Hint
|
Answer
|
Animated superhero with an environmentalist message
|
Captain Planet
|
Anti-government protests and uprisings that took place in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, and Bahrain
|
Arab Spring
|
Civil disturbances in response to four police officers being acquitted of police brutality (1992)
|
LA riots
|
The victim of said police brutality
|
Rodney King
|
A.I.-generated likenesses of one person superimposed over another
|
Deepfakes
|
Disturbances in the ground caused by seismic activity
|
Earthquakes
|
North European country that experiences a great deal of volcanic activity
|
Iceland
|
Domestic terrorist attack in South Central U.S. state
|
Oklahoma City bomb
|
Lead singer of Nirvana
|
Kurt Cobain
|
Japanese media franchise about animals with special powers aimed at young children
|
Pokemon
|
U.S. golfer
|
Tiger Woods
|
Social media website eventually superseded by Facebook in popularity
|
Myspace
|
U.S. agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901
|
Monsanto
|
Genetically modified organisms (abbreviation)
|
GMOs
|
Magical book series-turned-franchise
|
Harry Potter
|
Vampiric book series-turned-franchise
|
Twilight
|
U.S. singer whose career started as a child (1958-2009)
|
Michael Jackson
|
Location of a 2011 nuclear accident
|
Fukushima, Japan
|
Current North Korean leader
|
Kim Jong Un
|
Child actor who made a comeback in the 2000s after years of substance abuse and legal troubles
|
Robert Downey Jr.
|
Character the above played for eleven years
|
Iron Man
|
Period of military conflict in the Middle East which ended in 2021
|
War in Afghanistan
|
U.S. President between 2008 and 2016
|
Barack Obama
|
Director of films such as "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial", the Indiana Jones trilogy, and more recently, "West Side Story"
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Location of 2020 munitions explosion that killed 218
|
Beirut, Lebanon
|
Nickname of domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski (1942-2023)
|
Unabomber
|
Virginia resident whose wife cut off his penis after years of domestic abuse
|
John Bobbitt
|
Domestic terrorist attack at a high-profile running event (2013)
|
Boston Marathon bombing
|
Nickname given to six-year-old boy who was the subject of a hoax involving an inflatable object
|
Balloon Boy
|
Generic name for U.S. military campaigns against the Middle East
|
War on Terror
|
Far-right conspiracy theory movement
|
QAnon
|
U.S. President between 2016 and 2020
|
Donald Trump
|
Major sign of climate change that affects the Arctic Circle
|
Melting ice caps
|
Fraudulent luxury music festival co-founded by Ja Rule
|
Fyre Fest
|
2006 album by My Chemical Romance
|
The Black Parade
|
Former U.S. swimmer (b. 1985)
|
Michael Phelps
|
Name given to potential problems with computer calendar storage at the turn of the millennium
|
Y2K problem
|
U.K. Prime Minister between 2019 and 2022
|
Boris Johnson
|
Nickname given to the process of the U.K. leaving the E.U.
|
Brexit
|
U.S. rapper, producer, and third ex-husband of Kim Kardashian (b. 1977)
|
Kanye West
|
U.S. country-turned-pop singer (b. 1989)
|
Taylor Swift
|
2016 sci-fi horror Netflix TV series starring Winona Ryder and David Harbor
|
Stranger Things
|
2020 true crime documentary miniseries
|
Tiger King
|
Container ship that blocked the Suez Canal (2021)
|
Ever Given
|
Location of 2012 elementary school shooting
|
Sandy Hook
|
Location of 1999 high school shooting
|
Columbine
|
African-American woman found hanged in a jail cell three days after being arrested for a traffic violation (1987-2015)
|
Sandra Bland
|
African-American boy with a toy gun shot dead by police officer (2002-2014)
|
Tamir Rice
|
International Islamic terrorist group also known as Islamic State
|
I.S.I.S.
|
U.S. basketball player and star of "Space Jam: A New Legacy" (b. 1984)
|
LeBron James
|
Assassinated Japanese former prime minister (1954-2022)
|
Shinzo Abe
|
Former actress, current Duchess of Sussex
|
Meghan Markle
|
Victim of police brutality whose death sparked a series of international protests (1973-2020)
|
George Floyd
|
Dubai skyscraper climbed by Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol"
|
Burj Khalifa
|
One-word Nintendo action-adventure franchise that started in the 1980s
|
Metroid
|
Name given to the contrast between the lack of conclusive evidence of aliens and the apparently high likelihood of their existence
|
Fermi paradox
|
Tennis-playing sisters (b. 1980 and 1981)
|
Venus and Serena Williams
|
U.S. basketball player and star of "Space Jam" (b. 1963)
|
Michael Jordan
|
Numbers on the named jerseys of the above
|
23, 45
|
Music festival held in New York that attempted to replicate the 1969 original (1999)
|
Woodstock
|
U.S. actor best known for playing a well-known superhero (b. 1951)
|
Michael Keaton
|
Name of said superhero
|
Batman
|
The two candidates for the U.S. presidency (2000)
|
George W. Bush and Al Gore
|
South African businessman and Grimes's ex-partner (b. 1971)
|
Elon Musk
|
U.S. quarterback who took the knee to protest police brutality (b. 1987)
|
Colin Kaepernick
|
U.S. state whose electric grid failed after an unusual snowstorm (2021)
|
Texas
|
Princeton graduate who would later go on to co-found Amazon (b. 1964)
|
Jeff Bezos
|
Name used to describe the increase in the global average temperature and its effects on the environment
|
Climate change
|
Critically endangered horned animal native to Africa
|
White rhino
|
Collection of marine debris also known as the Pacific trash vortex
|
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
|
Singer of Blink-182 and AVA and proponent of existence of extraterrestrial life
|
Tom DeLonge
|
The Opportunity (or "Oppy") and Spirit are examples of this type of machinery
|
Mars rover
|
Borderline animated sci-fi film directed by James Cameron (2009)
|
Avatar
|
Tesla is a creator of these
|
Self-driving cars
|
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, used to treat anxiety and depressive disorders (abbreviation)
|
SSRIs
|
5ft 2in U.S. musician who originally sang "Nothing Compares 2 U" (1958-2016)
|
Prince
|
Longest-reigning British monarch and longest-reigning female monarch (1926-2022)
|
Elizabeth II
|
Shorthand for the terrorist attacks that took place on 11th September 2001
|
9/11
|