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This phrase is the seemingly nonsensical rallying cry of the University of Alabama.
What is Roll Tide?
Also called paronomasia, this is a type of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term or phrase with the intent of humorous effect.
What is a pun?
Modern science is typically divided into three major branches, consisting of the social sciences, the formal sciences, and this, which includes biology, chemistry, and physics.
What is the natural sciences?
Active for over 30 years, this band originally was known as City Kidd, and changed their name during the production of 1986's Mechanical Resonance to its current form.
What is Tesla?
The forthcoming Last Blood marks the fifth entry in the series and follows a US Army veteran traumatized by his experience in the Vietnam War.
What is Rambo?
This small dog breed was bred for speed and size, and, as the name implies, to help hunt and control vermin.
What is Rat Terrier?
"The Lord is a shoving leopard", in place of "The Lord is a loving shepherd," is an example of this humorous error in speech where consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched, named for one of its most famous practitioners.
What is a Spoonerism?
Discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford, this the small dense region made up of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom.
What is the nucleus?
A measurement of magnetic induction and also magnetic flux density, this unit is equal to one weber per square meter.
What is the tesla?
Primarily a Christmas film, this 1988 film features off-duty NYPD officer John McClane fighting terrorists in a Los Angeles skyscraper.
What is Die Hard?
This website, owned by Flixster in 2010 and acquired by Warner Bros in 2011, was sold in 2016 to Comcast's Fandango and derives its name from the age old practice of audience members hurling fruit to show disapproval of a poor stage performance.
What is Rotten Tomatoes?
Written by Ambrose Bierce, this highly regarded satirical work defines lawyer as one skilled in circumvention of the law and love as a temporary insanity curable by marriage.
What is The Devil's Dictionary?
Although the name sounds more like it could be an IRS matter, this discipline is primarily concerned with the naming and classification of groups of organisms.
What is taxonomy?
The Day of Science, July 10, is celebrated in Serbia on his birthday, and in nearby Croatia is called this, literally his day.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
This 2006 film told the story of an attempt to kill a trial witness, and the tag line comforted would-be viewers with the advice to Sit back, relax, and enjoy the fright.
What is Snakes on a Plane?
A museum at this site near Gettysburg, PA was established in 1888 at the north foot of the "Little" place bearing the same name, and was formerly the site of two battlefield hospitals.
What is Round Top?
Born September 11, 1913 in Moro Bottom, AR, this famous college coach once filed a libel suit against The Saturday Evening Post for an article that charged him encouraging his players to engage in brutality against the GT Yellow Jackets.
Who is Paul "Bear" Bryant?
Among the many science problems and shortcomings of the Star Wars universe, this often debated unit of measurement is approximately 3.26 light-years or 31 trillion kilometers.
What is a parsec?
In addition to the Model S, X, and 3 cars, and the forthcoming Model Y, Tesla has announced this other vehicle, and will produce a solar-powered Megacharger Network to charge it.
What is the Semi?
At the time of its release in 1991, it was the most expensive film ever made at just over $100 million, and told the story of a time-travelling killing machine's efforts to eradicate a future resistance leader.
Formerly known as Coal Creek, and later as Lake City, this eastern TN city officially changed its name in 2014 to this, after winning a case in federal court to use the name.
What is Rocky Top?
A veteran of the US Navy, serving aboard the USS Lamberton and then USS Sylph, this actor finished his service as a gunner's mate 1st class, and then went on to portray Lt Cmdr Quinton McHale in McHale's Navy and later as helicopter pilot Dominic Santini in Airwolf.
Who is Ernest Borgnine?
An example of a superseded scientific theory might include this once postulated substance, believed to have been contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion, and derives its name from the ancient Greek for burning up.
What is phlogiston?
This is an electrical resonant transformer circuit, and is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating current electricity, and is used today primarily for education and entertainment purposes.
What is a Tesla coil?
This 1982 film marked the debut of the buddy cop genre of action movies, and paired Eddie Murphy with Nick Nolte as they work to beat a two day deadline to solve a crime.
What is 48 Hrs?