GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES
This narrow strip of land connects two larger landmasses, like North and South America.
What is an ISTHMUS?
A young unmarried woman
What is a BACHELORETTE?
This constant, 300,000 km/s, is the universal speed limit for this.
What is LIGHT?
This attack triggered the U.S. "War on Terror."
What is 9/11?
This 2010 film depicts Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creating Facebook.
What is THE SOCIAL NETWORK?
Steep-sided inlets carved by glaciers, like those in Norway or New Zealand.
What is a FJORD?
A toy consisting of a tube containing mirrors and pieces of colored glass or paper, whose reflections produce changing patterns that are visible through an eyehole when the tube is rotated.
What is a KALEIDOSCOPE?
This Newton’s law states, "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
What is the THIRD LAW OF MOTION?
This device, launched in 2007, revolutionized mobile communication.
What is the IPHONE?
This film chronicles a German industrialist who uses his enamelware factory to shield Jewish workers from deportation.
What is SCHINDLER'S LIST
Where a river meets the sea, creating a nutrient-rich zone with mixed salt and freshwater.
What is an ESTUARY?
Extremely large or powerful, like a corporation dominating an industry.
What is MONOPOLISTIC?
The two dominant forces in classical physics are gravity and this.
What is ELECTROMAGNETISM?
The 2005 hurricane that caused $108 billion in damage to New Orleans.
What is HURRICANE KATRINA?
A 2010 James Franco thriller depicting the arduous journey of a climber whose arm ends up trapped under a boulder.
What is 127 HOURS?
Wind-sculpted rocks in deserts, like those in Death Valley, polished by sand abrasion.
What is a VENTIFACT?
A type of criminal act, typically involving extortion, that involves a scheme organized to extract illegal profits.
What is RACKETEERING?
This famous problem in celestial mechanics has no general closed-form solution; its equations for three gravitationally interacting bodies yield chaotic motion.
What is the THREE-BODY PROBLEM?
This 2010–2011 movement began after Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in Tunisia and toppled regimes across North Africa.
What is the ARAB SPRING?
Bradley Cooper stars in this Oscar-nominated war drama about a legendary marksman haunted by the lives he couldn’t save during four tours in Iraq.
What is AMERICAN SNIPER?
A sandy or gravelly spit connecting an island to the mainland, like Massachusetts' Cape Cod.
What is a TOMBOLO?
Central Asian nation known for its "Gates of Hell" gas crater and silk heritage.
What is TURKMENISTAN?
This dimensionless number predicts fluid turbulence by comparing inertial to viscous forces; flow becomes chaotic above ~2000.
What is REYNOLDS NUMBER?
The supersonic passenger jet that crashed on July 25, 2000, ending its service.
What is the AIR FRANCE CONCORDE?
This 2006 film depicts a homeless salesman's unpaid internship at Dean Witter Reynolds while caring for his young son, inspired by Christ Gardner's memoir.
What is THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS?