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Invented in 1947 at Bell Labs, this tiny semiconductor device revolutionized electronics by replacing bulky vacuum tubes.
Transistor
This is the term for the upward force that supports the weight of an aircraft.
Lift
This movement, starting in the late 18th century, transformed economies with new manufacturing processes and technologies.
Industrial Revolution
This city is the capital of Italy and is known for its ancient ruins, Renaissance art, and Vatican City.
Rome
This meme originated from a 1940s cartoon character and became popular in 2018, featuring an obese Bugs Bunny
Big Chungus
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Newton's Third Law of Motion
2πr is used to calculate this property of a circle.
Circumference
Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan on this date, starting the United States involvement in WW2.
December 7, 1941
This desert, located in North America, is known for its iconic sand dunes and spans parts of Arizona, California, Utah, and Nevada.
Mojave Desert
This 2013 internet trend involved a short video where one person dances alone for 15 seconds before being joined by a group in costume, all dancing energetically to a bass-heavy electronic track.
Harlem Shake
This rover, landing on Mars in 2021, is part of NASA's Mars exploration program.
Perseverance
This is the term for the twisting force applied to an object, often measured in Newton-meters.
Torque
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court case declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
This sea, located between Europe and Asia, connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar.
Mediterranean Sea
This famous internet song has lyrics such as:
"The prisons make you wonder where it went" and also "Some stay dry and others feel the pain"
Chocolate Rain
This is a theoretical boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape.
Event Horizon
This type of diode emits light when an electric current passes through it.
Light Emitting Diode(LED)
This humanitarian effort by the United States, Britain, and other Allies prevented starvation in West Berlin during a Soviet blockade
Berlin Airlift
This city in Egypt is the largest in Africa and the Middle East and is known for its historic landmarks like the Pyramids of Giza.
Cairo
This online payment system, founded in 1998, revolutionized digital transactions and financial services on the internet
PayPal
This type of malicious software encrypts a victim's files and demands payment for the decryption key.
Ransomware
This term describes the resistance of an object to changes in its rotational motion.
Moment of Inertia
This ancient Greek poet wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, epic poems that became foundational texts of Western literature.
Homer
This island in Indonesia is known for its Komodo dragons and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Komodo Island
This controversial online marketplace, launched in 2011, facilitated the sale of illegal goods and services using cryptocurrency, until its shutdown by law enforcement in 2013.
Silk Road