Before & After
The fictional country in The Hunger Games + the canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They share their first 3 letters.
What is Panem + Panama Canal?
Northeastern's co-op program, the 2nd ever in the U.S., was inspired by the first at this Ohio university. Its name sounds like a spicy chili topping.
What is the University of Cincinnati?
This “Red” vault track features the lyric “Did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?” and became a 10-minute cultural phenomenon.
What is All Too Well (10 Minute Version)?
At Northeastern, students don't just do internships — they do this signature two-word experiential learning program that's been running for over 115 years.
What is Co-op?
In Squid Game, 456 players compete in deadly versions of children's games. The grand prize is 45.6 billion of this country's currency.
What is South Korean Won?
The Minecraft dimension you access through an obsidian portal + the streaming giant that gave us Squid Game. Combine the two for a dark binge-watch.
What is Nether + Netflix = 'Nether-flix'?
The Greek word 'Nike' literally means this and the brand's famous Swoosh was designed by a college student for just $35.
What is Victory?
This re-recorded album includes vault tracks like “I Bet You Think About Me” and was released in 2021.
What is Red?
This two-word Gen Z phrase means someone is 'putting on a show' or 'not being real' — the opposite of being authentic.
What is being fake?
In Stranger Things, Eleven's powers are linked to a secret government experiment. The real-life CIA program it references, which ran from the 1950s to 1970s, was called this.
What is Project MK-ULTRA?
The 2017 horror film where Pennywise terrorizes kids in Derry + the name for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital currencies. Combine them for a terrifying investment.
What is IT + Cryptocurrency = 'IT-coin' or 'Crypto-IT'? (Accept: creative link between 'It' and crypto)
This paradox, named after a Greek philosopher, argues that a fast runner can never overtake a slow tortoise if the tortoise has a head start. It's a famous thought experiment about infinity.
What is Zeno's Paradox (Achilles and the Tortoise)?
This number is heavily associated with Taylor Swift, often hidden in liner notes and visuals as an Easter egg.
What are 13?
In the Harry Potter universe, saying these two forbidden words while pointing your wand performs the Killing Curse.
What is 'Avada Kedavra'?
Avatar: The Last Airbender's four nations are based on the four elements. The Fire Nation's imperialism is widely seen as an allegory for the real-world imperialism of this island nation.
What is Japan?
The Northeastern tradition where students run across campus in their underwear + the marathon that passes through Boston every April. Link them for an embarrassing 26.2 miles.
What is the Underwear run + Boston marathon?
In Greek, 'Dinosauria' — the scientific name for dinosaurs — literally translates to these two English words, coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1842.
What is terrible lizard?
In the “Look What You Made Me Do” video, Taylor sits on a throne of snakes, referencing this media-given nickname.
What is "Snake"?
This two-word economic concept describes the situation where prices keep rising and your money buys less — a big topic in post-2020 news.
What is Inflation rate?
Northeastern's Paws mascot skates at hockey games during the Beanpot tournament. The Beanpot is played annually between Northeastern, Boston College, Boston University, and this fourth school.
What is Harvard?
The real name of the process by which one biological species gradually becomes two + a Taylor Swift album about growing apart. The scientific term and the album share a root meaning 'to move away.'
What is Divergence/Speciation + 'Evermore'? (Accept: Divergent evolution + Divergent the book/film)
The Antikythera mechanism, found in a Greek shipwreck, is often called the world's first analog what? It dates to around 100 BC and could predict eclipses and track the Olympics.
What is a computer?
In “You’re On Your Own, Kid,” this item is given away in the lyric “I hosted parties and starved my body…”
What is friendship bracelets?
In physics, this two-word phenomenon predicted by Einstein in 1916 was finally detected in 2015 by LIGO, it's a ripple in the fabric of spacetime caused by colliding black holes.
What are 'Gravitational Waves'?
In the Black Mirror episode 'Nosedive,' society runs on a social credit rating system. This real-life country actually implemented a similar 'Social Credit System' starting in 2014.
What is China?