Chemistry So Obscure It’s Practically Fiction
This short-lived allotrope of carbon exists only under high vacuum and decomposes before any verified measurement can be recorded.
Answer: What is carbine-β?
A painting described as a “negative landscape” that allegedly uses pigments absorbing more than 99.5% of visible light — but no photographs exist.
Answer: What is Void at Dusk?
A single historian claimed that this 1347 Venice decree secretly mandated carrier pigeons be trained to eavesdrop on nobles.
Answer: What is the Aves Ordinance?
This metric evaluates the percentage of passes in soccer that could have been intercepted by squirrels crossing the pitch, had they been present.
Answer: What is Expected Rodent Interference (xRI)?
This in 2008
Algebra I homework
A theoretical compound predicted to form only when niobium is exposed to cosmic-ray-induced muons at −271°C.
Answer: What is muon-doped niobide?
This conceptual sculpture consists of instructions written in disappearing ink that evaporated before the gallery opened.
Answer: What is A Sculpture About Forgetting?
A disputed annotation suggests the Library of Alexandria’s “secondary annex” continued operating for 62 years after its destruction.
Answer: What is the “Pharos Annex Continuity Theory”?
This stat measures the efficiency of a baseball pitcher’s hat tilt in decreasing drag during wind-up motions.
Answer: What is the Pitcher Aerodynamic Headwear Index?
This in 2011
Take Nicollete on a proper date