Singers & Singles
Second Take
What in the Pen?
Go Down in History
Nerd Clusters
100

This hit single from Taylor Swift premiered during a college football game in September 2017, and was released as the second single for Reputation the next day

...Ready for It?

100

This upcoming title from Rockstar Games is perhaps the most hotly-anticipated of all time, spawning memes such as "We got ___ before this game????"

GTA VI

100

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. -Holden Caulfield

J.D. Salinger

100

This Roman dictator was assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 BC, the day after his wife Calpurnia dreamed that their house collapsed on and killed him

Julius Caesar

100

10is a billion. 1012 is a trillion. What is 1015?

Quadrillion

200

The Weeknd makes his return today with this song, the first single from his new album "Hurry Up Tomorrow"

Dancing in the Flames

200

This game franchise, recently acquired by Take Two Interactive, was recently adapted into a blockbuster film starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and more.

Borderlands

200

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and is widely considered a bad move.

Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

200

This mystic Russian healer supposedly survived lethal doses of cyanide, poisoned wine, and a gunshot wound to the chest before finally passing away due to further gunfire in 1916

Grigori Rasputin

200

In computer science, this data structure always maintains the minimum element at its root, with operations such as insert() and delete-min() taking logarithmic time. It is useful in implementing priority queues, or for path-finding strategies such as Dijkstra's algorithm

minimum heap

300

After Kendrick Lamar was announced as the headliner for Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans, many online critics expressed anger that this New Orleans rapper wasn't chosen for the job instead

Lil Wayne

300

First debuting in 1991, this series published by 2K Games was inspired by the global conquest gameplay of Risk, city management of the early Empire games, and the idea of a "technology tree"

Sid Meier's Civilization

300

"Thank you for this baby," she says from the backseat. "He's beautiful."

I laugh. "You're the one responsible for the beautiful part, Rachel. The only thing he got from me was his balls."
She laughs. She laughs hard. "Oh, my God, I know," she says. "They're so big."
We both laugh at our son's big balls.

Colleen Hoover

300

Although Archduke Franz Ferdinand was ultimately assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, another assassination attempt happened earlier that day using an explosive. The conspirator threw the device at the Archduke's car, then tried to escape the violent crowd by jumping into this river, which passes through Sarajevo

Miljacka River

300

This experiment, first performed by Young in 1801, involves observing an interference pattern of a laser or light source behind a pierced plate. It is evidence of how photons exhibit both particle and wave-like properties, which is inexplicable by classical mechanics

Double-slit experiment