Around The World
Silver Screen
Body Of Knowledge
Word Play
Sing It!
100
This country is home to the Eiffel Tower
What is France?
100
This 1994 film features a man who famously said "Life is like a box of chocolates."
What is Forrest Gump?
100
This organ pumps blood throughout the human body.
What is the heart?
100
This is the term for a word that reads the same forwards and backwards, like "racecar" or "level".
What is a palindrome?
100
"Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, she took the midnight train going anywhere"
"Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit, he took the midnight train going anywhere"
Don't Stop Believin' by Journey
200
The Amazon River flows primarily through this country.
What is Brazil?
200
This director made Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
200
This is the longest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
200
This is the name for a word that sounds like the thing it describes, like "buzz", "crash", or "sizzle".
What is a onomatopoeia?
200
"Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you,
by now you should've somehow realized what you gotta do"
"I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now"
Wonderwall by Oasis
300
This is the only country in the world that is also a continent.
What is Australia?
300
This James Cameron film became the highest grossing movie of its time and won 11 Oscars.
What is Titanic?
300
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
300
This is the word for when a sentence uses every letter of the alphabet at least once, like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
What is a pangram?
300
"Is this the real life, is this just fantasy,
caught in a landslide, no escape from reality,
open your eyes, look up to the skies and see"
"I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
because I'm easy come, easy go,
little high, little low"
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
400
This Asian country is made up of over 7,000 islands.
What is the Philippines?
400
This 1980 Stanley Kubrick horror film was based on a Stephen King novel.
What is The Shining?
400
This small organ was long thought to be useless, but is now known to play a role in the immune system.
What is the appendix?
400
This literary device is when an author give human qualities to non-human things, like "the wind whispered through the trees".
What is personification?
400
"I'm falling
In all the good times, I find myself longing for change
And in the bad times, I fear myself"
"I'm off the deep end, watch as I dive in
I'll never meet the ground
Crash through the surface, where they can't hurt us
We're far from the shallow now"
Shallow by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
500
This African country has the most pyramids in the world, surpassing even Egypt.
What is Sudan?
500
This Australian actress won back-to-back Best Actress Oscars in 2003 and 2004, the first to do since the 1930's.
Who is Cate Blanchett?
500
This is the only muscle in the human body that is attached at only one end.
What is the tongue?
500
This is the term for a word that is spelled the same forwards and backwards but means something different each way, like "stressed" and "desserts".
What is a semordnilap?
500
"I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside
Frightened of this thing that I've become"
"It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had"
Africa by Toto