2000s Movies
Nick Cage, immortally: "I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence"
National Treasure
Take this of a function to calculate the area under a curve
Integral
Water from this hurricane overran MSY's levees in 2005
Katrina
This stringed instrument falls between the violin and the cello
Viola
Frank Lloyd Wright
The actor playing the titular character of this film now goes by Elliot, not Ellen
Juno
This concept is immortalized in the mnemonic device "Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally"
Order of operations
Named for a British surveyor, this mountain claimed eight lives during a storm in 1996
Mt Everest
A very cute little mini flute
Piccolo
British-Iraqi architect, the mind behind PKX, which was completed posthumously
Zaha Hadid
Christian Bale spends the movie fretting about business cards and returning videotapes
American Psycho
Go one of these each direction from the mean of a normal distribution and you'll have covered 68% of probable outcomes
Standard deviation
This ship sank in the North Atlantic in 1912 due to flaws in the design of its watertight bulkheads
Titanic
A very geometric percussion instrument
Triangle
Broke her own record in 2021 for the tallest woman-designed building in the world
This 2007 Disney film about a fantasy world scarred many 90s kids-including me- when a main character unexpectedly falls and dies at the end
Bridge to Terabithia
An experiment design where neither the subject nor the experimenter knows which treatment the subject receives
Double-Blind
After an earthquake and tsunami, reactors at this nuclear power plant melted down in 2011
Fukushima
The largest woodwind in the orchestra
Bassoon
Works include Federal Center in Chicago and Farnsworth House
Mies van der Rohe
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The base of a natural logarithm
Damaged by foam during launch, this space shuttle was lost in 2003
Columbia
Played by the oboist when needed, this instrument is both larger and has a lower range
English Horn
This German school of architecture was founded by Gropius and sought to reconcile aesthetics with everyday function
Bauhaus