Recycling Recipes
Leitmotifs
Sequences and Series
False Awakenings
Rituals
100
A fizzy, fermented drink made from sweetened tea, sugar, yeast, and bacteria, cultured with a SCOBY.
What is kombucha?
100
The composer and conductor of the soundtrack album to the 1977 film Star Wars.
Who is John Williams?
100
What is the Taylor series?
100
The actor for the main character in the 2010 science fiction action film Inception.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
100
The country where Zen Buddhism originated (Buddhist tradition emphasizing meditation).
What is China?
200
A chocolate bar made partially with imperfect or broken bars from the previous days' production line.
What are Kit Kats?
200
The name of the main character and his friend dragon in the film series How to Train Your Dragon.
Who are Hiccup and Toothless? (Note: Redditors cannot agree how many letimotifs the movie has, somewhere around 7).
200
The modern-day name of the country Leonardo Bonacci, commonly known as Fibonacci, was born.
What is Italy?
200
The far-right American radio host and conspiracy theorist that made an appearance in the 2001 surrealist Americaan adult animated film Waking Life.
Who is Alex Jones?
200
The historical (and ongoing) spirutal practice of flogging oneself practiced in Christianity to share in the suffering of Jesus.
What is self-flagellation?
300
The alcoholic liquid byproduct that forms on top of a neglected sourdough starter; slang for homemade alcohol.
What is hooch?
300
A type of a song composed in triple meter, such as the song Drunk Jack from Pirates of the Caribbean that accompanies Captain Jack Sparrow in his drunken adventures.
What is a waltz?
300
The second most common pattern in sunflowers after the Fibonacci numbers: {2, 1, 3, 4, 7, 11...}.
What are the Lucas numbers?
300
The American fantasy/science fiction/horror anthology TV series where each episode presents a standalone story such as "Shadow Play," an episode about reality being a death row inmate's dream.
What is The Twilight Zone?
300
The obligatory ritual prayer in Islam, performed five times daily at prescribed times.
What is Salah or Salat?
400
The most-likely origin place of yogurt around 5000 BCE discovered accidentally when herdsmen stored milk in animal stomach bags.
What is Mesopotamia?
400
The composer of the majority of the Minecraft soundtrack, which employs thematic leitmotifs tied to biomes, moods, and gameplay states.
Who is C418?
400
In music, the sequence of musical tones whose frequencies are an integer multiple of a fundamental frequency.
What is the harmonic series?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
The month of Groundhog Day, the day that Bill Murray's character got stuck on in the film by the same name.
400
The animal, originating in Peru and Bolivia, ritually sacrificed in Incan rituals to honor the gods, with sacrifical importance second only to human offerings.
What is the llama?
500
A country whose national dish is a pepperpot stew often enjoyed by adding to yesterday's leftovers; the essential ingredient is cassareep (from cassava root).
What is Guyana?
500
The Czech composer of the inspiration for the iconic Jaws leitmotif, found in the introduction to his Symphony No. 9 (New World Symphony).
Who was Antonín Dvořák?
500
A sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems, often involving recursively defined objects, defined as:
What are the Catalan numbers?
500
The categorized electrical brainwave frequencies that reflect different mental states, and have been shown to deviate from normal during false awakenings.
What are EEG (electroencephalogram) bands? (Delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma).
500
The Veda (Hinduism) that originates the use of the syllable Om as a chant matra.
What is Samaveda?