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This aerodynamic shell surrounds the rider and is the defining feature that separates velomobiles from regular recumbents.
What is a fairing?
This lighter form of opera typically features spoken dialogue, romantic plots, and plenty of humor.
What is an operetta?
In computing, this is exactly half a byte, while in vegan cooking, it's what you take of a raw cashew to test if it's soaked enough.
What is a nibble?
These distinctive trees with red, peeling bark are also known as Pacific madrone and line Victoria's coastline.
What are arbutus trees?
In the show, Fawlty Towers, this is Basil Fawlty's frantic advice to himself when German guests visit his Torquay hotel.
What is "Don't mention the war!"?
Most velomobiles use this three-wheel setup with two wheels in front for better handling and braking.
What is a tadpole configuration?
This British duo created beloved comic operettas including "The Pirates of Penzance" and "The Mikado."
Who are Gilbert and Sullivan?
This C function allocates memory dynamically, while this vegan marshmallow brand makes s'mores possible again.
What is malloc?
These distinctive trees with gnarled branches are iconic to Victoria's landscape and support unique ecosystems.
What are Garry oak trees?
This Python catchphrase precedes the entrance of three cardinals in red robes, led by Michael Palin.
What is "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"?
Annual event in Nevada where velomobiles and other human-powered vehicles compete to break land speed records.
What is the World Human Powered Speed Challenge?
This rapid-fire patter song from "The Pirates of Penzance" is a tongue-twister's nightmare and a performer's dream.
What is "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General"?
Computing's base-2 system has only two values, just like most restaurants' vegan options: salad or nothing.
What is binary?
This 75-hectare park in downtown Victoria features peacocks, gardens, and the world's fourth-tallest totem pole.
What is Beacon Hill Park?
In the show Blackadder, this loyal servant's "cunning plans" throughout history were consistently anything but cunning.
Who is Baldrick?
This Dutch-made three-wheeled velomobile is considered the "Ferrari" of enclosed recumbent vehicles.
What is the Quest velomobile?
Founded in 1875, this company originally produced all of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas and held exclusive rights for decades.
What is the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company?
Alan Turing proved in 1936 that no general algorithm can determine whether an arbitrary program will terminate or run forever.
What is the halting problem?
This blue wildflower blooms in spring throughout Victoria and was traditionally harvested by Indigenous peoples for food.
What is the Camas flower?
According to the French Taunter in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, your father smelt of elderberries and your mother was one of these rodents.
What is a hamster?
Although the Aerovelo hit 89.59 mph to set the human powered speed record, this is how fast Steve claims to have achieved in his velomobile.
55 mph
Often considered Gilbert and Sullivan's most serious work, this operetta is set in the Tower of London and features their most dramatic music.
What is "The Yeomen of the Guard"?
This computer, touting a whopping 1KB of RAM, was Steve's first computer.
What is the Sinclair ZX81?
Victoria's official bird, this bright blue corvid with a black crest was named after naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller
What is the Steller's jay?
From the show Fawlty Towers, this American dish that Basil doesn't know how to make leads to his furious declaration about running a restaurant, not a "bloody machine."
What is a "Waldorf salad"?