Magic The Gathering
This static ability prevents a permanent or player from being the target of spells or abilities controlled by opponents, while still allowing the controller to target it freely.
What is Hexproof?
This ancient, magical headwear sorts incoming first-year students into Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin.
What is the Sorting Hat?
Mazda's RX-7 and RX-8 sports cars are renowned for using this triangular, pistonless internal combustion engine named after its German inventor.
What is the Wankel Rotary Engine?
In Halo, picking up this power-up equips the Spartan with a temporary blue-tinted protective shield that doubles standard shielding capacity.
What is the Overshield?
To activate an End Portal frame, the player must insert 12 of these items, crafted from an Ender Pearl and Blaze Powder.
What are Eyes of Ender?
In the table top game The Settlers of Catan, rolling this specific two-dice sum triggers the Robber and forces players with more than seven cards to discard half.
What is 7?
When a creature with this keyword dies, it returns to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it if it had no +1/+1 counters on it when it died.
What is Undying?
To brew this complex, shape-shifting potion, Hermione Granger steals lacewing flies, boomslang skin, and powdered bicorn horn from Snape's private stores.
What is Polyjuice Potion?
In Japanese tuning culture, the iconic R32, R33, and R34 Nissan Skyline GT-Rs are powered by this legendary 2.6-liter twin-turbo inline-six engine.
What is the RB26DETT?
In Respawn's Apex Legends, this robotic scout specializes in reconnaissance, using a grappling hook and creating ziplines for his squad.
Who is Pathfinder?
To transform a Villager into a Librarian, players must place down this specific job site block made from a Bookshelf and wooden slabs.
What is a Lectern?
In Marvel comics and Norse mythology, this legendary uru-metal hammer wielded by Thor can only be lifted by those deemed worthy.
What is Mjölnir?
This mechanic allows a player to pay an alternate cost by exiling two cards from their graveyard and paying mana to cast the spell directly from their graveyard.
What is Escape?
These three unforgivable curses consist of the Killing Curse (Avada Kedavra), the Cruciatus Curse (Crucio), and this mind-controlling spell.
What is the Imperius Curse (Imperio)?
This front suspension configuration uses an upper and lower A-arm to allow independent camber, caster, and roll-center control throughout suspension travel.
What is Double Wishbone Suspension (or SLA / Short-Long Arm)?
In Counter-Strike, this high-risk sniper rifle costs $4,750, rewards only $100 per kill in standard competitive play, and can eliminate fully armored opponents with a single torso hit.
What is the AWP (Arctic Warfare Police)?
Found in Nether Fortresses, killing this fiery mob drops rods essential for brewing stands and crafting Ender Eyes.
What is a Blaze?
In Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, this condition causes a creature to automatically fail Strength and Dexterity saving throws, grants attackers advantage, and makes melee hits automatic criticals.
What is Paralyzed (or Unconscious)?
If an effect attempts to replace an event with another event (such as Doubling Season or dredge), this player chooses the order in which multiple applicable replacement effects apply.
Who is the affected player (or controller of the affected object)?
Located deep beneath Gringotts Wizarding Bank, this type of beast guards high-security vaults such as the Lestrange family vault.
What is a Dragon (or Ukrainian Ironbelly)?
In manual transmissions, this gear-synchronizing brass ring uses friction to match the speed of the output shaft and gear before the dog teeth engage.
What is a Synchromesh (or Synchronizer Ring / Blocker Ring)?
In Rainbow Six Siege, this French GIGN defending operator deploys armor plates from a supply bag to give teammates extra damage resistance.
Who is Rook (Julien Nizan)?
In the combat mechanics update, hitting a shield with this tool disables the shield's blocking ability for 5 seconds.
What is an Axe?
Written in 1965 by Frank Herbert, this foundational sci-fi novel centers on the desert planet Arrakis and the valuable substance known as melange.
What is Dune?
Under MTG Rule 107.4, this special variable cost symbol represents an amount of mana that can be paid with either two mana of any type or one mana of the designated color.
What is Two-brid (or Twobrid / Monocolored Phyrexian/Split)?
Lord Voldemort's snake, Nagini, was originally a human woman afflicted by this hereditary, blood-borne curse that eventually turned her into a beast permanently.
What is a Maledictus?
Developed by Porsche in the 1980s for the 962 racecar, this dual-clutch transmission abbreviation translates directly to Doppelkupplungsgetriebe.
What is PDK (Porsche Doppelkupplung)?
In competitive Super Smash Bros. Melee, this advanced engine exploit allows characters to slide across the stage while facing any direction by immediately airdodging diagonally into the ground.
What is Wavedashing?
This mechanical block, crafted using iron ingots, a chest, and smooth stone, pushes items into containers directly below or next to it and pulls items from above.
What is a Hopper?
In theoretical computer science, this hypothetical mathematical machine proposed in 1936 manipulates symbols on an infinite strip of tape according to a table of rules.
What is a Turing Machine?