All Alone
A doomed FedEx flight delivers Chuck Noland to a deserted island for 4 years in this movie
What is Cast Away?
For a sphere, this measure is (4/3)*pi*r^3
What is volume?
This Down Under city boasts the world's largest natural harbor, covering 11 miles from North Head to the mouth of the Parramatta River
What is Sydney?
Gabbro, diorite & rhyolite are part of this rock family, one of the big 3
What is igneous?
This term for intensive questioning derives from freemasonry; it refers to the level attained by a master Mason
The name of this brand of disposable cups means unaccompanied
What is Solo?
In algebra, it's a letter or symbol that stands in for an unknown value
What is a variable?
The only tropical rainforest in the U.S. national forest system is El Yunque on this island
What is Puerto Rico?
As light hits the atmosphere, air molecules scatter blue & this shortest-wavelength color, which has a day job as a flower
What is violet?
It's what Ferris Bueller "breaks" when he asks the camera, "How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?"
What is the fourth wall?
This writer got some serious me-time while living "Life in the Woods" from 1845 to 1847
Who is Thoreau?
Velocity is this type of quantity that has both magnitude & direction
What is a vector?
Legend says the city of Petra, today in this kingdom, is where Moses brought forth water from the rock
What is Jordan?
Conifers like the bristlecone pine are members of this major class of vascular plants differentiated by their exposed seeds
What are the gymnosperms?
"Custody presumes ownership" is a rough translation of this fractional idiom, though it's bad legal advice any way you say it
What is possession is nine-tenths of the law?
In 2024 the Supreme Court voted 8-1 that domestic abusers can be temporarily disarmed--this justice appointed in 1991 was the 1
As they share a common vertex, angles A & B are said to be this type; note that A is directly on top of B
What is vertical?
Geologically a microcontinent, this island separated from Africa about 160 million years ago
What Madagascar?
This "phase" is the first stage of mitosis
What is prophase?
2/5 of a ton appears in this phrase for a company powerful enough to dominate an industry; meeting one in Africa is no picnic either
What is a 800 pound gorilla?
At a certain point, you have to announce the title of this card game in a timely fashion or you will have to draw more cards
What is UNO?
A number that can be made by multiplying digits within it, like 1,260=21 x 60, is this monstrous type; 21 & 60 are the "fangs"
What is a vampire number?
Melilla & Ceuta in Morocco are exclaves, small territories controlled by this European nation
What is Spain?
A CERN website said the cost for this machine "alone is about 4.6 billion" Swiss francs
What is the Large Hadron Collider?
The way Vegas casinos look today
What are one-armed bandits?