Geography
The thinnest layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
Red blood cells use this protein to carry oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
The West Asian country, Turkiye, considers this hand sign an insult.
What is the "OK" sign?
This person's assassination caused World War I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
The famous saying "God is dead" is attributed to this philosopher.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
Gases in the earth's atmosphere trap heat from the sun to raise its surface temperature.
What is the greenhouse effect?
This plant organelle stores chlorophyll for photosynthesis.
What is a chloroplast?
This category of voiced sounds usually forms the nucleus of a syllable and is one of the most primary sounds taught to children regardless of which languages they are raised in.
What is a vowel?
The country that first domesticated rice.
What is China?
System of reasoning that involves juxtaposing a statement with its opposite to form a new synthesis.
What is dialectic?
A U-shaped lake that forms when a meander is cut off from the rest of the river.
What is an oxbow lake?
A state of constant internal chemical and physical conditions maintained by a living organism.
What is homeostasis?
Words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently and have different meanings.
What are heteronyms?
This country was formally known as Ceylon.
What is Sri Lanka?
This describes the phenomena where cities experience higher mean temperatures than rural areas.
What is the urban heat island effect?
A model proposed by Emil Fischer used to explain how sets of enzymes and substrates were specific to each other.
What is the lock and key model?
This fake animal was devised by a psycholinguist to test if native English-speaking kids could apply the /s/ plural suffix onto an entirely made up concept.
What is wug?
The storming of this Parisian prison on July 14 1789 is considered the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
The Bastille.
A philosopher who argued that the objects of logic are not reducible to mental processes, but that objective and ideal logical forms nevertheless emerge from these subjective and multiple realisable mental processes.
Who is Husserl?
A process in which a company monopolises one level of a production chain through mergers and acquisitions.
What is horizontal integration?
Out of four nucleotide bases, this is the only one RNA does not share with DNA.
What is uracil?
The prime minister of Malaysia tried to promote this variety of Malay as the standard which was then rejected in favour of the Johor-Riau one.
What is Bahasa Baku?
Korean dynasty that lasted from 1392 to 1897 adopted Neo-Confucianism as the state ideology.
Joseon Dynasty
The view of sensuous experience as extraneous properties of the mind that play no causal role in physical and brain activity.
What is epiphenomenalism?