Clankers
OpenAI’s flagship product is this household name chatbot.
What is ChatGPT?
The term for a classic six-sided die in D&D.
What is a D6?
This US President was the first President to order the deployment of military personnel to Vietnam after WWII.
Who was President Harry Truman?
The branch of physics that covers heat, work, temperature, and how they work with other systems.
What is thermodynamics?
This chart shows how many sharps or flats are in each key and helps musicians move between related keys.
What is the Circle of Fifths?
This Chinese generative AI made waves in the technology community when they released their product open-source in early 2025.
What is DeepSeek?
The iconic TTRPG Dungeons & Dragons was created by (one of) these two men.
Who is Gary Gygax/Dave Arneson?
“Operation Just Cause” was the codename for the American invasion of this Central American nation in 1989.
What is Panama?
This law of physics asserts that energy is never destroyed or created.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
The SI unit for frequency, or what determines the pitch of any given wave.
What are Hertz (Hz)?
This famous test, originally called the “imitation game” by its eponymous creator, determines how well an AI can emulate human writing.
What is the Turing Test?
Many official D&D campaigns, as well as the 2023 movie Honor Among Thieves, are set in this universe.
What are the Forgotten Realms?
The CIA primarily organized this failed invasion of Cuba that occurred in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
The term for a state in which there is no net transfer of matter or energy between two systems.
What is equilibrium?
A consecutive series of notes that form a progression between a note and its octave.
What is a scale?
The slur for artificial intelligence, “clanker,” comes from the same derogatory term being used for these types of robots in Star Wars.
What are battle droids?
The most powerful (and largest) creature of the Material Plane, this abomination is a neutral yet destructive force of nature.
What is a tarrasque?
This American produce company dominated the Guatemalan economy in the 1950s and later lobbied Congress to fund a coup d'état in the nation to protect their interests.
What was the United Fruit Company?
Technically referring to a state of disorder, this scientific concept in thermodynamics describes how energy naturally spreads and the total amount in an isolated system can never decrease.
What is entropy?
Also called a semitone, this musical interval is the smallest of contemporary Western music.
What is a half step?
This named android created by Hanson Robotics is historical in that she is the first artificial intelligence to be granted citizenship (in Saudi Arabia).
What is Sophia?
This human-turned-lich-turned-deity canon to the Greyhawk universe gained popularity after their depiction in Stranger Things.
Who is Vecna?
The United States led a bombing campaign of this country in 1999 as punishment for genocidal war crimes.
What is Yugoslavia?
This law of thermodynamics asserts that if two systems are in equilibrium with a third, then they are in equilibrium with each other.
What is the zeroth law of thermodynamics?
The second loudest on the scale of dynamic markings, this “very loud” marking is noted with a double f.
What is fortissimo?