Animals
While its heart rate plummets during nightly torpor to save energy, this avian creature boasts a heart rate of 1,200 beats per minute during intense daytime activity
What is a hummingbird?
This Nordic nation actually holds the record for the most islands in the world, with over 267,000
What is Sweden?
Held in the year 776 BC, the very first recorded Olympic Games took place in Olympia and were dedicated to this Mount Olympus god
Who is Zeus?
Though home cooking dominates the subcontinent, this UK city boasts over 3,600 curry houses, giving it a larger Indian restaurant scene than India's two biggest cities combined
What is London?
From the Koyukon Athabaskan phrase meaning "The High One," this snow-capped peak rises 20,310 feet to claim the title of North America's tallest mountain.
What is Denali?
Its scientific name, Chiroptera, translates to "hand-wing," which makes sense given that it is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight
What are bats?
This high-tech Southeast Asian island nation is a true city-state, meaning the country and its capital city share the exact same name
What is Singapore?
It tilts at over 4 degrees, but scientists discovered this European structure didn't shift over centuries; its lean was baked in from the start because it was built on soft clay
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
Inspired by local Hawaiian citrus fruits, Panda Express Executive Chef Andy Kao is credited with inventing this sweet and savory dish in 1987
What is orange chicken?
Bulging, side-facing eyes grant this iconic upstream-swimming fish an expansive field of view between 300 and 330 degrees
What is salmon?
In 1948, the state of Idaho dropped 76 of these animals from airplanes using parachutes to relocate them into the Chamberlain Basin
What are beavers?
Although its European mainland uses just one, this European nation actually controls the most time zones in the world—12 in total—thanks to its far-flung overseas territories
What is France?
In 1932, the Australian military was deployed to Western Australia to wage a surprisingly unsuccessful "war" against a destructive population of this native wildlife species?
What are emus?
Although lasagna existed for centuries as a strictly meat-and-cheese dish, it wasn't until an 1881 Neapolitan cookbook that this ingredient was finally added.
What is tomato?
On January 23, 1971, a weather station at Alaska's Prospect Creek Camp recorded this bone-chilling Fahrenheit temperature, the lowest ever documented in U.S. history
What is -80 degrees Fahrenheit?
These spiky denizens get their name from an Old English word for the land-dwelling hedgehog
What are sea urchins?
You won't get rich collecting it, but this sparkling, gemstone-sounding meteorological phenomenon consists of ground-level ice crystals floating in the Antarctic air
What is diamond dust?
Discovered by farmers in 1974, this "army" of over 8,000 life-sized clay statues was buried to protect China's first emperor in the afterlife
What is the Terracotta Army?
This spiky tropical fruit is known for its strong, pungent odor, which has led to it being banned on public transit in Southeast Asia
What is durian?
Chosen to represent the perseverance of early pioneers, the alpine variety of this small, sky-blue wildflower is the official state flower of Alaska
What is Forget-Me-Not?
The official national bird of the Bahamas, this bird can can eat when its head is turned completely upside down to scoop and filter food from the mud
What is the West Indian flamingo?
Because it sits right along the International Date Line, this South Pacific island nation has held the unique distinction of being among both the first and the last places to celebrate the New Year
What is Samoa?
In 1277, this lowborn man spearheaded the only successful medieval European peasant revolt to take the Bulgarian throne, personally slaying the sitting Tsar before marrying the ruler's widow to legitimize his reign
Who is Ivaylo (Ivan the Cabbage)?
In the 1830s, an Ohio doctor sold a pill form of this popular condiment as a medicine to cure indigestion
What is ketchup?
Named for a Russian fur trader, this famously rough strait separates Kodiak Island from the mainland of Alaska
What is the Shelikof Strait?