Words and Language
This word for a fear of long words is ironically one of the longest in the English language.
What is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?
This structure in Berlin became a Cold War symbol before falling in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This planet is known for its prominent rings.
What is Saturn?
This streaming service released Stranger Things in 2016.
What is Netflix?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The word "salary" comes from a Latin word referring to this essential mineral.
What is salt?
This U.S. purchase in 1803 nearly doubled the nation’s size.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Water boils at this temperature in degrees Celsius at sea level.
What is 100 degrees Celsius?
This singer is known as the “Queen of Pop.”
Who is Madonna?
This European city is split by the River Thames.
What is London?
This rhetorical device involves saying the opposite of what you mean, often for humorous effect.
What is irony?
This ship’s sinking in 1912 led to major changes in maritime safety laws.
What is the Titanic?
This part of the cell is often called the “powerhouse.”
What is the mitochondria?
This long-running animated sitcom is set in the town of Springfield.
What is The Simpsons?
This country has the most time zones when including overseas territories.
What if France?
This term describes a word that sounds like what it means, such as "buzz" or "clang".
What is onomatopoeia?
This 14th-century pandemic killed roughly one-third of Europe’s population.
What is the Black Death?
This scale is used to measure earthquake magnitude.
What is the Richter scale?
This 1999 film explored simulated reality and popularized bullet-time effects.
What is The Matrix?
This desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
English borrowed this word meaning "foreign phrase left untranslated" from French.
What is fait accompli?
This 1648 treaty ended the Thirty Years’ War and reshaped the concept of national sovereignty.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
This physics principle states that the position and momentum of a particle cannot both be precisely known.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
This director is known for non-linear storytelling in films like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
This capital city sits at the highest elevation of any capital in the world.
What is La Paz?