Math
This broad area of math deals with the manipulation of variables. It is often taught in 8th or 9th grade and covers among other concepts: linear equations, inequalities, functions, and graphs.
What is Algebra?
This flatbread garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil originated in Naples in the 16th century.
What is Pizza?
In this popular game show, contestants must present their answers to common knowledge clues in the form of questions.
What is "Jeopardy"?
This infamous political scandal prompted the resignation of the 37th U.S president.
This resident of Jackson, Wyoming is best known for playing Han Solo and Indiana Jones.
Who is Harrison Ford?
This formula provides solution(s) to a polynomial with one variable where the highest power or degree is 2.
What is the Quadratic Formula?
This Chinese dish of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves is said to have been invented to commemorate the drowning of the poet Qu Yuan in 278 BC.
What is Zongzi
This West Virginian comedian is best known for his signature mustache and being the host of the game show Family Feud.
Who is Steve Harvey?
Barry Bonds was a member of this Baseball team when he used performance enhancing steroids.
What are the San Francisco Giants?
This rapper, producer, fashion designer, presidential candidate and subject of the recent documentary “Jeen-Yuhs” was a former resident of Cody, Wyoming.
Who is Kanye West?
This area of mathematics is concerned with the enumeration, combination, and permutation of sets of elements and the relations that characterize their properties.
What is Combinatorics?
This sacred dish was consumed by the Olmecs and Toltecs during hunting trips or travel. It consists of masa dough filled with meats, cheeses or chilies that are steamed in corn husks.
What is a Tamale?
Wheel of Fortune is produced by a subsidiary of this Japanese technology, music and video game conglomerate.
What is Sony?
Members of this baseball team were accused of throwing the 1919 world series against the Cincinnati Reds in the “Black Sox” scandal.
Who are the White Sox?
This youtuber and makeup artist associated with Shane Dawson is a resident of Casper Wyoming.
Who is Jefree Star?
This German mathematician born in 1777 proved Descartes' rule of signs and the Kepler conjecture. He also devised a notation for symmetric matrix elimination.
Who is Carl Friedrich Gauss?
This biscuit or cracker made from flour, water and salt was the standard ration for many militaries and navies from the 17th to 19th centuries.
What is hardtack?
In this game show with the catchphrase “Come on down!” contestants must assign a value to a piece of merchandise to win cash prizes.
What is "The Price is Right"?
This figure skater was banned for life from the United States Figure Skating Association after her ex-husband orchestrated an attack to break the knees of rival skater Nancy Kerrigan.
Who is Tonya Harding?
This Wyoming representative and daughter of the 46th vice president was one of the few Republicans to publicly support the impeachment of Donald Trump.
Who is Liz Cheney?
This set of vectors is both linearly independent and spans the vector space it is in. Its length determines the dimension of a vector space.
What is a basis?
This alcoholic beverage drunk by the Vikings was made from fermented honey and water. Kvasir was the norse god of this drink.
What is mead?
This Ohio man was known for (at the time) winning the largest one day total on the game show Press Your Luck in 1984 by memorizing patterns used on the board.
Who is Michael Larsen?
This gamer and restaurateur had his high scores for Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. disqualified after it was determined that he used an emulator to falsify his scores.
Who is Billy Mitchell?
This abstract artist born in Cody, Wyoming was best known for his “drip technique” of pouring or splashing paint onto the canvas.
Who was Jackson Pollack?