Tall Tales
He chopped down trees faster than anyone — with help from his blue ox, Babe.
Paul Bunyan
This yellow dot-gobbler first appeared in Japanese arcades in 1980.
Pac-Man
Denver, Colorado is nicknamed this.
The Mile High City
The main meat used in a Philly cheesesteak.
Beef
The Wright brothers’ first successful flight was at this North Carolina site.
Kitty Hawk
In Greek myth, he tried to reach the sun on wings of wax.
Icarus
This Nintendo series asks players to “collect ‘em all.”
Pokémon
Commercial airliners typically cruise at around how many feet? (±2,000 accepted)
~35,000 feet
This medieval punishment involved tying a criminal to a wooden stake.
Burning at the stake
The U.S. Air Force’s secretive base in Nevada, often linked to UFO theories.
Area 51
Which author wrote The Man Who Would Be King, based on imperial adventurers in India?
Rudyard Kipling
Billy Mitchell was stripped of his world record in this game after cheating allegations.
Donkey Kong
This U.S. mountain is the tallest in North America.
Denali (Mt. McKinley)
In poker, the strongest hand is called this.
Royal Flush
This balloonist made the first successful human flight in Paris, 1783.
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
This 1957 novel begins, “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm…”
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
In 2016, this AI shocked the world by defeating a Go grandmaster.
AlphaGo
Which African mountain is the tallest freestanding mountain in the world?
Kilimanjaro
This vegetable is technically the stalk of a marshland plant, often used in pies.
Rhubarb
This “flying cathedral” was the world’s largest passenger aircraft until its retirement in 2021.
Airbus A380
Name the Native American confederacy whose Great Law of Peace inspired parts of the U.S. Constitution.
The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy
The “kill screen” famously appears at level 256 in which game?
In 1959, this Swiss mathematician explained why mountains don’t grow infinitely tall — introducing the concept of “isostasy.”
Albert Heim
What was the stake made of in Vlad the Impaler’s notorious executions?
Wood
The term “Sputnik moment” comes from the 1957 launch of this Soviet satellite.
Sputnik 1