Tunin' In
This U.S. president famously hosted “Fireside Chats” over the radio to reassure Americans during the Great Depression and WWII.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Andy’s primary love interest later in the series was this schoolteacher.
Who is Helen Crump?
This popular Filipino dish features pork or chicken marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, and garlic.
What is Adobo?
This part of the brain is primarily responsible for forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This is the term for a word or phrase that a pronoun refers to.
What is an antecedent?
This towering granite monolith is one of Yosemite’s most iconic rock formations and a world-famous climbing challenge.
What is El Capitan?
This law, essential to antenna design, states that the frequency of a signal is inversely proportional to this.
What is wavelength?
The fictional town of Mayberry is based on this real town in North Carolina.
What is Mount Airy?
This is the traditional Filipino garment for men, often worn at formal events?
What is the Barong?
The Rorschach test uses what kind of stimuli to analyze personality?
What are inkblots?
This grammatical error occurs when two independent clauses are joined without punctuation or a conjunction.
What is a run-on sentence?
The tunnel view lookout gives a sweeping view of this trio: El Capitan, Bridalveil Fall, and this iconic peak in the distance.
What is Half Dome?
The gain of a directional antenna is usually measured in this logarithmic unit.
What is a decibel (dB)?
This whistled tune is the show's iconic theme song.
What is “The Fishin’ Hole”?
This is the largest island in the Philippines by land area.
What is Luzon?
This psychologist created the hierarchy of needs, with self-actualization at the top.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This punctuation mark is used to join closely related independent clauses in the same sentence without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
This ancient tree species, found in Mariposa Grove, includes some of the largest living organisms on Earth.
What are giant Sequoias?
This type of chart is a graphical tool commonly used for impedance matching in RF engineering.
What is the Smith Chart?
Andy’s housekeeper, Aunt Bee, was played by this actress.
Who is Frances Bavier?
This body of water lies to the west of the Philippines?
What is the South China Sea?
This anxiety-related disorder is marked by recurring, intrusive thoughts that cause distress and lead to repetitive behaviors or rituals performed in an attempt to reduce that anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
This mark is often confused with a hyphen but is longer and can indicate a break in thought or a pause stronger than a comma.
What is an em dash?
This waterfall, the tallest in North America, drops in three distinct sections and is most powerful in spring.
What is Yosemite Falls?
This modulation technique sends two analog message signals using one carrier by varying both amplitude and phase.
What is Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)?
Andy and Barney often eat at this diner, where Juanita works.
What is the Bluebird Diner? (Junction Cafe may be acceptable)
The Philippines gained independence from the United States in this year.
What is 1946? (July 4)
This Freudian defense mechanism involves attributing one’s own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to another person, such as accusing someone else of being angry when it is actually you who feels that way.
What is projection?
The sentence, “She will have graduated by May”, is formatted in this tense.
What is future perfect tense?
In 1903, these two men camped under the stars in Mariposa Grove, and one of them brought back federal protection for the entire park.
Who are John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt?