MATH
The smallest prime number to the 6th power.
64
You might have to travel 20,000 leagues under the sea to catch a glimpse of Architeuthis dux, this impressive animal that has been measured at almost 43 feet in length.
GIANT SQUID
Robert Downey Jr.’s engineering helps the comic book movie era blast off.
IRON MAN
One letter apart but with the same pronunciation: A German physicist, and the sacred syllable in Hinduism representing the supreme Absolute.
OHM AND OM
This explanation, popular with sci-fi enthusiasts, claims that all possible outcomes of quantum measurements are physically realized.
MANY-WORLDS INTERPRETATION
The British abbreviation for mathematics.
MATHS
If you are buying the novelty aquarium pet marketed as Sea-Monkeys, you’re really just buying this marine critter.
BRINE SHRIMP
A noble gas combines with Margaret Mitchell’s epic historical romance about the American South.
ARGON WITH THE WIND
Receiving this prize in engineering, first awarded in 2013, sure would be a royal honor.
QUEEN ELIZABETH PRIZE FOR ENGINEERING or QEPRIZE
The so-called “God particle.”
HIGGS BOSON
Steven Pinker famously criticized author Malcolm Gladwell for misspelling this mathematical term, which refers to “each of a set of values of a parameter for which a differential equation has a nonzero solution under given conditions.”
EIGENVALUE
The first person to study biology systematically, he observed the zoology of Lesbos and nearby areas of Greece.
ARISTOTLE
This element of Valley fame connects with a distant alien lifeform in this 1997 drama based on a Carl Sagan book—the film stars Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey.
SILICONTACT
Ancient engineering marvels include this Mesopotamian structure—not to be confused with the pyramid—which has the form of a terraced compound of successively receding stories or levels.
ZIGGURAT
Schrödinger wrote that this measuring device must be secured within the steel box so as not to be interfered with by the cat.
GEIGER COUNTER
Also known for his triangle, this mathematician philosopher constructed a famous gambling-based argument for theism.
PASCAL
Rhyme Time [e.g., BOYLE’S FOIL]:
If the famous HMS Beagle were an automobile, this would be the name you’d give its dorsal antenna.
DARWIN’S CAR FIN
Many compounds of this element are odiferous, which is not to suggest that this vehicle-centric film series stinks!
FAST AND THE SULFURIOUS
Rhyme time [e.g., KYLE’S MILE]:
The units of speed at which a steamboat might travel if it were operated by this inventor, known for creating “the first truly efficient steam engine.”
WATTS' KNOTS
The first person to win a Nobel Prize twice.
MARIE CURIE
17 x 16 x 15
4080
This nucleotide base, one of the main four in DNA, gets its name from the excrement of seabirds, since that’s where German chemist Unger obtained it in mineral form.
GUANINE
Also a color of blue, this element teams up with an animated film about a dog who saved children infected with diphtheria during the 1925 serum run to Nome, Alaska.
COBALTO
According to Renaissance scientists, the six classical simple machines include these four. (Name any four.)
Any four of: LEVER, WHEEL AND AXLE, PULLEY, INCLINED PLANE, WEDGE, SCREW
The towering scientist known as much for his contributions to physics as for his misadventures with the Church was born in this Italian city.
PISA