Trivia
In the 1925 book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the character James Gatz, uses this colloquialism to describe the main character Nick Carraway.
“Old Sport”
Banks charge this when handing out loans.
ANSWER: Interest
Name this Alliance that formed in reaction to the forming of NATO.
Warsaw Pact
name these elementary particles which are acted on by the strong force and which make up neutrons and protons.
quarks
For ten points, name this acid whose chemical formula is "H 2 S O 4" [H2SO4].
ANSWER: sulfuric acid (accept H2SO4 before it is read; accept sulfuric alone after "acid" is read)
This mythical son of Maia was a crosser of boundaries and a guide for the dead, and his likeness was carved into namesake guideposts along roadways for the living, as well. This god carried the Caduceus, a staff entwined with two snakes, and was sometimes depicted wearing a magical hat.
ANSWER: Hermes
This philosophy is contrasted with pessimism, and is the subtitle of the novel Candide.
ANSWER: optimism (accept word forms like optimistic)
This animal species have one species called "Emperor __"
ANSWER: penguin (accept king penguin; accept emperor penguin)
name this 1820 law, a compromise named for another newly-created U.S. state.
ANSWER: Missouri Compromise (accept Missouri alone after "Compromise" is read)
This important theorem notes that, if a polynomial with degree n has complex coefficients, then it will have n complex roots.
ANSWER: Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Name these underground habitats in which features like stalagmites and stalactites may form.
ANSWER: caves
Name this property of a fluid, a measurement of a substance's resistance to flow.
ANSWER: viscosity (accept word forms like viscous)
name this city in Southern California, the second-largest in the United States
Los Angeles (LA)
The flame test commonly uses this apparatus to provide a flame. This apparatus, named for a German chemist, is also used to sterilize loops in microbiology.
Bunsen Burner
Name these objects, which are subject to Hooke’s law
Springs
capital is Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
This quantity is equal to current times resistance, according to Ohm’s Law.In chemistry this quantity are the units for Standard Reduction Potential.
Voltage
This is the "father of computer science" who cracked enigma during World War 2 with his machine
Alan Turing
the existence of a Universal Grammar is debated by scholars, such as Noam Chomsky, in what field, the study of language?
Linguistics
Inventor of some cool technologies, owner of Menlo Park
Thomas Edison
Name this 2022 film, whose protagonist, Evelyn, is played by Michelle Yeoh. A recurring black circle motif represents a bagel that this film’s villain, Jobu Tupaki, uses as a symbol.
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
A black hole can be characterized by charge, angular momentum, and this quantity, according to the nohair theorem.
mass
Archimedes inscribed and circumscribed these shapes around regular polygons to approximate a constant. Line segments inside these shapes are called secants
circle
Length contraction is a consequence of the “special” form of this theory, which was developed by Albert Einstein. He later developed a “general” form of this theory.
special relativity
Reactions of this order have a constant half-life. The integrated rate law for reactions of this order is [read slowly] natural log of A equals negative k t, times the natural log of A sub zero.
first order [or one]