Aeronautical Nonsense
An aerial battle between fighter aircraft conducted at close range.
What is a dogfight?
This mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous food seasonings, and is known to uniformly improve the taste perception of food.
What is salt?
Born in Waco, Texas in 1885, this Doctor is composed of 23 flavors.
What is Dr. Pepper?
This technology is used for signaling and communicating using a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates electromagnetic waves.
What is Radio?
This ranged incendiary device, which saw use in both world wars, is regulated by Protocol III of the Geneva Convention, which prohibits the use of any weapon designed to set fire to civilian targets.
What is a Flamethrower?
An aircraft in flight is free to rotate in three dimensions, described using these three principal axes.
What are yaw, pitch, and roll?
Heinz, the largest producer of pickles, vinegar, and ketchup in the United States, merged with this company in 2015, known for products such as Velveeta, MiO, and Lunchables.
What is Kraft Foods?
This British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.
What is Doctor Who?
A mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
What is a printing press?
This is the American campaign and advertising icon of the U.S. Forest Service in the Wildfire Prevention Campaign, which is the longest-running public service announcement campaign in United States history.
Who is Smokey Bear?
While this road surfacing material is outdated and no longer common in most countries, the word is still used to refer to generic paved areas at airports, although these areas are often made of concrete.
What is tarmac?
This joke villain created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini for Batman: The Animated Series is a petty criminal who makes use of various condiments, sometimes capable of causing anaphylactic shock, as his weapons.
Who is Condiment King?
This is a high-level doctorate degree earned after a period of three or more years of graduate-level study, culminating in the creation, submission, presentation and defense of a research dissertation.
What is a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)?
Derived from the wild rock dove, this domestic bird was selectively bred for its ability to find its way home over extremely long distances, and thus were used commercially to deliver communication until the introduction of telephones.
What is a homing pigeon?
The energy released in powerful explosions, such as atomic and nuclear explosions, is commonly expressed using units such as kilotons and megatons respectively, which describe explosive power in equivalence to this chemical compound.
What is TNT?
An aircraft's main body section, holding crew, passengers, or cargo.
What is the fuselage?
Hot sauce is a type of condiment made from chili peppers. The pungency of chili peppers and other substances, based on the concentration of capsaicinoids, is measured on this scale.
What is the Scoville Scale?
This popular character, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, first appeared in The Fantastic Four #5 in 1961.
Who is Doctor Doom?
This is an award administered by Columbia University for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States.
What is The Pulitzer Prize?
This is the most combustible element on the periodic table. It is commonly used to fuel rocket engines, producing water as a byproduct.
What is Hydrogen?
This condition caused by low levels of oxygen can lead to dizziness and disorientation, posing extreme danger to pilots operating aircraft at high altitudes.
What is hypoxia?
This term describes a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally immiscible, such as oil and water, owing to liquid-liquid phase separation; such mixtures include Hollandaise, Béarnaise, and mayonnaise.
What is Emulsion?
This 1962 spy film directed by Terence Young is the first film in the James Bond series.
What is Dr. No?
This is America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation, boasting over 3.7 million news subscribers as of June 2022.
What is The Wall Street Journal?
This term defines the lowest temperature at which a liquid will generate sufficient vapor to ignite when exposed to a source of ignition or fire. It is what determines the flammability of a substance.
What is Flash Point?