Music
This artist’s 2016 album Lemonade was noted for its integration of music, visual art, and social commentary.
Who is Beyonce
This sport’s championship trophy is named after a former NFL commissioner.
What is football (the Vince Lombardi trophy)
This discovery by Watson and Crick—made possible by critical X-ray diffraction data from this scientist—revealed the molecular basis for heredity.
Who is Rosalind Franklin
This streaming series centers on the moral collapse of a chemistry teacher turned drug manufacturer.
What is Breaking Bad
This sea creature has three hearts and blue blood due to copper-based hemocyanin.
What is the octopus
This composer became deaf later in life yet continued composing some of the most famous symphonies in Western music.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven
This country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles in men’s soccer.
What is Brazil
CRISPR-Cas9 technology was adapted from a defense mechanism originally found in these organisms.
What is bacteria
This long-running animated TV show is set in the fictional town of Springfield.
What is The Simpsons
This time-management technique involves working in focused intervals followed by short breaks.
What is the Pomodoro technique
This music genre originated in the Mississippi Delta and heavily influenced the development of rock and roll.
What is the blues
This country has hosted the Summer Olympics three times.
What is the United States
This hormone plays a major role in bonding and social behavior in many mammals.
What is oxytocin
This 2023 film dramatizes the life of the physicist behind the Manhattan Project.
What is Oppenheimer
This country is home to the world’s largest living structure, visible from space.
What is Australia (the Great Barrier Reef)
This device, invented in the 1920s, electronically altered the pitch of recorded sound and is now common in music production.
What is the tape recorder/ pitch shifter
This physiological concept explains why endurance athletes often train at altitude to improve performance.
What is EPO-mediates red blood cell production
This group of animals is capable of regenerating entire limbs, a trait studied for its medical implications.
What are salamanders/ axolotls
This viral challenge in the 2010s involved a specific activity to raise awareness for a neurological disease.
What is the Ice Bucket Challenge
This type of cloud is known for producing lightning.
What is the cumulonimbus cloud
This band famously refused to release any music digitally until 2015, preferring physical albums.
Who is AC/DC
This tennis player has won the most Grand Slam singles titles in history (men or women).
Who is Novak Djookovic
This animal has fingerprints that are so similar to humans’ that they can confuse crime scene investigators.
What are koalas
This 2019 film directed by Bong Joon-ho won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the first non-English film to do so.
What is Parasite
This everyday object was invented by George de Mestral after noticing burrs stuck to his clothes.
What is Velcro