The Periodic Table
Li
What is Lithium
The process of creating the initial stitches on a knitting needle.
What is Cast-on?
He was the first premier of British Columbia
Who was John Foster McCreight?
From Mean Girls: This is the answer to “What is the limit as x approaches zero of [ln(1-x)-sinx]/(1-cos²x)”
What is "The Limit Does Not Exist?"
This brass instrument is known for its slide.
What is the trombone?
K
What is Potassium?
A direction of a piece of woven fabric.
What is Bias?
What is Vatican City?
In this 2001 film, Russell Crowe plays real-life mathematician, John Nash, who is best known for his contributions in the field of game theory.
What is A Beautiful Mind?
This term means to gradually get louder.
What is crescendo?
Au
What is Gold?
To cut food into short, thin strips.
What is Julienne?
This ancient Egyptian queen was known for her beauty and charm.
Who was Cleopatra?
In this 1997 film, Matt Damon’s character plays a Harvard janitor who is also a natural genius in mathematics.
What is Good Will Hunting?
A string quartet is traditionally composed of one cello, one viola and two of these.
What are violins?
W
What is Tungsten?
The pattern of air holes in the structure of a baked bread or cake.
What is Crumb?
The Industrial Revolution began in this century.
18th Century.
In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, this actor played Dr. Ian Malcom, a mathematician who specialized in chaos theory.
Who is Jeff Goldblum?
This is the term for the highness or lowness of a sound.
What is pitch?
Pb
What is Lead?
When baking bread, the ratio of water to flour is called this.
What is hydration?
The last province to join Confederation.
What is Newfoundland and Labrador? (1949)
In this famous fiction novel by author Dan Brown, the main character solves puzzles and other historical mysteries by using the Fibonacci sequence and other math-related clues.
What is the Da Vinci Code?
This element of music refers to the organized pattern of durations, like a drumbeat.
What is rhythm?