Beer and Brewing
During the mash, this enzyme breaks starch into maltose and works most effectively at temperatures around 60–65°C.
What is beta-amylase?
This is the fundamental particle that carries the electromagnetic force.
What is the photon?
Known as the “Golden City,” this Kootenay community was established during the gold rush and sits near the Columbia River.
What is Golden?
This civilization built Machu Picchu.
Who were the Incas?
Johnny Depp portrayed this pirate captain in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Who is Jack Sparrow?
These compounds in hops are responsible for most of beer's bitterness after being chemically transformed during the boil.
What are alpha acids?
This planet has the shortest day of any planet in our solar system, rotating once in approximately 10 hours.
What is Jupiter?
This BC city, located near the Alberta border, takes its name from the nearby river whose name comes from a Ktunaxa word meaning “flowing water.”
What is Cranbrook?
Mansa Musa was ruler of this West African empire during the 14th century.
What is the Mali Empire?
This British rock band released The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973.
Who are Pink Floyd?
This Finnish traditional farmhouse beer is typically flavored with juniper and is brewed using a process quite different from modern commercial brewing.
What is Sahti?
This phenomenon occurs when the observed frequency of a wave changes because the source and observer are moving relative to one another.
What is the Doppler effect?
This city is located at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers and is known as the “Tournament Capital of Canada.”
What is Kamloops?
This English document, sealed in 1215, limited the power of the monarchy and became an important symbol of constitutional government.
What is the Magna Carta?
This director made Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Inglourious Basterds.
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
This German lager style is typically dark brown to black, with pronounced roasted malt flavors but generally little to no hop bitterness.
What is Schwarzbier?
This element has the symbol W, despite its English name being tungsten; the symbol comes from its older name, wolfram.
What is tungsten?
This Kootenay city is famous for its hot springs and is located at the western entrance to Kootenay National Park.
What is Radium Hot Springs?
This pharaoh's tomb was discovered largely intact by Howard Carter in 1922.
Who was Tutankhamun?
This was Daniel Craig's first film as James Bond.
What is Casino Royale?
This Belgian style is traditionally made by blending Lambics of different ages, allowing the mixture to undergo further fermentation in the bottle and develop its characteristic dry, complex character.
What is Gueuze?
This blood vessel carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart, making it an exception to the usual artery-oxygenation rule.
What is the pulmonary vein?
This city in northeastern BC shares its name with a famous American city but has a population of only a few thousand and sits near the Peace River.
What is Fort St. John?
The ancient city of Carthage was located near the site of this modern-day country's capital.
What is Tunisia?
This actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
Who is Anthony Hopkins?