Geography
This U.S. river flows south from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico and is one of the longest rivers in North America.
Mississippi River.
This Weeknd hit takes its title from a visual impairment, fitting its neon, late-night aesthetic and massive chart success.
Blinding Lights.
In chemistry, what type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms?
Covalent bond.
This 2008 Marvel film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, a billionaire who builds a powered suit in a cave.
Iron Man.
15 seconds: If A and B are mutually exclusive events, what is P(A+B)?
0.
This country is both in Europe and Asia and has its largest city, Istanbul, straddling the two continents.
Turkey.
This funky hit featuring Bruno Mars includes the lyric, “Don’t believe me, just watch!”
Uptown Funk.
Zuhair is flying at 10 quadrillion bajillion miles per hour in the sky, and he maintains a constant elevation at all times. Describe the motion and direction of his net force vector.
The net force vector rotates around the Earth and always points down toward the core.
This 2010 David Fincher film dramatizes the creation of Facebook and stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg.
The Social Network.
25 sec: Evalute the integral from 0 to 1 of x2dx.
1/3.
This Asian river flows through cities such as Vientiane and Phnom Penh before emptying into the South China Sea.
Mekong River.
This Billie Eilish song features a minimalist beat and a video where she dances oddly in a hallway and embraces a creepy aesthetic.
Bad Guy.
In chemistry, what does it mean when a solution is at equilibrium in a reversible reaction?
The forward and backward rates are equal.
Name the movie: A man presses his hand against glass from inside a cryogenic chamber while a spaceship recedes into darkness after a docking sequence.
Interstellar.
15 sec: (15x+3) = 90. What is 5x?
29.
The McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the driest places on Earth, are located on this continent.
Antarctica.
Name this song: “Got me a therapist to tell me there’s other men.”
Kill Bill by SZA.
In biology, what term describes the change in allele frequencies in a population over generations due to random chance?
Genetic drift.
In this Quentin Tarantino film, a tense diner opening scene features a discussion about tipping before a robbery unfolds.
Reservoir Dogs.
20 seconds: Evalute d/dx (x2ex)
x2ex + 2xex.
This autonomous region of Denmark sits between the Greenland Sea and the Norwegian Sea and has its capital at Tórshavn.
Faroe Islands.
This song’s video features a rotating set where gravity appears to shift, with the artist walking on walls and ceilings in a continuous visual illusion.
Chandelier.
What fundamental interaction is responsible for binding protons and neutrons in the nucleus?
Strong force.
Name the movie: A character removes a mask in a dimly lit room, revealing a heavily scarred face under flickering fluorescent lights as another person reacts in shock.
The Dark Knight.
A function is continuous on [a,b] and differentiable on (a,b). What theorem guarantees at least one point where f′(c) equals the average rate of change?
Mean Value Theorem.