Car Parts
What is a catalytic converter?
This French word, meaning 'to choose from a menu,' is used in English to describe ordering individual dishes rather than a set meal.
What is á la carte?
This is the closest star to planet Earth.
What is the Sun?
This common acronym, seen on ambulances and in hospitals, stands for Emergency Medical Technician.
What is EMT?
This iconic Italian plumber is the main character of Nintendo's most famous video game franchise.
What is Luigi's mansion?
This rubber component is the only part of your car that makes direct contact with the road.
What is a tire?
This Swedish word, borrowed into English, describes a buffet-style meal featuring a wide variety of hot and cold dishes laid out for guests to serve themselves.
What is smorgasbord?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This could have been a British acronym stands for the publicly funded national broadcaster of the United Kingdom, founded in 1927 and headquartered in London but it stands for something else.
What is BBC?
This video game was sued, which lead to it's success and later lead to it become the biggest game of it's time.
What is fortnite?
This part of the engine is responsible for mixing air and fuel together before it enters the combustion chamber, though many modern cars use a fuel injector instead.
This Japanese word, borrowed into English, describes a style of cooking where food is prepared on a large iron griddle right in front of the diners.
What is hibachi?
This famous galaxy, the nearest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way, is visible to the naked eye on a clear night and is on a collision course with our galaxy.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
This acronym, now so commonly used it is treated as a regular word, stands for the technology that detects the position and speed of objects by bouncing radio waves off them.
What is RADAR?
This 2007 first-person shooter, developed by Crytek, became legendary among PC gamers for its groundbreaking graphics engine, so demanding that 'can it run it' became a long running joke in the gaming community.
What is crysis?
This component converts the reciprocating motion of the pistons into the rotational motion that ultimately turns your wheels.
What is a crankshaft?
This Portuguese word, borrowed into English, describes a feeling of melancholic longing or nostalgia for something loved and lost — and is considered virtually untranslatable.
What is saudade?
This is the term used to describe any planet that orbits a star outside of our own solar system.
What is an exoplanet?
This acronym, now used as an everyday word, stands for the technology that amplifies light through the stimulated emission of radiation to produce a concentrated beam.
What is LAZER?
This 2006 sandbox game, created by Garry Newman and built on Valve's Source engine, has no set objectives or goals,instead giving players a physics playground to build, experiment, and create anything they can imagine.
What is garry's Mod?
This component in a differential allows the outer wheel to rotate faster than the inner wheel when turning, distributing torque between the two driven wheels.
What is the spinder gear?
This Finnish word, now used globally in English, describes a small room heated to high temperatures where bathers sit to sweat, often throwing water on hot stones to create steam.
What is sauna
Launched in 1972 aboard Pioneer 10, this gold-anodized aluminum plaque was attached to the spacecraft and features a nude man and woman, a pulsar map, and a diagram of our solar system,designed to communicate the origin and nature of humanity to any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find it.
What is the pioneer plaque?
This Cold War era acronym described the military doctrine that prevented nuclear conflict between superpowers by ensuring that any first strike would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
What is MAD?
This is the most revolutionary video game of all time and will never be beat.
What is pong?