Things You Hope the Mechanic Didn’t Forget
This aircraft component creates lift by directing airflow over and under its surface.
What is a Wing?
This enormous volcano on Io, the largest known in the solar system, produces plume eruptions that can rise hundreds of kilometers above the moon’s surface.
What is Loki Patera?
This 1916 World War I battle between France and Germany became one of the longest in history and is remembered for the phrase “They shall not pass.”
What is the Battle of Verdun?
This plant species is the primary source of marijuana.
What is Cannabis?
This patron saint of Ireland is said in legend to have driven all the snakes out of the country.
Who is Saint Patrick?
This masked Iowa band helped push nu metal further into the mainstream.
Who are Slipknot?
Before every flight, pilots or maintenance personnel perform this inspection to check for obvious damage, leaks, or safety issues around the aircraft.
What is a preflight inspection?
The reddish streaks covering much of Europa’s surface are called these geologic features, long fractures believed to form as the icy crust cracks and shifts.
What are lineae?
This 1943 meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin was the first conference attended by all three Allied leaders during World War II.
What is the Tehran Conference?
This psychoactive compound in marijuana is primarily responsible for the “high” associated with its use.
What is Tetrahydrocannabinol?
This group of supernatural beings in Irish mythology ruled Ireland before the arrival of the Milesians and are associated with magic and ancient knowledge.
Who are the Tuatha Dé Danann?
Nu metal guitarists commonly used this technique—heavily downtuning guitars to notes like drop B or drop A—to create a heavier sound.
What is downtuning?
This aircraft fluid is used in many systems to transmit power for landing gear, brakes, and flight controls.
What is hydraulic fluid?
This massive impact basin on Callisto is one of the largest multi-ring structures in the solar system.
What is Valhalla crater?
Germany’s massive 1918 offensive on the Western Front, intended to win the war before American forces fully arrived, is collectively known by this name.
What is the Spring Offensive?
This non-intoxicating cannabinoid found in cannabis is widely studied for potential therapeutic uses and is abbreviated CBD.
What is Cannabidiol?
This legendary Irish hero and warrior of the Ulster Cycle is famous for wielding the spear called the Gáe Bolga.
Who is Cú Chulainn?
This instrument, played by DJ Lethal and Sid Wilson, helped bring hip-hop elements into nu metal.
What are turntables?
In aircraft maintenance documentation, this acronym refers to the manufacturer’s detailed manual containing procedures for inspection, repair, and overhaul of a specific aircraft.
What is the AMM (Aircraft Maintenance Manual)?
Grooved terrain covering parts of Ganymede’s surface is thought to have formed from this type of crustal deformation involving stretching and faulting of the icy lithosphere.
What is tectonism?
This secret British project at Bletchley Park, led by figures including Alan Turing, successfully decrypted German communications during World War II.
What is Ultra?
THC primarily produces its effects by binding to this type of receptor found in high concentrations in the brain.
What is the CB1 receptor?
This mythical hero led the warrior band known as the Fianna and is central to the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.
Who is Fionn mac Cumhaill?
Nu metal commonly avoided traditional metal guitar solos in favor of rhythmic riffing and this hip-hop–influenced vocal style.
What is rap metal?
This FAA-approved document lists the minimum equipment that must be operational for an aircraft to legally dispatch with certain systems inoperative.
What is the MEL (Minimum Equipment List)?
This NASA spacecraft orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 and provided the first strong evidence of subsurface oceans on several Galilean moons.
What is Galileo?
This 1942–1943 World War II campaign in North Africa ended with more than 250,000 Axis troops surrendering in Tunisia.
What is the Tunisia Campaign?
This biological system in the human body, discovered in the 1990s, regulates mood, appetite, and pain and interacts with cannabinoids like THC.
What is the Endocannabinoid system?
This mythical High King of Ireland defeated the Tuatha Dé Danann and established the Milesian rule according to Irish legend.
Who is Érimón?
The 2001 incident where fires and riots broke out during Limp Bizkit’s performance at this festival became one of the most infamous moments of the nu metal era.
What is Woodstock '99?