Science
This system is particularly vulnerable to the lead poisoning
What is CNS?
In 1919, this (edible) sticky industrial product flooded the streets of Boston’s North End in a deadly disaster that killed 21 people and injured more than 100.
The Great Molasses Flood (Boston Molasses Disaster accepted)
This place sells more chocolate than any other place on earth
What is Brussels airport?
The field and university course that Vijay claims to "know nothing about"
What is immunology?
Interleukin present in CC100 reagent from StemCellTechnologies
What is IL-3?
On this planet, a day is longer than its year—meaning it rotates more slowly than it orbits the Sun.
What is Venus?
This equation, formulated in 1905, and the discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann in 1938, provided the theoretical basis for the Manhattan Project (and the Oppenheimer movie)
What is E=mc^2 by Albert Einstein?
The oldest city in Europe
What is Athens?
Genre of music Vijay enjoyed during his PhD
What is jazz music?
This iron-transport protein in the plasma delivers iron to developing erythroblasts via receptor-mediated endocytosis
What is transferrin?
Trimethylation of histone H3 at lysine 27 (H3K27me3) is primarily catalyzed by this complex, silencing gene expression
What is PRC2 (Polycomb Repressive Complex 2)?
EZH1/EZH2 also accepted
Founded in 1565, this city is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in what is now the United States
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
This place is taking longer to build than the pyramids
What is the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona?
The breakfast of choice
What is a bagel with cream cheese?
The number of indications for which the most versatile of the anti-CD19 CAR T cell therapies has been approved
What is 5?
The name of the closest to Boston particle collider
What is Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory?
The U.S. state with the only royal palace
What is Hawaii?
The country of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest winner
What is Austria?
One of Vijay's firsts experiments that completely failed - it came out completely "black"
What is a southern blot?
In Diamond-Blackfan anemia, mutations most commonly affect this ribosomal protein gene
What is RPS19?
This foundational chemical principle is universally attributed to an 18th century Frenchman guillotined during the Revolution, yet the same law was published independently four years earlier by a Russian polymath, whose work went unread in Western Europe for over a century
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
In 1835, the only attempt to assassinate this U.S. president failed when both pistols misfired, after which this president beat the attacker with his cane.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The country traditionally eating canned, fermented fish
What is Sweden?
Vijay hit Tobias Menne in the face and broke his glasses with this item
What is a soccer ball?
This French army physician was the first to observe a living parasite inside human erythrocytes — specifically witnessing the exflagellation of male gametocytes in fresh blood
Who is Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran?