Color
The detachment of this part of the human eye is a possible cause for some patients’ color vision deficiency.
What is retina?
0x1100
What is C?
This Switzerland-originated dish is a dish of meat wrapped around cheese filling, then breaded, and pan-fried or deep-fried.
What is cordon bleu (alternatively, blue ribbon)?
In this game that originated during the seventh century, appearing in the text Chatrang-namak as well as mini-series “The Queen’s Gambit”, two players control an army of pieces with the objective to checkmate the opponent’s king.
What is chess?
This is the solution to the Sphinx riddle: “What has one voice but goes on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?”
What is a human being?
Buddhist, Taoist, and Middle Ages Cistercian monks frequently wear this color. Interestingly, this color has a different common spelling in American and British English.
What is gray?
None of Spring 2024’s CSM executives have a first name that starts with this letter
What is M?
The term for this liquor denotes those that are obtained from the distillation of pomance, or mash or wine of fruits, and are called the water of life in French.
What is Brandy?
The British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley discovered gameboards of this race game during the excavation of the Royal Cemetery at Ur.
What is Royal Game of Ur?
This is the number bases that the ancient Babylonians used.
What is base-60?
Early China has not used a natural pigment for this color, and was the first to develop a synthetic one in human history. Additionally, its color term was incorporated in the name of a Chinese imperial architecture, alternatively named Gu Gong.
What is purple?
Decimal ASCII code for this character is 115
What is S?
This tool from SCAA addresses the categories of aroma that a coffee can wield. For example, under this tool, frequent sources of sweetness-related flavor are caramel, nuts, and cocoa.
What is (SCAA) flavor/aroma wheel?
This is an Indian game played on a board like a symmetric cross, and the victory condition is to move all four of your pieces around the board before the other player. Its name is derived from the Hindi word for “25”.
What is Pachisi?
This is the state where the first 911 call was ever made.
What is Alabama?
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe has used this shape to represent the relationship between colors. With modern research, it is verified that the manifold learning embedding of human color perceptions does represent this shape.
What is circle?
Used as an abbreviation for the standard unit of weight for gems
This staple seasoning, very prevalent in Southeast Asian dishes, is often made from anchovies, salt, and water, also called “nam pla” in Thailand.
What is fish sauce?
Prof. Dan Garcia featured this game in his 61C lecture this semester about a paper published this fall has solved this game, concerning a 8x8 square of white and dark disks. This game has a same name with a Shakespearean tragedy concerning another character: Iago.
What is Othello?
He was the main advocate of the idea that falsifiability distinguishes science from non-science.
Who is Karl Popper?
In 1969, University of California Press has published this linguistic concept where all cultures have terms for black/dark and white/bright, and if a culture has three color terms, the third is red.
What is Basic Color Terms (: Their Universality and Evolution)?
The International Phonetic Alphabet for voiceless alveolar sibilant
What is S?
This dish, originating from the Imperial Hotel in Japan, is made for a Russian opera singer who was suffering a toothache. This dish makes its steak aspect extra tender by using onions to marinade the steak.
What is Chaliapin steak?
In Japanese Mahjong, declaring this word means declaring a ready winning hand. This declaration requires a cost of 1000 in-game points, and can only be performed if a player has not claimed another player’s discard.
What is Riichi (alternatively, reach)?
What is the maximum number of spheres with same radius that can touch each other in n dimensions?
n+1