Filmmaking
Often colloquially used to mean a "pulpy" or "low-budget" film, these were usually released to supplement more movies more likely to succeed
What is a B-Movie?
Also known for his Antizionist politics, this father of modern linguistics' major contribution to the field was the theory of Universal Grammar
Who is (Noam) Chomsky?
There are five colors in Magic, each represented in the mnemonic WUBRG. This color is the only one not represented by the first letter in its name
What is Blue?
While minifigs are the most common way for Lego to put people in their sets, there are a few others, namely bigfigs, microfigs, and this, the smallest of the -figs
What is a nanofig?
The US state with this newly-redesigned flag has an inverted chevron on its left edge, as a subtle reference to the shape of the state itself
What is Minnesota?
A French term with a broader original meaning, this filmmaking technique is used to show progression over a long period of time in movies like Rocky
What is a montage?
Humorously called the Pizza Ridge, this place of articulation is where the letters t, s, and n are pronounced
What is the Alveolar Ridge?
There are numerous card types in Magic, but only this one can attack and block
What is a creature?
Some Lego pieces are in a category called SNOT bricks—SNOT standing for these four words
What are Studs Not On Top?
This island territory's red-and-white flag design is a counterpart to Antarctica's navy-and-white flag
What is Greenland?
Usually done with color grading, this method of making a scene on a bright set seem darker is called shooting this
What is day-for-night?
Getting its name from the way your tongue is bent backward, this place of articulation is where r's are pronounced in English
What is Retroflex?
The most prominent 60-card format, characterized by rotation, relatively low power level, and ease to get into, is called this
What is Standard?
This Scandinavian country is where Lego was originally patented
What is Denmark?
The flag of this state has its state tree on it, the palmetto—although it's on the other side of the country, some might confuse this for the flag of California or Hawai'i
What is South Carolina?
There are two main kinds of editing, shot-to-shot editing, and this kind, also called structural editing
What is scene-to-scene editing?
While isolating languages like Mandarin allow little to no affixes, others such as German are called this, due to their tendency to have lots of affixes
What is agglutinative?
Instants and sorceries are considered different types of object depending what zone they're in—while in exile, the graveyard, a player's library, or a player's hand, they're considered cards, but on the stack, they're considered this
What is a spell?
This category of Lego pieces prominent in the Bionicle theme is known for its stability and usefulness for making Lego machines
What is Technic?
This flag's state, neighboring us, has a characteristic bronze star in the center, surrounded by rays of yellow and red
What is Arizona?
This principle of filmmaking is named after a Russian filmmaker who demonstrated it by pairing a shot of a man with one of a woman, and then the same shot of the man with one of a bowl of soup
What is the Kuleshov Effect?
This name came about from a mispronunciation of the name Lloyd, as the voiceless retroflex lateral fricative is hard to pronounce for English speakers
What is Floyd?
Characterized by a colon, these abilities require you to pay their cost to be put onto the stack
What is an activated ability?
There are multiple sizes of bricks in the Lego system, including Quattro, Duplo, the standard Lego, and this, originally designed for architects
What is Modulex?
Out of all of the US's state flags, this one is the least child-friendly. Its seal contains a call to violence, blood, and nudity
What is the Commonwealth of Virginia?