Geography
This continent is home to the most countries in the world.
Africa.
This process moves molecules from high to low concentration without using energy.
Diffusion.
This rapper’s 2018 album Astroworld includes the hit “Sicko Mode.”
Travis Scott.
30 sec: x+y=10 and x-y=2. What is x?
6.
In the The Matrix, this character is offered a choice between a red pill and a blue pill.
Neo.
This mountain, the highest in Africa, is a dormant volcano located in Tanzania.
Mount Kilimanjaro.
If two heterozygous organisms (Aa × Aa) are crossed, what is the probability of a homozygous recessive offspring?
1/4.
This producer tag—“If Young Metro don’t trust you, I’m gon’ shoot you”—is associated with this hip-hop producer.
Metro Boomin.
45 sec: 2(x-3)=10. What is (4x-12)?
20.
This 2021 sci-fi film directed by Denis Villeneuve follows Paul Atreides as he arrives on the desert planet Arrakis.
Dune.
This European country has coastlines on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
Spain.
This process converts DNA into mRNA in the nucleus.
Transcription.
Finish the lyric from “Mr. Brightside”: “Jealousy, turning saints into the sea, swimming through sick lullabies, choking on your…”
Alibis.
1 min: You roll two fair six-sided dice. What is the probability the sum is greater than 10?
1/12.
In Oppenheimer, this actor portrays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.”
Cillian Murphy.
This plateau, often called the “Roof of the World,” stretches across much of Tibet and western China.
Tibetan Plateau.
For the reaction N2 + 3H2 ⇌ 2NH3, what happens to the equilibrium if pressure is increased?
It shifts to the right.
This 2018 hit by Childish Gambino blends gospel and trap elements and features a viral, symbol-heavy music video set in a warehouse.
This Is America.
1 min: A square has side length 6. A circle is inscribed inside it. What is the area of the region inside the square but outside the circle?
36 - 9π.
In this 2023 film, a dreamlike sequence shows a character stepping into multiple alternate realities by performing increasingly absurd physical actions in a laundromat setting.
Everything Everywhere All at Once.
This South American capital, one of the highest in the world, sits at over 11,000 feet above sea level.
La Paz.
In the Hamiltonian formulation of a non-interacting system of point particles, what term depends solely on generalized momenta and reduces to a positive-definite quadratic form under Cartesian coordinates in Euclidean space?
Kinetic energy.
This 2016 music video features the artist wandering through a surreal mansion party, later revealed to be stuck in a time loop.
Starboy.
2 min: f(x)=x2ln(x). What is f'(1)?
1.
For his role in The Whale, this actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2023 after a major career comeback.
Brendon Fraser.