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This 1984 video game, designed by Alexey Pajitnov, tasks players with fitting falling geometric shapes together.
What is Tetris?
In linguistics, this is the term for a word that imitates the sound it describes, such as 'buzz' or 'sizzle'.
What is an onomatopoeia?
This director made Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, and Jaws, and is the highest-grossing director of all time by cumulative box office.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
At room temperature, this is the only metal that exists as a liquid.
What is Mercury?
In geometry, this theorem states that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
This Element has the Highest Melting Point of all Elements.
What is Tungsten?
This tennis player holds the record for the most Grand Slam singles titles in men's history with 24, as of 2024.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
This physicist's thought experiment imagined a cat that is simultaneously alive and dead, illustrating a paradox in quantum superposition.
Who is Schrödinger?
This is the only letter in the English alphabet that is not used in the name of any U.S. state.
What is Q?
This card game, invented in 1971 by Merle Robbins, involves players shouting its name when they have one card left.
What is Uno?
This South American country is home to both Angel Falls, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, and Lake Maracaibo.
What is Venezuela?
Orson Welles' 1941 masterpiece, often cited as the greatest film ever made, follows the life of a fictional media mogul.
What is Citizen Kane?
The ancient Library of Alexandria was located in a city founded by which Greek conqueror in 331 BC?
Who is Alexander the Great?
This organelle, found in plant cells but not animal cells, is responsible for photosynthesis.
What is a chloroplast?
This process, used to slow spoilage in food and beverages, involves heating a substance to a specific temperature and then rapidly cooling it.
What is Pasteurisation?
This French military leader was exiled to the island of Elba in 1814 before escaping and returning to power.
Who is Napoleon?
This Austrian composer wrote The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni but died at age 35.
Who is Mozart?
This is the name of the closest star system to our Sun, approximately 4.24 light-years away.
What is Alpha Centauri?
René Descartes' famous phrase 'cogito, ergo sum' translates to this in English.
What is "I think, therefore I am"?
She became the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, taking office in 1979.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
This law states that the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume when temperature is held constant.
What is Boyle's Law?
In Dante's Inferno, this ancient Roman poet serves as Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory.
Who is Virgil?
This ancient Greek philosopher proposed the concept of 'the allegory of the cave' to illustrate his Theory of Forms.
Who is Plato?
This is the term for the point in a planet's orbit when it is closest to the Sun.
What is the Perihelion?
This principle, formulated by Werner Heisenberg, states that the position and momentum of a particle cannot both be precisely known at the same time.
What is The Uncertainty Principle?