Edison & Tesla
This type of electricity was patented by Tesla, and is the standard form of most electricity in modern times
What is AC (alternating current)
This famous city is split in two by the Seine River. Sacré Bleu!
What is Paris, France?
This unit of electricity is named after the Italian scientist who invented the battery
What is Volt?
This baby is the newest member of YiOu's family, and is her and Karl's first child.
Who is Phoebe?
This element is the lightest on the periodic table of elements
What is Hydrogen?
In 1943, the Supreme Court granted full patent rights to Nikola Tesla for this invention used for communicating, previously patented by Guglielmo Marconi
What is the radio?
This European Capital, called "Москва" by locals, is the largest city in Europe.
What is the speed of light?
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
This outer-most shell of an atom contains electrons that are crucial for an atom's chemical behavior and bond formation
What is the valence shell?
Nikola Tesla was good friends with which American writer, famous for books like "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Who is Mark Twain?
This capital is the only world capital split into 2 time zones -- Turkish time and Greek time. Hint, it's in an island nation!
What is Nicosia, Cyprus?
Materials like copper and silver are great ______s, meaning they transmit electrical current very well
What are Conductors?
This delicious dish is what Adam had for lunch -- hint, he ate it with chopsticks
What is Char Siu (or Chinese BBQ Pork)?
This group of elements is known for non-reactivity -- aka, they're all "inert"
What are the noble gases?
Helium (He), Neon (Ne), Argon (Ar), Krypton (Kr), Xenon (Xe), Radon (Rn), and Oganesson (Og)
Fill in the blank! Edison had a "magical" nickname -- the _______ of Menlo Park.
What is the Wizard of Menlo Park?
This capital of Hungary is a mish-mash of two cities separated by the Danube River
What is Budapest (from Buda and Pest)?
This type of circuit is continuous, uninterrupted electrical path that allows electric current to flow uninterrupted from a power source
What is a closed circuit?
This African country is famous for dishes such as Digaag Qumbe, and Doro Wat
What is Somalia?
This element, atomic number 7, is the most abundant in Earth's atmosphere
What is Nitrogen (N)?
Edison's love for Morse code was deep -- he proposed to his wife by tapping a pipe in Morse code, and nicknamed his two children ____ and ____
What are Dot and Dash?
This city replaced Krakow as capital in 1596 -- hint, it's in Eastern Europe
What is Warsaw, Poland?
A battery has two electrodes on it -- an ____ and a _____
What are anode and cathode?
Closest answer wins! Greenland sharks are the longest living vertebrates in the world -- how long can they live?
500 years
Four new elements were added to the table in 2016 -- name one of them
What are Nihonium (Nh), Moscovium (Mc), Tennessine (Ts), and Oganesson (Og)?