PHILOSOPHY
This ancient Greek philosopher, known for his dialogues and the Academy, was the teacher of Aristotle.
Who is Plato?
These two antonyms appear in the opening phrase of "A Tale of Two Cities."
What are "best" and "worst"?
The Silence of the Lambs
Who is Jodie Foster?
The four fundamental forces on an airplane are lift, weight, drag, and this.
What is thrust?
DAILY DOUBLE
A parametric curve is called this if its tangential vector is never 0->, indicating its lack of cusps.
What is smooth?
You might use this herb while preparing a roast chicken.
What is Rosemary?
This ethical theory holds that the morality of an action is determined by the usefulness of its outcome, aiming for the greatest good for the greatest number.
What is Utilitarianism?
(prompt on consequentialism)
This word meaning "quick" is its own antonym when it means "fixed in place."
What is "fast"?
Dreamgirls
Who is Jennifer Hudson?
Pilots deploy these basic wing extensions when they need to increase lift and drag.
What are flaps?
This isn't a grassy area- it's a set of numbers with two binary operations that fulfills a certain list of axioms.
What is a field?
The Longhorns of the SEC play their home games in this city.
What is Austin?
In epistemology, this view asserts that some knowledge is innate or discoverable by reason alone, independent of sensory experience.
What is Rationalism?
Ask our uncle about this 10-letter antonym for "introverted."
What is "gregarious"?
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Who is Michelle Yeoh?
This man and the Wright Brothers fought a patent war over the airplane; their companies later merged.
Who is Glenn H. Curtiss?
His "Last Theorem" was proven in 1994, 357 years after he stated it claiming he had a marvelous proof that he couldn't fit in the margin.
Who is Pierre de Fermat?
This Trojan princess had the gift of prophesy, but was cursed in that no one ever believed her.
Who is Cassandra?
This 18th-century Scottish philosopher is a key figure in empiricism, arguing in "A Treatise of Human Nature" that all knowledge comes from experience.
Who is David Hume?
Not mellifluous, but this, which would be rendered with k's in the original Greek
What is "cacaphonous"?
Children of a Lesser God
Who is Marlee Matlin?
This is the grim cause of an increasing number of airliner crashes, such as Germanwings 9525, MH370, and now is suspected in Air India 171.
What is deliberate pilot action?
1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ... is given this musical name.
What is the harmonic series?
Mark and John share names with two Gospels; so do their Juniors. Besides them, this is the only book of the New American Bible that is also the first name of a Donner cousin.
What is James?
The canonical text of existentialism "Being and Nothingness" is subtitled "An Essay on Phenomenological" THIS, which refers to the true nature of reality.
What is ontology?
One antonym for extraordinary is this Q-word, which comes from the French for "daily."
What is "quotidian"?
DAILY DOUBLE
LA Confidential
Who is Kim Basinger?
This startling phenomenon occurs in transonic flight (Mach 0.8-1.2) as waves go over the wing, causing the boundary layer to separate from the wings, lift to plummet, and drag to increase.
What is a shock stall?
This is the area under the standard bell curve y=e^(-x2).
What is sqrt(pi)?
This is a small French spongecake traditionally held and eaten like a cookie.
What is a madeleine?