Common Bonds
Cake, cut, notice
What is short?
A yellowish-gold alloy metal made of copper and zinc.
What is brass?
In Britain, newspapers and other media will often refer to lengths in comparison to the length or height of this iconic London transport.
What is a double-decker bus?
Producers of the classic point-and-click adventure game Maniac Mansion coined this term for a sequence in a video game that is not interactive, interrupting the gameplay.
What is a cutscene?
A fast, light, open, two-wheeled conveyance drawn by two or more horses that are hitched side by side.
What is a chariot?
Wall, clip, sand
What is paper?
This protein containing iron facilitates the transport of oxygen in red blood cells, giving blood its red color.
What is hemoglobin?
Despite the somewhat-misleading title of Jules Verne’s classic novel, this unit of measurement refers to a distance, not depth, of three nautical miles.
What is a league?
This game was so controversial upon its release that it resulted in the creation of the ESRB game rating system, following a congressional hearing in 1993.
What is Mortal Kombat?
The innermost, light-sensitive layer of tissue of the eye.
What is the retina?
Alarm, cross, fly
What is fire?
Iron is the most abundant metal on earth, making up much of the Earth’s core. This is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust.
What is aluminum?
This globally recognized price index measures the purchasing power parity between two currencies by comparing the relative price worldwide to purchase a staple of American fast food.
What is the Big Mac Index?
This 1992 video game, created by American developer id Software, would come to be known as the “grandfather of 3D shooters.”
What is Wolfenstein 3D?
In music, this is a set of three notes that can be stacked vertically in thirds, the most common chords in Western music.
What is a triad?
Post, sit, bat
What is com?
The juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.
What is irony?
In computing, a nibble is an aggregation of this many bits.
What is four?
This game has the largest explorable open-world map of all time.
What is No Man’s Sky?
Widely used in machinery and tools, this mechanical device allows continuous linear or rotary motion in only one direction while preventing motion in the opposite direction.
What is a ratchet?
Error, fire, time
What is trial?
In November 2011, this global aerospace company announced the lightest metal on earth, a metallic microlattice made from a nickel-phosphorus alloy.
What is Boeing?
A unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to 3.26 light-years, a "parallax of one second."
What is a parsec?
Minecraft generates its worlds using an algorithm known as Perlin noise, developed by Ken Perlin for this motion picture.
What is Tron (1982)?
A natural clay earth pigment ranging in color from yellow to deep orange or brown. It is also the name of the colors produced by this pigment, especially a light brownish-yellow.
What is ochre?