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This spirit, flavored with juniper berries, is the base of a classic martini.
What is gin?
This 1986 John Hughes film follows a Chicago teen who fakes being sick to skip school, enlisting his best friend and girlfriend for a day of adventure.
What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
This mountain range runs from British Columbia down to New Mexico, forming the backbone of the western U.S.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This social media platform, launched in 2004, was originally restricted to Harvard students only.
What is Facebook?
This fossil fuel, formed from ancient marine organisms, is refined into gasoline and diesel.
What is petroleum (oil)?
This semi-hard Dutch cheese is named after the city where it originated.
What is Gouda?
This 1984 Bill Murray comedy about paranormal investigators in NYC spawned a theme song that topped the charts.
What is Ghostbusters?
This is the longest river in the United States, running through the central Plains before joining the Mississippi.
What is the Missouri River?
In this 90s sitcom, Steve Urkel is the nerdy next-door neighbor constantly bothering the Winslow family.
What is Family Matters?
This process splits uranium atoms apart to release energy, and powers nuclear plants.
What is nuclear fission?
Around 1440, this German inventor developed a printing press with movable type that transformed the spread of information.
Who is (Johannes) Gutenberg?
This Seattle-based sitcom about a radio psychiatrist, starring Kelsey Grammer, premiered in 1993 as a spinoff of Cheers.
What is Frasier?
This is the only U.S. state that shares a border with just one other state.
What is Maine?
In the show's second act, this song finds Hamilton confessing an affair in print to preemptively defuse a blackmail scheme, effectively destroying his political reputation and marriage.
What is "The Reynolds Pamphlet"?
This device converts the direct current a solar panel produces into the alternating current your home actually uses.
What is an inverter?
This volcanic island chain off Ecuador's coast inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
What are the Galápagos (Islands)?
This 1991 James Cameron sequel featured a liquid-metal villain and was, at the time, the most expensive film ever made.
What is Terminator 2: Judgment Day?
Covering parts of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah, this is the driest desert in North America.
What is the Mojave Desert?
Completed in 1911, this dam on the Salt River was one of the first major federal reclamation projects and helped make Phoenix's growth possible.
What is Theodore Roosevelt Dam?
This 1979 partial meltdown at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant remains the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power history.
What is Three Mile Island?
This metal-barred percussion instrument, played with mallets, resembles a xylophone but rings with a bell-like tone.
What is a glockenspiel?
This 1988 animated Robert Zemeckis film blended live action and animation, following a private eye investigating a murder in a world where cartoon characters are real.
What is Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Located in California, this is the lowest point in North America at 282 feet below sea level.
What is Badwater Basin (Death Valley)?
In 1926, this Scottish scientist accidentally discovered the first true antibiotic when mold contaminated one of his bacterial cultures.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This unit of power, named for a Scottish engineer, equals one joule per second and shows up on every light bulb.
What is a watt?