Literature
Science
Word Origins
American History
Brainrot
100

This is the author of Romeo and Juliet

Who is William Shakespeare?

100

This force pulls objects towards the Earth's center and keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun.

What is Gravity?

100

This food item is named after an 18th-century English earl who didn't want to leave the card table to eat.

What is a sandwich?

100
He was the first President of the United States.

Who is George Washington?

100

This slang term, short for charisma, is used to describe someone who's smooth with flirting.

What is rizz?

200

This is the fictional land entered through a wardrobe in a C.S. Lewis Novel

Narnia

200

This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell".

What is the mitochondria?

200

This word, meaning a mechanical worker, comes from a Czech word for forced labor.

What is a robot.

200

This important document, adopted on July 4th, 1776, announced the American colonies' separation from Britain.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

200

This slang phrase refers to when someone casually takes a share of your food, inspired by a Twitch meme.

What is Fanum tax?

300
He is the narrator of The Great Gatsby.
Who is Nick Carraway?
300

This is the process called when a liquid turns into a gas, like when water disappears from a puddle.

What is evaporation?

300
This common word for a beverage ingredient comes from the Arabic "al-kuhl", originally referring to powdered eyeliner.

What is alcohol?

300

This major 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States and was bought from France.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

300

This bizarre internet series features singing toilets and cameramen fighting in a surreal war, popular with Gen Alpha.

What is skibidi toilet?

400

This is the political theme that is central to George Orwell's 1984.

What is totalitarianism.

400

This is a groundbreaking theory that introduced concepts like time dilation and E=mc2.

What is Einstein's Theory of Relativity?

400

This word meaning isolation comes from the Italian for "40 days", the amount of time ships were held during the plague. 

What is quarantine?

400

This name is given to the forced relocation of Native American tribes from the southeastern U.S. in the 1830's.

What is the Trail of Tears?

400

This slang term, popularized by Charlie XCX's 2024 album, refers to bold, chaotic, hyper-feminine energy, often associated with a brat summer.

What is a brat?

500

This is the title of T.S. Eliot's complex modernist poem that begins with "April is the cruelest month"?

The Waste Land

500

This particle, sometimes called the God particle, was confirmed at CERN and helps explain why matter has mass.

What is the Higgs boson?

500

This word for a bad dream originally referred to a demonic creature believed to sit on your chest while you sleep.

What is a nightmare?

500

This political agreement ended Reconstruction and allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president.

What is the Compromise of 1877?

500

This Gen Alpha meme trend features AI-generated characters like Tralalero Tralala and gibberish phrase that sound like Italian opera.

What is Italian brainrot?