March 3
Quick Hits
Questions
It is the usual name by which a group of paraphyletic, though mostly characiform, fish are called. As can be seen in the photo below, these fish get their name from their fins, which are vaguely square in shape - as these creatures have seven or eight of them, and not four, with one characteristic distinguishing many of them being a small adipose fin between the dorsal and caudal fins. The diamond and the neon are among the varieties of what aquarium fish?
It is 1984, and Zoyd Wheeler is living out retirement in Northern California, where he makes what little money that he has by selling marijuana and faking mental illness so that he can receive a disability check. His daughter Prairie works at a pizza joint and hangs out with the members of band called Billy Barf and the Vomitones. The war on drugs is starting to accelerate, and Boyd receives a tip from a government agent, Hector Zuñiga, that a colleague in drug enforcement, Brock Vond, may be in pursuit of Prairie, because Vond has lost track of his informant Frenesi Gates - who so happens to Prairie’s mother. Prairie goes on the run, partly through the help of martial arts instructor DL Chastain and a group called the Sisterhood of Kunoichi Attentives. I have described the initial plot elements of what work?
In late 2024, a woman named Saâda Arbane appeared on Algerian television, stating that her privacy had been violated very publicly. Her background included being a victim of a terrorist attack that occurred during Algeria’s “Black Decade,” with her throat being slit during that assault, an injury which forced her to breathe using a tracheostomy for many months afterward. She later became pregnant with an unwanted child and contemplated an abortion. These are some of the similarities that her life has with the main character of a Prix Goncourt-winning novel, and they happen to be some of the same details of her life that she shared with Aïcha Dahdouh - the psychiatrist who just so happens to be married to what author?
Despite its association with modern Puerto Rican cuisine, this sandwich actually was first introduced in Chicago, by the Puerto Rican community of that city, and it did not originate on the island itself. Likewise, despite its big city origins, this food takes its name from the diminutive for a word used in Puerto Rican Spanish to describe a hardworking but unsophisticated farmer from the mountains. The usual choice of meat is steak, with cheese, onions, tomato, and lettuce being the typical additives, though what distinguishes this food is the choice of flattened and fried plantains that serve the function usually served by bread. What sandwich?
Last year, an Instagram user posted a photo of musicians Riley Green and Megan Moroney driving around in a custom-made Chrysler. A work of art strikingly similar to that photograph is used for the cover of the single for what recent hit song? The photo below was taken in Jacksonville, Alabama, while that artwork adds a sign to indicate that the scene has been relocated to Amarillo, with the lyrics of the song suggesting that life in Tennessee would have been the other option.
On March 10, Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat scored 83 points in a single game, which is the second-highest scoring performance by a player in the history of the NBA. However, that feat may not even be the most impressive scoring accomplishment in his household, as he currently is in a long-term relationship with what record-setting WNBA player? This player scored 53 points in a 2023 game, a performance which ties her with Liz Cambage for the most points in a single game in WNBA history - as well as quite likely placing her first all-time in points in a single game among all basketball players who are named for a Steely Dan song.
The most common epithet that the Hephthalite Empire (shown on the map below), which reached its peak during the middle of the sixth century AD, is called. The organization led as “Supreme Ruler” for two years by Alexander Kolchak, despite him being an admiral. The less formal name of the National Party, who last were in power during the 2019-24 administration of Luis Lacalle Pou. What William Adelin was aboard when he died. The nickname of Simo Häyhä, who is estimated to have killed some 500 enemy soldiers, mostly by using a M/28-30 rifle. What shared adjective?
This is said to have been left on Laugh Tale, an island located at the end of the Grand Line route which wraps around the entirety of the Blue Planet. Joy Boy left it there 800 years ago, so those seeking this have assumed that it might contain secrets about what occurred during the Void Century. Since the execution of Gol D. Roger and many of his crew members, the only people thought to know of its present whereabouts are Silvers Rayleigh, Crocus, and Scopper Gaban, though if you can use the Road Poneglyphs, perhaps you can locate this. What?
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron likely is best known for his namesake relation between vapor pressure and temperature that he developed with Rudolf Clausius. Likewise, Dmitry Mendeleev certainly is more famous for his work with the periodic table. In 1834, and before their involvement in those respective achievements, each independently formulated what law of physics? Their work was based on the empirical work previously used by other scientists to develop their various eponymous laws, with other scientists like Clausius and August Krönig later using microscopic kinetic theory to derive this law by different means.
Her recent work tends to come in two forms: drawings of whirlpool-like images that usually come in pairs or trios, like that shown first below, or constructions made of materials wrapped into layers until they take a shape, like the work of wound fabric shown second below. The child of Nigerian immigrants, her recent Turner Prize win was especially newsworthy, as she is autistic. Which artist?
