Fables & Mythology
Proving that "slow and steady wins the race," a persistent reptile defeats a boastful, napping runner in this classic fable.
What is "The Tortoise and the Hare"?
Sweating helps cool your body as liquid water changes into gas as part of this process.
What is evaporation?
Botanically speaking, a banana is classified as this type of fruit.
What is a berry?
When you bake then cut a square cake diagonally from corner to corner, you can use this ancient method to find the length of the cut.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
This art technique creates an image by assembling small pieces of materials such as tile or glass.
What is a mosaic?
In ancient Egyptian mythology, this jackal-headed god is associated with mummification.
Who is Anubis?
A straw looks bent in water because light changes direction through this process.
What is refraction?
These ocean predators appeared on Earth about 50 million years before the first trees grew.
What are sharks?
A car travels 180 miles in three hours. This is its average speed.
What is 60 miles per hour?
This is a double-reed woodwind instrument larger and lower-pitched than an oboe.
What is a bassoon?
In Greek mythology (and Hadestown), this musician travels to the underworld to bring back Eurydice.
Who is Orpheus?
You lurch forward when a bus stops because of this tendency of matter to resist changes in motion.
What is inertia?
On this planet, one rotation takes longer than one trip around the Sun, making its days longer than its years.
Sunflower seeds, pinecones, and shells all famously spiral outward following this numerical sequence where each number is the sum of the two before it.
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
A standard, full-sized piano has this many keys.
What is 88?
He is the Norse guardian of Bifrost, the rainbow bridge connecting the Nine Realms.
Who is Heimdall?
Water climbs through a paper towel partly because of this process involving adhesion and cohesion.
What is capillary action?
This egg-laying Australian mammal has venomous spurs on the males’ hind legs.
What is a platypus?
A $50 game is discounted 20%, then its sale price is discounted another 10%. This is the final price before tax.
What is $36?
This keyboard instrument plucks its strings rather than striking them with hammers.
What is a harpsichord?
Often appearing as a spider, this clever trickster has roots in Akan storytelling traditions in West Africa.
Who is Anansi?
A siren seems to change pitch as an ambulance passes because of this effect.
What is the Doppler effect?
This company briefly possessed the sixth-largest navy in the world after the Soviet Union traded 17 submarines and three warships for its syrup.
What is Pepsi?
If you take a strip of paper, give it a single half-twist, and tape the ends together, you create this famous one-sided mathematical surface.
What is a Möbius strip?
This artistic technique uses strong contrasts between light and dark to suggest depth and volume.
What is chiaroscuro?