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This country hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.
What is Greece?
They built Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains
Who were the Inca?
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” is written by this narrator
Who is Nick Carraway?
He directed the massive box-office hits Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
Originally, this social media platform strictly limited its users to posts containing a maximum of 140 characters.
What is Twitter? (Also accepts X)
He was the first boxer to win the heavyweight title three separate times
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This modern nation had the first truly global empire.
What is Portugal?
(There is some debate - Spain is also accepted.)
He is the titular character of this book, and the owner of a portrait that prevents him from aging… but only for a while.
Who is Dorian Gray?
In The Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo the choice between remaining in blissful ignorance, or learning the truth by taking a pill of this color.
What is red?
He famously co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in a California garage in 1976.
Who is Steve Wozniak?
This NHL team has won the most Stanley Cup championships.
Who are the Montreal Canadiens?
Who was the first human to visit the South Pole?
Who was Roald Amundsen?
Finish the line: “If music be the food of love…”
What is “Play on?”
This epic James Cameron romance held the record for the highest-grossing film of all time for over a decade until his own film, Avatar, surpassed it.
What is Titanic?
This pseudonymous person or group published the original 2008 whitepaper that led to the creation of Bitcoin.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
In Formula 1, this driver holds the record for the most World Drivers’ Championships (tied as of 2025).
Who is Lewis Hamilton? (also accepts Michael Schumacher)
This president recorded a story of some hunters’ encounter with a human-like monster before his presidency. Today, some people believe that monster was a bigfoot and use this story as evidence!
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
In the Dostoevsky novel, one was a writer, one a student at a monastery & one didn’t work at all
Who are the Brothers Karamazov?
In this classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Marion Crane famously meets her demise in the shower of the Bates Motel.
What is Psycho?
First introduced by IBM in 1956 on the RAMAC computer, this type of magnetic data storage was originally the size of two refrigerators.
What is a hard drive? (Also accepts hard disk/HDD)
This college basketball coach leads all Division I men’s coaches in career wins.
Who is Mike Krzyzewski? (aka Coach K)
In Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, a character version of this famous Venetian explorer tells the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan about fantastic cities that stretch the imagination.
Who was Marco Polo?
The expression “to grow like topsy” comes from this 1852 novel
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This actor holds the Guinness World Record for the longest career as a live-action Marvel character.
Who is Hugh Jackman?
Originally called the "Imitation Game," this famous test evaluates a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human.
What is the Turing Test?