Quantum Weirdness
What is a single packet of light energy called?
Photon
Which philosopher wrote the allegory of the cave?
Plato
What paradox is illustrated by the sentence 'This sentence is false'?
Liar paradox
What is the smallest sound unit that can change word meaning?
Phoneme
What stinging sea animal has no centralized brain?
Jellyfish
Which physicist is linked to the uncertainty principle?
Werner Heisenberg
What philosophical problem asks whether you could be only a brain in a vat?
Philosophical skepticism
What type of reasoning moves from a general rule to a specific conclusion?
Deductive reasoning
What word describes language that imitates a sound, like buzz or hiss?
Onomatopoeia
What do we call organisms that live on or in a host and take resources from it?
Parasites
What thought experiment imagines a cat both alive and dead until observed?
Schrodinger's cat
The trolley problem is most directly associated with what branch of philosophy?
Ethics
What valid argument form is 'If P then Q; P; therefore Q'?
Modus ponens
What branch of linguistics studies meaning?
Semantics
What biological ability lets an axolotl regrow lost limbs?
Regeneration
What phenomenon links particles so their states are correlated over distance?
Quantum entanglement
What thought experiment asks whether a repaired vessel remains the same object?
Ship of Theseus
What fallacy attacks the person instead of the argument?
Ad hominem
What branch of grammar studies word order and sentence structure?
Syntax
What organisms thrive in extreme heat, salt, acid, or pressure?
Extremophiles
What principle says two identical fermions cannot occupy the same quantum state?
Pauli exclusion principle
Which philosopher is associated with the veil of ignorance?
John Rawls
What term describes an explanation that keeps requiring a prior explanation forever?
Infinite regress
What kind of language can develop from a pidgin into a native language?
Creole
Male seahorses are famous for what reproductive role?
Male pregnancy