Movies
This 1985 film features a time-traveling vehicle and a character who's own mum has a crush on.
What is Back to the Future?
This long-running animated series, starting in 1989, features a family living in a fictional town.
What is The Simpsons?
This rainforest, often called the “lungs of the Earth,” has seen significant deforestation due to logging, agriculture, and cattle ranching.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This large, woolly mammal, which roamed the Earth during the last Ice Age, is often depicted in prehistoric art.
What is the woolly mammoth?
Fun Facts: This fruit, often associated with New Zealand, actually originates from China.
What is the kiwifruit?
This 2004 Pixar film features a family of superheroes trying to live a normal life.
What is The Incredibles?
** This 1994 event captivated viewers as they watched a low-speed police chase. Sales of pizza skyrocketed during this time, according to Dominoes spokesperson.
What is the O.J. Simpson car chase?
[95 million viewers stayed home to watch rather than go out to dinner]
This natural wonder, located off our coast, is the world’s largest coral reef system.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
** This species, known for its robust build and large brain, lived in Europe and Asia until about 40,000 years ago.
What is the Neanderthals?
[Neanderthals were very skilled at controlling fire, not only for cooking, but they could also forge adhesives through fire too]
** Silly Laws: In Georgia, it’s illegal to eat this food with a fork.
What is fried chicken?
[In Australia, it is illegal to possess more than 50Kg or potatoes at one time]
** This is how many minutes Arnie appeared on-screen in the original 1984 film "The Terminator"
What is 21 minutes...
[incidentally, "Twins" grossed nearly triple at the box office 4 years later @ $220m vs Terminator @ $78m]
This 2005-2013 NBC series is set in a Scranton, Pennsylvania, and features a quirky boss named Michael Scott.
What is The Office?
These are the 2 (two) largest cities [by human population] in Asia.
Where is Tokyo [37m] and Delhi [34.7m]...
This large flightless bird, which lived in New Zealand until about 600 years ago, was hunted to extinction by early Polynesian settlers.
What is the moa?
Strange Names: This term describes a group of pandas.
What is an embarrassment?
This 2014 film, directed by Christopher Nolan, explores space travel through a wormhole to find a new home for humanity.
What is Interstellar?
This 1998-1999 event involved the impeachment trial of a U.S. president over charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
What is the impeachment of Bill Clinton?
This desert in Chile is known as the driest place on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This artifact, discovered in 1799, was key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Historical Mix-Ups: This famous landmark is actually located in Italy, not Panama.
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
This 1999 film, directed by the Wachowskis, introduced audiences to the concept of “bullet time”
What is The Matrix?
This tragic event occurred on January 28, 1986, when a space shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds after launch.
What is the Challenger explosion?
** This waterfall, located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, is one of the largest and most famous in the world.
What is Victoria Falls?
[This is the only place on earth where one can witness a "Moonbow" - a rainbow at night]
This famous fossil, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, represents a 3.2 million-year-old hominid (Great Apes).
Who is Lucy?
Quirky Inventions: This punctuation mark, a combination of a question mark and an exclamation point, is rarely used, but has a fun name.
What is an interrobang?