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This sitcom’s theme song opens with the line “Thank you for being a friend,” and the show ran for seven seasons beginning in 1985.
What is The Golden Girls?
This leader, in office from 2009 to 2017, became the first African American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This country is the second-largest in the world by land area.
What is Canada?
This conqueror founded an empire that became the largest contiguous land empire in history.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This NFL team holds the record for the most Super Bowl wins.
What is the Pittsburgh Steelers?
This comic actor famously played the roommate on Friends who owned a pet monkey named Marcel.
Who is Matthew Perry?
This three‑letter word is the shortest English word in alphabetical order.
What is “aeg”?
This 19th‑century British author wrote Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd.
Who is Thomas Hardy?
This 2009 music video—set in a retro diner and inspired by 1950s aesthetics—helped launch its artist into mainstream pop stardom.
Who is Lady Gaga?
This small European country, famous for banking secrecy, voted in a 2014 referendum to reject joining the European Union.
What is Switzerland?
This mountain range stretches across eight countries in South America.
What are the Andes?
The rebellion that began in 1789 in this European country radically transformed its monarchy and society.
What is France?
This is the year Nikola Jokić was drafted by the Denver Nuggets.
What is 2014?
The dance move known as the “floss” was popularized by this video game franchise.
What is Fortnite?
This six‑letter word describes something that cannot be explained.
What is “mystic”?
This French existentialist wrote Nausea and Being and Nothingness.
Who is Jean‑Paul Sartre?
This actor played a fictional rock star in a 2000 comedy film and later portrayed a real-life music industry executive in an Oscar-nominated biopic.
Who is Jack Black?
This 20th-century British Prime Minister, nicknamed “The Iron Lady,” led her country through a major Falklands War and economic reform in the 1980s.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
This is the world's largest desert.
What is Antarctica?
This global war began after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
What is World War I?
This tennis player, known for winning the French Open in 1990, never captured another Grand Slam singles title.
Who is Andrés Gómez?
This 1990s sitcom featured a character named Balki Bartokomous from the fictional island of Mypos.
What is Perfect Strangers?
A pangram in English contains every letter of the alphabet at least once, like “The quick brown ___.”
What is fox jumps over the lazy dog?
In mythology, this blind poet is credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Debuting in 2007, this AMC drama about an advertising agency on Madison Avenue earned multiple Emmy Awards and helped redefine cable television drama.
What is Mad Men?
This 2011 uprising in a North African country led to the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi and drew NATO intervention, setting off years of civil conflict
What is Libya?
In 1980, this volcanic eruption in a Pacific Northwest U.S. state dramatically reshaped the surrounding landscape.
What is Mount St. Helens?
This revolutionary movement overthrew a monarchy in 1917 and led to the formation of the world’s first socialist state.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This gymnast, at the 2012 Olympics, became the first American woman to win gold on floor exercise.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
This actor won an Oscar for playing a brilliant but troubled mathematician in A Beautiful Mind.
Who is Russell Crowe?
In English, this letter appears the most frequently in written text.
What is “e”?
This author’s The Invention of Morel is a 1940 novel blending science fiction, mystery, and philosophical themes.
Who is Adolfo Bioy Casares?
This 1976 album, whose cover features a drum set emerging from water, includes a title track inspired by the British myth of Atlantis.
What is A Trick of the Tail by Genesis?
This post–World War II U.S. policy initiative funneled economic aid to help rebuild Western Europe and prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This remote island nation is home to species found nowhere else, like the aye-aye and fossa.
What is Madagascar?
This 1815 battle ended the rule of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
He became the first sprinter to officially run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds at the Olympics.
Who is Usain Bolt?
This musician’s 2023 album Endless Summer Vacation featured the hit single “Vampire.”
Who is Miley Cyrus?
This linguistic term refers to a word created by rearranging the letters of another, like “listen” → “silent.”
What is an anagram?
This Chilean poet, Nobel laureate in 1971, is known for works such as Canto General and for being exiled during a military coup.
Who is Pablo Neruda?