History
Which European settlers came to New York first?
Dutch
_ry does NOT include letters a, b, c, d, e, f, o, p,
Try
Define mincing
Chopping up something super Duper small like how you might with garlic
What movie did Timothee Chalamet recently play the star of?
Marty Supreme
Under what conditions do snowflakes form as opposed to raindrops (from water vapor)
Snowflakes are created from deposition (gas to solid) from water vapor into snowflakes inside a sub-freezing cloud. In a normal non-frozen cloud water vapor js condenses and falls like drops.
TLDR: Freezing (or sub freezing) conditions
What political system came before the Republic of China?
Dynastic imperial system if you said qing dynasty yeah that works
_ire does not include letters a, b, c, d, h, m, s, t, w
be reasonable
Fire 🔥
Define outpatient care
Or like give an example as opposed to inpatient care
Clinic. Pharmacy. Procedures in an office with no overnight stay.
What period of time does the movie 12 Angry Men take place over?
Which one is latitude and which one is longitude
Latitude lines are horizontal lines to the Earth called parallel lines while longitude lines are vertical lines to the Earth called meridians.
Does China have access to the Sea of Japan?
TLDR: No
__ouse (two letters) doesn't include a, c, d, h, b, l, m, x
spouse
What's a word that starts with f and ends with uck
firetruck 🚒
Who directed these famous movies?
In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, Days of Being Wild
Wong Kar Wai
How were the Himalayan Mountains created?
The Indian continent broke off from the supercontinent "Gondwana" (containing everybody except Eurasia even Antarctica) and collided w/ Eurasia in which India's tectonic plate went under Eurasia's (subducted). The collision is actually ongoing and goes further 4-5 cm each year.
Why did Japan stop being isolationist?
Matthew Perry threatened them with the U.S. Navy after "opium overthrow" in China and they wanted to modernize anyhow.
ja__y (two letters) does not include letters b, k, m, l, r, t, g
jazzy
Define solipsism
reality is all in your head that you can't ever be really sure the rest of the world is there you can only trust the reality in your head
How do Joel and Clementine get their memories/a retelling of their past tg at the end of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?
The nurse for the memory-erasing clinic grabs a bunch of boxes of peoples' tapes of talking about the person they wanna erase and drops it off at their houses.
What about the color blue is difficult to occur naturally in nature? (Hint: purple is rarer)
It requires a high energy of light to reflect blue back if you think about the spectrum blah blah blah. Fun fact, the obrina olivewing butterfly is the only known animal to reflect a true blue pigment. The rest are just a result of how light refracts through its "structures."
Why is Rotterdam, Netherlands such a valuable trading port if it's way out north? (it is the largest port in Europe and third in the world)
play_____ (five letters) does not include b, d, f, h, i, o
playplace
What is a hospitalist specialist in medicine?
Someone who specializes in inpatient care and managing long term hospitalizations.
Why did Truman's wife in the Truman Show cross her fingers and when?
She crossed her fingers to show insincerity in the marriage to Truman. He spotted this in their wedding photos :heartbreak:
What's the reasoning behind the theory that cooking with fire is what made humans smarter/modern/bigger brains?