The Silver Screen
This groundbreaking 2023 film, directed by Greta Gerwig, became the highest-grossing movie ever helmed by a woman.
What is Barbie?
This country has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Colosseum and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
What is Italy?
This artist became the first to win Album of the Year three times at the Grammy Awards with 1989, Fearless, and Folklore.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This NBA legend has the highest career points per game average in history, at 30.1.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This event, which began in 1929, is often cited as the worst economic downturn in American history.
What is the Great Depression?
This Alfred Hitchcock thriller, featuring a murderous first act twist, was the first American film to show a toilet flushing on-screen.
What is Psycho?
This African country is home to the world's longest river and its ancient capital, Thebes.
What is Egypt?
This British rock band’s album A Night at the Opera featured a song that spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart despite being nearly six minutes long.
Who are Queen?
This nation has won the most FIFA Men’s World Cup titles, with five championships to its name.
What is Brazil?
This 1803 land acquisition doubled the size of the United States for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The script for this 1979 sci-fi horror classic was originally titled Star Beast before being renamed to something simpler.
What is Alien?
Measuring 29,032 feet, this peak in the Himalayas is the world’s tallest mountain above sea level.
What is Mount Everest?
Released in 1971, this Marvin Gaye album, hailed as one of the greatest of all time, tackled social issues like police brutality and environmentalism.
What is What’s Going On?
This trophy was originally awarded in 1893 and remains the oldest professional sports trophy in North America.
What is the Stanley Cup?
This treaty, signed in 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This 1942 classic film, set during World War II in Morocco, won Best Picture and features the famous line, “Here’s looking at you, kid.”
What is Casablanca?
This is the only country in the world to span two continents, separated by the Bosporus Strait.
What is Turkey?
This folk icon was the first artist to refuse a Grammy, turning down his 1969 Best Folk Performance win for John Wesley Harding.
Who is Bob Dylan?
This pitcher holds the record for the most career no-hitters in Major League Baseball history, with seven.
Who is Nolan Ryan?
The final battle of the American Revolution, where British forces surrendered, took place in this Virginia town in 1781.
What is Yorktown?
This director's 1954 film Seven Samurai is considered one of the greatest in cinema history and inspired the Western remake The Magnificent Seven.
Who is Akira Kurosawa?
This European country is home to the world’s northernmost capital city.
What is Iceland?
In 1967, this American band became the first to have an album debut at No. 1 on the Billboard charts with Strange Days.
Who are The Doors?
Known as "The Steel Curtain," this defensive line helped this team win four Super Bowls during the 1970s.
Who are the Pittsburgh Steelers?
This party, founded in 1833, was formed primarily in opposition to Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party.
What is the Whig Party?