Sports
What sport is known as "the beautiful game"?
Soccer (Football)
What is the term for a word that has the same spelling and pronunciation as another but a different meaning?
Homonym
What is the highest-selling video game of all time (as of 2025)?
Minecraft
What part of the cell is known as the “powerhouse” because it produces most of the cell’s energy?
Mitochondria
What is the name of the force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun?
Gravity
In tennis, what is the term for a score of zero?
Love
In poetry, what is unrhymed iambic pentameter called?
Blank verse
In the Halo series, what is the name of the artificial intelligence that assists Master Chief?
Cortana
Which element makes up more than 90% of the atoms in the universe?
Hydrogen
What is the term for the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape?
Event horizon
In basketball, how many players are on the court for one team?
5
What is the name of the punctuation mark used to join two independent clauses without a conjunction?
Semicolon
In Dark Souls, what is the phrase that appears on screen when the player dies?
"You Died"
What scientific principle explains why a ship floats despite being made of dense materials?
Archimedes’ principle (buoyancy)
What is the name of the effect where light from distant galaxies is stretched to longer wavelengths as the universe expands?
Redshift
Who holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals?
Michael Phelps
What figure of speech involves addressing an absent person, an abstract idea, or an inanimate object directly?
Apostrophe
Which 1998 game by Valve revolutionized first-person shooters with its story-driven design and mod support, later giving rise to Counter-Strike?
Half-Life
In genetics, what is the term for the observable traits of an organism resulting from its genotype and environment?
Phenotype
Which moon of Saturn is believed to have a subsurface ocean and is considered one of the best places to search for extraterrestrial life?
Enceladus
What country won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930?
Uruguay
What is the rhetorical term for repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences?
Anaphora
In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, what is the name of the song played to open the Door of Time?
The Song of Time
In evolutionary biology, what is the term for the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages (e.g., wings in bats and insects)?
Convergent evolution
What is the term for the theoretical remnant of a massive star that collapses beyond a neutron star, forming an object with infinite density?
Singularity