Top of the "Chapel Hill"
Chapel Hill derives its name from the titular hill, once topped by New Hope Chapel. What hotel now occupies that site?
What is the Carolina Inn.
What is the Doctor’s home planet in ‘Doctor Who’?
What is Gallifrey
This element, the only one discovered before it was found on earth, was detected in the spectrum of the Sun's light.
What is Helium
This now-ubiquitous packaging material was invented in 1957 by engineers Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes, who originally intended it to be a textured plastic wallpaper.
What is Bubble Wrap
This Gen Z slang refers to someone considered the best in a particular field or category.
What is GOAT (greatest of all time)
This Chapel Hill-based planetarium trained Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts, and was one of only 6 planetariums in the nation when it was opened in 1949.
What is the Morehead Planetarium
This desert planet, the primary supplier of the valuable substance "spice" as well as giant sandworms, was the setting of the story of Dune.
There are lots of elements named after countries, but this country is the only country named after an element; its current name derives from the Latin word for silver.
What is Argentina
This antibiotic was discovered accidentally in 1928 by a researcher studying Staphylococcus, whose sample was contaminated by mold.
What is Penicillin
This Gen Z pejorative is derived from a popular YouTube video series featuring anthropomorphic toilets.
What is skibidi
This African American community center was paid for by a coalition of White and African American upper-class Chapel Hill residents following the 1937 Chapel Hill race riots.
What is Hargaves Community Center
This hardened war veteran, twice court martialed under dubious circumstances, trains young Ender Wiggin to destroy "the buggers" or Formics, in Enders Game
Who is Mazer Rackham
Around 50% of the nitrogen atoms in our bodies originate from this chemical process, for which its inventor was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918.
What is the Haber-Bosch process
First synthesized by Harry Coover in 1942 while searching for materials to make clear plastic gunsights, this adhesive was initially dismissed as a laboratory nuisance before finding new life in surgical applications and battlefield wound closure.
What is Super Glue (cyanoacrylate)
This Gen Z slang verb means "To do something exceptionally well, often exceeding expectations."
What is Ate
This local art museum hosts a fascinating collection, including the body of the main donor, who first offered the funds to Duke with the condition they display his corpse.
Ackland Art Museum
How many jigawatts of power does Doc Brown dramatically shout the time machine needs in Back to the Future?
1.21 Jigawatts
This element was discovered after heating up concentrated urine in the alchemical pursuit of philosopher’s stone.
What is Phosphorus
While searching for a new refrigerant in 1938, DuPont chemist Roy Plunkett discovered this polymer that later revolutionized cookware and contributed to the rising contamination risk of "forever chemicals".
What is Teflon (PTFE).
This Gen Z slang is a cute or childlike way to express exhaustion.
What is Eepy
This Chapel Hill native was an influential American folk and blues musician who taught herself to play guitar upside down on a right-handed guitar due to her left-handedness.
Who was Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten
Considered one of the first science fiction stories, this 1752 novella by the French philosopher Voltaire recounts the visit to Earth of a being from a planet circling the star Sirius, and of his companion from the planet Saturn.
What is Micromegas
This element, discovered in 2002 and formally recognized in 2015, is one of only two named after a living person.
What is Oganesson
This soft drink, originally made from beet sugar, whey, and apple scraps, was developed in Germany during WWII when Coca Cola's headquarters cut off shipment of syrup to Germany after war was declared.
What is Fanta
This Gen Z slack describes a strategy of changing your looks to chase beauty standards in an exemplary manner
What is Looksmaxxing