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Odd Words
Science
MapQuest
Homophones
100
Pyrite got this name when many prospectors mistook it for a more valuable mineral.
What is fools gold.
100
People were aurified by King Midas, meaning he turned them into this.
What is gold?
100
This is the largest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
100
When driving from California to Washington state, you pass through this state.
What is Oregon?
100
A naked grizzly
What is a bare bear?
200
Frequently billed as the only man-made structure visible from space, this iconic structure built for protection is proven as not viewable from the final frontier.
What is The Great Wall of China?
200
This insect stores pollen in a corbicula, a little basket on its body.
What is a bee?
200
This is the smallest unit of matter.
What is an atom?
200
If you drive west from New Hampshire, you will be in this state.
What is Vermont?
200
An equine with laryngitis
What is a hoarse horse?
300
The "con" in "con man" is short for this.
What is confidence?
300
A woubit is a hairy one of these, most often the one that becomes a tiger moth.
What is a caterpillar?
300
This famous physicist discovered the concept of gravity.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
300
When driving from Tennessee to the St. Louis Arch, also known as the Gateway to the West, you must cross this major north-south river.
What is the Mississippi River? It is more than 11 miles wide at the river’s widest point, in Minnesota.
300
Motionless paper
What is stationary stationery?
400
Posing as Arabs with lots of cash, the FBI caught 7 members of congress in this 1970s sting operation.
What is Abscam (or Arab Scam)?
400
A Maiko is an apprentice one of these women who entertain men in Japan.
What is a Geisha?
400
This is the word that scientists use to describe a unit of measure that is also the name of an animal.
What is a mole?
400
If you drive to the far southeastern tip of France, you will enter this principality.
What is Monaco?
The principality is a mere 2.02 square miles with a population of a little more than 32,000 people, 30 percent of which are millionaires.
400
The most important rule is sometimes called this.
What is the principal principle?
500
This biotech entrepreneur was convicted of fraud in connection to her blood-testing company, Theranos.
Who is Elizabeth Holmes?
500
Jentacular refers to all things pertaining to this meal.
What is breakfast?
500
This is the only rock that floats.
What is pumice?
500
Identify this territory in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Mali ?
500
A baby African antelope
What is a new gnu?
