Math
This famous Greek mathematician, and author of The Elements, is known as the “Father of Geometry.”
Euclid
This 1997 movie starring Matt Damon features a janitor at MIT who’s secretly a math prodigy.
What is Good Will Hunting?
Also known as Leonardo of Pisa, this famous Italian mathematician is best known for discovering a sequence where each number is the sum of the two previous numbers.
Fibonacci
Who was the first African American baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
This insect is capable of living underground for up to 17 years before emerging to mate.
What is a periodical cicada?
The golden ratio, approximately 1.618, is often denoted by this Greek letter.
What is phi (Φ)?
In The Big Bang Theory, this socially awkward physicist is known for his strict adherence to logic and math.
Who is Sheldon Cooper?
This effect explains the redshift of light from distant galaxies, showing that the universe is expanding.
What is the Doppler effect?
This Portuguese player is famous for his free-kick against Portsmouth in 2008, voted the greatest free-kick goal ever.
Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?
This colorful butterfly migrates thousands of miles across North America annually.
What is the monarch butterfly?
The sum of the interior angles of an octagon
What is 1080 degrees?
In the famous Netflix show Stranger Things, the young characters frequently refer to this branch of physics as it relates to an alternate dimensions, which they call the upside down.
Quantum Mechanics
In Back to the Future, Doc Brown’s time machine required 1.21 gigawatts of power and this fuel source.
What is plutonium?
This American tennis star has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in the Open Era
Who is Serena Williams?
This insect can survive complete decapitation for several days and is known for being one of the most resilient species on Earth.
What is a cockroach?
Solve for x in the equation 3x−7=11
What is x = 6?
In the 2016 film Hidden Figures, three African-American women mathematicians—Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson—contributed to the launch of this NASA space mission.
The Mercury-Atlas 6 Mission (John Glenn's famous orbit of Earth)
This layer of Earth’s atmosphere contains the ozone layer, which protects us from UV radiation.
What is the stratosphere?
This Serbian player has won multiple Australian Open, Wimbledon, and US Open titles and completed a career Grand Slam.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
This critically endangered, nocturnal, flightless parrot is native to New Zealand and is known for its mossy-green feathers and distinct owl-like face.
What is a kakapo?
This 17th-century mathematician proved that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation a^n+b^n=c^n for any integer n>2, though his proof was never found in his notes.
Who is Pierre de Fermat?
In Futurama, a theorem created by the show’s writer (who holds a PhD in mathematics) allows characters to swap bodies while preserving individuality. This theorem is a real, valid result in this branch of mathematics.
What is group theory?
This scientist discovered the structure of DNA along with James Watson and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Who is Francis Crick?
This American swimmer won four individual gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics and is known for dominating long-distance freestyle events.
Who is Katie Ledecky?
This bird has the largest wingspan of any living species, reaching up to 12 feet.
What is the wandering albatross?