Fancy Yourself an Engineer?
This simple machine is a wheel with a grooved rim designed to change the direction of a force, like lifting a load with a rope.
What is a pulley?
This protected-label Italian cheese, traditionally made from sheep’s milk in Lazio and Sardinia, is a classic ingredient in cacio e pepe.
What is Pecorino Romano?
In a standard deck of playing cards, this is how many cards are red.
What is 26?
“You are without a doubt the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of.” Jack’s response is this line.
What is “But you have heard of me.”?
In basic mechanics, this quantity equals mass times acceleration.
What is force?
The chemical element with atomic number 26 is this metal, essential in hemoglobin.
What is iron?
In Johnny English, the title character works for this fictional British intelligence agency.
What is MI7?
Engineers often use this material property, measured on the Mohs scale, to compare how resistant a surface is to scratching.
What is hardness?
Unlike many African countries, Ethiopia is famous for largely avoiding long-term colonization by this European power, defeating it at Adwa in 1896.
What is Italy?
A 1972 film about this family is one of the most iconic works of Italian-American cinema.
What is the Corleone family?
This celebrity, who's middle name is Lauryn (for Lauryn Hill), has Jamaican-Guyanese and English heritage, and was born in North London 26 years ago.
Who is Olivia Dean?
In Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack Sparrow’s compass is unusual because instead of pointing north, it points to this.
What is what the holder wants most?
This famous principle states that the upward buoyant force on an object in a fluid equals the weight of the fluid displaced.
What is Archimedes’ principle?
What is a goatherd? Who is Kaldi?
A marathon is 26 miles plus this extra fractional distance.
What is 385 yards? (or “0.2 miles”)
In Grown Ups (2010), the friends reunite on Fourth of July weekend in this U.S. state, where they gather at a lake house after their coach’s funeral.
What is New Hampshire?
In manufacturing and design, “CAD” most commonly stands for this three-word term.
What is Computer-Aided Design?
The Ethiopian calendar is famous for being offset from the Gregorian calendar by roughly this many years.
What is about 7 to 8 years?
This Italian-American legal principle, named after a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case, requires police to advise suspects of their rights.
What are Miranda rights?
In the NATO phonetic alphabet, this word is used for the 26th and final letter, Z.
What is Zulu?