Anatomy
Common in athletes, ACL surgery reconstructs or replaces aligament located in this joint.
What is the knee?
The name of the modern country in which gunpowder was invented.
What is China?
The first man to step foot on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
The location of the first manned flight, Kitty Hawk, is in this state.
What is North Carolina?
Jeopardy! first premiered in this year during the LBJ presidency.
What is 1964?
The part of the body is comprised of the carpus and metacarpus.
What is the hand?
The last Chinese dynasty, ending in 1912.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
The largest space station every constructed.
What is the ISS?
A rectangular wing is also known by a nickname named for this classic candy bar bearing a similar shape.
What is a Hershey bar?
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner is the birthname of this famous singer.
Who is Sting?
The protein in your eyes that is essential for seeing in the dark and is also known as "visual purple."
What is rhodopsin?
Vostok 1 was a Soviet mission launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in this modern day nation once part of the USSR.
What is Kazakhstan?
The first American in space.
Who is Alan Shepard?
What is a barrel roll?
This nation has more islands than any other in the world.
DAILY DOUBLE:
To the nearest 50000, how many islands does it have?
What is Sweden?
DAILY DOUBLE:
250,000 (267,570)
Performing important sensory functions, the choroid and the uvea are part of this bodily organ.
What is the eye?
Absolut Vodka is a product of this Scandinavian country.
What is Sweden?
The first American space station.
What is SkyLab?
This fatal flaw made the early de Havilland Comet models particularly vulnerable to fatigue cracking.
What are square windows?
In Indiana the differentiating line between speeding and reckless driving is this many mph.
What is 26 mph?
Primarily a blood filter that recycles iron, this purple organ is connected to the posterior wall of the stomach and is largest collection of lymphoid tissue in the human body.
What is the spleen?
The world's oldest multi-purpose athletic building still in use is located in what country?
What city is it in?
What is the United States?
DAILY DOUBLE:
What is Boston?
Name 3 of the 5 "nations" that collaborated to build the ISS.
Name their space agencies as well.
What are America, Russia, the EU, Japan, and Canada?
DAILY DOUBLE:
NASA, Roscosmos, ESA, JAXA, CSA.
Interpret the lift equation:
L = Cl*r*(0.5(v^2))*A
Lift = (Coefficient of Lift)(density)(1/2 velocity squared)(wing area)
The company known for products such as the F-14 Tomcat and classic mail truck.
What is Grumman?