Market Movers
This math-heavy finance profession involves assessing risk for insurance and pensions, and requires passing a rigorous series of exams.
What is Actuarial Science
This international organization, headquartered in New York, has 193 member states and was founded in 1945
What is the United Nations?
This 1994 Shah Rukh Khan film, whose title translates as the brave-hearted will take the bride, is still screening decades later in a Mumbai theater
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaenge
This is the most abundant element in the universe by mass, and it powers stars through fusion
What is Hydrogen?
This sport was invented in 1891 by a Massachusetts gym teacher who nailed a peach basket to a railing as the goal.
What is basketball?
This investment bank's 2008 collapse is widely seen as the spark that triggered the global financial crisis.
What is Lehman Brothers
After leading Hungary for 16 years, this right-wing populist prime minister lost the country's April 2026 general election, with Péter Magyar taking over as his successor.
Who is Viktor Orban?
This 2021 Korean survival drama became Netflix's most-watched series ever within its first month on the platform
What is Squid Games?
This scientist won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911
Who is Marie Curie?
This annual cycling race, first held in 1903, traditionally ends with a finish down the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
What is Tour de France?
This lawyer and former investment banker, appointed to lead a major US Fed in 2018, was the first person without a Ph.D. in economics to hold that post since the 1970s.
Who is Jerome Powell
This 2015 agreement, adopted by nearly every country in the world, aims to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius
What is the Paris Agreement?
This absurdist multiverse film starring Michelle Yeoh won best picture at the 2023 Oscars ceremony.
What is Everything, Everywhere, All At Once?
This branch of chemistry focuses on carbon-containing compounds and underpins most of the pharmaceutical industry
What is organic chemistry?
This Indian badminton player became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal in the sport, at Rio 2016
Who is PV Sindhu?
In February 2024, this Asian stock index finally topped the record high it had set back in December 1989, after a wait of roughly 34 years.
What is Nikkei?
In December 2024, a rebel offensive swept into Damascus and toppled this authoritarian leader, ending his family's roughly five-decade grip on power in Syria
Who is Bashar-al-Assad?
This film overtook the Titanic for the record for highest-grossing movie of all time in 2010
What is the Avatar?
This process breaks long hydrocarbon chains into shorter, more useful ones, and is central to oil refining
This golfer's 2019 Masters win, over a decade after his last major title, is remembered as one of sports' great comebacks
Who is Tiger Woods?
In March 2023, this 167-year-old Swiss bank collapsed and was taken over by its rival UBS in an emergency, government-brokered rescue deal.
What is Credit Suisse?
In July 2025, this Southeast Asian nation fought its worst border clash in decades with its much-larger neighbor Thailand, centered on a disputed ancient temple
What is Cambodia?
This 1985 Steven Spielberg film received 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and lost every single one — a shutout tied only by 1977's The Turning Point
What is the Color Purple?
In 2020, DeepMind's AlphaFold largely cracked this 50-year grand challenge in biology, predicting a protein's shape from its sequence
What is protein folding?
This NBA player holds the record for most points scored in a single game, with 100 — a mark set in 1962 that no one has come close to since
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?