Global Connections
This imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This ingredient is used to make hummus.
What are chickpeas?
Plants use sunlight to create energy through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
This symbol is commonly used in an email address.
What is @?
This animated Pixar movie features Woody and Buzz Lightyear.
What is Toy Story?
This country is home to the Taj Mahal.
What is India?
This popular Indian dish often combines rice, spices, and meat or vegetables.
What is biryani?
This planet is commonly called the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This tool is commonly used to track changes in source code.
What is Git?
This British band recorded “Hey Jude” and “Let It Be.”
Who are The Beatles?
This city is known as the “Windy City.”
What is Chicago?
This spice comes from the stigma of a crocus flower and is one of the world’s most expensive spices.
What is saffron?
When an ice cube melts in a full glass of water, the water level generally does this.
What is stay the same?
This allows different software systems to communicate through defined rules.
What is an API?
This author wrote the Harry Potter series.
Who is J. K. Rowling?
This is the capital city of Australia.
What is Canberra?
This is considered the fifth basic taste, along with sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.
What is umami?
A “light-year” measures this, not time.
What is distance?
In cybersecurity, this type of cryptography uses a public key and a private key.
What is asymmetric encryption?
This South Korean film became the first non-English-language movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
This country is located in both Europe and Asia.
What is Turkey?
This process treats corn with an alkaline solution and is used to make traditional tortillas.
What is nixtamalization?
The blue color of the daytime sky is mainly caused by this effect.
mainly caused by this effect.What is the scattering of sunlight, or Rayleigh scattering?
In CI/CD, this practice automatically checks software changes before they are merged or released.
What is automated testing?
Continuous Integration (CI) (specifically through the use of Automated Testing or Continuous Testing)
This Colombian author wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Who is Gabriel García Márquez?