Sustainability
This phenomenon occurs due to gasses like carbon dioxide trapping heat in earth's atmosphere, and is exacerbated by things like deforestation and burning fossil fuels.
What is Climate Change? (also What is Global Warming? or What is the greenhouse gas effect?)
The winning country in the Summer 2024 Olympics (total medal count).
What is the United States of America?
The highest grossing book adaptation movie series.
What is Harry Potter?
The #1 musical artist in the world last year, according to Billboard.
Who is Taylor Swift?
The county Ithaca is in.
What is Tompkins County?
This practice involves turning food scraps and organic waste into nutrient-rich soil, reducing landfill waste.
What is composting?
This player led the NBA in three pointers scored last season (2023).
Who is Stephen Curry?
This author is famous for writing the classic books The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
The lead singer of the band Queen, famous for songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Under Pressure".
Who is Freddie Mercury?
The finger lake next to Ithaca.
What is Cayuga Lake?
This process captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or industrial sources and stores it underground to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
What is carbon capture and storage (CCS)?
The number of teams in the NFL.
What is 32?
This character is known as "the godfather" in the movie adaptation, The Godfather.
Who is Vito Corleone?
This popular and sometimes controversial podcast was the most streamed podcast on Spotify in 2023.
What is The Joe Rogan Experience?
The length in feet of all the waterfalls in Ithaca combined.
The Paris Agreement aims to limit global warming to below this number of degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.
What is 2 degrees Celcius?
This young tennis star from Italy won the US Open this past summer (2024).
Who is Jannik Sinner?
This film starring young Leonardo Di Caprio was nominated for the most amount of Oscars of all time in 1997.
What is Titanic?
This 1982 pop album is the highest selling album of all time and featured 7 top 10 hits for its famous '80s artist.
What is Thriller, by Michael Jackson?
Ithaca was known for being a hub of this industry between 1913 and 1920.
What is the film industry?
This international protocol established in 1997 was the first legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
This soccer player from Cameroon saved the most amount of goals in the Premier League last season.
Who is Andre Onana?
This text from Mesopotamia is considered the most ancient piece of literature in the world.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
The original name of the band The Beatles.
What is the Quarrymen?
Which famous novel did Ithaca's brick roads inspire in 1900?
What is The Wizard of Oz?