Movies
This 1997 James Cameron film about a doomed ocean liner became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
What is Titanic?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is the chemical symbol for gold.
What is Au?
This yellow fruit is technically classified as a berry.
What is a banana?
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies' independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This wizarding franchise, based on J.K. Rowling's novels, follows a boy with a lightning-shaped scar.
What is Harry Potter?
This is the only mammal capable of true flight.
What is the bat?
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This Italian dish consists of a flat dough base topped with sauce, cheese, and various toppings.
What is pizza?
This wall, built to divide a German city during the Cold War, fell in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This Stanley Kubrick film centers on the Overlook Hotel and the line "Here's Johnny!"
What is The Shining?
This is the only letter that doesn't appear in the name of any U.S. state.
What is Q?
Discovered at CERN in 2012, this subatomic particle is responsible for giving other particles mass.
What is the Higgs boson?
This fermented soybean paste is the key ingredient in a classic Japanese soup.
What is miso?
This ancient Egyptian structure was built as a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu and is the last surviving ancient wonder of the world.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This 1994 crime film by Quentin Tarantino features Vincent Vega, Jules Winnfield, and a mysterious briefcase.
What is Pulp Fiction?
Founded in 1945 and headquartered in New York City, this organization now has 193 member states.
What is the United Nations?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This French cooking technique involves slowly cooking food submerged in its own fat.
What is confit?
This global conflict lasted from 1939 to 1945 and involved most of the world's nations.
What is World War II?
This 1975 film swept the "Big Five" Oscars, starring Jack Nicholson as a rebellious mental institution patient.
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
This metal has the highest melting point of any element on the periodic table.
What is tungsten?
This Austrian physicist devised a thought experiment involving a cat that is simultaneously alive and dead until observed.
Who is Erwin Schrödinger?
Thanks to its low moisture and acidic pH, this is the only food that essentially never spoils.
What is honey?
During this 1962 standoff, the US and USSR came close to nuclear war over missiles placed 90 miles from Florida.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?