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Which Spanish duo topped charts worldwide in 1996 with the dance sensation 'Macarena'?
Los del Río
The Macarena spent 14 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Macarena - Bayside Boys Remix · Los Del Rio
Open on SpotifyWhich British band had a surprise 1997 hit with the drinking anthem 'Tubthumping', featuring the line 'I get knocked down'?
Chumbawamba
Tubthumping · Chumbawamba
Open on SpotifyWhich rapper became famous for the 1990 hit 'Ice Ice Baby', built around a sampled Queen and David Bowie bassline?
Vanilla Ice
Which Texas band scored a 1995 hit referencing an Audrey Hepburn film in the song 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'?
Deep Blue Something
Which band's hazy 1997 single 'Sex and Candy' became a lasting alt-rock radio staple?
Marcy Playground
Which R&B singer had a cheeky global smash in 2000 with 'Thong Song'?
Sisqó
Which Stanley Kubrick sci-fi epic from 1968 featured a tablet-like device eerily similar to modern iPads, decades before they existed?
2001: A Space Odyssey
Samsung actually cited this film as prior art in a patent dispute with Apple over tablet design.
Which Arnold Schwarzenegger 1990 sci-fi film featured self-driving robotic taxis, an idea now realized by companies like Waymo?
Total Recall
The film's Johnny Cab robot driver anticipated autonomous vehicle concepts by decades.
Which 2002 Steven Spielberg film predicted personalized targeted advertising that scans your eyes as you walk through public spaces?
Minority Report
Real companies now use facial recognition billboards similar to the ones depicted in the film.
Which 1998 Jim Carrey film about a man unknowingly living his entire life on a hidden-camera TV show predicted the rise of reality television and constant surveillance culture?
The Truman Show
Psychiatrists coined the term 'Truman Show delusion' for a real condition where patients believe they're being secretly filmed.
Which 1982 Ridley Scott film, based on a Philip K. Dick novel, predicted massive digital billboards and AI-driven android labor decades before deepfakes and advanced robotics?
Blade Runner
The film's smog-choked, corporate-dominated Los Angeles skyline influenced real urban dystopian aesthetics for decades.
Which 1997 film starring Ethan Hawke depicted a society where genetic engineering determines your social class, foreshadowing real debates around CRISPR gene editing?
Gattaca
The film's title itself is an anagram formed from the letters representing DNA bases: A, T, C, G.
Which microscopic animal can survive the vacuum of outer space, extreme radiation, and total dehydration by entering a state called cryptobiosis?
Tardigrade
Tardigrades survived 10 days of open-space exposure aboard ESA's FOTON-M3 mission in 2007.
Which brightly colored marine crustacean can punch with a claw so fast it creates cavitation bubbles hot enough to briefly flash light?
Mantis shrimp
Which Mexican salamander can regrow entire limbs, its spinal cord, and even parts of its heart and brain?
Axolotl
Which bird of prey becomes the fastest animal on Earth by diving at speeds over 300 km/h during a hunting stoop?
Peregrine falcon
Which tiny jellyfish species can revert its cells back to an earlier life stage, effectively resetting its biological clock?
Immortal jellyfish
Which North American frog can survive winter by letting most of its body freeze solid, then thawing back to life in spring?
Wood frog
In 1518, which European city saw hundreds of people dance uncontrollably in the streets for days in a bizarre outbreak known as the Dancing Plague?
Strasbourg
Some dancers reportedly collapsed and died from exhaustion, heart attack, or stroke.
In 1932, the Australian military famously deployed machine guns against a large population of which flightless bird, in a failed cull the birds are widely considered to have won?
Emus
The campaign became known as the Great Emu War — the emus largely won, scattering too fast for the soldiers' machine guns to be effective.
In 1919, a massive storage tank burst in Boston, unleashing a deadly wave of which thick, sugary substance through the streets?
Molasses
The flood killed 21 people, and locals claimed you could still smell molasses on hot days decades later.
In 897, which deceased Pope was exhumed, put on trial, found guilty, and thrown into the Tiber River in a bizarre posthumous trial known as the Cadaver Synod?
Pope Formosus
His corpse was dressed in papal vestments and propped up on a throne to stand trial.
In the 1630s, the Dutch became gripped by a speculative frenzy over the trading of bulbs of which flower, in one of history's first recorded economic bubbles?
Tulips
At the peak, a single rare tulip bulb could cost more than a house in Amsterdam.
During the Cold War, the CIA spent millions surgically implanting listening devices into which common household pet, in a failed 1960s spy project?
Cats
The project was codenamed Acoustic Kitty — it was reportedly scrapped after the first test cat wandered off and was hit by a taxi.
Because of the Mercator projection's distortion, Greenland appears roughly the same size as which continent, despite being about 14 times smaller in reality?
Africa
Greenland is actually only about 2.16 million km², while Africa covers about 30.4 million km².
What is the common name for the oceanic point of inaccessibility in the South Pacific, the location on Earth farthest from any landmass?
Point Nemo
Astronauts on the ISS are sometimes closer to Point Nemo than any human on the surface of the Earth.
Which major city is split by the Bosphorus strait, making it the most famous of the world's few cities to straddle two continents?
Istanbul
The Bosphorus Bridge and its neighbors literally connect Europe to Asia within city limits.
Due to Earth's equatorial bulge, which Ecuadorian volcano's summit is actually the point on Earth's surface farthest from the planet's center, beating Everest?
Mount Chimborazo
Everest is taller above sea level, but Chimborazo's near-equator position adds extra distance from Earth's core.
Which icy landmass is technically the largest desert in the world by area, ahead of the Sahara, because deserts are defined by low precipitation rather than heat?
Antarctica
Antarctica receives so little precipitation that some of its valleys have seen no rain or snow for millions of years.
The name 'Holland' technically refers to only two provinces of which European country, even though it's often used as a synonym for the whole nation?
The Netherlands
The two provinces are North Holland and South Holland, home to Amsterdam and Rotterdam respectively.
Which antibiotic did Alexander Fleming discover in 1928 after noticing mould had killed bacteria in a forgotten petri dish?
Penicillin
Fleming had left for a holiday and returned to find the mould contamination in his lab.
Which kitchen appliance was invented after engineer Percy Spencer noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket near radar equipment?
Microwave oven
Which sticky-note product came from a 3M scientist's failed attempt to create a super-strong adhesive?
Post-it Notes
Which hook-and-loop fastener did Swiss engineer George de Mestral invent after studying burrs stuck to his dog's fur?
Velcro
Which erectile dysfunction drug was originally developed by Pfizer as a treatment for chest pain, with its now-famous effect noticed as a surprising side effect in trials?
Viagra
Which popular children's modeling compound was originally invented and sold as a wallpaper cleaner before being repurposed as a toy?
Play-Doh