Astrophysics
This yellow dwarf star at the center of our solar system accounts for over 99% of its total mass
What is the Sun?
This famous, unfinished collection of stories follows a group of 29 pilgrims traveling to a shrine
What is The Canterbury Tales?
This famous two-word Latin phrase translates directly to English as "Seize the day"
What is Carpe diem?
This heavy, radioactive metal element with atomic number 92 is the primary fuel used in nuclear power plants
What is uranium?
She has made even more TV movies than Lindsey Wagner
Who is Valerie Bertinelli?
Home to the Grand Canyon, this southwestern state is known as the "Grand Canyon State"
What is Arizona?
This is the boundary surrounding a black hole from which nothing, not even light, can escape
What is the event horizon?
Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the "Father" of this specific language's literature
What is English?
This common abbreviation stands for exempli gratia and means "for example"
What is e.g.?
Fission occurs when this neutral subatomic particle strikes a heavy nucleus, causing it to split
What is a neutron?
This 2006 musical smash hit about the Wildcats became the most successful Disney Channel Original Movie ever released
What is High School Musical?
This major river flows over 2,300 miles from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico and is the primary drainage river for North America
What is the Mississippi River?
This invisible substance does not emit light or energy, but its strong gravity holds galaxies together
What is dark matter?
This famous, romance-seeking character from The Canterbury Tales was married five times and deaf in one ear
Who is the Wife of Bath?
This Latin phrase meaning "elsewhere" is used in court to prove a suspect was somewhere else when a crime occurred
What is an alibi?
This self-sustaining process occurs when neutrons released by one fission event trigger further fission events in neighboring nuclei
What is a chain reaction?
This 2013 sci-fi disaster film became a viral pop culture phenomenon by featuring a freak weather system that drops man-eating predators onto Los Angeles
What is Sharknado?
This iconic island in San Francisco Bay was home to a notorious federal prison until it closed in 1963
What is Alcatraz?
This theoretical bridge or tunnel creates a shortcut through both space and time
What is a wormhole?
This English king, known for his military campaigns in France, granted Chaucer a lifetime pension of 20 marks per year
Who is Edward III?
Julius Caesar famously uttered this three-word Latin phrase meaning "I came, I saw, I conquered" after a swift victory at Zela
What is Veni, vidi, vici?
These components, usually made of boron or cadmium, are inserted into a reactor core to absorb neutrons and control the rate of fission
What are control rods?
This 2015 musical Disney Channel movie centers on the teenage children of classic villains like Maleficent, Jafar, and Cruella de Vil
What is Descendants?
This 19th-century purchase from Russia added over 580,000 square miles of territory to the country and was initially mocked as "Seward's Folly"
What is Alaska?
This fundamental metric represents the speed at which our universe is expanding, measured in kilometers per second per megaparsec
What is the Hubble constant?
This long, tragic poem by Chaucer, set during the Trojan War, is often considered his finest complete work and a precursor to the modern psychological novel
What is Troilus and Criseyde?
This Latin legal term translates to "buyer beware" and places the responsibility of quality checks on the purchaser.
What is caveat emptor?
This is the minimum mass of fissionable material needed to sustain a nuclear chain reaction
What is critical mass?
This ground-breaking 2018 Black Mirror standalone film won the Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie by allowing viewers to make interactive, "choose-your-own-adventure" choices for the main character
What is Bandersnatch?
DAILY DOUBLE:
The names of all fifty states and their capitols
What is Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, Columbus, Ohio, Montgomery, Alabama, Helena, Montana, Denver, Colorado, Boise, Idaho, Austin, Texas, Boston, Massachusetts, Albany, New York, Tallahassee, Florida, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nashville, Tennessee, Trenton, New Jersey, Jefferson, Missouri, Richmond, Virginia, Pierre, South Dakota, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Augusta, Maine, Providence, Rhode Island, Dover, Delaware, Concord, New Hampshire, Montpelier, Vermont, Hartford, Connecticut, Topeka, Kansas, St. Paul, Minnesota, Juneau, Alaska, Lincoln, Nebraska, Raleigh, North Carolina, Madison, Wisconsin, Olympia, Washington, Phoenix, Arizona, Lansing, Michigan, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jackson, Mississippi, Springfield, Illinois, Columbia, South Carolina, Annapolis, Maryland, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Salt Lake City, Utah, Atlanta, Georgia, Bismarck, North Dakota, Frankfort, Kentucky, Salem, Oregon, Little Rock, Arkansas, Des Moines, Iowa, Sacramento, California, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Charleston, West Virginia, Carson City, Nevada?