Nerd Stuff
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THIS is the last name of the person that invented the Zamboni machine?
What is Zamboni?
Poet Joy Harjo writes poems addressing the hardships endured by this group of people
Who are Native Americans?
There are two types of Alleles, Dominant and ______
What is recessive?
The bottom part of a fraction is called this.
What is a denominator?
St. Valentine, the patron saint of Valentines day, comes from this European country
What is Italy?
THIS is the animal that Luke Skywalker bullseyed on his T-16 speeder back home.
What is a Womp Rat?
Matsuo Basho is a master of this type of Japanese poetry.
What is Haiku?
This is the term for genetic traits that have more than one allele pair
An isoceles triangle is special because it has THIS.
"Cupid" had its beginnings in the religion of this Ancient Civilization.
What is Ancient Greece?
Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo Montoya kidnapped a princess in this classic film.
What is "The Princess Bride"?
"If dreams die, life is a broken- winged bird that cannot fly" this is an example of what poetic device?
What is a metaphor?
This is the physical expression of ones genotype
What is a phenotype?
A nine sided polygon is called THIS.
What is a nonagon?
The original ideal that people celebrated was not love, it was ______.
What is Valor? (bravery)
Instead, the Russians used THIS.
A poetic device where two opposite ideas are placed beside each other.
What is juxtaposition?
Parent 2 has blue eyes, and a genotype bb bg
THIS is the probability their children will have brown eyes
What is zero?
1 Mile is THIS many feet?
5280.
By the year 1203, Valentines day had become a holiday about love. Specifically about THIS kind of love....
THIS person is credited with creating the original version of the totally cool and super popular game "Dungeons & Dragons"
Who is Gary Gygax
The word used for a poet's attitude towards the subject of their poem
What is tone?
A person's genotype for eye color is:
bb Bg.
THIS would be their eye color.
What is brown?
In 1997, the brand new U.S Navy ship, the USS Yorktown, suffered a complete engine failure because a computer on board the ship tried to do THIS math no-no
Divide by Zero
In 1861, Robert Cadbury was the first person to sell THIS OBJECT as a Valentines Day gift.
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What is a heart shaped box of chocolates?