Family Lore
The movie that the people in this room have seen more than 15 times combined.
What is Project Hail Mary?
My first nerd night highlighted the continued use of this 18th century invention.
What is steam power?
Christopher Nolan's 2026 blockbuster shot on IMAX
What is The Oddessey?
The unit for pressure (SI or EE).
N/m^2 OR lbf/ft^2 (Will accept Pascal or PSI)
NASA's $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter famously disintegrated in 1999 because the flight software calculated thrust in Newtons, while the ground crew used this unit of force.
What are pounds? (Or pound force)
I have done two nerd nights on these two video games.
Debated to be the most anticipated video game of all time.
What is Grand Theft Auto VI?
Measured in Ohms, this electrical component is used to reduce the flow of an electrical current.
What is a resistor?
This neurological phenomenon, where a person experiences crossed wires in the brain such as "tasting" words, "hearing" colors, or associating numbers with specific personalities. Occurs in roughly 4% of the population.
What is synesthesia?
In May, I described AI's processes. AI breaks text down into smaller pieces called this.
What are tokens?
In April, this space mission launched for the moon for the first time since 1972.
What is Artemis II?
Newton's second law dictates Force is proportional to this.
What is Mass, Acceleration, m, a, etc.
The opposite of déjà vu, this French term describes the unsettling psychological phenomenon where a completely familiar situation or word suddenly feels entirely new and strange.
What is jamais vu?
This part of your brain remains unused during dreams excluding lucid dreams. (April's NN)
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
Trump launched an overnight strike in this country to capture their president.
Where is Venezuela?
This is the kind of radiation that kills living creatures.
What is Ionizing Radiation?
Involved in two separate fatal radiation accidents at Los Alamos in 1945 and 1946, this infamous item was a 14-pound subcritical sphere of plutonium.
What is the Demon Core?
This drug was the only one in October's Nerd Night without a picture. (Double Points if you say why).
What is Xylazine? (Horse tranquilizer or Tranq are accepted)
July 4, 2026 marked this specific, 18-letter "centennial" term for the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence.
What is Semiquincentennial?
This reaction happens when antimatter collides with matter.
What is annihilation?
Instead of orbiting the Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope remains gravitationally parked a million miles away at L2, which stands for this specific type of equilibrium point.
What is a Lagrange Point?