Beelines
Scientist who first proposed the principle of least time (optics)
Who was Pierre de Fermat?
A natural force that picks up pollen from one plane and blows it onto another
What is wind?
A classic science fiction film, starring the Machines which act as a vast networked intelligence to control humans.
What is The Matrix?
A unique, 6-sided pattern often seen during winter
What is a snowflake?
The branch of calculus that finds the extremum (min, max, saddle point) of a function
What is calculus of variations?
The mechanism of reproduction for plants without flowers
What are spores?
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?
What is a geometric proof?
The female part of the flower
What is the pistil?
In Ender's Game, the name of the alien species the humans fight a war against
What are "The Buggers" or the Formics?
The most efficient method for close-packing of equal spheres in three dimensions (hint: there are two)
What are hexagonal close-packed and cubic/face-centered close-packed?
The catch-phrase of the Queen of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
The people who first used the Pythagorean theorem, evidenced by a 3,700-year-old clay tablet with Pythagorean triples.
Who were the Babylonians?
Two common animal pollinators (other than bees)
What are butterflies, moths, flies, hummingbirds, birds?
The name of the planetary mind guiding the collective decisions of the Na'vi in Avatar.
What is Eywa?
A molecule composed of six carbon atoms joined in a planar hexagonal ring with one hydrogen atom attached to each
What is benzene?
Queen Elizabeth II's favorite breed of dog
What is the corgi?
The curve of fastest descent from point A to point B (for a frictionless bead under uniform gravitational field)
What is the brachistochrone curve?
Where the pollen moves to from the stamen in order for a flower to become pollinated
What is the stigma?
A parasitic, hive mind, alien lifeform and one of the primary antagonists in the Halo franchise.
What is The Flood?
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?