Stem Grab Bag
Stack overflow found this programming language to be the most popular in their 2024 Developer Survey
what is Javascript
This 2005 hurricane incurred 190 billion dollars in disaster relief costs
This Japanese soup prominently features a seasoning made of fermented soybeans and is consumed by 75% of all Japanese people at least once a day
this is the definition of "trite"
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
the novel Frankenstein was written by this author
This organelle is primarily responsible for the breakdown of large molecules (e.g., proteins + polysaccharides)
what is the lysosome
This network of controlled-access highways cost the US $425 billion and 35 years to fully construct
What is the Interstate Highway System
According to Instacart, this is the most widely purchased soup in the USA
What is Chicken Noodle Soup
This is the definition of "onerous"
burdensome or difficult to endure
This actor famously starred in The Mummy (1999)
Who is Brendan Frasier
The symbol for this component in an electrical circuit looks like two sets of loops or bumps facing each other, with two straight lines in between them.
What is a transformer
This famous aircraft was first made in 1970 and is often called a "jumbo jet"
what is the Boeing 747
This soup, whose name directly translates as "wedded broth," combines green vegetables and meat in chicken broth.
what is italian wedding soup
This is the definition of "antediluvian"
of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
This mythological ghost ship, whose oldest extant legend dates from the late 18th century, was allegedly doomed to sail the sea forever.
What is The Flying Dutchman
This concept is defined as a combination of alleles being inherited together; a set of DNA polymorphisms found on the same chromosome.
what is a Haplotype
This is the largest hydroelectric facility in the world
what is the three gorges dam
This sour Thai soup features lemongrass, kaffir lime, chilis, and some type of seafood or chicken.
This is the definition of "diaphanous"
so thin as to transmit light
This book, often translated as The Hammer of Witches, was written in 1486 as a sort of guide to Witchcraft for the catholic church
what is the Malleus Maleficarum
This well-known mathematical relation, studied as early as 1653 by Pierre de Fermat, is a cubic plane curve defined from two diametrically opposite points of a circle.
What is the Witch of Agnesi
The Suez Canal was constructed during this decade
This ubiquitous French soup is composed of potatos, leeks, cream and Chives
What is Vichyssoise
This is the definition of "mendicant"
a beggar
These three monsters are mentioned as guests in the 1962 song "Monster Mash"
who are wolfman, Dracula, and his son