Asian Geography
The world’s highest peak, on the Nepal–China border.
What is Mount Everest?
She beat Serena Williams in the 2018 US Open final.
Who is Naomi Osaka?
V = IR
What is Ohm’s law?
This element has atomic number 1
What is hydrogen?
This fermented Korean side dish is most often made with napa cabbage.
What is kimchi?
This cold desert covers much of southern Mongolia and northern China.
What is the Gobi?
His breakout 2012 run with the Knicks set off a craze nicknamed after him.
Who is Jeremy Lin?
P + 1/2*rho*v^2 + rho*g*h = constant along a streamline.
What is Bernoulli’s equation?
This constant is about 3.00 * 10^8 m/s.
What is the speed of light?
This Thai stir-fried rice noodle dish uses tamarind and peanuts
What is pad thai?
This is Asia’s only doubly landlocked country.
What is Uzbekistan?
Nicknamed “Godzilla,” he was named World Series MVP with the Yankees in 2009.
Who is Hideki Matsui?
The SI unit of power is named for this Scottish engineer, who improved the steam engine.
Who is James Watt?
The ozone layer sits in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the stratosphere?
These dumplings are a staple in Nepal and Tibet.
What are momos?
The Korean Peninsula was divided near this line of latitude after WWII.
What is the 38th parallel?
At the 2009 PGA Championship this South Korean beat Tiger Woods to become the first Asian-born man to win a major.
Who is Y.E. Yang?
In Av=(lambda)v, lambda is called this.
What is an eigenvalue?
This molecule carries amino acids to the ribosome during translation.
What is tRNA?
This spiced, layered rice dish with meat traces its roots to the Mughal kitchens of South Asia.
What is biryani?
This is Japan’s northernmost main island, home to Sapporo.
What is Hokkaido?
The Milwaukee Bucks took this Chinese forward 6th overall in 2007.
Who is Yi Jianlian?
Below a critical temperature, this kind of material has zero electrical resistance.
What is a superconductor?
Einstein’s 1921 Nobel Prize was for explaining how light ejects electrons from a metal.
What is the photoelectric effect?
These fried dough balls are soaked in a rose- and cardamom-scented syrup.
What is gulab jamun?