Mixed Science
The vena cava and aorta are joined to this organ, which has two chambers of ventricles and atria. Name this organ that pumps blood and "beats" in your chest.
What is the heart?
This country’s state of Queensland contains the Great Barrier Reef, and dingoes and cockatoos can be found in this country’s “Outback”. Melbourne and Sydney are cities in this country that is also a continent.
What is Australia?
Woody and Buzz Lightyear are characters in this Pixar franchise about talking toys.
What is Toy Story?
One of this man’s piano pieces begins by alternating E and D sharp; that work is “Fur Elise.” The Moonlight Sonata and Ode to Joy were composed by this deaf composer that, with Brahms and Bach, is one of the “Three B’s."
Who is Beethoven? (Ludwig von Beethoven)
This man rerouted the River Alpheus to clean the Augean stables. Atlas got some golden apples for this man who briefly held up the sky for him. This man killed an animal whose fur was impervious to weapons by strangling it, the Nemean Lion. Name this Greco-Roman hero who did twelve labors.
Who is Hercules? (Heracles)
This creature lives in and is named for a Scottish lake. Blurry photographs suggest that it is a long-necked animal like a plesiosaur, but despite several sonar sweeps of the lake, no evidence of this creature has been found. Give either the name of the creature or the lake.
What is Loch Ness? (Loch Ness Monster)
A “super” one of these landforms lies below Yellowstone. This landform comes in multiple forms, including composite and shield. Igneous rocks are formed by the cooling of the hot substance spouted by these landforms. Name these landforms whose eruptions formed many islands, including Hawaii.
What are volcanoes?
These mountains contain Canada’s first national park near the town of Banff. The Front Range of these mountains is crossed by the Western Continental Divide. These mountains contain Mount Elbert, the tallest mountain in Colorado, and Pike’s Peak. Name this west American mountain range.
This artist gained fame through albums 1989 and Red, and “Exile” and “Cardigan” appear on her album Folklore. Name this artist who sang “You Need To Calm Down” and “Lover.”
Who is Taylor Swift?
One artwork of this type missing its arms is the Venus de Milo. Auguste Rodin used this form for a man sitting with his head on his hand in The Thinker. A Michelangelo work in this form is a nude David. Name this form of art that may be cast in bronze or carved from marble, made in three dimensions.
What is a sculpture?
On this holiday, Macy’s hosts the largest parade in the world. The Wampanoag tribe and Plymouth settlers are said to have celebrated the first occasion of this holiday. Traditional foods for this holiday include stuffing and potatoes. Name this harvest holiday that occurs in November.
What is Thanksgiving?
This creature has been spotted in the Pacific Northwest. It is a bipedal animal, like a large hairy person, and named for the large prints that are sometimes spotted. DNA surveys of fur and hair in the area have not found any unknown creature.
What is a sasquatch? (Bigfoot)
The moai of Rapa Nui are created from this material, as was the city of Petra. The gaze of a basilisk or the gorgon Medusa turns someone into this material. Name this substance that is typified by diorite, granite and sandstone.
What is stone (or rock)?
This state's Salinas Valley is the setting for Of Mice and Men. This state’s highest peak, Mt. Whitney, is near the country’s lowest point. Sutter’s Mill in this state started a gold rush, where 49ers flowed into this state’s capital of Sacramento. Name this U.S. state.
What is California?
Misty, Brock, and Ash Ketchum are characters in this franchise’s anime. Name this franchise about pocket monsters like Charmander and PIkachu.
What is Pokemon?
Joseph Haydn developed a musical genre for a quartet of these instruments, including a viola and a cello. The bass is the lowest-pitched one of these instruments.
What are strings? (stringed instruments)
This politician published two newspapers, the Philadelphia Gazette and Chronicle. This Founding Father also invented the lightning rod.
Who is Franklin? (Benjamin Franklin)
This animal was first spotted in Puerto Rico, but sightings have spread across Latin America and the southern US. This animal drinks the blood of livestock, and its name is Spanish for "goat sucker."
What is a chupacabra?
Boyle’s Law says that volume varies inversely with pressure in this state. Molecules in this state of matter completely fill the space of their container. Name this state of matter that is more energetic than solids and liquids.
What is gas?
(Do not accept plasma)
A bridge named for this city now resides in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. An 82-story glass pyramid called the “Shard” is this city’s tallest building, and the world’s largest Ferris wheel is called this city’s “Eye.” Buckingham Palace and Big Ben are located in this United Kingdom city.
What is London?
This sport's Megan Rapinoe knelt during the anthem in an international match in 2016. Playing as a midfielder, she won the Golden Boot and Golden Ball award in this sport's 2019 Women's World Cup.
What is soccer? (also accept football)
Sergei Prokofiev wrote this piece to introduce children to the orchestra. In this work, the title boy captures the title animal who had eaten his duck friend. Each character of this work is represented by a different instrument: the title boy is played by strings; his grandfather by a bassoon; and the duck by a clarinet.
What is Peter and the Wolf?
Organic materials like food scraps and yard waste cannot be recycled, but are subject to this process. In this process, organic materials are exposed to decomposers like fungi and earthworms and turned into material that can be used as fertilizer.
