in mummification, mud was pushed under the mummy’s skin to pad it out; false eyes could be made from these
What are onions?
100
wealthy Romans would have extravagant banquets that lasted for hours; in order to continue eating, they would induce this
What is vomiting?
100
the oldest cheese in the world is this Greek sheep and goat cheese
What is feta?
100
the oldest known bedding, sleeping mats that are about 77,000 years old, were made of evergreens that repel what insect
What are mosquitos?
100
as far back as 7,000 years ago, civilizations around the world engaged in trepanation—the practice of boring holes in this as a means of curing illnesses
What is the skull?
200
the first-ever shopping mall was built by the Emperor Trajan in this city
What is Rome?
200
in ancient Egypt infections were treated with moldy this; the mold was a form of penicillin
What is bread?
200
cultivated in Asia since ancient times, the pungent aroma of this vegetable is an indispensable ingredient in Chinese cooking
What is garlic?
200
for the very poor of the East, in ancient times as now, the "bed" was and is, the bare this
What is the ground?
200
the Latin word musculus means both “little mouse” and “muscle”, since muscles rippling under the skin were thought to be like little these
What are mice?
300
Egyptian boys had their heads shaved except for one plaited lock – this was as a protection against lice and these
What are fleas?
300
the name of this seed is one of the few words to have passed into modern languages from ancient Egyptian, in which it was sesemt
What is sesame?
300
water clocks in the ancient world had one major flaw: the water running through the clock would do this in the winter and evaporate in the summer
What is freeze?
300
most Muppets are this-handed because most Muppeteers operate the head with their favored hand
What is left-handed?
400
the Roman army didn't have any kind of this paper, so they used a water soaked sponge on the end of a stick instead
What is toilet paper?
400
Egyptian’s believed that the earth was flat and round like this breakfast food that goes well with syrup
What are pancakes?
400
soured milk or curds were fairly certainly used in Mesopotamia and Palestine, and possibly Egypt; today we eat this either plain or flavored
What is yogurt?
400
Robert Wood, a 55 year-old chef, gets up four or five times a week and heads to the kitchen where he prepares omelettes, stir fries, and chips; strangely enough, he is doing this
What is sleepwalking?
400
discovered in the South Pacific Ocean on the Easter Sunday of 1722, this island is widely known today for the very large, freestanding, megalithic Moai watching over the island
What is Easter Island?
500
Greeks never ate this unless it had been sacrificed to a god
What is meat?
500
when a body was mummified, its brain was removed through one of its these
What are nostrils?
500
this citrus fruit is one of the most important fruits of the world and one of the oldest
What is an orange?
500
also known as a hypnagogic jerk, this tends to happen as you're falling asleep
What is it feels like you're falling?
500
ooparts are fascinating; they are things found throughout the world that never belonged in the time period they were believed to exist; a picture found in a Cambodian Temple shows a human and this creature co-existing