That's Not Science!
Drawn & Quartered
Total Jerkwads
Obscure Units Of Measure
Do A Barrel Roll
100
The Long Count calendar flips over to another period in this year. Clearly that means the end of the world.
What is 2012?
100
Having your site linked by this full-color thrice-weekly webcomic is great for public exposure. It's also great for having your servers catch fire and die.
What is Penny Arcade?
100
Grover Norquist and Tom DeLay launched this effort to lock Democrats out of lobbying jobs and keep lobbying buddy-buddy with Congressional Republicans.
What is the K-Street Project?
100
Equal to four inches, this is usually only used to measure horses.
What is a hand?
100
This Pac-Man ghost's name is something of an odd one out.
What is Clyde?
200
The 2005 court case Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District ruled that this idea is not scientific but religious, and thus cannot be taught in public schools.
What is "intelligent design"?
200
This superheroine is both noted for being a feminist icon, and also having been criticized for an excess of bondage imagery.
Who is Wonder Woman?
200
Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, during their years in power, robbed this country blind. They were forced out in a peaceful revolution in 1986, but they still had billions of dollars they'd embezzled.
What is the Philippines?
200
This unit of volume is equal to four pecks, an equally obscure unit.
What is a bushel?
200
This is the currency of Ireland.
What is the euro?
300
Practitioners of this type of alternative "medicine" think that substances become more powerful the more they are diluted-- even if they're diluted to the point where none of the original substance is left.
What is homeopathy?
300
This Belgian comic book series has been translated into more than 80 languages and has upwards of 350 million sales. Oh, and an alcoholic dog.
What is Tintin?
300
Alexander Lukashenko has been rigging votes, amending constitutions, and intimidating voters to maintain his more-or-less dictatorship of this nation since 1994.
What is Belarus?
300
The baktun contains 144,000 days, and is one of the units of this culture's calendar.
What are the Mayans?
300
This class of fish contains two surviving groups, the hagfish and lampreys.
What is Agnatha?
400
Known as the "Sleeping Prophet," this man spent much of the early 20th Century giving psychic "visions" of Atlantis, reincarnation, and supposed miracle cures. People still buy it, as the "Association for Research and Enlightenment" that he founded is still around.
Who is Edgar Cayce?
400
This man is best remembered for the comic he drew in World War II for the American soldier's newspaper Stars & Stripes featuring Willie and Joe the GIs. He also inspired Charles Schulz of Peanuts fame.
Who is Bill Mauldin?
400
James Watson and Francis Crick straight-up stole the X-ray crystallography data this woman provided, which formed the backbone of their hypothesis about the structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
400
This is the first recorded unit of measure, with a length of somewhere between 1.5 and 2.25 feet, depending on who you asked and when.
What is a cubit?
400
The Aventine, Capitoline, and Palatine are three of the seven hills of this city.
What is Rome?
500
This man is responsible for formulating the idea and practice of phrenology, the idea that one's personality could be read from the shape of the skull.
Who is Franz Joseph Gall?
500
This was considered the first successful daily comic strip, running from 1907 until 1982.
What is Mutt and Jeff?
500
This man headed the dreaded NKVD under Stalin from 1938 to 1953. Needless to say, he wasn't someone you wanted to take an interest in you.
Who is Lavrentiy Beria?
500
This treaty, signed in 1875, established three international organizations charged with overseeing metric standards and ending the tyranny of obscure units.
What is the Metre Convention?
500
The genus Homarus is better known as this delicious creature.
What is lobster?
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