Geography
This desert, the largest hot desert in the world, stretches across much of North Africa.
Sahara Desert.
This singer’s 2022 album Midnights featured the hit song “Anti-Hero.”
Taylor Swift.
This force opposes the relative motion of two surfaces in contact. (Physics 1).
Friction.
This term describes the money a company earns from selling goods or services before expenses are subtracted.
Revenue.
He played the Joker in the 2008 film The Dark Knight, winning a posthumous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Heath Ledger.
This river flows through Budapest and Belgrade before emptying into the Black Sea.
Danube River.
This K-pop group became the first South Korean act to top the Billboard Hot 100 with “Dynamite” in 2020.
BTS.
The pH of a solution with a hydrogen ion concentration of 1 × 10⁻³ M is this. (Chemistry 1).
pH = 3.
The acronym GDP stands for this measure of a country’s total economic output.
Gross Domestic Product.
This director is known for films like Jurassic Park, E.T., and Jaws.
Steven Spielberg.
This strait between Alaska and Russia is named for a Danish explorer who sailed for the Russian Empire.
Bering Strait.
This singer’s real name is Abel Tesfaye.
The Weeknd.
This process in cells converts glucose into ATP in the presence of oxygen. (Biology 1).
Cellular respiration.
This type of accounting tracks income and expenses as they occur, rather than when cash changes hands.
Accrual accounting.
This 2021 film, directed by Denis Villeneuve, is the latest adaptation of a Frank Herbert sci-fi novel set on the desert planet Arrakis.
Dune.
This European capital sits on the Danube River and was once the center of the powerful Habsburg Empire.
Vienna.
“I'm in the corner, watching you kiss her, oh…”
This lyric comes from the 2014 breakout hit by this British singer.
Calum Scott.
For a reaction A → B, the rate doubles when the concentration of A is doubled. This indicates that the reaction is of what order with respect to A? (Chemistry 2).
First order.
In economics, this occurs when a market has only a few firms, often leading to limited competition.
Oligopoly.
This 1994 film features characters like Andy Dufresne and Red and is based on a Stephen King novella.
This narrow strait connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and separates Yemen from Djibouti and Eritrea.
Bab el-Mandeb.
This influential 1991 album by Nirvana helped bring grunge into the mainstream.
Nevermind.
This is the phenomenon where a changing magnetic field produces an electric field, even in empty space. (Physics 2).
Electromagnetic induction.
This ratio measures a company’s ability to pay short-term obligations using current assets, calculated as current assets divided by current liabilities.
Current ratio.
This 2023 horror film is a prequel to a 2018 franchise centered around a cursed videotape.
Rings of the Dead.