Engineering
This fundamental building material is a composite made of water, aggregate (sand/gravel), and cement, used in almost every construction project on the UC Merced campus.
What is Concrete?
This 1912 maritime disaster involved an "unsinkable" ship hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
What was the Titanic?
This artist and founder of Odd Future recently released the album CHROMAKOPIA and is known for his alter-egos like "Igor"
Who is Tyler, The Creator?
This Italian plumber first appeared in the 1981 game Donkey Kong under the name "Jumpman."
Who is Mario?
This is the only continent on Earth that has no permanent human residents and is technically a desert
What is Antarctica?
This type of data structure follows the LIFO (Last-In, First-Out) principle, commonly used for managing function calls in a program's memory.
What is a Stack?
This ancient civilization in Giza built the only one of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" still largely intact today.
Who were the Egyptians? / The Great Pyramid
Known for their "dream pop" sound and lead singer María Zardoya, this band released the hit album Cinema and the track "Hush."
Who are The Marías?
In this sandbox game, "Redstone" acts as a conductor for electrical-style circuits.
What is Minecraft?
This European country is famous for its engineering of dikes and canals to keep the sea from flooding its low-lying land.
What are the Netherlands?
This mathematical transformation is used to convert a signal from the time domain into the frequency domain, essential for audio processing and circuit analysis.
What is a Fourier Transform?
This 1863 executive order, issued by Abraham Lincoln during the third year of the Civil War, changed the legal status of millions of enslaved people in the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Before becoming a global superstar, Travis Scott was mentored and signed as a producer to this G.O.O.D. Music affiliate who produced "Day 'n' Nite."
Who is Kid Cudi?
This is the best-selling handheld gaming console of all time, known for its dual screens.
What is the Nintendo DS?
This canal, completed in 1914, connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, saving ships an 8,000-mile trip.
What is the Panama Canal?
In fluid mechanics, this dimensionless number represents the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces and helps predict whether a flow will be laminar or turbulent.
What is the Reynolds Number?
He wrote the Massachusetts Constitution, signed the Treaty of Paris, and then became vice president.
Who is John Adams?
This producer is known as the "Dark Knight: of Atlanta
Who is Metro Boomin? (Leland Wayne)
This 2023 "Game of the Year" winner is based on the Dungeons & Dragons universe and features a turn-based combat system.
What is Baldur’s Gate 3?
This city, located in both Europe and Asia, was formerly known as Constantinople.
What is Istanbul?
This property of a system, often described as "disorder," remains constant in a reversible adiabatic process (isentropic), but must always increase in an isolated system according to the Second Law.
What is Entropy?
Civil War opponents Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee both fought in this earlier conflict.
What is the Mexican-American War?
American electronic music producer, DJ, singer, and songwriter best known for his production and owner of OWSLA records
Who is Skrillex
This 1993 game was the first to use the "id Tech 1" engine and is famously known for being able to run on almost any device with a screen, from pregnancy tests to calculators.
What is DOOM?
This is the only world capital city that is located on the equator.
What is Quito, Ecuador?