Famous numbers
Celebrated on March 14th, this constant is both irrational and deliciously pun-worthy.
What is pi?
This 1984 hit features Michael Jackson in the chorus.
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What is Somebody’s Watching Me?
A cowboy gets jealous of a spaceman.
What is Toy Story?
This scientist developed the F-scale for tornadoes and also discovered downbursts and microbursts.
Who is Ted Fujita?
In 1952, this term was coined by Air Force meteorologists Fawbush and Miller to describe severe weather patterns across OK, TX, LA, IA, KS, NE, and SD?
What is Tornado Alley?
The base of the natural logarithm, this number also sounds like what might be left on the bottom of your frying pan.
What is e (Euler’s number)?
This classic from 1975 is famous for its lack of a chorus.
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What is Bohemian Rhapsody?
A woman borrows her dad’s work uniform and accidentally wins a war.
What is Mulan?
He discovered Penicillin and shares a first name with Alexander Graham Bell.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
A derivative of tornado alley, what is the common name for the southeastern United States’ severe weather hotbed?
What is Dixie Alley?
Sharing its name with a trendy breakfast toast item, this constant is used regularly in chemistry.
What is Avogadro’s number?
Often called “the anthem of Generation X,” this song helped define early ‘90s grunge.
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What is Smells Like Teen Spirit?
A young boy blamed for killing his father and joins a band of hippies.
What is The Lion King?
Famous for a meteorological formula describing how an ideal gas behaves during an adiabatic process, and for his statistical distribution methods.
Who is Poisson?
How do severe weather chances generally “travel” spatially across tornado alley during a typical storm season’s timeframe? Use cardinal directions.
What is South to North?
Named after the popular browsing platform, this term represents the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
What is Googol?
This 2011 hit topped charts worldwide.
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What is Somebody That I Used to Know?
Man with anxiety befriends a literal hallucination and then commits several felonies to impress a girl.
What is Aladdin?
Beyond his famous formula, this ancient scientist and mathematician is also known for the intense cult-like following of his beliefs.
Who is Pythagoras?
What is the main geological feature in the American west that leads to tornado alley’s strong tendency for tornadoes?
What are The Rocky Mountains?
The ultimate limit of the prime counting function, pi(x), this number was approximated originally by Adrien-Marie Legendre.
What is 1?
This 2013 duet about repairing a relationship reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
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What is Just Give Me A Reason?
Forest squatters encourage child labor to overthrow colonial mining operation.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Best known for her X-Ray diffraction work that revealed DNA’s double helix; credit is often misattributed to Watson and Crick.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The first tornado warning, issued at Tinker Air Force Base was issued by these two Air Force meteorologists in March of 1948.
Who are Fawbush and Miller?