Carbon
When placed under 50,000 times the pressure on Earth's surface and subjected to 1600 degrees celsius heat, Carbon becomes what substance?
What is diamond?
This iconic National Park in northwestern Arizona is formed by a gorge of the Colorado River, covers 1,217,262 acres, and received 4.7 million visitors in 2023.
What is Grand Canyon National Park?
This hit Broadway musical, recently made into a feature film starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, tells the story of the Wizard of Oz from an entirely new perspective.
What is Wicked?
This titan of Albanian literature, famed for works such as The General of the Dead Army, The Palace of Dreams, and The Siege, passed away earlier this year at the age of 88.
Who is Ismail Kadare?
Name all the cases of either the Albanian or Montenegrin (BCMS) languages.
Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Ablative (Albanian), or Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Locative, Vocative, and Instrumental (BCMS)
Graphene, a thin layer of hexagonally-arranged carbon, is harder than diamond and 200 times stronger than steel. However, when stacked together in large quantities, it becomes this much softer material used in pencils.
What is graphite?
Wrangle-St. Elias National Park and Preserve is the largest US National Park, with a size roughly equivalent to Croatia, located in this state.
What is Alaska?
On April 16th, 2023, this iconic Broadway show had its final perfomance, setting the record for longest-running Broadway musical at 35 years and 13,981 performances.
What is the Phantom of the Opera?
This English poet, perhaps better known for his love of Greece, was also a passionate supporter of the Albanian people. He met with Ali Pasha of Tepelenë, wrote about Albanian hospitality and courage, and even commissioned a portrait of himself in Albanian dress.
Who is Lord Byron?
Albanian is a language isolate - that is, there are no other languages closely related to it. The only language group into which Albanian can be securely classified is this one, which stretches across Europe, through the Middle East, and into northern India.
What is Indo-European?
The combustion of a carbon-based fuel usually forms Carbon Dioxide, with one carbon atom bonding to two oxygen atoms. However, if there isn't enough oxygen in the combustion process, the carbon atom bonds to only one oxygen atom - forming this tasteless, odorless, colorless, and poisonous gas.
What is Carbon Monoxide? (CHECK YOUR SMOKE DETECTORS!)
Yellowstone is home to one of the largest collections of megafauna on Earth - including grizzly bears, cougars, wolves, and elk. It is also home to the largest and oldest federally-protected herd of this historically endangered animal.
What are Bison? (Particularly the Plains Bison)
This musical-writing duo are often regarded as the greatest songwriting pair in American history: producing such Broadway hits as The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Carousel, and South Pacific.
Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein? (BONUS QUESTION: Which Premier League football team uses a Rodgers and Hammerstein song as their anthem?)
This historical and cultural region, split between Montenegro and Serbia today, was named after an Ottoman province and occupied by Austria-Hungary from 1878-1909. Ethnic Bosniaks are the majority there, but it is also home to significant Serb, Montenegrin, and Albanian populations.
What is the Sandžak?
The modern standardization of the BCMS languages is largely due to the work of anthropologist and linguist Vuk Karadžić. He was named "Vuk" to protect him from harm, since his family had a high infant mortality rate. What does "Vuk" mean?
What is "Wolf?"
Having a higher carbon purity than any other kind of coal (86-97%), this form of coal is highly sought after around the world. The largest deposit of it on Earth is in Pennsylvania's Coal Country - where mines of this substance helped power America's Industrial Revolution.
What is Anthracite?
Millions of years of erosion involving an underground salt and evaporite bed have allowed for the many unique structures of Arches National Park to form. Over 1.8 million visitors travelled here in 2021 at its location just north of Moab, in this US state.
What is Utah?
Robert Morse shot into Broadway stardom with the 1961 production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. 46 years later, he experienced a career revival playing kind-faced but cutthroat executive Bert Cooper on what hit AMC series?
What is Mad Men?
This Slovene philosopher entered the public eye as a Yugoslav dissident in the 1980's and nearly won the Slovene presidency in 1990. In recent years, he has become incredibly popular on YouTube for his radical politics, coarse humor, and cinema references.
Who is Slavoj Žižek?
This community of Albanians settled in southern Italy across the Late Medieval and Early Modern eras and developed their own distinct dialect of Albanian. Their language holds special protected status under Italian law today.
Who are the Arbërësh?
Carbon is nicknamed "The King of the Elements" for its ability to form bonds with other atoms and make highly complex molecules. Carbon is able to to do this because it has four of this kind of electron - located in the outermost shell of the atom and able to create bonds.
What are valence electrons?
This California valley is today a National Park, but it was set aside as federally protected land with Abraham Lincoln's approval way back in 1864 - 52 years before the NPS' establishment.
What is Yosemite National Park?
This Broadway giant, relatively unknown during his lifetime, tragically passed away from an aortic dissection on the opening day of an off-Broadway show he had written and produced: the soon-to-be smash-hit musical Rent.
Who is Jonathan Larson?
German microbology pioneer Robert Koch travelled to this group of islands off the Croatian coast to exterminate Malaria in the local population. Later, Tito would build his summer estate here.
What is Brijuni?
The Arvanitika dialect of Albanian was developed by Albanian settlers in today's southern Greece. The dialect was heavily influenced by Greek and is today severely endangered. Many Arvanitika speakers settled in this southern Greek peninsula.
What is the Peloponnese?