The Eastern Wind
This man was the first human to reach space in 1961.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
This group of birds can remember human faces for up to 17 years.
What are crows?
Failure to use this contested punctuation mark means you will bring dishonor on you, on your family, and your cow!
What is the oxford comma?
This is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
What is 42?
This actor broke two toes in the makings of the film The Two Towers.
Who is Viggo Mortenson?
This bird has a wingspan of 12 feet, the largest of any living bird.
What is a Wandering Albatross?
This Oxford pub is where the Inklings met and discussed their writing and ideas.
What is The Eagle and Child? (The Bird and Baby also accepted)
This animal pulls 1200-1400 g’s while they search for food.
What is a woodpecker?
This contra dance move involved two people spinning around their right hands.
What is an allemande right?
These two Greek letters are commonly used in probability theory and memes.
What are mu and sigma?
This quest was the purpose of King Caspian X’s voyage on the Dawn Treader in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis.
What is “to find the Seven Lost Lords”?
BONUS: can you name them all?
This first order numerical estimation method for solving differential equations was revived by Katherine Johnson in the movie Hidden Figures.
What is Euler’s method?
The Fellowship set out from Rivendell to destroy the One Ring on this holiday in The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien.
What is Christmas Day (Dec 25)?
This unit of measurement for an angle is in terms of pi and relates to the circumference of the circle.
What are radians?
Alcibiades repeatedly attempted to seduce this philosopher in The Symposium.
Who was Socrates?
The Tuba, the instrument played by the head musician of the Covenant Approved (the Folk Society band), is this length when straightened out.
What is 18 feet? (for a Bb Tuba)
This professional fantasy and sci-fi author was part of WhInklings for many years until recently moving to Tennessee.
Who is Tim Akers?
This United States President once won a duel by easily chopping a limb off a tree with a broadsword and thus convincing his opponent to surrender.
Who is Abe Lincoln?
The name of this US rocket shares a term with a Minecraft ingredient and ore.
What is the Mercury Redstone rocket?
This movie required actors to consume all their meals through a straw in order to avoid having to remove their expensive animal masks.
What is The Planet of the Apes (1968)?
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An upstart samurai named Miyomoto Musashi famously beat the legendary Sasaki Kojiro, a samurai who used a sword significantly longer than most. In the fight, Musashi wielded a wooden sword carved from what wooden object?
What is a boat oar?
This paradox discusses the infinite number of points between any two points?
What is Zeno’s Paradox?
This French author wrote novels about exploratory adventures involving, most notably, a submarine, a hot-air balloon, and a volcano.
Hint: They are often referred to as a founder of Science Fiction.
Who was Jules Verne?
This philosopher argued that the suspension of the ethical achieves the moral.
Who was Søren Kierkegaard?
Ieoh Ming Pei, a Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, and this famous structure in Paris in 1989.
What is the Louvre Pyramid?