Start Your Engines
BTS
The Queen's Gambit
Chemistry
Like Riding a Bike
January
200
Pinging and detonation are two other terms for engine this, a process that can seriously mess up the engine.
What is engine knock?
200
This BTS member's famous line is "Do you know annyeonghaseyo?" which has since become a popular meme in the K-pop world.
Who is Seokjin (Kim Seok-jin)?
200
Beth Harmon snuck pills from her adopted mother to take before bed. This would cause her to visualize one of these on the ceiling above her.
What is a chess board?
200
Even though the symbol for this element is Pb, you would NOT want it with peanut butter on your sandwich.
What is lead?
200
Between street bikes and off-road bikes, these have the thinner tires.
What are street bikes?
200
This Peanuts character says, "I never eat December snowflakes. I always wait until January".
Who is Lucy Van Pelt?
400
In a car engine's cylinders, valves let fuel in and exhaust out. This rotating rod opens and closes these valves.
What is a camshaft?
400
BTS proved that they had the singing genes in this 2017 hit whose chorus goes, "I want it this love (this love), I want it real love (real love)".
What is DNA?
400
As a young girl, Beth Harmon was told, "Men are gonna come along and wanna teach you things. Doesn't make them any this."
What is smarter?
400
This element makes up about 78% of normal dry air by volume.
What is nitrogen?
400
Put this 8-letter word before bike to get a bike with extra-powerful brakes and low gear ratios for climbing steep grades.
What is mountain?
400
Eureka! This was discovered in California in January of 1848, causing a surge in population growth the following year.
What is gold?
600
When a car's engine is running, power to operate the radio, CD player, headlights, and windshield wipers comes from this; not the battery.
What is the alternator?
600
This BTS member used to have a fear of microwaves because he always thought they would blow up. Safe to say he probably only cooks now.
Who is Jungkook (Jeon Jung-kook)?
600
"The Queen's Gambit" is a Netflix original show set in this 20th Century decade.
What is the 1960s?
600
The term for a substance that modifies and speeds up a chemical reaction without itself being affected.
What is a catalyst?
600
It's the type of bike park illustrated in the image below.
What is a BMX (Bicycle Motocross) Park?
600
This American industrialist and motor company founder introduced his assembly line in January of 1914.
Who is Henry Ford?
800
This rating indicates how much the fuel can be compressed before igniting; the higher the number, the greater the compression potential.
What is an octane rating?
800
All members of BTS claim that they can fluently speak in Korean, English, and this other Asian language.
What is Japanese?
800
This character is a traditional learner and one of the best chess players in Kentucky. He is left in awe of Beth's talent and enters her life when she is at a low point.
Who is Harry Beltik?
800
Usually colorless, this liquid is the simplest oxygen hydride.
What is water?
800
This European cycling event is the longest bike race in the world. Held every year, it averages at 200 participants racing over 2,000 miles in just 23 days.
What is the Tour de France?
800
In January 2018 (after Christmas thank God) this retail chain that kids love said it would close about 180 stores.
What is Toys R Us?
1000
This Volkswagen model was given an air-cooled engine ever since 1949, as it cost less money to manufacture. It probably bugged the rest of the competition.
What is the VW Beetle?
1000
This BTS member starred in a K-Drama called "Hwarang".
Who is Taehyung (Kim Tae-hyung)?
1000
Beth Harmon is a fictional character in "The Queen's Gambit" played by this actress.
Who is Anya Taylor-Joy?
1000
The process by which neutral atoms become electrically charged is called this.
What is ionization?
1000
This alliterative quality is the reason they say, "once you learn to ride a bike you'll never forget".
What is muscle memory?
1000
He was conducted into the world on January 27th of 1756, the same year his father published a manual on playing the violin.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?