Movies
This is the name of a movie series created by George Lucas AND Steven Spielberg, surrounding the adventures of a detail-oriented archaeologist, who is deathly afraid of snakes.
What is Indiana Jones?
In this book, the central character begins experiencing visions of his uncle, who has escaped a magical prison in order to reunite with members of his group of friends from their magical schooling days, one of whom now teaches at the school. The uncle continues to escape from the law by use of a griffin.
What is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
In microbiology, this refers to the chemical agent responsible for the creation of proteins.
What are amino acids?
This ancient city, located underneath modern-day Mexico City, was once one of the most populated places on Earth, and the capital of the Aztec Empire.
What was Tenochtitlan?
This is the name of the metal (or plastic) end to a shoelace.
What is an aglet?
In this film, the title character, along with her iconic partner, discover the privileges and societal malfeasances of the modern-day world, in comparison with their utopian paradise in which all are given an equal standing and equal job opportunities. Characters in the main characters' world all share the exact same names with one another, and are based off of a toy brand by Mattel.
What is Barbie?
In this book, a plane crashes on an island in the Pacific, carrying a number of teenage boys. As a means of survival, the young men then began forming factions, with one being symbolized by a dead pig's head on a spike.
What is Lord Of The Flies?
In geography, this refers to a strip of land between two bodies of water. The city of Madison is the only US Capital that sits upon one of these land formations.
What is an isthmus?
During WWI, this battle between Australian, British, French, and Turkish forces took place near the strait to the Black Sea, in order for Russian naval forces (of the Triple Entente) to gain access to the warfront in Southern Europe.
What was Gallipoli/the Gallipoli campaign/the Battle of Gallipoli?
This is the specific chemical group that is outlawed in many countries for usage in shampoo and conditioner.
What are parabens? What are sulfates?
In this film, two private agents, one of whom has just returned from France, experience divine intervention when almost killed by gunfire. A secondary character, a famed boxer, loses his watch, and becomes involved with the overarching plot involving the two private agents.
What is Pulp Fiction?
In this book, the central character (who is involved in the titular role) engages in a rebellion with her fellow coworkers against a tyrannical and patriarchal regime rooted in extremist religious ideology. Those that take on the red-robed role have unique names that are intended to derive them of their sense of self and encapsulate their service to men.
What is The Handmaid's Tale?
In climatology circles, this became an enormous crisis in the 1980s, specifically in the regions of the polar icecaps. This phenomenon resulted in the banning of many aerosol products.
What is the Ozone Layer Hole?
Who was Joan of Arc?
This is the name of a pen-producing company that is famous for their arrow symbology in their products.
What is Parker/Parker Pens?
Who is Saw Gerrera?
In Of Mice and Men, this is the name of the wife of Curly, who is accidentally killed by Lennie. Her hair is noticeably soft, and she maintains a close proximity to Curly throughout the novel.
In agriculture and soil science, this refers to the synthetic process of creating ammonium nitrate for dispersion in the soil. The creator of this process, while saving potentially billions of lives, was also responsible for the creation of Zyklon B, which would eventually be used for a variety of genocidal purposes worldwide.
What is the Haber-Bosch process?
What is impressment?
In the study of sociology and religion, this term refers to cultural adjustments and additions to a religious doctrine as a result of mass-dissemination across large distances. Buddhism had undergone this adjustment due in part to the Pax Mongolica.
What is religious syncretism?
This French shock-and-awe film, released in 2008, follows the ordeal of two women who become victims of a secret organization that tortures people in order to gain an understanding of the afterlife. Due to the grim nature of the film, some parts had to be edited in certain countries.
What is Martyrs?
In this book, the main character bears witness to a system in which human beings are born and slaughtered for their flesh, which cannot be infected by a deadly virus that is found in other types of meat. It has oftentimes been cited as a commentary on a variety of social injustices.
What is Tender Is The Flesh?
This creature, found in Asia and Africa, is defined by large iridescent scales upon its body, which have been used for traditional medicine, though the effectiveness is debated by modern science. They are one of the most endangered species on Earth, due to black market poaching. Their appearance is similar to that of an armadillo.
What are pangolins?
In ancient history and geography, this term refers to a natural region of the world in which writings of the Agricultural Revolution were obtained, due to the mass-prevalence of fertile soil in the region. Today, this area is defined by the nations of Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, and Iraq, and due to a variety of geopolitical circumstances, is not fit for agriculture as it once was.
What was the Fertile Crescent?
This term refers to the psychological phenomenon in which a person will believe something is more frequent if they are presented with a number of isolated instances in which said thing is present. This was observed in the early 2000s and early 2010s with the September 11th attacks and the rise of ISIS/ISIL, respectively.
What is the availability heuristic?