Digital Algebra
Who is credited with developing modern symbolic logic and whose algebra of logic, now referred to as Boolean algebra, is the basis of modern digital computer circuits? Answer: George Boole
Pre-Continental Divide
What name is given to the super-continent that existed from the late Paleozoic to the late Triassic periods before it broke apart into the the continents we know today? Answer: …
A Royal Distinction
Which genetic disease is known as the “royal disease” due to its prevalence in royal families of the 19th and 20th centuries from Europe to Asia? Answer: Hempophilia
Fine Technique
What Neo-impressionist painting technique, characterized by small and thin, yet visible, brush strokes, was developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in 1886? Answer: Pointillism
Novel Narrators
In the 1967 coming-of-age novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton and subsequent film, which of the characters is the narrator? Answer: Ponyboy Curtis
Bringing it Back
A technique for dislodging objects when someone is choking using abdominal thrusts was named after the man who first published the maneuver in 1974. What is this technique called? Answer: …
Little Pieces
The stapes bone is the smallest bone in the human body measuring approximately.11 inches in length. Where in the human body would you find the stapes bone? Answer: the ear
Home Sweet Home
In George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, later adapted into the TV show “Game of Thrones”, what is the name of the ancestral home of House …
Obstetrics Lingity
Dr. Virginia Apgar introduced the APGAR score for newborn babies in 1952. What does the acronym APGAR stand for? Answer: Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, and Respiration
Cheese You Later
From the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, what curse renders a kid a social outcast until they pass it on by touching someone else? Answer: The Cheese Touch