SCIENCE
What is entropy?
Measure of disorder in a system
US president during Hiroshima/Nagasaki?
Harry Truman
Who wrote 1984?
George Orwell
Weather vs climate?
Short vs long term
US national holiday?
4th of July
Difference between mass and weight?
Mass = matter; weight = force due to gravity
Why 'Cold War'?
No direct large-scale fighting
What is dystopian literature?
Negative fictional society
Why earthquakes on faults?
Tectonic stress
Campbell soup painter?
Andy Warhol
Why does ice float?
Less dense due to crystal structure
Importance of Magna Carta?
Limited king’s power
Device in 'wind whispered'?
Personification, alliteration
What causes tides?
Moon gravity
Piano keys?
88
How do organisms use energy?
They transform it
Two assassinated US presidents?
Kennedy and Lincoln
Heathcliff appears in?
Wuthering Heights
Capital of Brazil?
Brasilia
Cognitive bias?
Thinking error
Why do metals conduct electricity?
Free-moving electrons
Tool of dictatorships?
Propaganda
Story starts in middle?
In medias res
Why mild Western Europe?
Warm currents
Animal without head?
Cockroach