Pre-1972 Pop Culture
Location of Woodstock festival.
What is Bethel New York?
A solid turns directly into gas form in this process.
What is Sublimation?
Steam and methane.
What is syngas (synthetic gas)?
It is the first law school in America.
What is William & Mary Law School?
The Trump administration has failed to negotiate an extension to this treaty between the USA and Russia, which expires in February 2021.
What is New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)?
He was the creator and host of Watch Mr Wizard.
Who is Don Jeffrey Herbert?
Its value distinguishes between laminar flow and turbulent flow.
What is Reynold's Number.
Sugar, lactose, flavoring and medium pressure carbon dioxide make this candy.
What is Pop Rocks Candy?
Morehead Planetarium which opened in 1949 at this school was the 1st planetarium owned by a college.
What is the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill?
Illinois ratified it in 2018 as part of the “three-state strategy”.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
This Canadian poet, novelist and songwriter, whom Bob Dylan called "the #1 songwriter of their time," sang in his 1967 debut single of his half-crazy friend Suzanne who "feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China."
Who is Leonard Cohen?
These seabirds have a tendon in each shoulder locking their wings fully-extended, and can have the longest wingspans of any living birds.
What is an Albatross?
One quark and one antiquark.
What is a meson?
Located in the first state to grant women the right to vote, their athletic teams are called the "pokes".
Who is the University of Wyoming.
He was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2001 for his actions at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Detroit was a candidate to host the 1968 Olympic Games that went to this Latin American capital.
Where is Mexico City?
Just to an order of magnitude, the annualized risk of a nuclear war.
What is 1% per year? Since this is an order of magnitude estimate, that means the risk is somewhere in the range of 3% per year to 0.3% per year.
A standard incandescent or halogen lamp, this contains water and a transparent, translucent, or opaque mix of mineral oil, paraffin wax, and carbon tetrachloride.
What is a lava lamp?
The elevation of female character was J.J. Shipherd's goal when he made this school in Ohio the first coed U.S. college.
What is Oberlin College?
The safe harbor deadline for choosing electors.
When is December 8, 2020?
The composer for the iconic songs like Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, The Vatican Rag and We Will All Go Together When We Go, who is also an Harvard educated mathematician.
Who is Tom Lehrer?
This brilliant physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1988 for the discovery of the muon neutrino and was also a founder of Fermi Lab and the Illinois Math and Science Academy in Aurora.
Who is Leon Lederman?
S=k ln W (Boltzmann's entropy formula) + Rule#3 =
What is FUBAR?
The first college to grant a bachelor’s degree to an African-American man, Alexander Twilight, in 1823.
What is Middlebury College?
As Speaker of the House during Watergate, he would have become president if Nixon was impeached before Gerald Ford was confirmed.
Who was Carl Albert?