Not So Obvious Answers
What color is the "black box" flight recorder on an airplane?
What is bright orange?
What radioactive element, discovered by Marie Curie, was named after her home country?
What is polonium?
Which Macedonian king created one of the largest empires in ancient history by the age of 30?
Who is Alexander the Great?
This fictional ship is captained by Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series
What is the Black Pearl?
Which Italian polymath sketched designs for a flying machine called the "Ornithopter" during the Renaissance?
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Which country has more pyramids than Egypt?
What is Sudan?
Asbestos was widely used in construction for its fire-resistant properties but is hazardous due to causing which disease?
What is mesothelioma (or lung cancer)?
This Mexican chemist won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the depletion of the ozone layer.
Who is Mario Molina?
Which fish is known for its ability to generate electric shocks of up to 600 volts?
What is the electric eel?
Which Swedish engineer invented dynamite in 1867 and later established a set of international prizes?
Who is Alfred Nobel?
What is the national animal of Scotland?
What is the unicorn?
Which colorless, odorless gas, produced by incomplete combustion, is known as the "silent killer"?
What is carbon monoxide?
An aviation pioneer born in Kyiv, he founded an American aircraft company and invented the first successful mass-produced helicopter.
Who is Igor Sikorsky?
This phenomenon, caused by the moon's gravitational pull, results in the regular rise and fall of sea levels.
What are the tides?
Considered the cradle of winemaking, this country has archaeological evidence of wine production dating back over 8,000 years.
What is Georgia?
Which country did French fries actually originate from?
What is Belgium?
This metal, used in old-school thermometers and nicknamed 'quicksilver,' is liquid at room temperature but highly toxic if ingested or inhaled.
What is mercury?
Which Chinese philosopher's teachings emphasized personal and governmental morality?
Who is Confucius?
In 1522, one ship from this explorer's fleet completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth, though he himself was killed in the Philippines.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This ancient civilization from present-day Mexico is credited with developing a complex calendar system and one of the earliest known uses of the concept of zero.
Who are the Maya?
Despite its name, where was the Caesar salad invented?
What is Mexico?
This popular soda and candy combination is notorious for causing geyser-like eruptions in fun science experiments.
What are Mentos and Diet Coke?
This mythological hero from Georgian epic poetry is known for his quest to find the treasure of the Golden Fleece.
Who is Jason (of the Argonauts)?
Known for his voyage on the HMS Beagle, this naturalist developed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Invented in ancient China, what material made from mulberry bark revolutionized writing and record-keeping?
What is paper?