Math
Branch of mathematics in which arithmetical operations and formal manipulations are applied to abstract symbols rather than specific numbers.
What is Algebra?
The Who/Lynyrd Skynyrd anthem mashup, that’s hopefully shorter than the sum of the parts.
What is I'm Free Bird?
A poetic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that turned toward nature and the interior world of feeling, in opposition to the mannered formalism and disciplined scientific inquiry of the Enlightenment era that preceded it.
What is Romanticism?
Ke$ha song, social media platform…
What is Tick-Tok?
1,1,2,3,5…
What is 8?
Branch of mathematics that studies the sizes, shapes, positions, angles, and dimensions of things.
What is Geometry?
Grateful Dead/Shorty Long mashup about the prince of darkness.
What is Friend of the Devil With a Blue Dress?
Cohort of young adult writers during WWI, that included Hemingway, Stein, Faulkner, Eliot, and Fitzgerald among others.
What is the Lost Generation?
REM album, whispered rumors, or the sound of a heart…
What is Murmur?
One bourbon, one scotch…
What is one beer?
Branch of mathematics focused on the collection, description, analysis, and inference of conclusions from quantitative data.
What is statistics?
Conflicted mashup about a violent middleweight boxer making his way in the baseball minor leagues.
What is Raging Bull Durham?
Modern American writer whose books include Carrie, Christine, Firestarter, Misery, and The Shining.
Who is Stephen King?
Incompetent doctor or the muttering of a bird brain...
What is Quack?
Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II…
Who is Benedict XVI?
The mathematical study of continuous change.
What is calculus?
Lynyrd Skynyrd/Jimi Hendrix mashup, “you can guess the rest.”
What is I Know a Little Wing?
Modern American writer whose books include Beloved, Song of Solomon and Jazz.
Who is Toni Morrison?
Made famous by a southwest, avian racer.
What is Beep (Beep)?
Sorcerer’s Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban…
What is The Goblet of Fire?
The Imitation Game, 2014 movie, told the story of this English mathematician who helped to break the German Enigma code in WWII.
Who is Alan Turing?
Eagles/Katy Perry/Snoop Dogg mashup.
What is Hotel California Gurls?
Modern non-fiction writer whose books include The Blind Side, Money Ball and Liars’ Poker.
Who is Michael Lewis?
Late 60’s TV series that immortalized visual onomatopoeia such as KABOOM!, POW! and WHAM! during fight scenes.
What is Batman?
Charles III, Elizabeth II, George VI…
Who is Edward VIII?