Math & Logic
This famous theorem, known by its equation a2+b2=c2, illustrates the relation between the three sides of a right triangle.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
Potassium, Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Tungsten all have single-letter chemical symbols which, when put together in that order, spell this four-letter word.
What is KNOW?
This organelle is known at the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
This two-word term describes when all particles completely stop moving at −459.67 Fahrenheit degrees (or 0 Kelvin).
What is Absolute Zero?
If someone's mass is 100 kg on Earth, this would be their mass on Mercury.
What is 100 kg?
In the order-of-operations acronym PEMDAS, the “E” stands for this "powerful" type of number.
What are exponents?
Two consecutive elements on the periodic table have the same atomic number as the number of letters in their English names.
What are boron (B) and carbon (C)?
Waxy buildup in the human ear is actually a form of this type of wet skin excretion.
What is sweat?
This appealing yellow fruit is slightly radioactive due to its high potassium content.
What is a banana?
This is the result you get if you multiply all the numbers on your telephone's keypad.
What is 0?
The fundamental operation symbolized by the obelus: a horizontal line with a dot above and a dot below it.
What is division?
This element shares its symbol with the abbreviation for the state of Georgia.
What is gallium?
The basic concepts of heredity were first described by Gregor Mendel, an Austrian-Czech monk who performed experiments on this type of edible plant.
What are peas?
The name of this element literally means "water-former" in Greek.
What is hydrogen?
The figure known as a "lemniscate" is typically used in math and other contexts to represent this concept, famously asked about by Buzz Lightyear.
What is infinity?
The three positive integers that give the same result whether you add them all or multiply them all together.
What is 1, 2, and 3?
The chemical element Rhenium is named after a river in this country.
What is Germany?
It's generally believed that, in the Northern Hemisphere, mosses tend to grow on this side of trees and rocks.
What is the North side?
The tendency of an object to resist changes in its state of motion.
The simple calculating tool that uses beads moved in grooves of sand to perform calculations.
What is an abacus?
This geometric shape is a closed, planar curve where all points are equidistant from a central point.
What is a circle?
This Greek word, meaning "I have found it," was supposedly shouted by Archimedes upon realizing the displacement principle.
What is Eureka?
This carnivorous plant, formally discovered in 1759, is only native to the wetlands of North and South Carolina.
What is the Venus flytrap?
Titan, a moon with a substantial atmosphere, revolves around this second-largest planet in our solar system, named after the Roman god of agriculture.
What is Saturn?
This famous thought experiment, dating back to 1935, involves a sealed box, a flask of poison, a radioactive source, and this kind of animal.
What is a cat? (Schrödinger's Cat)