Strange but True
This eight-armed sea animal has three hearts.
What is an octopus?
The plastic or metal tip at the end of a shoelace.
What is an aglet?
This colorful modeling compound began as a cleaner for wallpaper.
What is Play-Doh?
The number of items in a baker’s dozen.
What is 13?
An unnamed object when you cannot remember its real name.
What is a thingamajig?
The only U.S. state whose name has just one syllable.
What is Maine?
This is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight.
What is a bat?
The dot over a lowercase i or j.
What is a tittle?
This packing material began as an attempt to make textured wallpaper.
What is Bubble Wrap?
The number of inches in one foot.
What is 12?
To waste time or move slowly instead of getting started.
What is dillydally?
The only letter of the alphabet that appears in no U.S. state name.
What is Q?
These birds get their pink color from pigments in algae and brine shrimp.
What are flamingos?
The metal band that holds an eraser onto a pencil.
What is a ferrule?
In 1924, this tissue brand was first advertised for removing cold cream.
What is Kleenex?
The number of cards in a standard deck without jokers.
What is 52?
A word meaning greatly surprised or astonished.
What is flabbergasted?
The largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
Botanically, this curved yellow fruit is classified as a berry.
What is a banana?
The groove between your nose and upper lip.
What is the philtrum?
An 11-year-old accidentally invented this frozen treat after leaving soda and a stick outside overnight.
What is the Popsicle?
The number of keys on a standard piano.
What is 88?
A fuss, commotion, or minor disturbance.
What is a kerfuffle?
The number of interlocking rings in the Olympic symbol.
What is five?
Heat makes this famous Paris landmark expand slightly.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
The earthy smell that rises after rain falls on dry ground.
What is petrichor?
After a candy bar melted near his radar equipment, Percy Spencer helped create this appliance.
What is the microwave oven?
The number of individual squares on a chessboard.
What is 64?
Confusing or meaningless official language.
What is gobbledygook?
The performer known as the King of Rock and Roll.
Who is Elvis Presley?
These ocean predators existed on Earth before trees appeared.
What are sharks?
A word or phrase that reads the same forward and backward.
What is a palindrome?
This flying disc’s name was inspired by the Frisbie Pie Company.
What is the Frisbee?
Across all faces, a pair of standard six-sided dice has this many dots in total.
What is 42?
A word for being indecisive or weak in purpose.
What is wishy-washy?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This slow-growing Arctic animal may live for more than 250 years.
What is the Greenland shark?
A word formed by rearranging the letters of another word.
What is an anagram?
A reusable low-tack adhesive, first used as a bookmark, led to this familiar office note.
What is the Post-it Note?
The number of bones in a typical adult human skeleton.
What is 206?
A noisy uproar or excited reaction.
What is a brouhaha?
Scotland’s national animal is this mythical creature.
What is the unicorn?
On this planet, one full rotation takes longer than one trip around the Sun.
What is Venus?
A sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.
What is a pangram?
The first retail item commercially scanned with a UPC in 1974 was a pack of this chewing gum.
What is Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum?
The number of years celebrated by a sesquicentennial.
What is 150?
A foolish or silly person.
What is a nincompoop?
On a standard Monopoly board, the corner directly opposite GO.
What is Free Parking?