Board Games
This game features a cross-country train adventure where players collect and play matching cards to claim railway routes connecting cities.
What is Ticket to Ride
This category of mythical monsters is made of the parts from different animals into fanciful combinations.
What is a chimera.
Within Judaism, this concept asserts that every human possesses innate, absolute dignity and infinite value due to what?
What is the imago dei, tzelem elohim, or image of God
The phenomenon where sound frequency changes due to motion?
What is the doppler effect.
What is the name of our typical security guard?
Who is Justin
This classic multiplayer strategy game where players act as settler establishing colonies on a modular island.
What is Catan
This mythical creature featured prominently in ancient Egypt as a guardian.
What is a sphinx.
Within Hinduism, every action or thought carries consequences. This universal law of cause and effect is known as this.
What is karma.
The fundamental unit of information in a quantum computer, acting as the quantum equivalent of a classical bit.
What is a cubit.
Cognitive dissonance describes the effect when our competing, mismatched beliefs are resolved using this portion of our brain.
What is the prefrontal cortex.
This classic, two-player strategy game on a 10x10 grid where players secretly deploy an army of 40 pieces.
What is Stratego
This creature from Greek mythology was half bull and half man.
What is the Minotaur.
Calvinists or Reformed Protestants, often use this acronym to group their theological axioms.
What is TULIP. Total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, perseverance of the saints.
These particles have a mass one million times less than an electron, interact with other matter only via gravity and the weak nuclear force, and pass through normal matter effectively unimpeded.
What are neutrino's.
The St. Louis CORTEX development district acquired land using this legal doctrine to compulsorily acquire private property for public use
What is eminent domain
This tile placement game in which players take turns drawing and placing tiles to build a sprawling medieval landscape of cities, roads, monasteries, and fields.
What is Carcassonne
In C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, Mr. Tumnus was a small, talking creature known as a what?
What is a faun?
Within Catholicism, this doctrine states that during the Eucharist, the bread and wine are transformed into the literal body and blood of Christ.
What is the doctrine of transubstantiation.
In superconducting materials, these pairs of electrons glide through conducting material with no resistance.
What are Cooper pairs.
The medical practice where the prefrontal cortex is intentionally damaged to treat severe psychiatric conditions. The practice was widely abandoned by the late 1960s.
What is the frontal lobotomy or leukotomy.
This foundational deck-building card game where 2-4 players compete to build the most valuable kingdom. You start with a small, identical deck, and on each turn, you play actions, buy new cards to strengthen your deck, and race to accumulate the most Victory Points.
What is Dominion
In Harry Potter these skeletal, winged horses are visible only to those who have witnessed death.
What is a thestral.
Islam is an Arabic word that literally translates to what?
What is submission or surrender.
To measure time, mechanical clocks rely on a spring k-factor, wristwatches vibrate quartz crystals, atomic clocks excite electrons in cesium atoms, and what element do nuclear clocks use?
What is thorium.
If doing a land acknowledgment for the CORTEX building, name 1 of the 6 indigenous peoples who would be referenced
Osage, Quapaw, Kaskaskia, Kickapoo, Myaamia or Ochethi Sakowin. Osage was the treaty signatory.