Supreme Court Showdown
Chemistry in Your Kitchen
Gadgets That Changed Everything
Internet Legends & Memes
Mind-Bending Physics
100
In Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), the Court ruled that states must provide this to defendants who cannot afford one.
What is an attorney or legal counsel?
100
This common kitchen ingredient causes baked goods to rise by releasing carbon dioxide when mixed with an acid.
What is baking soda?
100
This 2007 device combined a phone, camera, iPod, and internet browser into one handheld gadget.
What is the iPhone?
100
This multicolored cat leaving a rainbow trail became one of the most iconic internet memes of the 2010s.
What is Nyan Cat?
100
This type of energy an object has due to its motion increases with the square of its velocity.
What is kinetic energy?
200
This 1803 case established the principle of judicial review, allowing the Supreme Court to strike down unconstitutional laws.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
200
The Maillard Reaction—responsible for browning meat and toast—involves the reaction between amino acids and these molecules.
What are sugars?
200
Invented in the 1970s, this medical device allows doctors to visualize the inside of the body without surgery using magnetic fields and radio waves.
What is an MRI machine?
200
Originally a 4chan joke, this cartoon frog became one of the most widely recognized internet memes.
Who is Pepe the Frog?
200
Einstein’s theory of relativity states that time moves slower the closer you are to one of these massive objects.
What is a gravitational field?
300
In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Court ruled that this idea/doctrine violated the Equal Protection Clause.
What is “separate but equal”?
300
Adding salt to ice lowers the freezing point of water, a process known as this.
What is freezing point depression?
300
This household device, invented in 1901 by Hubert Cecil Booth, revolutionized cleaning by using suction to remove dust.
What is the vacuum cleaner?
300
This viral 2015 audio clip divided the internet over whether it said “Yanny” or this other name.
What is Laurel?
300
Light behaves as both a particle and a wave, a concept known as this fundamental quantum principle.
What is wave–particle duality?
400
This 1973 decision legalized abortion nationwide until it was overturned in 2022.
What is Roe v. Wade?
400
This type of emulsion—found in mayonnaise—occurs when two liquids that don’t mix are forced together using an emulsifier like lecithin.
What is an oil-in-water emulsion?
400
This 1990s technology allowed short-range wireless communication between devices and was named after a Viking king.
What is Bluetooth?
400
This online “creepypasta” character—depicted as a tall, faceless figure—became so widespread that it inspired a video game and a feature film.
Who is Slender Man?
400
This famous physics thought experiment involves a sealed box, a radioactive atom, and a cat that is simultaneously alive and dead.
What is Schrödinger’s cat?
500
This 2010 decision held that corporate spending in elections is protected as free speech under the First Amendment.
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
500
The strong smell of chopped onions is caused by the release of syn-propanethial-S-oxide, a type of chemical that belongs to this functional group containing sulfur.
What are thiols?
500
This mid-20th-century computational device, created by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry, is widely considered the first electronic digital computer.
What is the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC)?
500
This classic meme features a smug-looking dog seated at a burning table, calmly saying a now-iconic phrase as everything collapses around him. 
What is “This Is Fine”?
500
This theoretical limit represents the smallest measurable unit of length, believed to be the scale at which space-time becomes “quantized.”
What is the Planck length?