World Capitals
If you are standing in the Louvre Museum looking at the Mona Lisa, you are in this world capital.
Paris
In thermodynamics, the Rankine scale is the absolute temperature scale equivalent to Fahrenheit; to find the Rankine value, you add this number to the Fahrenheit temperature.
459.67
This was the year UBC Okanagan officially established as part of the University of British Columbia?
2005
This "blind" process is where experts in a field vet a paper before it is accepted for publication.
Peer Review
This planet in our solar system is the only one not named after a Greek or Roman deity.
Earth
Often confused with the much larger Rio de Janeiro, this "planned city" was built in the shape of an airplane and inaugurated as the capital of Brazil in 1960.
Brasília
A common conversion in civil and mechanical engineering involves force: one Kip is equivalent to this many pounds-force.
1,000
These are the official school colours of UBC Okanagan
Blue and Gold
This metric, often abbreviated as "IF," measures the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year.
Impact Factor
This is the only country in the world that has a non-quadrilateral flag (it consists of two stacked triangles).
Nepal
This capital city, named after a French ship, was founded in 1749 and serves as the primary port for Haiti's exports of coffee and sugar.
Port-au-Prince
When calculating pressure, one Pascal (1 Pa) is defined as one Newton of force applied over this specific SI unit of area.
one Square Meter (1m^2)
UBCO campus resides in this indigenous nation's territory.
The traditional territory of the Syilx (Okanagan) people
This is the common name for the "Final Boss" of a PhD program, the long-form document that must be defended before a committee.
Dissertation (or Thesis)
Often discussed in materials science, this is the hardest naturally occurring substance found on Earth.
Diamond
Not to be confused with Istanbul, this city has been the capital of Turkey since 1923.
Ankara
In electrical engineering, this unit representing one Joule per Coulomb is the SI derived unit for electric potential.
Volt
The "Commons" at UBCO is named after this local valley, famously known for its fruit orchards and vineyards.
Okanagan Valley
In a list of scientific authors, the "Principal Investigator" (PI) who runs the lab and oversees the research is usually found in this position on the author list.
Last Position or Last Author
While many think of the Sahara, this continent is technically the world's largest desert because it receives almost zero precipitation.
Antarctica
While the city of Cape Town is the legislative capital and Pretoria is the administrative capital, this city—the "City of Roses"—serves as the judicial capital of South Africa.
Bloemfontein
In fluid mechanics, the SI unit for dynamic viscosity is the Pascal-second (Pa•s); one of these is equivalent to 10 of this non-SI unit often used in older literature.
Poise
This is the name of the UBCO athletic teams, featuring a legendary lake monster as their namesake.
The Heat (derived from the Ogopogo)
This two-word term describes the unethical practice where a journal publishes research without quality peer review, often charging high "Article Processing Charges" (APCs) to unsuspecting or desperate authors.
Predatory Publishing (or Predatory Journals)
In the periodic table, this is the only letter that does not appear in any element's name or symbol.
J