Dates in March
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This date is a Christian holiday the week before Easter Sunday, and celebrates the day Jesus entered Jerusalem. It gets its name from the fronds laid down by the citizens to herald his arrival.
What is Palm Sunday?
200
This baseball term usually occurs when a batter hits the ball outside of the field while staying between the foul poles.
What is a home run?
200
This olympic swimmer catapulted to fame after going gold in the women's 800m freestyle at the 2012 London Olympics while being only 15 years old.
Who is Katie Ledecky?
200
This hot desert occupies over 25% of the African continent, and is the third largest desert in the world behind only the cold deserts of the Antarctic and Arctic.
What is the Sahara Desert?
200
This law which approximates the behavior of gases under a wide variety of conditions was first proposed in 1834 by Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron.
What is the Ideal Gas Law?
400
This seventh planet from the Sun and third largest in the Solar System was first observed on March 13, 1781 by William Herschel. It took another 200 years for us to discover that it has rings, only much smaller than its neighbor Saturn's.
What is Uranus?
400
This caricature of Superman, played by Antony Starr in Amazon Prime's The Boys, is often unable to control his temper and suffers from ego issues.
Who is Homelander?
400
This horse, widely considered to be one of the greatest racing horses of all time, was the 9th winner of the American Triple Crown and still holds the records in all three of its constituent races. His story was featured in a 2010 movie bearing his name.
Who is Secretariat?
400
This Tanzanian stratovolcano is the highest peak in Africa, as well as the tallest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is also the tallest freestanding mountain in the world, sitting at a lofty 5895 meters or 19341 feet.
What is Mount Kilamanjaro?
400
This combustion cycle centers around the ignition of fuel due to heat released from the compression of air in the combustion chamber. It can also be found on the Thermal Sciences Lab whiteboard.
What is the Diesel Cycle?
600
This date, whose Latin name means "midpoint of March", corresponds to the day that Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BCE.
What is the Ides of March?
600
A resident of Springfield, this bumbling man is known for his love of donuts and Duff beer.
Who is Homer Simpson?
600
This Formula One driver raced for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari and Mercedes. He is currently tied with Lewis Hamilton for a record 7 world championship titles.
Who is Michael Shumacher?
600
These mixed woodland-grassland ecosystems can be found all over Africa. Herbivores such as elephants, zebras, gazelles, and buffalo make their home here, along with predators like lions, leopards, and hyenas.
What are savannas?
600
This convention is used to define the orientation of axes in three-dimensional space, the cross product of two vectors, and to establish the direction of force on a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field.
What is the Right Hand Rule?
800
The sixth of March marks the final day of conflict between the Mexican government and American settlers in Texas, concluding with the Americans' last stand at this historic site in San Antonio.
What is the Alamo?
800
This big box store is well known for their funding of ESPN's College Gameday, as well as their famous "beat".
What is Home Depot?
800
This character, most recently seen in the eponymous 2008 film by the Wachowskis, is known for his Mach 5 and Mach 6 cars, his iconic red scarf, and dates back to a mid-1960s Japanese Manga called Mach GoGoGo.
Who is Speed Racer?
800
This sharp protrusion on the eastern edge of Africa is composed of the countries of Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. In recent decades the region was a hotspot for piracy due to its proximity to shipping lanes and the Red Sea.
What is the Horn of Africa?
800
This "law", which is really just an observation, states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years.
What is Moore's Law?
1000
The movie In Old California was released on March 10, 1910. It is a silent Western film, and is notably the first film shot in this California location that is now famous for its sign.
What is Hollywood?
1000
This lesser-known sequel film follows Kevin Mcallister's journey through the Big Apple, and includes a cameo from Donald Trump inside the Plaza hotel.
What is Home Alone 2: Lost in New York?
1000
This ancient Greek huntress is known best by three stories: her drawing of first blood during the Calydonian Boar hunt, her participation in the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece, and her refusal to marry anyone unless they could beat her in a foot race.
Who is Atalanta?
1000
This lake is the second deepest in the world, second only to Russia's Lake Baikal. It is shared by Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and Burundi, and is perhaps most notable for its biological diversity. Of the 2000 species found in this lake, over half are found nowhere else.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
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In its simplest form, this rule for quantum mechanics states that the probability density of finding a system in a given state, when measured, is proportional to the square of the amplitude of the system's wave-function at that state.
What is Born's Rule?