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While this actor's breakout role was serving as a doctor in ER, their first role had them camping out with their lover before being mauled by a giant, man-eating bear.
Who is George Clooney?
Also known as a conical flask or a titration flask, these glass or plastic flasks were named after a German chemist.
What is an Erlenmeyer flask?
The IQ percentile needed to join Mensa.
What is the 98th percentile?
This traditional, indigenous sport originally had teams of 100 to 1000 players per side, on a field several kilometers long. Who knew it originated in Canada, eh?
What is lacrosse?
The lifetime sales of this console released in 2017 don't even surpass those of another of Nintendo's releases, the Nintendo DS, with global sales of over 154 million units.
What is the Nintendo Switch?
This actor's first role was at the age of 12, sporting a black eye and smoking a cigarette in Leon: The Professional, but perhaps you might better know them as the love interest of Anakin Skywalker.
Who is Natalie Portman?
The number of planets in the solar system.
What is 8 planets?
Alongside Russell Crowe, these two cast members played key roles in the movie, A Beautiful Mind, and married, soon afterwards.
Who are Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly?
This sport involves accelerating a rubber ball to speeds of over 300 km/hr using a hand-held wicker "cesta".
What is jai alai?
There's something special about this arcade cabinet often found at bars that even Nintendo can't compete with. Perhaps it's something to do with the "signature" trackball built into it that helps adjust the power, direction, and curve of your swing.
What is Golden Tee Golf?
In "Coming to America", he's simply known as "Boy Getting A Haircut", but we know him better for his audacious demand of Jerry Maguire: "Show Me The Money!"
Who is Cuba Gooding, Jr.?
Located at the border of France and Switzerland, this particle accelerator is the world's largest and most powerful - and was responsible for identifying the "God Particle", the Higgs boson, in 2012.
What is the Large Hadron Collider?
Perhaps Sigmund Freud's most enduring idea was that the human psyche was split into these three parts.
What are the id, the ego, and the superego?
Cheese rolling involves heaving oneself down a 45 degree hill chasing a cheese wheel with the event having been recently won in 2019 by a Torontonian. In what country is this event traditionally held?
What is England?
Famously known as "the voice of Mario", he's the voice of Wario, Luigi, and Waluigi as well.
Who is Charles Martinet?
This famous actor's first feature film was "Paradise Road" in which they played a war prisoner in World War 2 - they also played a key role in 2010's remake of "Robin Hood", alongside fellow Australian Russell Crowe.
Who is Cate Blanchett?
Bill Nye, The Science Guy and Andy from The Office are alumni from this university based out of Ithaca, New York.
What is Cornell University?
Also known as "little brain", this part of the brain is responsible for coordinating voluntary movement, such as balance.
What is the cerebellum?
The current and longest reigning No.1 sumo wrestler, recently having competed in his 1000th bout as a yokozuna, Hakuho, hails from this country.
What is Mongolia?
This social simulation game series' newest release "New Horizons" was a Covid pandemic all-star, becoming Japan's best selling video game, ever, in just over two years. It also features "villagers" such as Bertha, Shino, Marina, and Egbert.
What is Animal Crossing?
This Spike Lee joint about the beginning and end of extramarital interracial relationship against the urban backdrop of 1990s New York City, features the film debuts of both Halle Berry and Queen Latifah.
What is "Jungle Fever"?
An ancient center of learning, the University of Sankore, also known as the Sankore Madrasah, was established in this city by Mansa Musa, the historical leader of the Mali Empire.
What is Timbuktu?
This American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, is a fixture in neurology, psychology, and neuroscience for his dramatic personality changes which followed the incident.
Who is Phineas Gage?
The indigenous sport of Swiss farmers, this sports gets its name from the whizzing sound that the puck makes when it is hit - up to 300 km/hr.
What is Hornussen?
Nintendo wasn't always a video game and entertainment company - in fact, it started as a company producing this type of Japanese playing card.
What is hanafuda?