Current Events
Yesterday, NASA and SpaceX launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft, destined to reach this planet, the largest of the Solar System, in April 2030.
What is Jupiter?
The Wright Brothers invented this mode of transportation in North Carolina, which was first successful in December 1903.
What is the airplane?
This word starts with D.
A domesticated mammal with a long snout, acute sense of smell, nonretractable claws, and wolf-like features.
What is a dog?
This 1997 romantic adventure movie features a ship that sunk after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean.
What is Titanic?
This leader of the Indian independence movement, who participated in a march for freedom, said:
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
On Sunday, the European nation of Lithuania held elections. Lithuania used to be part of this large communist country.
What is the Soviet Union?
The ARPANET was invented in 1969 and primarily used by the Defense Department as a way to transmit information between computers. It became the foundation of this global system of computers and servers that we all use.
What is the Internet?
This word starts with D.
Causing harm or reduction in quality/quantity to something or someone.
What is damaging (or deleterious)?
This musical fantasy film, released in 1939, is an adaptation of a namesake book and features Dorothy Gale, a girl living in rural Kansas. According to the Library of Congress, it is the most-viewed movie of all-time.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
This 20th century U.S. president during WWII famously said:
"The only we have to fear is fear itself."
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Last Friday, the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an atomic bomb survivors group from this Asian country.
What is Japan?
In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered this drug, the first naturally occurring antibiotic that is current used to treat strep throat and other bacterial infections.
What is penicillin?
This word starts with D.
A process or system that is characterized by change, activity or progress, is is the opposite of a static system.
What is dynamic?
This 1937 animated musical film is based on a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm and features the story of a princess living with her cold-hearted grandmother. The American Film Institute deemed this movie as the greatest American animated film of all time.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
This man, a Founding Father of the U.S. and the inventor of bifocals, said:
"Well done is better than well said."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Due to a machinists strike, this major American aerospace company announced a layoff of 17,000 jobs and delays in the production of its 777X aircraft series.
What is Boeing?
Willis Carrier invented this method of indoor cooling in 1902.
What is air conditioning?
This word starts with D.
A set of principles that is determined to be unquestionably true.
Hint: In molecular biology, the "central _____" is the conversion of DNA to RNA to proteins.
What is dogma?
This 1994 animated musical film was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and is centered around the fictional character of Simba, who is the heir apparent to his father, King Mufasa, and the subject of envy from his uncle, Scar.
What is The Lion King?
This famous baseball player who played for the Yankees and Red Sox from 1914-1935 said:
"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."
Who is Babe Ruth?
Last Thursday, researchers confirmed that the Tomb of Christopher Columbus does, in fact, contain his bones. The tomb is located in the city of Seville, part of this European country that borders Portugal.
What is Spain?
The first of these highly destructive weapons was tested on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico, as part of the Manhattan Project.
What is the atomic bomb?
This word starts with D.
This type of flower has bright yellow flowers and a long, trumpet-shaped center. It is symbolized as the "ultimate spring flower" and represents hope and new beginnings.
What is the daffodil?
This 1978 superhero film by Warner Brothers shares its name with a famous superhero played by Christopher Reeve.
What is Superman?
This man, the tallest U.S. president, said:
"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?