Randomness in Science
This 5-letter theory explores ideas like a butterfly's random wingbeat influencing events miles away
What is Chaos?
There are many cocktails with the name of a 1951 Salinger novel; you'll find this whiskey in all of them
What is Rye?
Amy Adams returns to her hometown to investigate murders in this miniseries based on a Gillian Flynn novel
What is Sharp Objects?
The Chinese invented this in the first millennium & suffered one of its deadliest explosions as noses rained on Beijing in 1626
What is Gunpowder?
Flo's V-8 cafe, which serves the "finest fuel in 50 states", is the only gas station in Radiator Springs in this 2006 Pixar film
What is Cars?
PHOTO SHARING:
Publishing its first photo in 1889, today it has more than 4 billion likes & 100 million followers on Instagram
What is National Geographic?
From the Latin for "change", these random variations are retained in a species gene pool
What are Mutations?
Perhaps Edward Bulwer-Lytton was sipping this rum, ginger beer & lime juice cocktail when he wrote it was that kind of night
What is Dark and Stormy?
Before "The Last of Us", Craig Mazin wrote this HBO miniseries set in Europe in 1986
What is Chernobyl?
We borrowed this word for a desire to travel from German
What is Wanderlust?
In this 2010 film Angelina Jolie plays a CIA agent accused of being a Russian spy
What is Salt?
PRESIDENTS BORN AND DIED:
Born the farthest west in the continental U.S. of any president, he would later die farthest from his birthplace
Who is Richard Nixon?
We predict you'll know this Werner Heisenberg principle about randomness in quantum mechanics
What is the Uncertainty Principle?
It takes a lot of flowers (weeds, some say) to make a batch of this stuff, the title of a Ray Bradbury novel
What is Dandelion Wine?
In "The Night Of", this actor plays a character incarcerated on Rikers Island
Who is (Riz) Ahmed?
This silvery-white metallic element was named for an asteroid that bears the name of an epithet of Athena
What is Palladium?
Cop Al Pacino chases robber de Niro in this 1995 Michael Mann movie
What is Heat?
THE OLYMPICS:
This sport that made its Olympic debut in 1988 has a playing surface of only about 45 square feet
What is Table Tennis?
Also used to describe the scattering of reflected light, it's the random movement of molecules in a fluid
What is Diffusion?
In this novel Robert Jordan says absinthe "cures everything"
What is For Whom the Bell Tolls?
This second-generation actress played Alex, a young mother in the Netflix miniseries "Maid"
Who is Margaret Qualley?
From the name of an ancient philosopher, it's someone with discriminating taste in food & drink
What is an Epicurean (Epicure)?
Walt Disney saw Fess Parker's small role in this 1954 film about giant ants & picked him to play Davy Crockett for his TV serie
What is Them!
FAMOUS HOTELS:
The painting seen here, "A Vicious Circle", hangs in this hotel in the room that's portrayed in the painting
What is the Algonquin Hotel?
These "liberated" molecules are unstable & their random reactions can damage proteins in tissue
What are Free Radicals?
This word for a beer & lemonade concoction appears in a Laurence Sterne title
What is Shandy?
This Hulu miniseries was based on the Lawrence Wright book subtitled "Al-Qaeda & the Road to 9/11"
What is The Looming Tower?
Starting in 1947, millions fled what's now Bangladesh to this capital of India's West Bengal state, increasing its crowding issues
What is Kolkata?
Director Fritz Lang's first talkie, it featured Peter Lorre as a serial child kill
What is M?
ANIMALS IN SCIENCE:
The first mammal species sent on a rocket to space, it's perhaps more famous for an antigen in its blood
What is a Rhesus Monkey (Rhesus Macaque)?