Magic: The Gathering
This original, ultra-rare artifact card costs zero mana to cast and taps and sacrifices itself to add three mana of any single color to your mana pool.
What is Black Lotus?
Han Solo famously bragged that the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than this distance measurement.
What is 12 parsecs?
Catching this small, winged golden ball awards a Quidditch team 150 points and immediately ends the match.
What is the Golden Snitch?
This Shiba Inu named Kabosu became the face of a viral 2013 meme and inspired a major cryptocurrency.
Who is Doge?
In Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this number is the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.
Response: What is 42?
This kinetic drag-reduction system opens a flap in the rear wing to assist with overtaking when within one second of the car ahead.
What is DRS (Drag Reduction System)?
This game zone operates on a "first-in, last-out" (FILO) timing system, allowing players to respond to spells and activated abilities before they resolve.
What is The Stack?
This Sith Lord was an apprentice to Darth Sidious and wielded a distinct double-bladed red lightsaber in The Phantom Menace.
Who is Darth Maul?
This charm, requiring a powerful positive memory to cast, conjures a silver animal guardian to repel Dementors.
What is the Patronus Charm (Expecto Patronum)?
Sending someone a bait-and-switch link that unexpectedly opens Rick Astley's 1987 music video is known by this term.
What is Rickrolling?
In tabletop roleplaying games like D&D, rolling a 20 on a standard 20-sided die is commonly celebrated as this outcome.
What is a Natural 20 (or Critical Hit)?
This legendary Italian racing team based in Maranello is the only constructor to have competed in every F1 World Championship season since 1950.
What is Scuderia Ferrari?
A creature with this evergreen combat keyword deals excess combat damage to the defending player or planeswalker after assigning lethal damage to all blocking creatures.
What is Trample?
This rare, blaster-resistant metal is sacred to the Mandalorian culture and used to forge their distinctive armor.
What is Beskar?
Lord Voldemort split his soul into seven dark objects known by this name.
What are Horcruxes?
This green amphibian comic character created by Matt Furie became an omnipresent reaction meme stating "Feels good man."
Who is Pepe the Frog?
In the Lord of the Rings, this phrase is the Elvish word for "friend," used by Gandalf to open the West Gate of Moria.
What is Mellon?
Lewis Hamilton and this icon share the all-time record for the most World Drivers' Championships, with 7 titles each.
Who is Michael Schumacher?
Checked automatically whenever a player receives priority—such as a player having 0 life or a creature having lethal damage—these mandatory game-engine rulings occur without using the stack.
What are State-Based Actions (SBAs)?
The tragic execution of this secret military command caused the Grand Army of the Republic to turn on and eliminate the Jedi Order.
What is Order 66?
This magical map created by Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs reveals every secret passage and person inside Hogwarts Castle.
What is the Marauder's Map?
A 2011 video captured an animated cat with a Pop-Tart torso flying through outer space leaving a rainbow trail to this repetitive tune.
What is Nyan Cat?
In Dungeons & Dragons, this classic floating aberration features a large central anti-magic eye surrounded by ten smaller eyestalks that shoot magical rays.
What is a Beholder?
This complex section of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps involves a sharp downhill left turn followed by a steep uphill right-left sweep.
What is Eau Rouge / Raidillon?
In MTG's comprehensive rules, continuous effects (such as type-changing, control-changing, and power/toughness modifiers) are resolved across seven discrete tiers known by this name.
What is the Layer System (or Layers)?
Known for commanding the starship Chimaera, this blue-skinned Grand Admiral from the Chiss Ascendancy is renowned for studying enemy art to defeat them.
Who is Grand Admiral Thrawn (Mitth'raw'nuruodo)?
The three Deathly Hallows consist of the Resurrection Stone, the Invisibility Cloak, and this wand of unbeatable power.
What is the Elder Wand?
In 2001, poorly translated English cutscene dialogue from the 1991 Sega Genesis port of the arcade game Zero Wing sparked this early viral sensation.
What is "All your base are belong to us"?
In computer science, this foundational NP-complete problem asks whether a salesman can visit a list of cities exactly once and return home via the shortest route.
What is the Traveling Salesperson Problem?
In 2014, Formula 1 transitioned from 2.4-liter V8 engines to 1.6-liter V6 engines paired with this type of energy-harvesting hybrid system.
What is the Turbo-Hybrid Power Unit (or MGU-K/MGU-H)?