Last Week Today
Friday shared its date with a terrorist attack on 9/11, which happened this many years ago.
What is 19?
Black bears use these to get at honey hidden in beehives.
What are claws?
If the Great Smoky Mountains don't interest you, this state also has the Country Music Capitol ofthe World.
What is Tennessee?
Like elephants, these big mammals were mercilessly hunted for their horns. Unlike elephants, their horns are made of hair rather than bone.
What are rhinoceroses?
The population of these important pollinators has dropped from 6 million to less than 3 million in the US over the past 70 years or so.
What are honeybees?
In addition to costume parties, Los Angeles has banned which Halloween tradition due to COVID?
What is trick-or-treating?
While most bears are omnivores, polar bears have this other type of diet that depends on meat.
What is carnivore/carnivorous?
This state is known as the "Cornhusker State", even though its corn yield is technically outproduced by Iowa and Illinois.
What is Nebraska?
Camels store this vital resource in humps on their back.
What is fat?
You may notice the sun looking strange due to these natural disasters on the West Coast.
What are wildfires?
A device in Baltimore helps clean its harbors, and thanks to a marketing team, has googly eyes and this rather on-the-nose name.
What/Who is Mr. Trash Wheel?
While grizzly bears usually feast on berries, in fall they often feast on this river fish.
What is salmon?
This state's unique history led to a melding of several cultures into what is now known as Creole.
What is Louisiana?
While they may not look very graceful, these African mammals can outrun predators at over 35 miles per hour, or just kick them to death.
What are giraffes?
These natural disasters were originally named after wives/girlfriends by the US military, until about 1950.
What are hurricanes?
Circuses like Barnum & Bailey often featured this type of Elephant, occasionally with a stylish traditional headdress.
What is Indian (elephant)?
Since the hair of polar bears is actually hollow and translucent, in warm and humid conditions algae may turn their hair this color.
What is green?
The Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River aren't only in the state sung about by John Denver; they are also located in this obviously closely-related state.
What is Virginia?
This type of deer is the largest of its kind, as tall as a human, weighing half a ton, and totalling any cars going too fast to avoid them.
What are moose?
The wilderness of Kentucky has changed a lot due to strip mining for this natural resource.
What is coal?
After the terrorist attack on 9/11, then President George W. Bush declared this national holiday to commemorate the heroes that day.
What is Patriot Day?
This bear we didn't cover is a bit of an oddball, as it eats only a single kind of plant and never hibernates.
What are pandas?
North Carolina hosts this famous US sporting event, though its competitors may not be your idea of an "athlete".
What is NASCAR?
Modern horses descended from this type of ancient horse, which was smaller and ate leaves.
What is a dawn horse?
This is the most famous horse race in the US, also called "The Most Exciting 2 Minutes in Sports".
What is the Kentucky Derby?