80 Ways
80 is the atomic number of this silvery element, liquid at room temperature, highly toxic, and named for a Roman god who flew at great speeds.
What is mercury?
Despite being called the European rabbit, examples of the species have been found on every continent in the world except this one.
What is Antarctica?
Mongolia is the world's largest country of this type which borders neither a sea nor an ocean.
What is landlocked?
This term used for the likelihood for storms to form in the area of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Colorado sounds more like an undesirable street address than a meteorological designation.
What is Tornado Alley?
One particularly odd moment in medicine came when doctors started diagnosing madness as arising from the loud sounds and never-before-felt speeds created by this new form of mass transportation.
What are trains?
You were physically only allowed to program early IBM computers with 80 characters at a time, given that this punched out material was what you were working with as inputs.
What is paper/cards?
Once thought to have belonged to this groups of animals which includes the squirrel, mouse, and beaver which also have extra incisors, rabbits are now categorized as lagomorphs.
What are rodents?
Owing to its huge area, the Mongolian climate varies from extremely cold in the north and west to extremely dry and hot in this desert in its south.
What is the Gobi desert?
The island nation in the North Atlantic, the windiest place on the plant according to satellite data, is thought home to explorers may have been the first Europeans to land in North America before Columbus.
What is Greenland?
Many Victorians were fascinated with ancient Egyptian culture, so much so that the 10th Duke of Hamilton chose to be buried in this ornate Egyptian form of a casket when he died.
What is a sarcophagus?
This band, more recently known for their hit album and musical of American Idiot, included a track called "80" on their second studio album, Kerplunk.
Who is Green Day?
Male and female rabbits can be called "bucks" and "does" respectively, although that might cause confusion with this other type of woodland creature more commonly referred to by those terms.
What are deer?
Owing to its border with another other huge Eurasian nation, this language is still the most frequently spoken foreign language in Mongolia ahead of English and Korean.
What is Russian?
The "flash-to-bang" method of quickly calculating the distance of a lightning strike by counting seconds between seeing lightning and hearing thunder and then dividing that number by 5 is based on knowing the speed of this physical phenomena is roughly 1,000 feet per second.
What is sound?
Established during Queen Victoria's reign, this well-known and widespread charity often aiding the poor and hungry gives their workers military titles in accordance with their organization's name.
What is the Salvation Army?
Arizona State Route 80 connects Benson, Bisbee, and Douglas, all cities located in this southern Arizona county.
What is Cochise County?
Rabbits actually have mounds of compressed hair protecting the bottoms of their feet as opposed to this much more common physical feature most other animals like them have.
What are paw pads/"toe beans"?
As opposed to the bicameral legislature of the United States, Mongolia's legislature is unicameral, meaning it only has one of these.
What is a house/senate/voting body?
Due to the destruction of a breeding facility for these large snakes in Florida during Hurricane Andrew in 1992, a now very large number of these snakes, better suited to Myanmar than Miami, now overrun many areas of the Sunshine State.
What are Burmese Pythons?
If you into philately, then the 19th century was a Golden Age for you as you could purchase an in-circulation Penny Black, the very first one of these which sold for pence (one penny) but today goes from about 1,200 pounds to 6 million pounds depending on rarity and condition among collectors.
What is a stamp?
An historic achievement in the history of science, the engineer Hero of Alexandria described the aeolipile, considered an early version of an engine powered by this natural energy source.
What is steam?
Also a term for a dangerous and banned strike to the back of one's head in this sport, the rabbit punch refers to hunters killing rabbits quickly by sharply striking them in the same area.
What is boxing/MMA/combat sports?
Given that Mongolia supported the wars in Iraw and Afghanistan by sending troops there, this U.S. president became the first ever to visit Mongolia in 2003 as a symbol of thanks and solidarity.
Who is George W. Bush?
Thunderstorms around cities are generally more intense due to this effect named for the widespread amount of concrete and cars which help retain high temperatures in the ground and air in a relatively confined, isolated area of land.
What is the Heat Island Effect?
Called "the founder of modern nursing," this Victorian hero worked tirelessly during the Crimean war to care for her patients and established many life-saving technique we still use today in hospitals and other healthcare settings.
Who is Florence Nightingale?