Creatures of the Deep
Work Accidents
Spaceflight
Perilous Prefrontal Procedures
Put Some Back Into It
100
Him.
What is a blobfish?
100
A power surge during a turbine test in April 1986 caused a full-scale nuclear meltdown at this power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine.
What is Chernobyl?
100
Famous for stating, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Who is Neil Armstrong?
100
The common name for the tool used to give a lobotomy
What is an ice pick?
100
This mammal is the record holder for most vertabrae in the neck, with some species reaching up to 10.
What is a sloth?
200
This fish lures in its prey using a biolumencent lantern.
What is an anglerfish?
200
A fire at this factory in Manhattan killed over 140 young workers who were locked inside.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
200
From the USSR; the first human in outer space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
200
The part of the brain where connections are severed during a lobotomy.
What is a prefrontal cortex (frontal lobe)?
200
A column of nerve tissue that runs from the base of the skull down the center of the back.
What is a spinal cord?
300
This animal can pack a punch - enough to kill small fish, all while watching in full color with up 16 color receptors in its eyes.
What is a mantis shrimp?
300
An accident fired a iron tamping rod through this man's head during the construction of the Rutland & Burlington Railroad.
Who is Phineas Gage?
300
Shown here; the vessel that transported astronauts to space during the Apollo missions, which landed humans on the surface of the Moon.
What is the Saturn V?
300
The kind of lobotomy in which the ice pick was slammed through the top of the eye socket.
What is a transorbital lobotomy?
300
These specialists are masters at "cracking" the human body, and commonly the spine.
What is a chriopractor?
400
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This bad can kill a small child. Despite looking like a jellyfish, it actually is a siphonophore, a complex collection of multiple organisms.
What is a Portuguese Man-o-War?
400
An explosion at Purity Distilling Company in 1919 set loose 2 million pounds of this substance, which flooded the surroundings quickly and powerfully, killing over 20 and destroying buildings.
What is molasses?
400
Equipped with the golden record (shown here), this first of two spacecraft reached a max speed of 38,210 mph as it sped by Jupiter in 1980.
What is Voyager 1?
400
This sibling of the Kennedy's was hidden from her family for 20 years following a failed lobotomy.
Who is Rosemary Kennedy?
400
This type of bone is commonly divided into 5 groups, based on its location in the body.
What are vertebrae?
500
In Korea, it's called Fugu once carefully prepared and plated. The toxins within can be more deadly than cyanide.
What is pufferfish?
500
An oil spill from this rig released an estimated 4,900,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
What is Deepwater Horizon?
500
This is the first image received from the telescope launched by NASA on Christmas Day, 2021. It has 18 gold-plated hexagons capable of aligning on their own axes to form one image.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
500
This novel set in a mental ward, now a play and movie, described the lobotomy as "frontal-lobe castration".
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
500
Ants have exoskeletons, vertebrates have endoskeletons, but jellyfish have this.
What is a hydrostatic skeleton?