Game Shows
This game show uses its iconic “thinking music” to count down the thirty seconds contestants have to answer the final question of each episode.
What is Jeopardy?
This city is the only state capital that cannot be included in a cross-country drive to see each state’s capital building.
What is Honolulu?
This irrational number is useful for calculating the circumference or area of a circle and shares its name with a common dessert.
What is Pi?
Simone Biles is the most decorated US female Olympian, having competed in this sport for three different Olympic Games.
What is gymnastics?
This nocturnal animal is the only mammal known to be capable of true flight.
What are bats?
This 2008 British film starring Dev Patel follows a young Indian contestant on the Hindi version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
What is Slumdog Millionaire?
Travelers would have to visit this sparsely populated state if they wanted to visit Old Faithful, a geyser found in Yellowstone National Park.
What is Wyoming?
This acronym is useful for determining the order of operations used to solve a math equation.
What is PEMDAS?
This US swimmer has been retired for almost ten years but still holds the world record for most Olympic Medals.
Who is Michael Phelps?
Despite being considered quite cowardly, this animal is the closest living relative to the mighty T-Rex.
What is a chicken?
This may have started out as a fictional Korean TV show on Netflix but was adapted into a real, (nonlethal) version as a game show in 2023.
What is Squid Game?
Although no longer an official US highway, this route is still famous for being the place to “get your kicks,” according to the Nat King Cole song.
What is Route 66?
This answer won Cady Heron her team’s mathlete competition in the 2004 film Mean Girls.
What is “The limit does not exist”?
Victor Montalvo won a bronze medal in the 2024 Olympics for this newly introduced and heavily memed sport.
What is breaking or breakdancing?
This animal has the highest blood pressure in the animal kingdom, probably because it needs to pump blood through a very long neck and appendages.
What is a giraffe?
Surpassing Bob Barker of The Price is Right in 2019, Pat Sajak currently holds the record for the longest-serving host of a game show for his time working with this show from 1981 to 2024.
What is The Wheel of Fortune?
This family is the center of the 1983 film National Lampoon’s Vacation, where a father rents a car and drives across the country to bond with his family, only for chaos to ensue.
Who are The Griswalds?
This 2014 biographical film features Benedict Cumberbatch playing Alan Turing, a mathematician often credited as the father of computer science.
What is The Imitation Game?
This tabletop sport is regularly dominated by China and is one of only five events that the US has never made it to the podium for.
What is table tennis?
This animal is credited as being the deadliest animal in the world, not because of its size or strength but because of its ability to carry and spread disease.
What is a mosquito?
This celebrity game show was popular during its peak in the 1970s, but recently regained popularity due to it being parodied in every season of RuPaul’s Drag Race since 2010.
What is Match Game?
The longest freeway in the US, this interstate will take drivers from Seattle, Washington to Boston, Massachusetts.
What is I-90?
This term is defined as the middle value in a data set when the numbers are arranged from smallest to largest.
What is a median?
Athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised their fists in protest of treatment against Black Americans in the 1968 Olympics during the medal ceremony for this sport.
What is track & field?
This tree dwelling herbivore is the only non-primate animal with fingerprints.
What is a koala?