Cities and States
This state is nicknamed the Lone Star State.
What is Texas?
He is the narrator in the "Great Gatsby".
Who is Nick Carrow?
This is the world's largest bird.
What is the ostrich?
If you get caught in a heavy downpour, you are smelling "petrichor"—a distinct, earthy scent triggered when liquid hits the soil and releases secretions from these microscopic, single-celled organisms.
What is bacteria?
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What is 7?
This city is nicknamed the City of Angels.
What is Los Angeles?
In the Lord of the Rings, this is Bilbo's last name.
What is Baggins?
This pigment gives leaves their green color.
What is chlorophyll?
In 1928, biologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered this world-changing antibiotic when he came back from vacation and found a strange mold growing on his bacteria Petri dishes.
What is penicillin?
This chess piece can move in an L-shape.
What is the knight?
This city has the nickname "The Mile High City".
What is Denver?
This was the second Star Wars movie ever made.
What is The Empire Strikes Back?
This term describes the bending of light waves as they pass from one medium into another, such as when light travels from air into water and makes a straw look bent.
What is refraction?
A total accident of physics, this everyday kitchen appliance was invented in the 1940s after a scientist noticed that a radar weapon component had completely melted the chocolate bar in his pocket.
What is the microwave?
In an incredible feat of natural biology, this standard barnyard bird is the closest living genetic relative to the prehistoric Tyrannosaurus Rex.
What is a chicken?
This state is called the Show Me state.
What is Missouri?
This is the crab in The Little Mermaid.
Who is Sebastian?
This is the theoretical boundary surrounding a black hole from which nothing—not even light—can escape the black hole's gravitational pull.
What is the event horizon?
In an accidental twist of evolutionary biology, this specific flightless bird native to New Zealand lays an egg that takes up roughly 20% of its mother's body weight—proportionally the largest egg of any bird species.
What is the kiwi?
Before it became the modern, multi-billion-dollar gaming giant behind the Switch, this Japanese company was originally founded in 1889 to manufacture handmade playing cards.
What is Nintendo?
Boasting a population of around 8,000 residents, this scenic New England capital city holds the title of the least populous state capital in the entire country.
What is Montpelier?
This 2023 biographical thriller directed by Christopher Nolan became the highest-grossing World War II film of all time, largely fueled by a massive internet meme.
What is Oppenheimer?
According to the Third Law of Thermodynamics, this theoretical temperature—equal to 0 Kelvin or -273.15 degrees Celsius—is the point at which all molecular motion completely stops.
What is absolute zero?
While studying the cosmos, astronomers accidentally discovered that our universe has an official average color. Though many assumed it would be deep blue or black, the actual average hue of all light emitted by galaxies is a subtle, beige shade officially given this coffee-inspired name.
Who is cosmic latte?
If you look at a map of Africa, you will find this unique nation completely surrounded by just one other country, South Africa, making it a rare example of a landlocked enclave state.
What is Lesotho?