Geology
This Wyoming supervolcano, sitting atop one of the largest magmatic systems on Earth, powers the geysers and hot springs of a famous national park."
What is the Yellowstone Caldera?
This long-running CBS competition show, first airing in 2000, strands contestants in remote locations where they compete in challenges and vote each other off one by one.
What is Survivor?
This ancient biological process, in which microorganisms like yeast convert sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide, is the foundation of both brewing and bread making.
What is fermentation?
This Chicago-style hot dog tradition strictly forbids this red condiment, with locals saying you should 'never' put it on a Chicago dog.
What is ketchup?
This viral 2016 internet meme, featuring a two-panel image of a cartoon character pointing at an identical version of itself, was used to mock celebrities and public figures who resembled each other.
What is the Spider-Man pointing meme?
This fault system running nearly 800 miles through California is responsible for some of the most destructive earthquakes in US history, including the 1906 San Francisco disaster.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
This ABC dating show, in which one person accepts or rejects roses from a pool of romantic suitors, has aired over 25 seasons and spawned numerous spinoffs."
What is The Bachelor?
This core oil refining process separates crude oil into usable components like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel by heating it and collecting vapors at different temperature levels.
What is fractional distillation?
This historically Polish neighborhood on the northwest side, known for its pierogi restaurants and annual Taste of Polonia festival, is often called the most authentically ethnic neighborhood remaining in Chicago
What is Avondale/Jefferson Park?
This Samsung smartphone model, released in 2016, was recalled worldwide and banned from airlines after numerous reports of its battery spontaneously catching fire.
What is the Samsung Galaxy Note 7?
This 1.6 kilometer deep lake in Siberia is the world's deepest, oldest, and largest freshwater lake by volume, holding roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water.
What is Lake Baikal?
This Netflix dating show, in which singles attempt to fall in love without ever seeing each other, communicating only through a wall, became a viral sensation when it debuted in 2020.
What is Love Is Blind?
This early 20th century industrial process, developed by two German chemists, combines atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature to synthesize ammonia, enabling modern agricultural fertilizers.
What is the Haber-Bosch process?
This infamous 1871 disaster, allegedly started by a cow in a barn on the city's west side, destroyed roughly a third of Chicago and left 100,000 residents homeless.
What is the Great Chicago Fire?
This Beyoncé visual album, released as a surprise in 2016 and exploring themes of infidelity and Black womanhood, is widely considered one of the greatest albums of the decade.
What is Lemonade?
This subglacial lake in Antarctica, buried under nearly 4 kilometers of ice, is one of the largest lakes on Earth and has been isolated from the surface for an estimated 15 million years.
What is Lake Vostok
This HBO Max competition show in which drag queens compete in sewing, acting, and lip sync challenges has spawned international versions in the UK, Canada, and beyond.
What is RuPaul's Drag Race?
This multi-stage enrichment process, in which uranium hexafluoride gas is spun at extremely high speeds to separate fissile U-235 from the more abundant U-238, is used to produce both reactor fuel and weapons-grade material.
What is gas centrifuge enrichment?
This original Chicago elevated rail line, opened in 1892 and running along the lakefront, was the first rapid transit line in the city and predates the construction of the Loop elevated structure.
What is the Lake Street elevated line?
This June 2016 referendum, in which citizens of a major European nation voted to leave the European Union, triggered years of political turmoil and negotiations.
What is Brexit?
This ancient volcanic field in New Mexico, containing over 23,000 square miles of hardened lava flows and cinder cones, is one of the largest and most diverse volcanic regions in North America and remains potentially active today.
What is the Jemez Mountains/Valles Caldera volcanic field?
This British reality show, in which housemates are watched around the clock by cameras and viewers vote to evict them weekly, pioneered the format later adopted by its American counterpart.
What is Big Brother UK?
This revolutionary gene editing tool, discovered by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier and awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, acts as molecular scissors to precisely cut and modify DNA sequences.
What is CRISPR-Cas9?
This man-made feature of the Chicago River, reversed by a feat of engineering completed in 1900, was created to prevent sewage from flowing into Lake Michigan.
What is the reversal of the Chicago River?
This ride-sharing company made headlines in 2016 when it launched self-driving cars on the streets of Pittsburgh, marking the first time autonomous vehicles were available to the general public as a commercial service.
What is Uber?