The Final Frontier
The name of the first dog sent to orbit by the USSR.
Who was Laika?
This "product" was the subject of recent scrutiny due to McDonald's CEO pretending to enjoy it.
What is The Big Arch?
Wager Bonus: Before the early 2000s, McDonald's fries used to be fried in what?
This war included the first recorded instances of aerial reconnaissance and submarine warfare.
What was the American Civil War?
The most common crop in the American diet that is directly and indirectly consumed.
What is corn/maize?
On the topic of tech growing pains, this obsolete form of video storage came between the VCR and DVD.
What was the LaserDisc?
Once confused to be a sign of alien life, this constantly spinning celestial body generates lights and gravity surpassing that of our own Sun.
What is a Quasar?
Often cited as a practical joke gone wrong, this Swedish delicacy of fermented and rotting herring is known to be among the world's most pungent foods.
What is Surstromming?
One of the more interesting scientific pitches of the 2nd World War, this amalgamation of wood pulp and ice was proposed to reinforce aircraft and infrastructure due to its surprising strength and resilience.
What is Pykrete?
On the pretext that it would improve dental health, American Tap water contains trace amounts of this mineral.
What is Fluoride?
Wager Bonus: This element, when exposed to room temperature, becomes a noxious orange-brown gas.
The process after combining raw materials, meant to strengthen rubber.
What is Vulcanization?
This phenomenon is theorized to occur due to strong gravitational forces pulling at objects that are approaching a black hole's event horizon.
What is Spaghettification?
Wager Bonus: Originally known as Cuckold's Pasta, this dish is made with cheese, butter, pasta, and pasta water.
Banned in the United States for health concerns (shocker), this Sardinian cheese is enjoyed for the unique funk created by maggots.
What is Casu Martzu?
One of the lesser known Founding Fathers, Gouverneur Morris, reportedly died of infection and internal injuries by sticking This Object into his urethra to treat his urinary tract.
What is Whalebone?
Chewing Gum and Vaseline are some of the products made with waste from this.
What is Oil/Petroleum Refinement?
In a mythological competition, Athena gifted Athenians with an olive tree, but this was in response to Poseidon providing them with this.
Hint: it's very on brand with who he is, it was also useless.
What is a salt-water spring?
This form of theorized matter is everything that we cannot see, touch, or even perceive.
What is Exotic Matter
Known as the Butcher's Cut, this cut of beef is prized for its tenderness and is located next to the Flank and Brisket.
What is a Hanger Steak?
One of Nikola Tesla's final and failed inventions, this project was funded by the Soviet Union and its documents were seized by certain intelligence agencies shortly after his passing.
What is the Death Ray or Teleforce?
This company hired death squads to quell uprisings, enacted policies akin to slave labor, and lobbied local governments for low production costs in South American farms. They are still active today and are prominent in all major grocery chains.
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What is Chiquita, Dole, Del Monte or Coca Cola?
As Martian is to Mars, This is to Jupiter and other gas planets.
What is Jovian?
Approximately measured by 3.26 lightyears, this unit measures distance at an astronomical scale.
What is a Parsec?
Often enjoyed with a napkin covering the eater's head due to the shame of committing such an act, this French bird is stuffed until 4-5x its size, drowned in cognac, and eaten whole.
What is the Ortolan Bird?
One of the "missing links" in human evolutionary history, this species became a subject of great interest after "Lucy" was discovered.
What is Australopithecus afarensis?
Wager Bonus: How did Lucy the Australopithecus get her name?
Phones, Disposable Razors, Software, and Fashion purposefully require periodical replacement which introduces consumers to this concept.
What is Planned Obsolesence?
The Four Humors and their associated elements.
Wager Bonus: Who systemized the Four Humors?