All ECON
In this market structure, many firms sell identical products and no single firm can influence the price.
What is perfect competition?
Christopher Nolan's 2010 film in which a thief steals secrets through dream-sharing technology starred Leonardo DiCaprio.
What is Inception?
This rapper made history at the 2026 Grammy Awards, becoming the hip-hop artist with the most Grammy wins ever at 27.
Kendrick Lamar
Einstein's special relativity states that as an object approaches this speed, its mass increases towards infinity.
What is the speed of light
Norway dominated this 2026 sporting event held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, winning a record 41 medals.
Winter Olympics
This is the term for a single firm dominating an entire industry, with no close substitutes for its product.
What is a monopoly?
This Pixar film follows a robot left alone on a rubbish-covered Earth, exploring themes of environmentalism and loneliness.
What is WALL-E?
In January 2026, the U.S. military captured this Venezuelan president on narco-terrorism charges.
Who is Nicolás Maduro?
This gas makes up approximately 78% of Earth's atmosphere by volume.
Nitrogen
Water freezes at 0°C at standard pressure — but what is this temperature in Fahrenheit?
32 f
When a few large firms dominate a market and their decisions are interdependent, this market structure exists.
Oligopoly
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey features an AI antagonist whose calm malevolence is expressed through this colour.
Red
The FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11, 2026 — hosted across three North American countries. Name all three.
The United States, Canada, and Mexico.
This is the powerhouse of the cell — a membrane-bound organelle that produces ATP through cellular respiration.
mitocondria
This sport, introduced at the 1998 Winter Olympics, involves players sliding stones across ice towards a target, and teammates sweeping the ice ahead of the stone to control its speed and direction.
Curling
A market fails when firms don't account for the full social cost of production; this excess cost imposed on third parties is called this.
What is a negative externality?
This 2019 Marvel film became the first movie ever to gross over $2 billion in its opening weekend, featuring the ultimate showdown between the Avengers and Thanos.
Avengers Endgame
In May 2026, the WHO declared a public health emergency over a new outbreak of which deadly virus, affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda?
Ebola
On the periodic table, this element has the chemical symbol "Au" and atomic number 79.
gold
Polar bears are perfectly adapted to Arctic life — but which country is home to the largest wild population of polar bears on Earth?
Canada
This economic theory, developed by a British economist in the 1930s, argues that governments should boost aggregate demand through increased public spending during recessions.
Keynesian economics
In The Lion King, Simba's father Mufasa is killed by this villain — who is also his own uncle.
Scar
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck this Southeast Asian country on June 8, 2026, killing at least 32 people and triggering a small tsunami.
The Phillippines
This is the name for the layer of Earth's atmosphere that absorbs the majority of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation.
Ozone Layer
In 1997 Arnold Swhwarzenegger played this Batman villian.
Mr. Freeze