Rock Anthems
Released in 1975, this operatic masterpiece by Queen features no chorus but includes iconic sections of hard rock, balladry, and operatic vocal layering.
What is "Bohemian Rhapsody"?
The Holy Cross “Alma Mater” official school song released in 1976 is sung to this familiar holiday tune.
What is O Christmas Tree (or O Tannenbaum)
This famous structural model proposed by Watson and Crick based on Rosalind Franklin’s work described DNA as this twisted, two-stranded geometric shape
What is a double helix?
Serving as the body's primary line of defense against infection, it is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
Author of Origin of the Species and The Descent of Man
Who is Charles Darwin?
This legendary Led Zeppelin track from their 1971 fourth album features a famous acoustic opening that builds into an electric guitar solo by Jimmy Page.
What is "Stairway to Heaven"?
Students used to sled down the hills in trays from this dining hall. The trays have been eliminated since 2009.
What is Kimball Dining Hall
Often referred to as the "powerhouse of the cell," this organelle generates most of the cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
What is the mitochondria?
This is the largest of all orders, making-up ~ 25% of all know animal species, with about 400,00 described species, and estimates of 0.9 - 2.1 million species
What is the Coleoptera (Beetles)
These are the non-living factors or components of an environment that affect living organisms.
What are abiotic factors/components?
This Australian rock band told the story of a hard-rocking lifestyle on the road in their 1975 anthem, stating it’s a long way to the top if you want to do this.
What is rock 'n' roll?
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. visited the college in November of this year, roughly 9 months before his historic “I have a dream” speech.
What is 1962
A substance that binds to a receptor and initiates a cellular response.
What is an agonist?
While most mammals give birth to live young, this Australian creature and the echidna are the only two mammals that lay eggs.
What is the platypus?
The mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations become physically isolated from each other.
What is allopatric speciation?
This 1977 Pink Floyd concept album, heavily inspired by George Orwell's political fable, features tracks like "Pigs on the Wing" and "Sheep."
What is Animals?
According to Holy Cross lore (but unsubstantiated) this was the function of the room on the fifth floor of O’Kane Hall.
What are exorcisms
These strong and rope-like cytoskeletal filaments provide resistance to mechanical stress and help cells withstand stretching.
What are Intermediate filaments
This is the predominant type of lifecycle in plants and algae, with gametophytes and sporophytes.
A species that maintains the organization and structure of an entire community due to the disproportionately large number of connections to other species in the food-web
What is a keystone species?
Meat Loaf teamed up with composer Jim Steinman for this operatic 1977 debut album, which became one of the best-selling records of all time.
What is Bat Out of Hell?
This man, later to become president of the US, gave the commencement address at the college on June 25, 1919 while he was still Governor of Massachusetts.
Who is Calvin Coolidge
These cytoskeletal filaments are used when a phagosome moves toward the lysosome near the nucleus.
What are Microtubules
Amoebocytes from the hemolymph of this living fossil contain a chemical commonly used by the biomedical industry to detect bacterial endotoxins.
What is the Horseshoe Crab
A phylogenetic grouping that contains a common ancestor and some, but not all, of its descendants
What is a paraphyletic group/paraphyly