The Declaration of Independence extols the virtues of life, liberty, and the pursuit of this.
Happiness
Even though its only whole number divisor is itself, this number is technically not a prime number.
1
Near the end of Friends' run, Chandler and Joey have to dismantle this prized possession to save their pet chick and duck.
A foosball table
A physics or chemistry major will earn an AS after two years; English and history majors will instead earn one of these.
An AA
All night
This term refers to tricking someone into watching 80's pop hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.
Rickrolling
Of the four men carved into Mount Rushmore, this is the only one who died by assassination.
Abraham Lincoln
In the standard sinusoidal wave function A*sin(Bx-C)+D, the A represents this - a term for the "height" of the wave.
The amplitude of the function
Many Friends episodes see the crew hanging out at this Manhattan coffee shop.
Central Perk
Some think that this gap in the school year was the result of farming needs, but it might have actually been due to the lack of air conditioning.
Summer break
Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson formed this country super group in 1985.
The Highwaymen
Absurdist playwright Tom Stoppard wrote this play, the title of which declares that these two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet are dead.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
As the Transcontinental Railroad crept west in the 1800's, thousands of immigrants from this country worked to lay its tracks.
China
The expression i^2+(i^2) will return this value.
-2
This curmudgeonly character leaves all of his possessions to Monica and Rachel even though they thought he hated them.
Mr. Heckles
This Latin-rooted word describes the act of enrolling in a college or university; it's in the room with us.
Matriculation
Before taking over the music world in multiple genres, Beyonce premiered with this group in 1998.
Destiny's Child (formerly Girl's Tyme)
This word usually references general craziness, but it also describes the crime of disfiguring someone intentionally.
Mayhem
California was admitted to the union in this year - just one year away from a significant mineral hunt.
1850
You can use one of these types of numbers to write 3x3x3x3x3x3x3x3x3x3x3 more efficiently.
An exponent (311, if you're wondering)
This recurring character lives across the street but never receives a name; he's just known by a couple of adjectives.
Ugly naked guy
High school students typically move this part of their graduation outfit from the right to the left to signify that they have graduated.
The tassel on their cap
The Notorious B.I.G.
Ancient Greek thinker Zeno introduced the world to a number of these statements that are meant to test your logic and reasoning skills.
Paradoxes
Some historians believe that this early Native American government inspired parts of the U.S. Constitution.
The Iroquois Confederacy
In the original Principia Mathematica, two authors used 362 pages to prove this fundamental statement in arithmetic - using purely logical arguments.
1 + 1 = 2
Rachel and Monica compete for the attention of this martial arts movie star while he is filming in the city.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
A credential
This singer blasted onto the charts with "All About That Bass," which was the best-selling song by a female artist in the 2010s.
Meghan Trainor
I think, therefore I am.
This is the only letter in the alphabet that is not used in the name of any U.S. state.
Q
Any whole number can be made rational by making it a fraction with this number in the denominator.
1
Chanandler Bong
There's a lower-case h in PhD because it stands for Doctor of this.
Philosophy
I always told my students that if they listened to this band in my class, I would give them an F (it was a joke ... probably).
Nickelback
The Large Hadron Collider in Europe is used to accelerate these tiny objects to very high speeds so we can study their collisions.
Protons