Meteorology
The pressure within the atmosphere of Earth
What is Atmospheric Pressure?
When the epicenter of a large earthquake is located offshore, the seabed may be displaced sufficiently to cause this
What is Tsunami?
This is lit at Olympia, Greece, several months before the Olympic Games
What is The Olympic flame?
This river was the lifeblood of Ancient Egypt, providing water, transportation, and fertile soil.
What is The Nile?
This sport, featuring a small, flat, disk-like object, was first introduced at the 1900 Paris Olympics
What is Discus?
This candy, popular in the 1950s, consists of small, chalky discs with sayings like "Be Mine"
What is Sweethearts?
This dessert is used as a symbol of power and greed in the movie "Matilda,"
What is Chocolate Cake?
The application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere at a future time and given location
What is Weather Forecasting?
The scientific study of earthquakes
What is Seismology?
A periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities
What is Paralympic Games?
The assassination of this Archduke of Austria in 1914 sparked the beginning of World War I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
This sport, which made its Olympic debut at the 1992 Barcelona Games, features teams of two players competing on sand courts.
What is beach volleyball?
This brand of Swiss chocolate is known for its triangular shape and distinctive honey-almond nougat.
What is Toblerone?
This song by Harry Styles, released in 2019, features the title of a summer fruit.
What is Watermelon Sugar?
This term describes the movement of air from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
What is Wind?
The initial point of rupture during an Earthquake is called the hypocenter or focus, while the ground level directly above it is this
What is Epicenter?
This city hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008, where Michael Phelps won a record 8 gold medals.
What is Beijing?
This invention by James Watt greatly improved efficiency, fueling the Industrial Revolution.
What is the Steam Engine?
This event, part of the decathlon, requires athletes to throw a spear as far as possible.
What is Javelin?
This chewy, nougat-like candy bar, introduced in 1920, is named after a famous dance from the Roaring Twenties.
What is Charleston Chew?
In "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," this sweet treat is used by the White Witch to entice Edmund.
What is Turkish Delight?
This system of alert, issued by the National Weather Service, indicates that conditions are favorable for severe weather to develop.
What is a weather watch?
Earthquakes are primarily caused by these, as well as Volcanic Activity
What is geological faults?
Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the IOC in 1894, leading to the first modern Games here in 1896
What is Athens, Greece?
This code of conduct was followed by medieval knights and emphasized bravery, loyalty, and honor.
What is Chivalry?
This event, often called the "marathon of the track," consists of 25 laps around the standard 400m track
What is 10,000m race?
This candy bar is famously known for being part of the plot in the movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
What is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?
This comic strip character, from "Peanuts," is known for always carrying a blanket and drinking root beer.
Who is Linus?
This weather instrument uses radar technology to detect and track precipitation, such as rain, snow, and hail.
What is Doppler radar?
In Greek mythology, this god was the cause and god of earthquakes
Who is Poseidon?
This country has won the most overall medals in the history of the Summer Olympics.
What is United States?
This Italian city-state is often considered the birthplace of the Renaissance
What is Florence?
This 50m event is often called the "splash and dash" of Olympic swimming, featuring the fastest swimmers in the pool.
What is 50m Freestyle?
This type of fat, extracted from cocoa beans, is a key ingredient in chocolate and gives it a smooth texture.
What is Cocoa Butter?
In "The Goonies," Chunk mentions this ice cream flavor when he's being interrogated by the Fratellis.
What is Rocky Road?
Considered the founder of meteorology
Who is Aristotle?
An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates these
What is seismic waves?
This Olympic sport, which combines fencing, swimming, equestrian, shooting, and running, is called the modern version of a classical event.
What is Pentatholon?
This 13-day confrontation in 1962 brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
What is Cuban Missle Crisis?
This event, the longest in the Olympic track and field program, covers a distance of 42.195 kilometers (26.22 miles)
Wha is Marathon?
This ingredient, derived from the sap of the sugar beet or sugarcane plant, is the primary sweetener in most candies.
What is Sucrose?
In the movie "Big," Tom Hanks' character spits out this type of food because he finds it disgusting.
What is Caviar?
This atmospheric layer contains the ozone layer, which protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is the stratosphere?
An instrument that responds to ground displacement and shaking such as caused by quakes
What is Seismometer?
This ancient Greek city is the birthplace of the original Olympic Games, first held in 776 BC.
What is Olympia?
This 13-day confrontation in 1962 brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
What is Manhattan Project?
This concludes with the 1500m race, often the deciding factor in determining the overall winner
What is Decathlon?
This type of candy is made by melting sugar and butter together, then adding nuts or chocolate before cooling.
What is Brittle?
In "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," this food is the last thing the caterpillar eats before turning into a butterfly.
What is a Leaf?
In 1494, this explorer experienced a tropical cyclone, which led to the first written European account of a hurricane
Who is Christopher Columbus?
A wave that travels through the Earth, often as the result of an earthquake or explosion
What is Seismic Wave?
The original Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius which is Latin for this
What is "Faster, Higher, Stronger"?
This type of technology, which uses a decentralized ledger, underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
What is Blockchain?
This year marked the first time that women were allowed to compete in the Olympic Games, held in Paris.
What is 1900?
This ingredient, used to create the "pop" in Pop Rocks, is this trapped in sugar crystals.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
This song by The Beatles, released in 1967, features lyrics about tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
What is "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"?
This intense, localized downdraft from a thunderstorm can cause widespread wind damage, often confused with a tornado.
What is Microburst?
This scale, developed by Hiroo Kanamori, measures the total energy released by an earthquake, especially large ones.
What is the moment magnitude scale (Mw)?
This athlete was the first to win four gold medals in a single Olympic Games, achieving this at the 1936 Berlin Games.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This ancient civilization is credited with developing the first written code of law, known as the Code of Hammurabi.
What is Babylon?
This event, involved athletes competing in a mixed martial art that combined elements of wrestling and boxing
What is pankration?
This rare Japanese candy, made by hand-pulling sugar into fine threads, is known as this
What is Dragons Beard?
This iconic sandwich, made famous by a 1960s New York deli, became a cultural symbol after being featured in the film When Harry Met Sally.
What is Pastrami on Rye?