Games
The name of this popular kids card game is the Spanish word for 'one.'
What is Uno?
This dinosaur was the king, but not the largest.
What is the Tyrannosaurus Rex?
Cats and dogs have been known to sense these. Perhaps Toto should have warned Dorthy.
What are tornadoes?
Dr. Suess had a large collection of these fashion items. Presumably, he let the Cat borrow one.
What are hats?
There are at least 67 of these confirmed to be orbiting Jupiter. There is no data on how many are made of cheese.
What are moons?
The original name of this popular game was Lexico. It was changed to Criss-Cross before settling on the name it is known by today.
What is Scrabble?
Thought to be the largest animal ever to live on land, the Argentinosaurus was first discovered on what continent.
What is South America?
Dirt mixed with very high winds can create a "black" one of these, typically a term for a very powerful snow storm.
What is a blizzard?
Splashing in the cool of the pool in the Jungle off Nool is one of the favorite pastimes of this elephant.
Who is Horton?
The highest one of these known to man is on an asteroid called Vesta. It is about 3 times as high as Everest.
What is a mountain?
Of all the weapons in the game 'Clue,' this is the only one that is a projectile.
What is the Revolver?
These "clever girls" were the villains in the first Jurassic Park movie.
What are velociraptors?
These are rotating columns of air over water and can possibly make it "rain" sea creatures - though surprisingly not the itsy bitsy spider.
What are waterspouts?
Challenged to write a book that was only 50 words, Dr, Suess penned this classic about a picky eater.
What is Green Eggs and Ham?
Despite its nickname, the sunset on this planet is blue.
What is Mars?
In the game Battleship, you can sink your opponent's battleship by hitting it this many times.
What is 4?
The Triceratops was named from the 3 horns sticking out of its head. This relation had 5 horns.
What is the Pentaceratops?
The world's climate is divided into three main groups: temperate zones, tropical zones, and these zones around the North and South poles.
What are Arctic zones?
The book If I Ran the Zoo is thought to be the first use of this word, which now can refer to an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit.
What is nerd?
A planet's "year" is the length of time it takes for the planet to do a full rotation around the Sun. This is defined as the length of time it takes a planet to do a full revolution on its axis. Surprisingly, a year on Venus is shorter.
What is a day?
Players end up on this space on a Monopoly board more than any other.
What is Jail?
Most dinosaurs were extinct by the end of this time period, which lasted approximately 145 to 65 million years ago.
What is the Cretaceous period?
Cape Farewell, in this autonomous territory in the kingdom of Denmark, is known to be the windiest place on Earth.
What is Greenland?
In 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas.' the Grinch had to put up all that noise, noise, noise, noise for this many years.
What is 53 years?
The classification system that scientists use to categorize galaxies is named after this, the largest telescope in space.
What is the Hubble space telescope?