Baseball
In 2019, this team became the first from a Big Ten school to reach the College World Series finals since Ohio State did it in 1966
What is Michigan?
A neutron has approximately the same mass as this other type of subatomic particle
What is a proton?
This kind of island common in the Pacific Ocean is ring-shaped and formed on top of old coral reefs
What is an Atoll?
Possibly the most delicious number, this is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
What is π? (3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803…)
This handsome young man who they called “the king” sung too many songs and had himself a heart attack or something
Who is Elvis Presley?
If a pitcher doesn’t come to a complete stop before starting his delivery, the umpire will call this, allowing all baserunners to advance to the next base
What is a balk?
Mg is magnesium; Mn is this element
What is Manganese?
At more that 35,000 feet underwater, this deepest part of the ocean is further from sea level than the top of Mount Everest
What is the Mariana Trench?
The United States’ flag has this “lucky” number of stripes
What is 13?
One day in this country, it started raining, and it didn’t quit for four months. Shoot, it even rained at night
What is (South) Vietnam?
Howie Kendrick led this team to the 2019 World Series title with a go-ahead two-run home run off of the foul pole in the seventh inning
Who are the Washington Nationals?
A substance that speeds up a reaction without being consumed
What is a catalyst?
Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have caused this process, which among other things, makes it harder for coral reefs to make their skeletons
What is ocean acidification?
Each Major League baseball team plays this number of home games in a season, one fewer than the total number of games in a pro hockey or basketball season
What is 81?
Forrest was part of the first Americans to visit this land in like a million years or something like that when he played ping-pong
What is China?
This man, who has been Commissioner of Baseball since 2015, called the World Series trophy, which bears the name of his job title, “a piece of metal”
Who is Rob Manfred?
The Haber-Bosch process was developed prior to World War I to produce this pungent gas from nitrogen & hydrogen
What is ammonia?
Winds going parallel to the shore can displace warm surface water, causing colder, nutrient-rich water to come up from the bottom of the ocean in this process
What is upwelling?
For a good time, call Jenny at this number
What is 867-5309?
This nice young man was shot for no particular reason while riding in his car, and a few years after that, somebody shot his little brother too, only he was in a hotel kitchen
Who is John F. Kennedy?
A walk is called this in the Official Baseball Rules
What is base on balls?
This unit with an animal name is used to measure extremely large numbers of atoms & other tiny particles
What is a mole?
Complex and unique ecosystems form around these, where heat from the earth’s mantle reaches the sea floor
What are hydrothermal vents?
Count von Count’s favorite number is 34,969, but he has sung about how “great” this smaller number is before
What is 8?
Bubba Gump Shrimp had more money than this folk hero who died at the Alamo after Hurricane Carmen destroyed all of the other shrimping boats
Who is Davy Crockett?