Math
20 sec: 12 x 15 = ?
180.
This is the largest continent on Earth by land area.
Asia.
This singer’s 2023–2024 Eras Tour became one of the highest-grossing tours of all time.
Taylor Swift.
This is the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom, defining the element’s identity.
Atomic number.
In The Hunger Games, this character volunteers as tribute to save her sister Prim.
Katniss Everdeen.
1/x.
This country is home to the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef system.
Australia.
In the music video for Thriller, this artist transforms into a zombie and leads a famous choreographed dance.
Michael Jackson.
This is the SI unit of magnetic field, defined as kg/As².
This 2010 film features a thief who plants ideas in dreams and uses layered dream levels, including a collapsing cityscape and a rotating hotel hallway fight.
Inception.
This theorem relates the integral of a function’s derivative over an interval to the values of the function at the endpoints.
Fundamental theorem of calculus.
This mountain range, stretching across multiple countries, forms a natural boundary between Europe and Asia in Russia.
Ural Mountains.
In the video for Formation, this artist performs on top of a sinking New Orleans police car, referencing Hurricane Katrina imagery.
Beyoncé.
This chemical principle states that at equilibrium, a system will shift to counteract a change in concentration, temperature, or pressure.
Le Châtelier’s principle.
This 1994 film stars Tom Hanks as a man who unintentionally influences major historical events while sitting at a bus stop.
Forrest Gump.
1 minute 30 sec: If a-b=2, and a+b=10, what is ab?
24.
This African lake, bordered by three countries, is the world’s second-deepest and holds about 20% of the world’s unfrozen freshwater supply.
Lake Tanganyika.
This band released the 1997 album OK Computer, often cited as one of the greatest alternative rock albums ever.
Radiohead.
This process produces gametes and reduces the chromosome number by half through two consecutive cell divisions.
Meiosis.
This actress won an Academy Award for her role as Nina, a ballerina descending into obsession, in Black Swan.
Natalie Portman.
Calculate the divergence of a generalized antisymmetric electric field tensor in 4-dimensions in spherical coordinates and calculate its Laplacian.
Just kidding, this is the question:
1 minute: Two fair dice are rolled. What is the probability the sum is 7?
1/6.
This remote, sparsely populated region of Chile and Argentina is known for its ice fields, fjords, and the Southern Patagonian Ice Field—the second-largest extrapolar ice mass in the world.
Patagonia.
This experimental hip-hop group, fronted by MC Ride, released albums like The Money Store and is known for its abrasive, genre-blending sound.
This equation governs the time evolution of a non-relativistic quantum system’s wavefunction.
Schrödinger equation.
This 2013 film by Alfonso Cuarón follows an astronaut stranded in orbit after her shuttle is destroyed, emphasizing realism and long continuous shots.
Gravity.