Same Name Different Thing
This name belongs both to the Roman god of war and to the fourth planet from the Sun.
What is Mars?
In 1893, this country became the first self-governing nation to grant women the right to vote in national elections.
What is New Zealand?
Of the five Great Lakes, this is the only one located entirely within the United States.
What is Lake Michigan?
A standard piano has this many keys.
What is 88?
Despite the popular myth, humans actually use far more than this supposed percentage of their brains.
This name is shared by a Shakespeare play about a Danish prince and a small village.
What is Hamlet?
Uploaded in 2005, the first video on this now-enormous website was titled “Me at the zoo.”
What is Youtube?
Despite its proximity to the Sun, Mercury loses this superlative to Venus, thanks largely to Venus’s thick carbon-dioxide atmosphere.
What is hottest planet?
At this temperature, the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales give the exact same numerical reading.
What is -40?
This animal is often said to bury its head in the sand when frightened, but it actually doesn’t.
What is Ostrich?
This name belongs to the first book of the Bible, a British rock band featuring Phil Collins, and a Sega video game console.
What is Genesis?
This was the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope, found by William Herschel in 1781.
What is Uranus?
The chemical symbol W represents this element, whose alternative name “wolfram” explains the seemingly unrelated letter.
What is Tungsten?
This is the number of chemical elements currently recognized on the periodic table.
What is 118?
Contrary to a famous story, this physicist did not fail mathematics in school; he was actually very good at it.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This name belongs to an Egyptian port city, an ESA spacecraft that studied a comet, and a famous stone.
What is Rosetta?
This ancient civilization is generally credited with developing the earliest known writing system, cuneiform.
Who are the Sumerians?
Sydney and Melbourne may be more famous, but this is actually the capital of Australia.
What is Canberra?
This is the number of amendments that have been ratified to the U.S. Constitution.
What is 27?
This fruit is commonly called a berry in everyday speech, but botanically it isn’t one—while bananas actually are.
What is a strawberry?
This name belongs to an aquatic flower, a British sports-car manufacturer, and a once-dominant line of office software including Notes and 1-2-3.
What is Lotus?
In 1519, this expedition became the first to circumnavigate the globe, although its leader was killed before the voyage was completed.
What is Magellan's Expedition?
Crossed by both the Equator and the 180th meridian, this Pacific island nation has territory in all four hemispheres.
What is Kiribati?
From the standard starting position in chess, this is the number of legal moves available to White.
What is 20?
This spiky medieval instrument is often portrayed as a common torture device, but historians have found little evidence that it was actually used that way during the Middle Ages.
What is the Iron Maiden?