ANCIENT HISTORY
This massive amphitheater in Rome, opened in 80 AD, hosted gladitorial combats and could hold over 50,000 spectators.
What is the Colosseum? (or the Flavian Amphitheatre)
This acclaimed HBO fantasy series holds the all-time record for the most Primetime Emmy Awards won by a scripted series, with 59 wins.
What is Game of Thrones?
Though it is an island territory, this ice-covered landmass is politically a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
What is Greenland?
This 1997 James Cameron film tied the record for most Oscar wins with 11 trophies, famously launching Leonardo DiCaprio into superstardom.
What is Titanic?
These repetitive, non-coding nucleotide sequences sit at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes, acting as protective caps that shorten with each cell division.
What are telomeres?
The Rosetta Stone, which allowed scholars to crack Egyptian hieroglyphs, was written in Hieroglyphic, Demotic, and this third language.
What is Ancient Greek?
In The Matrix, Neo is offered a choice between two pills; this color pill will allow him to remain in the fabricated, simulated reality.
What is the blue pill?
This South American river is widely considered the largest in the world by water volume discharge, flowing through Peru and Brazil.
What is the Amazon River?
In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller Psycho, Hershey's brand of this sweet food item was used to realistically simulate blood in the black-and-white shower scene.
What is chocolate syrup?
Invented at Bell Labs in 1947, this solid-state semiconductor component revolutionized electronics by replacing fragile vacuum tubes.
What is a transistor?
This Roman emperor was famously declared ruler by the Praetorian Guard after being found hiding behind a palace curtain following Caligula's assassination.
Who is Claudius?
In The Lord of the Rings, this creature was originally a Hobbit named Sméagol before being corrupted by the One Ring.
Who is Gollum?
This landlocked, mountainous country acts as a buffer state between India and China, and contains most of Mount Everest.
What is Nepal?
This legendary 1941 Orson Welles film centers around a newspaper tycoon's dying words: "Rosebud."
What is Citizen Kane?
This theoretical mass limit, roughly 1.4 times the mass of our Sun, is the point above which a white dwarf star will collapse into a supernova.
What is the Chandrasekhar limit?
This Carthaginian general famously marched elephants across the Alps during the Second Punic War to attack Rome.
Who is Hannibal?
This is the name of the fictional desert planet that serves as the primary setting for Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic Dune.
What is Arrakis? (Accept "Dune")
This strait separates the southern tip of Spain from Morocco, serving as the gateway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
This director, known for The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is the patriarch of a famous filmmaking family that includes his daughter Sofia.
Who is Francis Ford Coppola?
When researchers at UCLA tried to type the word "LOGIN" during the first ARPANET transmission in 1969, the system crashed after they typed these two letters.
What are L and O? ("LO")
This modern-day country is where you will find the ruins of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the ancient Achaemenid (Persian) Empire.
What is Iran?
In Doctor Who, this is the full, multi-word name for the Doctor's time-traveling spaceship, which is disguised as a British police box.
What is the TARDIS? (Time and Relative Dimension in Space)
This city is the capital of Australia, deliberately built halfway between the competing rival cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
What is Canberra?
This 1927 German expressionist sci-fi film, directed by Fritz Lang, featured a pioneering cinematic robot and heavily influenced modern sci-fi aesthetics.
What is Metropolis?
Named after the Greek Titan who famously stole fire from the gods, this highly radioactive, rare earth element sits at atomic number 61.
What is Promethium?