The Tri-Bay Area
This semi-circular bay is close to the rest of the SF Bay Area, in San Mateo County.
What is Half Moon Bay?
This kid's song spends time with four body parts at a time.
What is Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes?
The mighty Coast Redwood, the world's tallest tree, is naturally found on the Pacific coast of this U.S. state.
What is California?
This video game company got its start in the 1890s making playing cards for hanafuda.
What is Nintendo?
This district, with its capital sharing its name, is the largest in Punjab.
What is Firozpur district?
Famous for featuring in novels like Cannery Row, one of this town's main draws is its massive aquarium. There's otters!
What is Monterey Bay?
This Star Wars movie sees Luke meet his teacher Yoda, while the Rebels lead an assault on snow-covered planet Hoth.
What is The Empire Strikes Back?
Botanically speaking, this summer fruit or veggie or something is a berry, while a strawberry is technically just an enlarged receptacle.
What is a tomato?
Patented in 1892 and first showcased at the 1900 Paris Exposition, these means of indoor transport were originally designed as thrilling amusement park rides.
What are escalators?
Designed by French architect Le Corbusier, this city serves as the shared administrative capital for both the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana.
What is Chandigarh?
The southern part of the bay is famous for its rainbow-colored ponds used to harvest this material.
What is salt?
This shark movie by Spielberg sees a sleepy seaside village tormented by a Great White.
What is Jaws?
This beautiful flower gets its name from the French word for "lion's teeth," referring to the jagged edges of its leaves. Don't blow it too hard!
What is a dandelion?
Surprisingly, the first commercial system for this (the Pantelegraph) was patented in 1843—more than 30 years before the telephone was invented.
What is fax?
Meaning "from the Guru's mouth," this specific script was standardized by Guru Angad Dev to record the hymns of the Guru Granth Sahib.
What is Gurmukhi?
The namesake city of the SF Bay Area has this massive span of nature, dwarfing that of even New York's Central Park.
What is Golden Gate Park?
This music group is famous for songs like Where is the Love, and I Gotta Feeling, before Fergie left.
Who are the Black-Eyed Peas?
The spicy compound that gives chili peppers their kick—and deters mammals from eating them—is this chemical, which is also an irritant in pepper spray.
What is capsaicin?
Archaeologists discovered a 5,000-year-old example of this modern meet-up location for beverages in ancient Lagash (modern-day Iraq), complete with an intact refrigeration system.
What is a bar?
The Anglo-Sikh Wars concluded in 1849 with the signing of this specific document, which officially resulted in the annexation of the Punjab by the British East India Company.
What is the Treaty of Lahore?
This island by the northern Bay Area is where many Punjabi immigrants made their first stops to have their papers checked and travel verified.
What is Angel Island?
This famous movie has a small town make dancing and rock music illegal.
What is Footloose?
Growing in coastal salt marshes, this fast-growing, woody-stemmed plant is considered the fastest growing plant in the world, capable of growing over a foot a day.
What is bamboo?
This US university (founded in 1636) is older than the mathematical discipline of calculus, which wasn't developed until the 1680s.
What is Harvard?
Situated in modern-day Pakistan, this Gurdwara is built at the site where Guru Nanak famously stopped a massive boulder with his bare hand, leaving an impression that visitors can still see today.
What is Gurdwara Panja Sahib?