The Night Sky
Another name for Polaris, the star that guided by escaped American slaves to freedom
What is the North Star?
One of TJ’s supposed ancestors came up with this theorem, which provides a relationship between side lengths for right triangles.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
This state of bliss or peace is also the name of a legendary Seattle grunge band.
What is Nirvana?
A type of furniture that can be converted into a bed, and the lazy person who never gets up from that furniture.
What is a pull out couch potato?
This first black U.S. president was definitely born in Hawaii.
Who is Obama?
This is what we call the phenomenon where mercury appears to move backwards across the night sky.
What is retrograde?
Perform this operation on a function to determine the area under its curve on a graph.
What is an Integral?
This man from Monroe just released his album “American Heart” in June 2025.
Who is Benson Boone?
A children’s nursery rhyme about the bubonic plague and Celebrity talk show host who famously advocates for gay and lesbian rights.
What is ring around the Rosie O’Donnell?
This man was imprisoned for 26 years in Robben Island prison, Pollsmoor prison, and Victor Verstor prison before regaining his freedom.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This is the phase of the moon right before it reaches a full moon.
What is a waxing gibbous?
These basic laws of mathematics are foundational rules, that are assumed true and need no proof.
What are axioms?
He likes big butts and he cannot lie.
Who is sir mix-a-lot?
The final 5 words of the first verse of the 1812 American poem “The Defense of Fort M’Henry” and a dystopian Orwell book.
Although debates, Vicente Guerrero is claimed by many to be black, he was also the second president of this country after helping it gain independence from Spain.
What is Mexico?
It’s not as scary as it sounds, this star is the closest star to earth that is large enough to go supernova.
What is Betelguese?
This branch of mathematics deals with the integers.
What is number theory?
This album by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis won a Grammy for album of the year, beating “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City” and “Yeezus” in 2014.
What is The Heist?
A song by Charlie Daniel’s about a fiddling contest and another song written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gaurell, but popularized by Ray Charles
What is The Devil Went Down to Georgia on My Mind
Paul Kagama is president of the this African nation, positioned 50 miles east of Lake Victoria and home of the Hutu’s and the Tutsi’s.
What is Rwanda?
The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of distant galaxies aided by this effect, where a black hole bends light to make distant objects appear more focused.
What is Gravitational Lensing?
This equation eπi -1 = 0 is considered by many to be “the most beautiful equation in the world”.
What is Euler’s Identity?
This legendary guitarist died September 18th, 1970 in London, England and the young age if 27
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
A controversial sequel to a beloved video game and a rapper who played college basketball in Alabama.
What is The last of us: part 2 chainz?
Abraham Lincoln wanted to send freed slaves to this country, which later elected Ellen Sirleaf making her the first female president in all of Africa.
What is Liberia?