Chess
The most powerful piece, which is the tallest, and can move the most amount of spaces at one time.
What is the queen?
This is the term used when a serve goes past a player without them getting a chance to return it.
What is an ace?
This NBA player won 5 championships with the Lakers over the span of 10 years in the early 2000s and 2010s
Who was Kobe Bryant?
This country in Europe is on the west coast and has the capital of Lisbon.
What is Portugal?
This equation is used to the find the hypotenuse of a right triangle, which is commonly diagonal and is usually the length that is missing from the total.
What is Pythagorean's Theorem?
This Norwegian chess grand-master has been World Champion five times, and is considered to be the G.O.A.T of chess.
Who is Magnus Carlsen?
This is what's called when both sides have reached a score of 40 at the same time.
What is deuce?
This team is in the Western Conference and famous players on it have been Charles Barkley, Steve Nash, and Shaquille O'Neal.
What are The Phoenix Suns?
This country is the 4th most populous in the world and is in the southern half of Asia.
What is Indonesia?
This branch of math was invented by Isaac Newton and deals with finding the properties of integrals and derivatives.
What is calculus?
This is the quickest form of chess, usually having players start with 3 minutes or less. It is a faster paced game than blitz or rapid.
What is bullet or bullet chess?
This famous tennis tournament is notorious for being played on clay courts, and is played in May through June.
What is The French Open?
This player led the NBA in 3-pointers made until Stephen Curry broke his record in 2021.
Who is Ray Allen?
This path of water in between South America and Antarctica is named after a famous explorer and was extremely dangerous to travel in before the Panama Canal was built.
What is Drake's Passage?
These types of math problems consist of indeterminates and coefficients, and often require you to solve for one or the other.
What are Polynomials?
This number is the required ELO in order to be accepted into GM status.
What is 2500?
This female tennis star won 12 grand slam titles in her nearly 30-year long career, and was widely considered the best female player until Serena Williams.
Who is Billie Jean King?
This player for The Lakers won MVP in 1959, but never got to win a ring, since Bill Russell "stole them all from him".
Who was Elgin Baylor?
This path in between Alaska and Russia freezes in the winter and becomes a pathway of ice from one side to the other.
What is The Bering Strait?
This series of numbers consists of adding the previous number to the current number to get a new one.
What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
This French grand-master became world champion at age 34, and famously had a cat named "Chess"
Who was Alexander Alekhine?
Which professional tennis star famously wore his wedding ring around his shoelaces, since he can't play with them on his hand.
Who is Andy Murray?
This team, based in Virginia, was based in Norfolk and was cut from the league after failing to meet a payment deadline. This was the first team Dr. J played on.
What was The Virginia Squires?
This European country has its capital as Podgorica and is found under Bosnia and Herzegovinia and directly across the Adriatic Sea from Italy.
What is Montenegro?
This Swiss mathematician created his "identity" to show how trigonomic functions can be expressed in a circle. He also has a "disk" named after him, which is used to show how friction and drag affect a spinning top.
Who was Euler?