Sports
This college team has won the most national college football championships since 1860s.
Yale University (18, last win in 1927)
2. University of Alabama / Princeton (tie) - 15
4. University of Notre Dame - 13
5. University of Michigan / USC (tie) - 9
This singer-songwriter was awarded a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board, and the Nobel Prize in Literature
Bob Dylan
The Pulitzer Prize Board in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power". In 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
The last thing Iron man says in Endgame before he sacrifices himself to kill Thanos ...
I am Iron man
This plant is the tallest and fastest growing grass today.
Bamboo
In bamboo, as in other grasses, the internodal regions of the stem are usually hollow and the vascular bundles in the cross-section are scattered throughout the stem instead of in a cylindrical arrangement. According to Guinness World Records, some species of bamboo can grow up to 2.91 ft/day.
This actress took vocal lessons before playing a singer-songwriter in the 2013 film, "Begin Again"
Keira Knightley
The song "Lost Stars," performed by Kiera Knightley and Adam Levine, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
This quarterback became the 4th NFL QB in history to beat all 32 teams
Tom Brady
On Oct 3, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 19-17 win over the Patriots, Tom Brady joins Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and Brett Favre as only QBs in NFL history to beat all 32 teams.
This hip hop group released a single album in a silver jewel-encrusted box, which was sold for $2 million
Wu-Tang Clan
"Once Upon A Time In Shaolin" was auctioned in 2015. Its legal agreements stipulated that the album could not be commercially exploited for 88 years, but could be released free or played at listening parties. The winning bid came from former Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli, who had paid $2 million.
This movie brought home the most Oscars wins in 2021
NOMADLAND
(Best Picture,
Best Director: Chloé Zhao,
Best Actress: Frances McDormand)
This video game was the first ever to be played in space.
Tetris
Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov packed a Game Boy and his personal copy of Tetris for his trip to the MIR Space Station in 1993. The game left Earth on 1 July 1993 aboard the Soyuz TM-17 rocket and was played during Serebrov's off-time while orbiting the planet. "Like all cosmonauts, I love sport. My particular favorites are football and swimming. During flight, in rare minutes of leisure, I enjoyed playing Game Boy,"
He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and once said,
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”
Benjamin Franklin
The baseball team has the most World Series titles
Yankees (27 titles)
2. Cardinals: 11
3. Red Sox / Athletics (tie): 9
5. Giants: 8
6. Dodgers: 7
7. Pirates / Reds (tie): 5
8. Tigers: 4 ('35,'45,'68,'84)
He was a child prodigy, had performed for Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy before age 8, and he once forgot his $2.5 million, 266-year-old instrument in the trunk of a taxi before his evening concert.
Yo-Yo Ma
In 1999, Ma inadvertently left the cello in a taxicab in New York City. Using his receipt, police found the taxi’s medallion number and discovered it was based at a garage in Queens. The cello was returned back to Ma just in time for his evening concert.
The film is based on a true story of a guy falls for a woman, who has short-term memory loss and can't remember anything that happened the day before.
50 First Dates
(2004 comedy film directed by Peter Segal, lead actor/actress Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore)
AlphaGo AI program is powerful in learning and playing Go, a Chinese strategy board game, it has only been defeated by human ___ times
One
Lee Se-dol, a top-rated world professional Go player, is the only human to ever beat the AlphaGo developed by Google's sister company Deepmind. In 2016, he took part in a five-match showdown against AlphaGo in Seoul, Korea, losing four times but beating the computer once. Lee announced his retirement in 2019 from professional play, stating that he could never be the top overall player of Go due to the increasing dominance of AI.
This company has the highest-priced stock per share on New York Stock Exchange but its CEO salary is only $100,000 without stock option.
Berkshire Hathaway
Class A share price> $430,900. It has never had a stock split and only paid a dividend once since Warren Buffett took over, retaining corporate earnings on its balance sheet because of management's desire to attract long-term investors as opposed to short-term speculators.
He is a three-time Olympic gold medalist in half-pipe snowboarding, and holds the world record for the most X-Games gold medals and most Olympic gold medals by a snowboarder.
Shaun White (professional snowboarder, skateboarder, and musician)
Winter Olympic Gold (2006, 2010, 2018)
X-Games Gold (13 Gold)
According to Guinness World Records, this song is the best-selling single worldwide
White Christmas
Estimated sales of over 50 million copies
This popular animation movie has this line, “Some people are worth melting for”
Frozen
The CEO of this tech company hates acronyms. In 2010, he sent an email to all his employees with the subject line, "Acronyms Seriously Suck"
SpaceX
"Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important.... over time the result will be a huge glossary that we have to issue to new employees. No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don’t want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees...." — Elon Musk
This actor was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1993, but renounced his knighthood 7 years later.
Anthony Hopkins
After his critically acclaimed performance in "The Silence of the Lambs", "Howards End", and "The Remains of the Day", Hopkins was was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. In 2000, Hopkins became an American citizen and had to renounce his knighthood.
This country has won the most gold medals in the Winter Olympics
Norway (132)
USA (105)
Germany (93)
This classic music composer was born in Prague, and apprenticed as a butcher
Antonín Dvořák
Dvořák was the oldest of 14 children. His father was a zither player, an innkeeper, and also a butcher. A young Antonin not only joined his father in the local band, but also in his business as an apprentice butcher
This Disney Princess has a raccoon as a sidekick
Pocahontas
(Meeko is a major character in Disney's 1995 animated feature film, Pocahontas. He is Pocahontas's pet raccoon with a love of food, especially John Smith's biscuits.)
This programming language, named after a British comedy show, was the only language to be selected "Programming Language of the Year" four times.
Python
The name was chosen because its creator, Dutch prgrammer, Guido van Rossum, is a big fan of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". It was selected Programming Language of the Year in 2007, 2010, 2018, and 2020. Large organizations that use Python include Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo!, NASA, Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, Spotify. The social news networking site Reddit was written mostly in Python.
In 2010, Google released a special doodle to celebrate 30th anniversary of this classic video game, in which the game mascot munches tiny dots as it moves around the video game board
Pac-Man
It has sold nearly 48 million copies across all platforms, and grossed over US$14 billion. The character of Pac-Man is the official mascot of Bandai Namco, and remains one of the most recognizable video game characters in history.