One-Hit Wonders
This 1997 song by Los Del Rio, with an accompanying line dance, became an inescapable summer hit
What is Macarena?
This is the only ancient wonder of the world still standing today
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
In this game, players buy and trade properties named after streets in Atlantic City
What is Monopoly?
This burger chain's mascot is a clown with red hair and a yellow jumpsuit
Who is Ronald McDonald?
This violently rotating column of air, common in the American Midwest, is rated on the Enhanced Fujita scale
What is a tornado?
This adhesive note product was invented after a scientist at 3M created a weak glue that peeled off cleanly
What are Post-it Notes?
This 1999 pop-punk band scored their only major hit with a song about a girl named Stacy's mom
What is Fountains of Wayne (Stacy's Mom)?
This ancient wonder, a giant bronze statue, once stood at the harbor entrance of a Greek island
What is the Colossus of Rhodes?
In this word game, players build words on a grid using letter tiles worth different point values
What is Scrabble?
This fried chicken chain's mascot is a white-suited, goateed Kentucky colonel
Who is Colonel Sanders?
This colorful optical phenomenon appears in the sky when sunlight refracts through raindrops
What is a rainbow?
This microwave oven was invented after an engineer noticed a radar-testing magnetron melted a candy bar in his pocket
What is the microwave oven?
This 1980s British band is remembered almost entirely for the synth-pop hit 'Take On Me'
What is a-ha?
This wonder, a massive tomb built for a Persian satrap, gave us the modern word for a grand tomb
What is the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus?
In this deduction game, players guess a murder weapon, room, and suspect
What is Clue?
This burger chain's mascot is a king wearing an oversized plastic crown and cape
Who is the Burger King?
This term describes a tropical cyclone that forms specifically in the Atlantic or eastern Pacific
What is a hurricane?
This artificial sweetener was discovered when a chemist forgot to wash his hands and noticed a sweet taste
What is saccharin (or aspartame)?
This rapper's only major hit warned listeners 'Ice Ice Baby'
Who is Vanilla Ice?
This wonder was a towering lighthouse that once guided ships into an Egyptian harbor
What is the Lighthouse of Alexandria?
In this strategy game, players build settlements and trade resources like wood, wheat, and sheep
What is Catan (Settlers of Catan)?
This fast food chain's mascot is a purple, blob-shaped creature named Grimace
What is McDonald's?
This rare weather event involves frozen chunks of ice falling from thunderstorm clouds
What is hail?
This children's toy, a coiled metal spring, was invented after an engineer accidentally knocked a tension spring off a shelf
What is the Slinky?
This 2001 song by Crazy Town samples Red Hot Chili Peppers and remains its only major hit
What is Butterfly?
This wonder was said to be built by a Babylonian king for his homesick wife
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
In this classic game, two players try to line up four discs of their color in a row on a vertical grid
What is Connect Four?
This taco chain's old mascot was a Chihuahua who asked 'Yo quiero...'
What is Taco Bell?
This colorful natural light display appears in polar skies and is also called the Northern Lights
What is the aurora borealis?
This blue mold-based antibiotic was discovered when Alexander Fleming noticed it killed bacteria in a forgotten petri dish
What is penicillin?