Math
A fair coin is flipped 3 times. What is the probability of exactly 2 heads?
3/8
What is the basic unit of life?
A cell
What political theory is associated with Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations?
The invisible hand
What is the capital of California?
Sacramento
This psychologist is famous for classical conditioning experiments with dogs
Ivan Pavlov
A farmer has chickens and rabbits. There are 35 heads and 94 legs. How many of each are there?
23 chickens, 12 rabbits
What element is denoted by the symbol K?
Potassium
This period is known for a renewed interest in classical learning, art, and science beginning in 14th century Europe
The Renaissance
What region in the western North Atlantic Ocean is famously associated with mysterious disappearances of ships and aircrafts?
Bermuda Triangle
This type of cyberattack attempts to make a website or online service unavailable by flooding it with traffic
DDOS
What is the derivative of (x3 +x)/x
2x
What is the name of the region around a black hole beyond which no information can escape?
Event horizon
The Magna Carta was signed in what country?
England
What is the name of the ancient supercontinent that existed before plate tectonics caused the modern continents to drift apart?
Pangaea
What logical fallacy assumes correlation implies causation?
Post hoc ergo propter hoc / False cause
If A = {1, 2, 3} and B = {3, 4, 5}, what is A ∩ B?
{3}
What is the ideal gas law equation?
PV = nRT
Who wrote the 95 Theses criticizing the practices of the Catholic Church and helped start the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
What is the Prime Meridian?
0 degrees longitude line
This concept describes a system where small changes in input produce drastically different outputs, often associated with encryption and chaos systems. The game Until Dawn utilizes this concept.
Butterfly effect
How many people need to be in a room for there to be a greater than 50% chance that at least two people share the same birthday? (Assume 365 equally likely birthdays and ignore leap years)
23 people
What principal in quantum mechanics states that certain pairs of physical properties cannot both be known precisely at the same time? i.e position and momentum of a particle
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
This 1648 series of treaties ended the 30 Years War and established the principle of state sovereignty in Europe
Peace (Treaties) of Westphalia
What is the periodic climate phenomenon in the tropical Pacific Ocean characterized by weakened trade winds and unusually warm ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific?
El Niño
What is the state fish of Hawaii?
Humuhumunukunukuapua-a