Physicists
When the Inquisition forced him to recant his belief the Earth orbited the sun, he reportedly said, “And yet it moves.”
Galielo
Kansas
Wheat
This saying is an unofficial tribunal where due process usually goes right out the window.
Kangeroo Court
The surname of a 20th-century German physicist, this is Walter White's chosen alias.
Heisenburg
“Pump and dump” is a scam where crooks hype this kind of asset — then sell their shares for profit when the price spikes.
Penny stocks
Once an Anglican priest, this evolutionary scientist’s On the Origin of Species made waves — and enemies — in religious circles.
Charles Darwin
Number of words listed in Oxford's English dictionary
600,000
He said a falling apple inspired his theory of gravitation, but it probably did not strike his head
Issac Newton
Iowa
Corn
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Trump may be unpopular but its not until Jan 20, 2029 that he becomes this
Lame Duck
This household cold medicine, once freely sold over-the-counter, is now locked up behind the pharmacy counter thanks to its starring role in meth production.
Pseudoephedrine
In 1920s Paris, Victor Lustig pulled off one of the boldest scams ever: he “sold” this landmark to scrap metal dealers — twice.
Eiffel Tower
In religious contexts, this is someone who maintains beliefs that contradict the established doctrines of their religion
Heretic
Number of seconds in a year
31.5 million
She and her husband Pierre researched radioactivity
Marie Curie
Idaho
Potatoes
This is someone who hides malicious intent under a friendly appearance and might scare little red riding hood
Wolf in Sheep's clothing
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You might cook your your crystal with this kind of flask, which has a flat bottom, a conical body, and a cylindrical neck and is used for measuring liquids
Erlenmeyer flask
This type of online romance con tricks lonely people into wiring money to someone they’ve never actually met.
Catfishing
This 19th-century German philosopher declared “God is dead,” challenging traditional Christian morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Total number of songs released by the Beatles
213
To explain quantum superposition, he proposed a famous thought experiment involving a
Erwin Schrodinger
New York
Apples
This animal appeared in Alice and Wonderland and was later the subject of a trippy song by Jefferson Airplane in 1967
White Rabbit
When amateurs don’t ventilate their labs properly, this deadly byproduct — also found in pools — can kill you faster than your product ever will.
Phosphine gas
Selling oceanfront property in this famously dry desert state is a joke shorthand for an obvious scam.
Arizona
This English king ditched the Pope and founded the Church of England just to dump his first wife.
Henry VIII
The Roman numeral MCMXCIX stands for this year in our calendar.
1999
This Danish physicist’s model of the atom added orbits for electrons and won him the 1922 Nobel Prize.
Neils Bohr
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Mississippi
Cotton
A detective might be familiar with this fishy term which means something that misleads or distracts from the real issue.
Red Herring
One step in meth production involves turning ephedrine into meth using this shiny metal — the same stuff you find in campfire stoves and old batteries.
Lithium
This institution run by an American businessman, which offered real estate education programs, was the subject of multiple lawsuits alleging it defrauded students through misleading marketing and high-pressure sales tactics
Trump University
This American founding father famously cut all the miracles out of the Bible in his personal version.
Thomas Jefferson
This is the atomic number of gold on the periodic table.
79