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This movie, based on a popular toy, grossed over 1 billion dollars at the box office.
Barbie
This team, led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, won Super Bowl 57 by defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35.
This animal is the largest mammal found on Earth. The longest confirmed specimen was 33.58 m (110.17 ft) in length and the heaviest was 190 tonnes.
Blue Whale
Wildfires destroyed huge areas of forest and homes on the island of Maui in this state.
Hawaii
The "H" in H.A. Brown stands for what?
Henry
This Marvel superhero team was featured in their final movie together, which was also "Volume 3"
Guardians of the Galaxy
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced in December that they had produced the first fusion reaction that created more energy than was used to start it. The long-elusive achievement marked a major breakthrough in harnessing the process that fuels what nearby star?
The Sun
Social media website Twitter renamed itself this letter of the alphabet?
X
About how many students are enrolled at HA Brown? (correct answer within 50 students)
510
In Super Mario Brothers the Movie, this actor voiced Bowser, and sang a touching love song, "Peaches".
Jack Black
This pop star, born in St. Michael, Barbados, performed at the Super Bowl LVII (52).
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has begun the study of one of the most renowned supernovae, SN 1987A (Supernova 1987A). Located 168,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Supernovae are created when what objects in space explode?
Stars
This quarterback who won the most Superbowls of any quarterback ever, finally retired after playing for the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Tom Brady
Philadelphia's nickname is the "city of _______ ______"
Brotherly Love
This pop star sold out stadiums and venues across the United States on her "Eras" tour.
Taylor Swift
This basketball superstar broke the NBA record for most points scored all-time passing . (Bonus 500 points if you can name who he passed to become number 1!)
LeBron James
Bonus Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a large language model-based chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022. What does AI stand for?
Artificial Intelligence
The Titan submersible suffered a catastrophic failure when trying the dive to the bottom of the ocean to explore the wreckage of what "gigantic" ship that sunk in 1912
The Titanic
How old is Mr. Galpin?
40 years old
Name one of the 3 live action movies released this year featuring popular superheroes from DC comics.
Flash, Blue Beetle, Shazam: Fury of the Gods.
This country won the Women's World Cup in 2023.
Spain
This country sent its Chandrayaan-3 lander and Pragyan Rover to the moon for the first time in its space program's history.
India
This hurricane was the tropical storm to ever make Southern California to issue a tropical storm warning?
Hurricane Hilary
When it opened in 1874, which facility—the first of its kind in America—charged visitors 25 cents to see almost 1,000 animals?
Philadelphia Zoo