What is compost?
In November 1966, two couples in Point Pleasant, West Virginia reported seeing a 7-foot-tall winged creature with glowing red eyes that became known by this name.
What is the Mothman?
This material comes in many forms, some of which are easier to recycle than others. Polyethylene terephthalate, which is used to make soda bottles, is commonly recycled, whereas polystyrene, used for styrofoam, is much more difficult to recycle.
What is plastic?
In this country, Kublai Khan was visited by Marco Polo via the Silk Road. The compass and paper were invented during this country’s Han dynasty, and the Ming dynasty extended this country’s “Great Wall.” Beijing is the capital of this Asian country, the most populous in the world.
What is China? (People's Republic of China)
MasterChef is one reality competition that features this activity. Padma Lakshmi also hosts one such show, and another has competitors use a "secret ingredient" like spiny lobster, fennel or ostrich.
What is cooking?
Name these types of artwork that flourished in the Renaissance with themes from religion or classical mythology like Sandro Boticelli's "The Birth of Venus." Modern examples of these works can be more abstract, like Pablo Picasso's "Guernica."
What are paintings?
After Mowgli is kidnapped by the Bandar-log, the monkey people, Baloo and Bagheera enlist the help of one of these animals named Kaa to rescue Mowgli. In another Kipling story, the mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi fought one of these creatures named Nag.
What is a snake? (Also accept rock python or cobra)
According to folklore, this 13th child of Mother Leeds was born in 1735 with hooves, a goat-like head, and bat wings before flying out the chimney into the Pine Barrens.
What is the Jersey Devil?
Sometimes, a hypersensitive immune response can trigger these reactions. These reactions can be caused by pollen, as well as certain foods like peanuts or fish.
What is an allergic reaction? (allergy)
This large, semi-aquatic herbivorous animal can be found in lakes and rivers across Africa, including the African Great Lakes of the Rift Valley. These animals are highly territorial and very dangerous, and often attack and capsize small boats.
What is a hippopotamus? (hippo)
In this singing competition, celebrities compete wearing costumes to hide their identities. The rapper T-Pain won the first season wearing a Monster costume.
What is The Masked Singer?
This artist painted the Mona Lisa. His painting, The Last Supper, has Jesus as its focal point, surrounded by his twelve apostles. This polymath also dabbled in science, sketching a flying machine and a study of human anatomy, the Vitruvian Man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci? (da Vinci)
Most pyramids were funeral monuments to pharaohs, who were preserved using this process. In this process, internal organs were removed and stored in canopic jars, and then the bodies were wrapped in linen.
This half-man, half-bullfrog cryptid was allegedly spotted by a businessman in 1955 near a creek in southwestern Ohio.
What is the Loveland Frogman? (Also accept Loveland Frog)
Cells such as T cells, B cells, and neutrophils all fall under this colorfully-named general class of blood cells, which are contrasted with oxygen-carrying red blood cells.
What are white blood cells? (Also accept leukocytes)
Name this largest hot desert in the world. It covers most of many north African countries, like Libya, Mali and Chad. Berbers and other nomadic tribes led caravans across this desert to visit cities like Timbuktu.
What is the Sahara?
This long-running reality show strands players in the wilderness in tribes. When a player is voted out, host Jeff Probst says “the tribe has spoken.”
What is Survivor?
The 1913 Paris premiere of this Igor Stravinsky ballet, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, famously caused a near-riot in the audience due to its avant-garde score and primitive choreography.
What is The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)?
Lake Titicaca, the largest lake in South America, lies in the Andes between these two South American countries. One of these countries has two capital cities of Sucre and La Paz. The other country's capital is Lima. Name both countries.
What are Bolivia and Peru?
In Algonquian folklore, this emaciated, cannibalistic spirit or monster embodies greed and starvation, said to possess humans who resort to eating human flesh during harsh winters.
What is a Wendigo?
Drag, which is analogous to friction for fluids, is high in fluids undergoing this type of flow which creates mini-vortexes. Golf balls promote this type of air flow by having dimples, and it is also associated with bumpy airplane rides.
What is turbulence?
Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall in the world, is located on this continent, which also contains rich oil fields under Venezuela’s Orinoco River basin.
What is South America?
This singer of Old Town Road describes the song as being "country trap." This singer came out as gay during the song's streak. He also recorded the song "Panini" later remixed with DaBaby.
Who is Little Nas X?
This painting, now held at the Louvre, depicts a woman with an enigmatic smile. She is seated with her head slightly turned, looking at the viewer, with a landscape behind her.
What is the Mona Lisa?
Thomas Jefferson commissioned these two people to explore the new Louisiana Territory and to find a route to the Pacific Ocean. Starting from what is now St. Louis, they traveled up the Missouri River, and then later traveled down the Columbia River to the Pacific. Name both men.
Who are Merriweather Lewis and William Clark? (Lewis and Clark or Clark and Lewis)
Long said to inhabit a 120-mile-long glacial freshwater lake between New York and Vermont, this aquatic monster is nicknamed after its home waters.
Who is Champ? (Also accept the Lake Champlain Monster)