Bach to Basics
A common military instrument bearing resemblance to a trumpet or cornet, with the exception of not having any valves.
What is a bugle?
What are tigers?
A basic subatomic particle that makes up hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
What are quarks?
The first rocket to land humans on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
The duo of Xbalanque and Hunahpu, the protagonists of Popol Vuh, are given this name.
Who are the Hero Twins?
A keyboard instrument, creating sound by striking metal bars with wooden mallets. The sound resembles that of a glockenspiel.
What is a celesta?
The name for a group of lions.
What is a pride?
Light particles.
What are leptons?
The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
What is Sputnik 1?
The chief of the gods and the ruler of heaven.
Who is Itzamna?
The formal name for the cello.
What is the United Kingdom?
The term used to describe the specific species of an elementary particle.
What is a flavor?
The first Russian to go to space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
The feathered serpent of the winds, also known as Quetzalcoatl in Aztec mythology.
Who is Kukulkan?
An earlier version of the violin, created in Spain during the late 15th century.
What is a viol / viola da gamba?
The Swahili word for "lion."
What is Simba?
A subatomic particle similar to the electron, but with no electrical charge. They are usually created from radioactive decay.
What are neutrinos?
The pilot of Apollo 11's command module, and the second person after John Young to fly solo around the moon.
Who is Michael Collins?
The death bat, known for snatching Hunahpu's head and giving it to the gods, for it to be used in their next ballgame.
Who is Camazotz?
A keyboard instrument, creating sound by striking metal strings with small blades called "tangents."
What is a clavichord?
The genetic term used to explain the existence of white lions, but not albinism.
What is leucism?
The existence of this particles proves the existence of the Higgs field, an invisible energy field that permeates the entire universe.
What is the Higgs boson?
During the thaw of the Cold War in the 1970s, this project saw the US and Soviet Union working together to create a module for the Apollo to dock with Soviet spacecraft.
What is the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project?
The destroyer of mountains, said to create earthquakes by merely punching the ground.
Who is Cabrakan?