SCIENCE
This is the only planet in our solar system that spins backward (clockwise) compared to the others.
Venus
This Greek goddess sprang fully grown and already wearing armor from the head of Zeus.
Athena
Facebook bought this photo-sharing app in 2012 for roughly $1 billion.
This is the only sport ever played on the surface of the Moon.
Golf
This word contains all five vowels in order — A, E, I, O, U — and only once each.
Facetious
This blood type is known as the "universal donor" because almost anyone can receive it.
O negative
In Norse mythology, this giant wolf is prophesied to kill Odin during Ragnarök.
Fenrir
Netflix's "Stranger Things" is set in this fictional small town in Indiana.
Hawkins
his Japanese martial art's name translates to "gentle way" and was developed in 1882.
Judo
What English word is always spelled incorrectly, no matter what?
Wrong
This nuclear process splits a heavy atom's nucleus into smaller pieces, releasing huge amounts of energy.
Nuclear fission
This Egyptian god of the afterlife and mummification has the head of a jackal.
DAILY DOUBLE
Anubis
This programming language, created in 1995, shares part of its name with a coffee-loving island but has nothing to do with that other language it's often confused with.
DAILY DOUBLE
JavaScript
This special chess move lets a king and rook swap places in a single turn.
Castling
Forward I'm heavy, backward I'm not. What am I?
Ton
This Scottish scientist accidentally discovered penicillin in 1928 when mold contaminated his petri dish.
Alexander Fleming
This Titan was condemned by Zeus to hold up the entire sky for eternity.
Atlas
This app, founded in 2011, made disappearing photo messages and "streaks" mainstream.
Snapchat
This board game was originally patented in 1904 as "The Landlord's Game" by Elizabeth Magie, designed to show the dangers of monopolies — it's known by a very different name today
Monopoly
This term describes a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once, like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
A pangram
This massive machine near Geneva, Switzerland, is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built.
The Large Hadron Collider
This Aztec "feathered serpent" god was linked to wind, learning, and the planet Venus.
Quetzalcoatl
Decades before the internet existed, this scientist coined the word "meme" in his 1976 book about evolution.
Richard Dawkins
In 2023, this NBA superstar passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the league's all-time leading scorer
LeBron James
I'm an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven