A Tale of One City
Aptly named as the meeting of many train lines, this city sits on the border of Indiana and Ohio
What is Union City (IN/OH)?
Frank Hayes died of this affliction moments before he won his first horse race
What is a heart attack?
This function extends the factorial operator to complex numbers
What is the Gamma function?
This NOC has the most total Olympic medals, with 3128 medals from the Summer and Winter Games
What is the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee?
This planet has the fastest rotation period of only about 10 hours
What is Jupiter?
This city that is in two states boasts the smallest US national park
What is St. Louis (MO/IL)?
This president died presumably after catching pneumonia during his record 2 hour inauguration speech, given in the rain
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This constant is involved in compound interest, representing the function as compounding frequency approaches infinity
What is e?
This person has won the most Olympic gold medals ever, more than any other person's total Olympic medals
Who is Michael Phelps?
A spacecraft launched in 2024 is set to visit this object, the smoothest solid object in the solar system, in 2030
What is Europa?
This split city is recognized as a birthplace of country music
What is Bristol (TN/VA)?
In 1518 several people died by this unconventional "plague", possibly after unintentional LSD consumption
What is the dancing plague?
This topology theorem states that the fibers on a sphere cannot all be flattened at the same time - "you can't comb the hair on a coconut"
What is the Hairy Ball Theorem?
An athlete from this former country has the second most ever individual medals
What is the Soviet Union?
This is the most cratered body in the solar system
What is Callisto?
Comines is a city renowned for it's ribbon making, and is split between these two countries
21 people were killed, and 150 people were injured by a flood of this liquid in early 20th century Boston
This function is defined as the inverse of xe^x
What is the Lambert W Function?
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo received 6 of his 11 gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics in this sport
What is cross-country skiing?
These three closest in Galilean moons orbit in harmonic resonance with each other
What are Io, Europa, and Ganymede?
Half of this split city shares its namesake with a state it is not in
What is Kansas City?
This man died of a bladder infection after (reportedly) refusing to leave a banquet and breach proper etiquette by relieving himself
Who is Tycho Brahe?
This constant is multiplied by the Gaussian curve to make it's integrated area 1
What is 1/sqrt(pi)?
This athlete holds 24 of the top 25 times in their event and has 9 Olympic gold medals
Who is Katie Ledecky?
This is the reddest body in the Solar System
What is Amalthea?