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This soft drink company, one of the most recognizable brands in the world, was founded in Atlanta in 1886 and still has its headquarters there.
What is Coca-Cola?
This 2012 film follows an all-female college a cappella group as they compete for a national title.
What is Pitch Perfect?
This 1803 purchase, negotiated with France, doubled the size of the United States for roughly $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The number of days in a week, plus the number of sides on a triangle.
What is 10? (7 + 3)
This area in Fairfax County is home to two of the largest shopping malls in the DC metro area, along with one of the highest concentrations of high-rise office buildings in Virginia.
What is Tysons (Corner)?
This 1996 global sporting event was held in Atlanta, putting the city on the world stage and spurring major downtown development.
What are the Summer Olympics?
This actress became the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, for a 2022 sci-fi film about a multiverse-hopping laundromat owner.
Who is Michelle Yeoh?
This iconic 1851 painting depicts General George Washington and his troops crossing an icy river on Christmas night in 1776, ahead of a surprise attack on Trenton.
What is Washington Crossing the Delaware?
The number of countries in North America, multiplied by the number of even prime numbers.
What is 0? (3 x 0)
Originally opened in 1962 as a standard strip mall called Plaza Seven, this Falls Church shopping center transformed in the 1980s into Northern Virginia's largest hub for a specific immigrant community, after rising rents pushed businesses out of Arlington's 'Little Saigon' neighborhood in Clarendon.
What is the Eden Center?
This civil rights leader was born in Atlanta in 1929 and is honored with a national historic site in the city, including his birth home and burial site.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
In a 2023 animated sequel, the main character meets a rule-obsessed leader of a multiversal Spider-team, voiced by Oscar Isaac.
Who is Miguel O'Hara / Spider-Man 2099?
This U.S. president, known for founding the Democratic Party and for his controversial policy forcing Native American tribes off their ancestral lands, appears on the twenty-dollar bill.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The number of Great Lakes, multiplied by the number of sides on a stop sign.
What is 40? (5 × 8)
This annual festival, held each spring around a tidal basin just across the Potomac from NoVA, celebrates a gift of trees given by Japan in 1912, and draws huge crowds from across the DC metro area.
What is the National Cherry Blossom Festival?
This hip hop duo, made up of Big Boi and André 3000, formed in Atlanta in 1992 and famously declared 'The South got something to say' after being booed at the 1995 Source Awards.
What is OutKast?
In The Truman Show, the show's creators deliberately cultivated this deep-seated fear in Truman as a child, specifically to stop him from ever leaving the island.
What is a fear of water?
This secretive federal program during WWII employed over 130,000 people at its peak, most of whom had no idea what they were actually building, until the first successful test in the New Mexico desert in July 1945.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The number of colors on the Olympic rings, plus the number of continents in the world.
What is 12? (5 + 7)
This DC Metro line, opened in 2014 as the system's first new line in over 30 years, was specifically built to serve Tysons and eventually extended to Dulles Airport.
What is the Silver Line?
During my year living in Atlanta, this river running along the edge of the city was a defining feature of the area, eventually flowing all the way down to form part of the Georgia-Alabama border.
What is the Chattahoochee River?
In The Muppets (2011), this is what the film's villain, an oil tycoon voiced by Chris Cooper, actually intends to do with the land once he tears down the original Muppet Theater.
What is drill for oil?
This U.S. Supreme Court case, decided in 1803, established the principle of judicial review, granting courts the power to strike down laws they find unconstitutional, though the word 'judicial review' never appears in the Constitution itself.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The number of planets in our solar system, times the number of wonders in the ancient world.
What is 56? (8 × 7)
In 2020, this Fairfax County high school was renamed after community members, including two Black students who launched the campaign, pushed to remove its original namesake, a Confederate general. It's now named after a congressman and civil rights icon who died the same summer the change was approved.
What is John R. Lewis High School (formerly Robert E. Lee High School)?