NAQT Ya Gotta Know - Mountains, Scientific Experiements, American Third Parties

Circa 1800. Demonstrated that light can behave as either a wave or a particle.

Ideological check on Democrats and Republicans in NY state. Sometimes alternative candidates.

Disproved the existence of the luminiferous aether, through which light waves supposedly moved.

Named after Polish commander who fought in the American Revolutionary War. Australia.

1909. Measured the charge of an electron. The constant found was about 1.59 × 10^–19 coulombs.

Showed that the angular momentum of an atom is quantized. Predated concept of electron spin.

Almost perfectly pyramidal shape. Between Switzerland and Italy. 1865 ascent by Edward Whymper.

Followed up on Ross Perot's 1992 campaign. Jesse Ventura won MN governorship in 1998.

Est. 1891. AKA the Populist Party. Opposed to elites of the banking and railroad industries.

1952. Demonstrated that material responsible for inheritance of traits was DNA, not protein.

1952. Attempt to demonstrate a possible mechanism to form life from inorganic chemicals.

1958. Proved hat DNA replication is semiconservative. Used E. coli in a medium of nitrogen-15.

Qogir, Ketu, and Mount Godwin-Austen are other names. 2nd tallest in world. Pakistan & China.

Argentina. Highest point in Southern Hemisphere. Straddles the Polish Glacier, a popular route.

Est. 1828. America's first 3rd party. Chose W. Wirt in 1st presidential nominating convention.

Est. 1848. Union of anti-slavery groups from the 2 major parties. Sought to stop expansion.

Est. 1843. AKA Know-Nothing Party. Anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant nativism of early America.

Tallest peak east of the Mississippi. N. Carolina. Namesake fell to his death in 2nd attempt.

1908-1913. Discovered positively-charged nucleus of the atom. Disproved "plum pudding model."

1923–1927. Showed electrons can exhibit wave-like behavior. Measured diffraction patterns.

Est. 1901. Associated with Eugene V. Debs, who ran for president five times.

1860's. Austrian monk's study of pea plants pioneered the field of genetics.

2nd tallest in Africa. Famous due to a book by African ethnographer. H. Mackinder climbed.

China and Nepal, Himalayas. Tallest in the world. Sir Edmund Hillary one of the first to climb.

Sparked inquiries of the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Est. 1991. Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke pulled 2.7% of the popular vote in 2000.

Three iterations by T. Roosevelt, La Follette, H. Wallace. One was AKA the Bull Moose Party.

Spiritual successor to Dixiecrats from two decades before. G.Wallace was against desegregation.

Japan. Yamanaka & Kawaguchi are 2 lakes found along the slopes. Significant in Shinto religion

AKA The States’ Rights Democratic Party. Founded by Southern Democrats to oppose Truman.

Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira are the 3 summits. Tanzania. Subject of a short story by Hemingway.

AKA Mt. McKinley. Highest mountain in N. America. Frederick Cook faked his ascent in 1906.