Martial Arts
In 2020, this martial art became the most recent one added to the Olympics, despite having been practiced since at least the 1400s in Japan.
What is karate?
This type of connecting joint is often found in wood furniture and cabinetry, is known for its high tensile strength, and features two interlocking pieces that are sometimes hand carved.
What is a dovetail joint?
Robot Chicken (Various Characters)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Fire Lord Ozai)
Star Wars (Luke Skywalker)
Who is Mark Hamill?
This woman (along with Britney Spears and many others) has spent years since the early 2010s advocating for women's control over their work in the music industry, as well as being a fierce advocate for survivors of assault. Tik tok, patriarchy.
Who is Kesha?
Rosa Parks not giving up her seat and moving to the back of the bus led to her arrest, and touched off this mass protest against segregated public transit (named after the city it started in).
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
US President Teddy Roosevelt briefly practiced this Japanese martial art, which focuses primarily on grappling, throwing, and pinning.
What is judo?
Viggo Mortenson famously broke this body part during an incident with a helmet on the set of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, during the scene where his character Aragorn believes Merry and Pippin have been killed.
What is his toe?
(He kicked a steel helmet and snapped his toe, letting out a cry of pain that was kept in the movie as a cry of anguish over his friends' deaths)
Attack on Titan (Levi Ackerman)
Overwatch (Cole Cassidy)
Critical Role (Dungeon Master)
Who is Matthew Mercer?
This trailblazing justice was the second woman to be elevated to the Supreme Court, and remains the only Supreme Court justice to be replaced by another woman, though sadly the replacement justice has not been very pro-woman.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
This Black scientist and inventor is renowned for the methods he developed to heal the land and reverse soil depletion caused by hundreds of years of cotton plantations in the American South. It is a common myth that he invented peanut butter, but he did promote the peanut as a sustainable crop!
Who is George Washington Carver?
In Muay Thai, you can score points by successfully striking your opponent using these four body parts.
What are fists, elbows, knees, and feet?
The accretion disc spinning around a black hole produces this type of radiation.
What is electromagnetic radiation?
Kim Possible (Rufus)
Rugrats (Chuckie Finster)
The Simpsons (Bart and Maggie Simpson)
Who is Nancy Cartwright?
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to travel into outer space on the Vostok 6 space capsule, and to this day, she is the only woman to ever fly a solo mission into space as this type of space explorer.
What is a cosmonaut?
In 1985, police could not dislodge members of MOVE, a black liberation activist group, from the rowhome they were meeting in, so they literally firebombed the home from a police helicopter, causing a neighborhood-wide firestorm that burned down 63 homes and killed 11 people in this Pennsylvania city.
What is Philadelphia?
This Brazilian martial art incorporates dance, acrobatics, and music, originally as a way to disguise martial arts training from colonizers, but now as part of Brazil's rich cultural history.
What is capoeira?
Computer programming languages are usually described using these two terms.
What are syntax and semantics?
Bugs Bunny (Bugs Bunny)
Flintstones (Barney Rubble and Dino)
Looney Tunes (Sylvester and others)
Who is Mel Blanc?
This former First Lady not only advised her husband in passing some of the biggest social reforms in our nation's history, she also became the first US delegate to the United Nations, was a strong supporter of unions and workers' rights, and wrote many feminist news articles.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
After the Great Migration north by Black communities in the early 1900s, Black art and culture exploded in this era spanning the 20s and 30s - providing a platform for massive talent such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Many martial arts use a colored belt system to indicate progression of skill, and the World Karate Federation recognizes nine ranks, indicated by these colors.
What are white, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, red, brown, and black.
At 830,000 square miles, this is the largest country on Earth that has zero naturally-occurring rivers within its borders.
What is Saudi Arabia?
Naruto: Shippuden (Sasori)
Konjiki no Gash Bell!! (Kiyomaro Takamine)
Kingdom Hearts (Cloud Strife)
Who is Takahiro Sakurai?
This wife of an artillery captain was initially assigned to carry water for a US artillery regiment during the War of Independence, but when her husband was shot dead, she took over his cannon and fired it for the rest of the battle. She went on to fight for the rest of the war and retired with a full soldier's pension.
Who is Molly Pitcher?
Madam CJ Walker is cited as the first self made female millionaire in American history; she earned that fame by creating a personal care product for this part of the body.
What is hair?