The Science of Life
This organelle is often called the "powerhouse" of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
The Preamble of this document begins with "We the People of the United States."
What is the (US) Constitution?
Before making the first airplane, these brothers owned a small bike repair shop in Dayton, Ohio.
Who are the Wright brothers?
This board game consists of famous properties like Boardwalk and Mediterranean Avenue.
What is Monopoly?
There are this many stripes on the United States flag, each being either red or white.
What is 13?
This is the scientist who worked with pea plants to develop the rules of heredity.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This phrase describes how each of the three branches has countermeasures against the others to prevent major corruption.
What is checks and balances?
A common performance enhancing drug that's illegally used in this 23 day long competition is erythropoietin, which improves oxygen flow to muscles.
What is the Tour de France?
In this game, players try to deduce who killed Mr. Boddy, or Dr. Black for United Kingdom players.
What is Clue?
Before this search engine received its iconic six-letter name, it was originally called "Backrub."
What is Google?
A large, naturally-occurring community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct habitat is known as this.
What is a biome?
In this Supreme Court case, racial segregation was declared unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This extreme style of bike track racing became an Olympic sport starting in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
What is Bicycle Moto Cross (or BMX)?
Certain topics have certain colors in this game: Geography is blue, Sports & Leisure is orange, and Entertainment is pink.
What is Trivial Pursuit?
Dry ice is much colder than normal ice, and it sublimates into this gaseous compound to leave no liquid trace.
What is carbon dioxide (or CO2)?
As a result of natural selection, this phenomenon, where completely new organisms are born from the evolution of its ancestors, can occur.
What is speciation?
Politicians performing this tactic will purposefully manipulate the shape of voting districts to favor supporting group's votes.
What is gerrymandering?
This formerly legendary cyclist returned to competitive cycling even after surviving cancer until being exposed for using performance-enhancing drugs.
Who is Lance Armstrong?
This special technique of chess allows both the King and the rook to swap sides horizontally to put the King closer to a corner square.
What is the castle/castling?
The famous quote "Here's Johnny!" came from this 1980 movie, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
What is The Shining?
In this cycle, aerobic organisms are oxidizing acetyl-CoA in order to release stored energy as ATP or GTP.
What is the Citric Acid/Tricarboxylic Acid/Krebs Cycle?
After President James Garfield was assassinated by a job seeker, this act of providing federal government jobs only by merit was passed in 1883.
What is the Pendleton Act?
The bicycles that allow multiple people to pedal at the same time are called this.
What are tandem bicycles?
What is (The Settlers of) Catan?
This is the name of the Wookie's native land in the Star Wars universe.
What is Kashyyyk?