Movies
This movie is about a girl who went to Harvard Law. Hint: She loves the color pink.
What is Legally Blonde?
The Harvard Pre-College Program uses this app to communicate with you via text. Your proctors may have you in these chats with fellow residents.
What is GroupMe?
The names of the three places students in the Harvard Pre-College Program are staying at.
What are McKinlock, Leverett Towers, and Dunster?
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
What is a map?
Science:
DNA is a two-strand helicase that is the backbone of life. This is similar to DNA except it has only one strand. What is this? Bonus points if you can name the full name.
What is RNA(Ribonucleic Acid)?
This term refers to the theatrical release of two movies simultaneously on July 21st, 2023. Both movies were almost opposites of each other. One was a fantasy comedy and the other a biographical thriller. Name the movies. Bonus points for naming the term.
What is Barbie and Oppenheimer? What is Barbenheimer?
This app was made by the biggest search engine and it is used to send and receive messages to an inbox.
What is Gmail?
This is the house was Mark Zuckerberg in.
Adams House, Cabot House, Currier House, Dunster House, Eliot House, Kirkland House, Leverett House, Lowell House, Mather House, Pforzheimer House, Quincy House, Winthrop House
What is Kirkland House?
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
What is the letter "M"?
English:
This famous line "To be or not to be" is from this tragedy play?
What is Hamlet?
This franchise follows a this character who uses a lasso-like tool and iconic head garment and is an explorer. Directed by Steven Spielberg and James Mangold. Its genre is adventure. Bonus points for each movie of the franchise you can name.
Who is Indiana Jones?
What are Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade, the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and The Dial of Destiny?
This app has thousands of small communities for people to join and connect with other people in while boosting their own 'rating' in the process.
What is Reddit?
This place is a Harvard Square landmark known for having celebrities including Shaquille O'Neal, Matt Damon, Rebecca Ferguson, and more dining here. Bonus points if you can name another celebrity that went to this place.
What is Mr. Bartley's Burgers?
A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
What are four sisters and three brothers?
Social Studies:
The phrase "Shot heard round the world" comes from this battle. Bonus Point if you can name the year this battle was fought.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord, 1775?
In this movie, spice is an important element. The main character is referred to a specific term in Arabic that translates to "the tongue of the unseen". The main character is also a part of a house.
What is Dune?
TikTok is a growing social media platform that uses short-form videos. Name three other famous social media platforms that use short-form videos.
What are Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Snapchat?
This building was built to look like a Polaroid camera since it was funded by Polaroid inventor Edward Land.
What is the Science Center?
I break but never fall. And I fall but never break. What are we?
What is day and night?
Math:
At a party, everyone shook hands with everybody else. There were 66 handshakes. There were this many people at the party.
What is 12 people?
This was the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars. Bonus points for naming the director.
What is Parasite? Who is Bong Joon-ho?
This is an app with movies and television shows, but it is part of a much much bigger company.
What is Amazon Prime Video?
The number of books that Widener Library has is in the millions. Number between 1 and 5 and decimals to the tenth place.
What is 3.5?
What are the next three letters in this combination? OTTFFSS
What is E N T?
History:
Following his appointment as an engineer in 1482, he planned and constructed canals in Milan, Italy.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?