Science
Water boils at this temperature in Celsius at sea level.
What is 100°C?
This actress played Rachel Green on “Friends.”
Who is Jennifer Aniston?
This sport uses a shuttlecock instead of a ball.
What is badminton?
This company’s search engine is the world’s most popular.
This river is the longest in South America.
What is the Amazon?
This physicist's thought experiment involves a cat that is simultaneously alive and dead until observed.
Who is Schrödinger? (or Schrödinger’s Cat)
This actor voiced Woody in Pixar’s “Toy Story” films.
Who is Tom Hanks?
This city hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 2012.
What is London?
This programming language was created by Guido van Rossum in the late 1980s.
What is Python?
This river, the longest in Africa, flows through countries such as Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
The element with the atomic number 79.
What is gold?
This novelist won the Nobel Prize for Literature and wrote the book “Beloved.”
Who is Toni Morrison?
This NFL team holds the record for most Super Bowl wins.
Who are the Pittsburgh Steelers?
This encryption method uses two different keys, one public and one private.
What is asymmetric (or public-key) encryption?
This European mountain range forms a natural border between France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees?
This is the only planet in our solar system that rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?
This composer created the operas “Don Giovanni” and “The Magic Flute.”
Who is Mozart?
This tennis player was the first in the Open Era to win 20 Grand Slam singles titles.
Who is Roger Federer?
Moore’s Law refers to the doubling of these roughly every two years.
What are transistors (on a microchip)?
This African country contains Lake Victoria’s largest portion.
What is Tanzania?
This Danish scientist is known for his model of the atom with quantized orbits.
Who is Niels Bohr?
This influential Japanese animator and director co-founded Studio Ghibli and won an Academy Award for “Spirited Away.”
Who is Hayao Miyazaki?
This country won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930.
What is Uruguay?
This pioneering mathematician and computer scientist developed the concept of a "universal machine," which formed the theoretical foundation for modern computers.
Who is Alan Turing?
This landlocked country in Central Asia has its capital at Bishkek and is known for its mountainous terrain.
What is Kyrgyzstan?