Quirked Up Physicists
Alexander Graham Bell wanted phone calls to be answered with this phrase.
What is "Ahoy!"?
On April 8, 2024, this type of eclipse is set to happen.
In this 1997 film, Matt Damon plays the titular character working as a janitor at MIT, who turns out to be a math genius.
What is Good Will Hunting?
The spice Melange helps navigators travel safely through space in this author’s Dune novels.
Who is Frank Herbert?
These two mathematicians are credited for inventing calculus.
Who are Newton and Leibniz?
Pythagoras forbade his followers from eating this food item, believing that it contained the souls of the dead.
What are beans? (fava beans)
According to the James Webb Space Telescope, this element was recently discovered on Jupiter’s moon, Europa.
This director recently released a series of four short films based on the writings of Roald Dahl.
Who is Wes Anderson?
This beloved character speaks the first line in Star Wars (1977).
Who is C-3PO?
This constant e is named after this mathematician.
Who is Euler?
Richard Feynman played this musical instrument.
What are the bongos?
Penn State’s $5.8 million NASA CubeSat mission, called this, is set to launch in January 2025.
What is BlackCat?
This actor convinced George Lucas, creator of Star Wars, to give his character a uniquely colored lightsaber.
Who is Samuel L. Jackson? (Mace Windu)
In J.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, this peak is where the ring was forged, and is the only place it can be destroyed.
What is Mountain Doom?
This mathematician claimed in the margin of a book that they solved a problem that was not solved until 1994.
Who is Fermat?
Astronomer Tycho Brahe lost this appendage in a duel.
What is his nose?
She is the associate department head at the University of Arizona and recently came to give a talk at Penn State about her work on JWST.
Who is Marcia Rieke?
In Alien (1979), the crew members of this ship discover a xenomorph onboard and fight it to try and survive.
What is the USCSS Nostromo?
In C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, the lion Aslan is a metaphor for Jesus Christ. This character, his father, is a metaphor for God The Father.
Who is Emperor-Beyond-The-Sea?
This is the most published mathematician (20th century).
Who is Paul Erdos?
This physicist was offered the presidency of the State of Israel in 1952 but declined.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The Psyche Mission, which recently launched on October 13, 2023, is headed for this space object of the same name.
What is an asteroid?
This Lord of the Rings actor trekked up a mountain every day in full costume and makeup for shoots because he was terrified of flying in helicopters.
Who is Sean Bean (as Boromir, in the Fellowship of the Ring)?
Artificial Intelligence has gained sentience and is not pleased in Harlan Ellison’s short story, I Have No Mouth and I Must do this action.
What is Scream?
This person's theorem states: "If a system has a continuous symmetry property, then there are corresponding quantities whose values are conserved in time."
Who is Noether?