Literature
“To be or not to be” is a famous line from this Shakespeare play.
Hamlet
This is the chemical symbol for water.
H₂O
This document declared the independence of the 13 American colonies from Britain.
The Declaration of Independence
This movie franchise features a character named Luke Skywalker.
Star Wars
This Indian bread, often cooked in a tandoor, is commonly served with curries.
Naan
The party tree that grew in this Middle-Earth land was the location of Bilbo’s farewell speech.
The Shire
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
Mitochondrion
Signed in 1215, this document limited the power of the English king.
Magna Carta
This 1994 sitcom featured six friends living in New York City and often hanging out at Central Perk.
Friends
This spice, derived from the crocus flower, is the most expensive by weight.
Saffron
“I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear”, begins 2000’s Fever 1793, about an epidemic of this disease.
Yellow Fever
This disease, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, was known as the “Black Death” in the 14th century.
Plague
Founded in 1874, this political party advocated printing more money to help farmers.
The Greenback Party
This underground comix artist created Fritz the Cat in the late 1960s.
Robert Crumb
This spicy Korean side dish is made from fermented cabbage and radishes.
Kimchi
Structured as a choose-your-own-adventure for adults, this 1963 novel allows readers to rearrange its chapters to create multiple narratives.
Hopscotch (Rayuela) by Julio Cortázar
This element has the highest atomic number that occurs naturally.
Uranium
This 1648 treaty ended the Thirty Years’ War and established the modern system of nation-states.
Peace of Westphalia
This 1982 sci-fi film features a replicant hunter portrayed by Harrison Ford.
Blade Runner
This rare citrus fruit, also called Citrus hystrix, is used for its leaves in Southeast Asian cooking.
Kaffir Lime
This 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright famously avoids using the most common letter in the English alphabet. What letter did he avoid?
Gadsby
The Letter "E"
This paradox questions how half-life decay can appear both deterministic and probabilistic in quantum mechanics.
Schrödinger’s Cat
This Cold War doctrine pledged U.S. support to countries resisting communism, first applied in Greece and Turkey.
Truman Doctrine
Often called the “Female Elvis,” this pioneering 1950s rockabilly singer toured with Elvis Presley and Wanda Jackson, but never achieved the mainstream fame of her male counterparts.
Janis Martin
This molecular gastronomy technique uses liquid nitrogen to rapidly freeze ingredients.
Cryogenic freezing or flash freezing