Inventions
This portable music player, released by Sony in 1979, allowed people to listen to cassettes on the go for the first time.
What is the Walkman?
A baby frog is commonly called this before it develops legs.
What is a tadpole?
This Italian city is built on a series of canals and is famous for its gondolas.
What is Venice?
Inky, Blinky, Pinky & Clyde are the ghosts in this classic video game.
What is Pac-Man?
This artist painted The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
Before the digital camera, this device used a special chemical paper to print photos instantly.
What is a Polaroid camera?
This fish can inflate its body as a defense against predators.
What is a pufferfish?
You visit this city to see the Parthenon sitting atop the Acropolis.
What is Athens?
Known as the “March King,” he composed “The Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Who is John Philip Sousa?
This artist painted The Water Lilies series.
Who is Claude Monet?
This short-lived 1950s invention was a "nuclear-powered" vacuum cleaner designed to run for years without being plugged in.
What was the Atomic Vacuum Cleaner?
This marine mammal has the thickest fur of any animal, with up to a million hairs per square inch.
What is a Sea Otter?
This island nation is famous for its overwater bungalows and crystal-clear lagoons.
What are the Maldives?
This is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres.
This American folk artist began painting in her late 70s, after arthritis made embroidery difficult.
Who is Grandma Moses?
Wolfgang von Kempelen’s famous chess-playing “automaton” concealed a human chess player inside its cabinet.
What was The Turk?
or
What was The Mechanical Turk?
This mammal’s fur often hosts algae, which can help it blend into the trees.
This island nation in the Indian Ocean is famous for its unique lemurs and baobab trees.
What is Madagascar?
Even identical twins can have different ones because of conditions during development before birth.
What are fingerprints?
In this printmaking process, lines are cut directly into a metal plate to hold ink.
What is engraving?
This early 20th-century "communication" device used a series of tubes and mirrors to project a person's image from one room to another, though it was largely a theatrical illusion.
Praxinoscope
The okapi is most closely related to this animal.
What is a giraffe?
This Turkish region is known for its “fairy chimney” rock formations and sunrise balloon rides.
What is Cappadocia?
This animal has the largest eyes in the animal kingdom, each roughly the size of a dinner plate (11-12 inches across).
What is the Colossal Squid?
On November 15th, 2017 the most expensive painting ever sold at auction was Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi. How much did it sell for?
What is $450.3 million?