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A 1951 Science-fiction novel by Isaac Asimov.
What is Foundation?
Of the two main families of weed, this is the one that allegedly gives you more of an energetic, head high.
What is Sativa?
This often-disregarded film, featuring James Franco, served as the conclusion to a beloved superhero film trilogy.
What is Spider-Man 3?
Prior to plastic bricks, LEGO was known for making toys out of this material.
What is Wood?
This phenomenon is the densest phenomenon in the universe. No light can escape!
What is Black Hole?
The five stages of a story, often taught in high school English classes.
What are Exposition/Introduction → Rising Action → Climax → Falling Action → Resolution?
Sudafed be manufactured into this illicit drug, leading to Sudafed being placed behind the drug counter.
What is Methamphetamine?
In 1941, Orson Welles released this film, which would go on to be ranked the greatest of all time by critics for half a century afterwards.
What is Citizen Kane?
Released in 1978, these plastic figures were widely used to imitate firemen, police officers, and pirates.
What is Minifigures?
This element the sun uses in fusion, in order to get it's energy.
What is Hydrogen?
A common template of stories in western narratives, also called the monomyth.
What is The Hero's Journey?
This CIA program ran from the 1950s to the 1970s and secretly dosed people, sometimes without their knowledge, with LSD.
What is MKUltra?
This popular director is famously associated with symmetrical framing, curated color palettes, and a fantastical tone.
Who is Wes Anderson?
The most famous LEGO product not made of plastic, this toy is still being released today even though the original came out in 1935.
What is The Wooden Duck?
This television show, which aired its first season in 2024, is based on a book series by Liu Cixin.
What is the Three Body Problem?
The name of the second most important character in a story, after the protagonist.
What is the deuteragonist?
This seed contains Lysergic acid amide, a naturally occurring psychedelic.
What is Morning Glory? (or Hawaiian baby woodrose)
Preeminent Soviet director Dziga Vertov's terminology found a lasting presence as this truncated internet slang.
What is kino?
This patented design helps lego stick together when connected. This is also the name of LEGO's most daring adventurer.
What is Clutch Power?
This faint glow fills the whole universe, and is measured at a temp of around 2.7 Kelvin. It was released roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
What is Cosmic Microwave Background?
The names of all five classic archetypes of the Five-man Band.
What are The Leader, The Lancer, The Heart, The Big Guy, and The Smart Guy?
This chemist wrote the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL, documenting hundreds of compounds he synthesized and tested on himself.
Who is Alexander Shulgin?
The 1931 film adaptations of Dracula and Frankenstein kickstarted a much-mythologized rivalry between these two actors.
Who are Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi?
The Father Of LEGO.
Who is Ole Kirk Cristiansen?
The James Webb Space Telescope orbits near L2, one of Earth's five gravitational banace points. This is the name they are called.
What is Lagrange Points?