzle-adventure game required players to explore a mysterious, pre-rendered 3D island by clicking through environments and reading journals written by a man named Atrus.
What is Myst?
Before Spotify existed, millions of users in the early 2000s risked giving their family computers a virus to download free MP3s using this peer-to-peer sharing software, famous for its green citrus logo.
What is LimeWire?
A brilliant high school student discovers a supernatural notebook that allows him to eliminate anyone whose name he writes inside it, leading to a global cat-and-mouse game with an eccentric detective.
What is Death Note?
True or False: In Texas, it is illegal to milk another person's cow.
True! (Theft of milk was a serious agricultural crime).
She discovered the elements radium and polonium, and remains the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
In this 1991 puzzle game, you must guide a horde of mindless, green-haired creatures through hazardous levels by assigning them specific jobs like "Blocker," "Builder," or "Digger."
What is Lemmings?
Predating DVDs by over a decade, this home video format featured massive, 12-inch optical discs that often required the user to physically flip them over halfway through the movie.
What is LaserDisc?
In a cyberpunk future, a cyborg federal agent known as Major Motoko Kusanagi hunts down a mysterious and powerful hacker known as the "Puppet Master."
What is Ghost in the Shell?
True or False: In Oregon, it is a misdemeanor to wear socks with sandals on a Sunday.
False! (That is Cap! Though the fashion police might disagree).
In 1953, these two scientists collaborated to discover the double-helix structure of DNA.
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick? (Bonus points if a team mentions Rosalind Franklin, whose data they used!)
This beloved 1990 point-and-click adventure game follows the hilarious exploits of Guybrush Threepwood, a young man who desperately wants to become a fearsome pirate in the Caribbean.
What is The Secret of Monkey Island?
Introduced by Sony in 1992 as a digital successor to the cassette tape, this magneto-optical disc format was incredibly popular in Japan but struggled to catch on in the US before MP3 players took over.
What is the MiniDisc?
A young prince, cursed by a demon boar, travels to find a cure and finds himself caught in a war between the animal gods of the forest and a human iron mining colony.
What is Princess Mononoke?
In Alaska, it is illegal to wake a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph.
True! (While it is legal to shoot a bear, waking one up for a photo op is strictly prohibited).
This German polymath independently co-invented calculus alongside Isaac Newton, leading to a bitter, lifelong dispute over who deserved the credit.
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
Released in 1980, this famous text-based adventure game begins with the prompt: "You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door."
What is Zork?
Launched by Bandai in 1996, this egg-shaped keychain required users to feed, clean, and play with a digital alien pet so it wouldn't pass away.
What is a Tamagotchi?