Sports
This country won the first Olympic gold medal ever awarded for basketball in 1936.
What is the United States?
like dilute solutions or pressure changes in supercritical fluids.
what is Apply Le Châtelier's Principle to complex systems
Who are 3 famious old literature sister's who wrote books that are still widely read and talked about today
The only country completely surrounded by another country.
What is Lesotho?
This mammal lays eggs.
What is the platypus?
This statistical anomaly occurs when a team has a higher winning percentage overall but loses to another team that wins fewer games in every subset of play
What is Simpson’s Paradox?
The pH of a solution at equivalence when a weak acid is titrated with a strong base is:
What is greater than 7?
This Chaucer work is written primarily in iambic pentameter.
What is The Canterbury Tales?
This line of latitude passes through more countries than any other.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The largest animal ever to exist on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
The only MLB player to win MVP, Cy Young, and Gold Glove awards in the same season.
Who is Clayton Kershaw? (2014)
This rule explains why electrons fill orbitals singly before pairing.
What is Hund’s Rule?
The monster Grendel is descended from this biblical figure.
Who is Cain?
The driest non-polar desert on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This animal has three hearts and blue blood.
What is an octopus?
This chess grandmaster also holds the record for the longest undefeated streak in top-level football (soccer) coaching history.
Who is Johan Cruyff? (Trick: tactical influence, not literal play)
This particle explains why atomic nuclei do not fly apart despite proton repulsion.
What is the strong nuclear force?
This novel by Mary Shelley was originally published anonymously in 1818.
What is Frankenstein?
This capital city sits at the highest elevation of any capital in the world.
What is La Paz, Bolivia?
This evolutionary adaptation explains why sharks have existed largely unchanged for 400 million years.
What is stabilizing selection?
This Olympic event was removed after competitors repeatedly died due to heat exhaustion.
What is the Marathon (1904 Olympics)?
Explain why the OH absorption in an IR spectrum is so broad.
Hydrogen bonding
This literary device dominates Paradise Lost, allowing Satan to appear heroic.
What is the tragic anti-hero archetype?
This country has the most time zones when overseas territories are included.
What is France?
This species can survive complete oxygen deprivation for hours by switching to anaerobic metabolism.
What is the painted turtle?