Pi(e)
Pi appears in formulae for areas and volumes of this geometrical shape.
What is a circle?
This science fiction movie is considered a comedy disaster film about a waterspout depositing a sea creature in Los Angeles. This movie also spawned five sequels and three spin-off films.
What is Sharknado?
This scientist is known as the "father of satellite meteorology"
Who is Verner Suomi?
Before GOES, this series of satellites (of which GOES-1 is technically a part) were some of the first geostationary meteorological satellites.
What is SMS/Synchronous Meteorological Satellites?
In this famous Greek legend, the eponymous hero traverses most of the Mediterranean Sea on his way home.
What is the Odyssey?
The apple pie originated in the 14th century in this country.
What is England?
This song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1939 and became Judy Garland's signature song
What is (Somewhere) Over the Rainbow
Using the first known methods for prediction of tropical cyclone movements, this scientist issued the oldest known hurricane warning on August 23, 1873.
Who is Father Benito Vines?
This GOES satellite was the only one of the series to be part of a failed launch when it was destroyed by range safety shortly after launch.
What is GOES-G?
First recorded by Plato, the legend of this civilization that sank into the Atlantic Ocean later inspired an animated Disney film.
What is Atlantis?
According to Google Trends data (and Gurney's Seed & Nursery Company), this pie is the most popular in the entire country.
What is strawberry pie?
Fun fact: This is not true for Wisconsin. The Top pie in Wisconsin is pineapple
Gene Kelly performed this famous 1929 song for a musical of the same name that was released in 1952.
What is Singing in the Rain?
This scientist won the Nobel Prize and developed chaos theory in weather prediction
Who is Edward Norton Lorenz?
This GOES satellite became the only GOES ever to function alone (as both GOES-East and GOES-West) when its two predecessors failed and the next generation was still in progress.
What is GOES-H/GOES-7?
This fictional submarine traversed a vast extent of the world's oceans in a famous novel by Jules Verne.
What is the Nautilus?
The mathematical Pi is sometimes referred to as "BLANK constant"
What is Archimedes Constant?
Building a city, roads, and other infrastructure is the point of this 1990's computer game created by Maxis. Beware of natural disasters based on real events such as firestorms, hurricanes, and floods that can cause a player to rebuild or start over.
What is SimCity (2000)
This meteorologist was the first woman in the US to receive a PhD in Meteorology and helped develop the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
Who is Joanne Simpson?
Despite having a letter designation and several instruments built, this GOES satellite was never actually built.
What is GOES-Q?
At the end of The Return of the King, Frodo and other set off to cross this ocean.
What is Belegaer/the Great Sea/the Western Sea/the Sundering Sea?
This Swiss Scientist proved that Pi is irrational in 1768.
Who is Johann Heinrich Lambert
This movie aimed to educate people on global warming earned Al Gore an Oscar.
What is An Inconvenient Truth
He was the first chief meteorologist of the US Weather Bureau and noted for his work on time zones
Who is Cleveland Abbe?
This satellite was the first of the GOES series to be three-axis stabilized instead of spin-stabilized.
What is GOES-I/GOES-8?
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld Series, this ocean pours over the edges of the flat world.
What is the Rim Ocean?