Movie Trivia
what is LT.Bradley Bradshaw call sign in Top Gun Maverick
Rooster
What startup, acquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012, became the fourth most downloaded app in the 2010s and is known for the posting of pictures?
Created in the 15th century BC, the oldest object in New York City's Central Park is an obelisk also known as the "needle" of what Ptolemaic Egyptian queen?
Cleopatra
Even though James Bond and Liz Taylor got it wrong when they said it’s forever, which substance is still the hardest to naturally occur on Earth?
Diamond
What artist, with nicknames including “His Royal Badness” and “The High Priest of Pop,” passed away in 2016? Hint: this artist was often associated with a single color.
Prince
What Year was the first Star Wars movie released
1977
While building magnetrons at MIT in the 1940s, Percy Spencer noticed a melting chocolate bar in his pocket. Deeper investigation and exploration led to the invention of what household device? Spencer received no royalties for this invention, first marketed as the Radarange.
Microwave
X marks the spot! Known for a massive invasion of Greece, what ruler succeeded his father Darius I as king of Persia in the fifth century BC?
Xerxes
The "main-sequence" stage of what type of large, hot object comes from the balance of gravity and nuclear reactions? Fun fact: main-sequence stages can last millions or billions of years.
Stars
Known for tunes like "U Got It Bad" and "Yeah!," what R&B artist also came out with a Mastercard debit card named after him in 2004?
Usher
Johnny Depp
What was the four-letter name of the since-discontinued iPod competitor Microsoft released in 2006?
Zune
What legendary Greek philosopher, who authored the "Nicomachean Ethics," was also the tutor of Macedonian king Alexander the Great when the latter was a teenager?
Aristotle
What is the type of number expressed as a pair of a real and an imaginary number? An example would be 3 + 6i where i = the square root of -1.
Complex Number
"Georgia On My Mind" is, unsurprisingly, the state's official song and was written by what singer/songwriter who was born in Albany, GA in 1930?
Ray Charles
Which famous British comedian voiced Zazu in the Lion King (1994)
Rowan Atkinson
A biotechnology company, founded in 1996 by Martine Rothblatt in Silver Springs, MD, specializing in lung disease and organ manufacturing, is ______ Therapeutics Corporation. Fill in the one word blank, also the “U” name for an airline based out of Chicago, IL.
United Therapeutics Corporation
Which is the earliest know civilization in Mesoamerica? The name of this civilization derives from the words “olli” and “mecatl”, meaning “natural rubber” and “people”, respectively.
Olmecs
USGS is a bureau within the US Department of the Interior with the motto "science for a changing world." What do the initials of this organization stand for? The group is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and is a fact-finding organization with no regulatory responsibility.
United States Geological Survey
Which one-hit wonder pop band consisting of a trio of brothers is best known for a single released from their album “Middle of Nowhere” in 1997?
Hanson
Which kind of pet did Norma Desmond have in Sunset Boulevard
Chimpanzee
Headquartered (somewhat ironically?) in Santa Clara, California, what is the name of the American cybersecurity company that serves 85 of the Fortune 100 and is the home to both the Unit 42 threat research team and the Ignite cybersecurity conference?
Palo Alto Networks
What famed absurdist and nihilist author and philosopher once said “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”?
Albert Camus
In chemistry, what E-word means two molecules whose atomic arrangements are mirror images of each other, and that cannot be superimposed on each other just by turning them in space?
Enantiomers
Although she's never won a Grammy, she has won multiple Grammis—the Swedish equivalent of The Grammys—including three song of the year awards for “Be Mine” (2006), “Dancing on my Own” (2011), and “Missing U” (2019). Who is she?
Robyn