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In 2006, the International Astronomical Union controversially downgraded this icy body to a "dwarf planet."
What is Pluto?
This city on the coast of the Persian Gulf is the capital of Qatar.
What is Doha?
A "turkey" is the celebratory term used when a player rolls three consecutive strikes in this alley-based sport.
What is bowling?
The term "computer bug" was popularized in 1947 when computer pioneer Grace Hopper found one of these actual insects trapped in a relay of the Harvard Mark II.
What is a moth?
This audio streaming giant, famous for delivering highly anticipated, personalized "Wrapped" statistics to users at the end of each year, was founded in Sweden.
What is Spotify?
Neil Armstrong famously flubbed his line, missing the "a" in "That's one small step for [a] man" during this historic 1969 mission.
What is Apollo 11?
Founded by Genghis Khan, it is considered the largest contiguous land empire in history
What is the Mongol Empire?
A standard match in this globally beloved sport lasts for exactly 90 minutes, divided into two 45-minute halves.
What is soccer?
Often hidden by developers as an inside joke, this holiday-themed term refers to an undocumented feature, mini-game, or secret message left in software.
What is an Easter egg?
This physical audio format has seen a massive sales revival in recent years, with its large 12-inch analog discs typically played at 33 ⅓ revolutions per minute.
What is vinyl (or a record)?
This planet is famous for its rings
What is Saturn?
At roughly 4,000 kilometers from east to west, this country is famously wider than the diameter of the moon.
What is Australia?
Players looking to compete in formal leagues for this sport are assigned a standardized rating from the USTA to ensure fair matchups.
What is tennis?
Before keyboards and monitors, early programmers fed instructions into computers using these stiff pieces of paper with holes punched in them, a technology originally used for textile looms.
What are punch cards?
This revolutionary digital audio encoding format exploded in popularity in the late 90s, dramatically shrinking file sizes and changing music sharing forever.
What is the MP3?
Launched in 2021 as Hubble's successor, this telescope features a striking 18-segment gold-plated mirror.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
Though famous for its neutrality, this European country is the birthplace of the World Wide Web, which was invented at its CERN laboratory in 1989.
What is Switzerland?
This discipline of rock climbing focuses on short, challenging routes performed on small rock formations or artificial walls entirely without the use of ropes or harnesses.
What is bouldering?
This infamous software bug, which cost billions to fix in the late 90s, stemmed from the early industry practice of saving memory by storing years using only two digits.
What is Y2K (or the Millennium Bug)?
This massively popular annual international song competition, which famously launched the careers of ABBA and Celine Dion, is a major cultural event across Europe.
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?
The Space Race officially kicked off in 1957 when the USSR successfully launched this, the world's first artificial satellite.
What is Sputnik 1?
This continent spans all four hemispheres.
What is Africa?
In this high-speed international motorsport, drivers compete in a series of Grand Prix races on custom-built circuits and closed city streets, like the famous track in Monaco.
What is Formula 1?
In 1999, NASA lost the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter because one software team used metric units while the other team used this system of measurement.
What is the Imperial system (or English/Standard units)?
This Russian composer's timeless works include the scores for the incredibly famous ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
Who is Tchaikovsky?