World Geography
Home to over 2,000 individual reefs and stretching for more than 1,400 miles off the coast of Queensland, it can be seen from space and is the largest living structure on Earth. Name this massive natural landmark located off the northeast coast of Australia.
Great Barrier Reef
Narrated by Nick Carraway, this 1925 novel explores themes of wealth and love in Long Island's West Egg during the Roaring Twenties. It focuses on a mysterious millionaire obsessed with Daisy Buchanan. Name this masterpiece by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Originating in East Asia and traditionally prepared from the dried leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant, this beverage is categorized into varieties like Black, Green, Oolong, and White based on its level of oxidation. Name this widely consumed brewed drink, famously served at high noon in Great Britain.
Tea
Emerging in 14th-century Florence before spreading across Western Europe, this cultural and artistic movement marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. Meaning "rebirth" in French, name this historical period associated with figures like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Gutenberg.
Renaissance
First released by Mojang in 2011, this sandbox game allows players to explore a blocky, procedurally generated 3D world, gather resources, and craft tools. Featuring survival elements like Creeper enemies and the Nether dimension, name this best-selling video game of all time.
Minecraft
Formed by the convergence of the Blue and White branches at the city of Khartoum, this waterway flows north through ten countries before emptying through a vast delta into the Mediterranean Sea. Name this river, historically considered the longest in the world
Nile River
Set in Denmark, this tragedy features a prince who seeks revenge on his uncle Claudius for murdering his father and marrying his mother, Gertrude. Featuring the famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, name this iconic Shakespearean play
Hamlet
Meaning "to the tooth" in Italian, this culinary term describes pasta or rice cooked so that it remains firm to the bite rather than soft or mushy. It represents the ideal texture for serving most pasta dishes in traditional Italian cuisine. Give this two-word French or Italian-derived phrase.
Al dente
Issued at Runnymede in June 1215 by Archbishop Stephen Langton and a group of rebel barons, this legal document forced a monarch to accept that the law applied to everyone, including the sovereign. Establishing early principles of due process and habeas corpus, name this "Great Charter" signed by King John of England.
Magna Carta
Centered on the intergalactic conflict between humanity's United Nations Space Command (UNSC) and an alien alliance known as the Covenant, this flagship Xbox franchise follows the armored supersoldier Master Chief and his AI companion Cortana. Name this sci-fi shooter series named after giant ring-shaped megastructures.
Halo
Separated from Africa by the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, this peninsula contains the Rub' al Khali, or "Empty Quarter," the world's largest continuous sand desert. It is occupied predominantly by a kingdom governed from Riyadh. Name this large Middle Eastern peninsula.
Arabian Peninsula
Set against the backdrop of the Trojan War, this ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer opens in media res with the rage of Achilles following a feud with Agamemnon. Spanning 24 books, it concludes with the tragic funeral of the Trojan prince Hector. Name this companion epic to the Odyssey.
The Iliad
Originating in Korea during the Three Kingdoms period, this traditional side dish consists of salted and fermented vegetables—most commonly napa cabbage and Korean radishes—seasoned with chili powder, garlic, ginger, and salted seafood. Stored traditionally in clay jars called onggi, name this staple fermented Korean dish.
Kimchi
Spanning from the late 8th to the mid-11th century, this era of European history saw seafaring Norsemen launch raids, trade, and settle across Europe, Greenland, and North America. Featuring longships, runestones, and figures like Leif Erikson, name this period named for these Scandinavian warriors.
Viking Age
Released by Riot Games in 2009, this popular MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) pits two teams of five champions against each other in three lanes to destroy the enemy team's Nexus. Featuring iconic champions like Jinx, Ahri, and Lee Sin, name this flagship title played professionally in the LCS and LCK leagues.
League of Legends
Lying in a rift valley between Siberia and Russia's Irkutsk Oblast, this UNESCO site holds roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water. It is home to the nerpa, the world's only exclusively freshwater seal. Name this lake, the deepest in the world.
Lake Baikal
Set in a dystopian London governed by the World State, this 1932 novel depicts a society driven by genetic engineering, mandatory consumerism, and the soothing drug soma. Name this masterpiece written by Aldous Huxley, whose title is drawn from Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Brave New World
Originating in the Andes and named after a seaport in Peru, these pale-colored legumes contain high levels of phaseolin protein and are famously toxic when raw due to high concentrations of phytohemagglutinin. Key to traditional American dishes like succotash and Southern butterbeans, name this kidney bean relative named after Peru's capital city.
Lima beans
Sparked by a disputed succession between the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet following the death of Charles IV of France without a male heir, this series of conflicts lasted intermittently from 1337 to 1453. Featuring major English longbow victories at Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt, as well as the intervention of Joan of Arc at Orléans, name this long medieval conflict.
Hundred Years' War
This 1992 arcade game introduced the "Block" button and a mechanic executed via precise post-match button combinations that trigger graphic execution animations." Featuring the realm-protecting Thunder God Raiden and the Shirai Ryu ninja Scorpion, name this game whose gore directly spurred the 1993 US Congressional hearings on video game violence and the creation of the ESRB rating system.
Mortal Kombat
Composed of over 17,000 islands, this archipelago nation's capital was long centered at Jakarta on Java, though construction began in the 2020s to move its capital to Nusantara on the island of Borneo. Name this Southeast Asian nation, the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world.
Indonesia
Preserved on twelve clay tablets in cuneiform script, this ancient epic relates a king's grief over the death of his wild companion Enkidu, which prompts his quest for immortality from the survivor of a great flood, Utnapishtim. Name this oldest surviving major work of literature, centering on a legendary king of Uruk.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Derived from the dried, dark-red stigmas of the Crocus sativus flower, this aromatic spice requires roughly 75,000 blossoms to yield a single pound, making it the most expensive spice by weight in the world. Essential for giving Spanish paella its signature yellow hue and fragrant flavor, name this precious spice historically harvested primarily in Iran.
Saffron
Enacted during a 1798 war scare with France, this controversial set of four internal security laws raised residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years and made it a crime to publish "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government. Opposed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, name this group of four legislative acts signed by John Adams.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Developed in just a few days by Vietnamese indie creator Dong Nguyen, this 2013 single-tap arcade game features a bird named Faby traversing green pipes. Infamous for its extreme difficulty, simple physics, and massive viral wave in early 2014, name this iPhone title that was famously pulled from the App Store at the peak of its popularity.
Flappy Bird