Anime Intricacies
"This anime, written by Nisio Isin and animated by Shaft, features Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student who survived a vampire attack."
"In 1928, this scientist accidentally discovered the first antibiotic, Penicillin."
Alexander Fleming
"This 1977 film directed by Steven Spielberg tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object."
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
"This hardest known mineral is used in a variety of industries, not just for jewelry."
Diamonds
"This survival horror video game released by Konami in 1999 takes place in a foggy, otherworldly town and later inspired a film adaptation."
Silent Hill
"In the anime 'Attack on Titan', this is the name of the outermost wall protecting humanity from the Titans."
Wall Maria
"In 1953, these two scientists proposed the double helix model of DNA."
James Watson & Francis Crick
"In this 1985 Robert Zemeckis film, a teenager is sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown."
Back to the Future
"This igneous rock, less dense than basalt, is the most abundant bedrock in the continental crust."
Granite
"Developed by Team Ico, this 2001 action-adventure game involves a young boy who must navigate castle ruins and solve puzzles, accompanied by a mysterious entity named Yorda."
Ico
"This popular mecha anime, directed by Hideaki Anno, features an organization called NERV that fights against Angels."
Neon Genesis Evangelion
"This German physicist won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for his discovery of energy quanta."
Max Planck
"This 2014 Christopher Nolan film features a group of explorers who make use of a wormhole to conquer vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage."
Interstellar
"This geologic era, also known as the 'Age of Reptiles', saw the dominance of dinosaurs on Earth."
Mesozoic Era
"This hard-hitting 2009 action role-playing game from FromSoftware is known for its challenging combat and minimalistic storytelling."
Demon's Souls
"This anime, based on a light novel series by Reki Kawahara, features a virtual reality MMORPG where players cannot log out and death in the game means death in real life."
Sword Art Online
"He proposed the geocentric model of the universe which was widely accepted until the Copernican revolution."
Ptolemy
"This 2016 film directed by Denis Villeneuve involves the arrival of extraterrestrial spacecraft and the complex language they use."
Arrival
"This is the name given to the supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras."
Pangea
"In the 'Mass Effect' series, this is the ancient race that built the mass relays and the Citadel, but mysteriously disappeared."
The Protheans
"This dramatic anime series from Kyoto Animation involves a school's concert band and a budding romance between a euphonium player and a flugelhorn player."
Sound! Euphonium
"This Italian astronomer and physicist is known for improving the telescope to observe and document the heavens, contributing to the birth of modern astronomy."
Galilaeo Galilei
"Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film that explores themes of existentialism, human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life." "This archaic and powerful cosmic entity in the Marvel universe was the embodiment of the Seventh Cosmos and Seventh Infinity, and is the father of Eternity."
2001: A Space Odyssey
"This mineral composed of iron and sulfur is also known as 'fool's gold' due to its metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue."
Pyrite
"This critically acclaimed 1998 PC game, developed by Looking Glass Studios, combines first-person shooter, role-playing, and stealth elements, and is often credited for helping to popularize the 'immersive sim' genre."
System Shock 2