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The kind of proof performed by Pythagoras, granting him historical credit for the Pythagorean theorem.
What is geometric proof?
Movie with iconic line "wax on, wax off"
What is The Karate Kid?
A classic science fiction film, starring the Machines which act as a vast networked intelligence to control humans.
What is The Matrix?
Because of its roughly six-sided outline, this European country is sometimes affectionately called l’Hexagone.
Where is France?
This mathematician who first proposed the principle of least time is also known as the founder of modern number theory.
Who was Pierre de Fermat?
A Korean martial art focused on high, fast kicks, and powerful strikes
What is taekwondo?
A symbiote villain from the Spider-Man Universe.
Who is Venom?
A two-dimensional material worked on by Adre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, winning them the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics
What is graphene?
The Walt Disney film starring the Evil Queen
What is Snow White?
In this distance metric, named for a famously gridded borough, the distance between two points is the sum of their horizontal and vertical separations rather than the straight-line distance.
What is Manhattan distance?
An Irish professional mixed martial artist who famously fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2017
Who is Conor McGregor?
In Ender's Game, the name of the alien species the humans fight a war against
What are "The Buggers" or the Formics?
A persistent atmospheric feature surrounding the north pole of this planet forms an enormous, nearly regular hexagon.
What is Saturn?
The catch-phrase of the Queen of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
The algorithm, introduced by this hard to pronounce Dutch computer scientist in 1959, finds shortest paths through a weighted graph when its edge weights are nonnegative and is frequently used in mapping applications.
What is Dijkstra’s algorithm?
The martial art of stealth used for espionage and sabotage
What is ninjutsu?
The name of the planetary mind guiding the collective decisions of the Na'vi in Avatar.
What is Eywa?
The primary mirror of this space telescope is composed of 18 gold-coated hexagonal segments.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
Queen Elizabeth II's favorite breed of dog
What is the corgi?
The fundamental equation of the calculus of variations bears the names of these two mathematicians.
What is the Euler-Lagrange equation?
Uma Thurman’s Bride trains under the fictional Pai Mei in Kill Bill, but the character is loosely derived from legendary masters associated with this Chinese temple tradition.
What is Shaolin kung fu?
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A parasitic, hive mind, alien lifeform and one of the primary antagonists in the Halo franchise.
Rock formations created when thick lava flows cool slowly and contract, causing cracks to form in hexagonal patterns
What are basalt columns?
Who is Marie Antoinette?