Physics
"Opposites attract" via this fundamental force, responsible for the orbital structures of atoms and molecules.
What is electromagnetism, or the Lorentz force?
This body of water between Russia and Alaska used to be a land bridge, which was crossed by some of the earliest migrants to North America.
What is the Bering Strait?
Traditionally, there are twelve of these: three inversions each of major, minor, diminished, and augmented.
What are triads?
The sounds /f/ and /v/ are called "labiodental", because they are produced when these two articulators meet.
What are the lower lip and upper teeth?
In the original version of the meme, a Federal Reserve agent laughs as his money printer makes this noise in response to the 2020 economic crisis.
What is "brrr"?
What is frequency?
On this young king's deathbed, he was asked to whom he would give control of his vast, expansive empire, and he famously replied, "To the strongest."
Who is Alexander the Great?
Dave Brubeck's "Blue Rondo a la Turk" is a famous unconventional use of this time signature, which also appears in Bach's G minor piano concerto.
What is 9/8?
As opposed to, say, an abjad, a syllabary, or a logography, most Western languages have this.
What is an alphabet?
In the original version of the meme, this man is once again asking for your financial support.
Who is Bernie Sanders?
This hypothetical faster-than-light particle was thought to have been finally discovered at CERN, before later evidence showed it to be an experimental error.
What is a tachyon?
After much deliberation, this remote, uninhabited location was chosen as the target for the extensive nuclear weapons tests following World War 2.
Where is Bikini Atoll?
The supreme difficulty of writing in this diatonic mode comes from its lack of a perfect fifth above the tonic.
What is the Locrian mode?
Unlike English, a plurality of the world's languages have "SOV" word order, meaning that these things usually appear at the ends of sentences and clauses.
What are verbs?
In the original version of the meme, the stiff, slouching "Virgin Walk" is contrasted in great detail with this.
What is the Chad Stride?
After discovering the fundamental law governing this simple machine, and its powerful implications, Archimedes famously said, "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth."
What is the lever?
If a tomb is erected to a person whose remains are elsewhere, it is not a grave; it is one of these, the most famous of which was built in Whitehall after World War 1.
What is a cenotaph?
No cheating for this one! Although we have a note called "middle C", the actual 44th and 45th keys on a standard 88-key piano sound these pitches.
What are E and F?
In English, "nasal assimilation" usually causes this letter to be pronounced differently before the letter G.
What is the letter N?
In the original version of the meme, a custom UNO card forces you to make a choice: either text your ex, or draw this many cards.
How many is 25?
Our universe is "CPT-symmetric", meaning that if all three of these attributes were globally flipped to their opposites, the change would be undetectable.
What are charge, parity, and time?
This most prominent female Egyptian pharaoh is still depicted with the characteristic fake beard in paintings and sculptures, despite never wearing one.
Who is Hatshepsut?
"Axis theory" divides the twelve pitches into three equivalence classes: tonic, dominant, and predominant, where any two pitches separated by this interval are in the same class.
What is a minor third (or, equivalently, major sixth)?
The three components of this are the onset, the nucleus, and the coda.
What is a syllable?
In the original version of the meme, a picture of these two celebrities is captioned "Name a more iconic duo. I'll wait."
Who are Kendall and Kylie Jenner?