I knew the Grande song but had a 50/50 on the trigonometric survey and missed it. In hindsight you wouldn’t need a great trigonometric survey to measure the distance to the sun, since they obviously used physics and gravitational formulas to figure that out.
Yeah I made exactly the same mistake on that question and had exactly the same hindsight moment immediately afterwards 😅 I knew it had to be something that involved a unit of length but if I'd thought about it for longer I'd have realised angles aren't really relevant unless it's height
Actually they did use trigonometry to measure the distance to the sun by measuring the time it took Venus to transit the sun from multiple locations on earth at the same time, in the late 1700s. Captain Cook's voyages to the south pacific were actually a part of this global experiment.
The Lion King's wildebeest stampede in the canyon is remarkably similar to a scene in Kipling's original Jungle Book, with Shere Khan down there instead of Mufasa.
In "At what age would a Jewish person celebrate his "bar mitzvah"?", I suggest replacing "person" with "boy" (or "young man", or I suppose "male person" but that sounds awkward). A girl typically becomes bat mitzvah at 12, though I know some egalitarian Reform communities push it off to 13.
The other one that caught me was the authors into a Disney movie.