The Phantom Tollbooth
The two warring kingdoms of words and numbers, ruled by King Azaz and the Mathemagician
What are Dictionopolis and Digitopolis?
The blue character from Inside Out
Who is Sadness?
The 8th and final planet of our solar system. It is also known as the windiest planet.
What is Neptune?
You do this to the pot when you spin the letter gimel on a dreidel.
What is take all the gelt from it?
If you are cooking latkes and the heat from the stove transfers heat to the latkes through the liquid oil, this type of heat transfer is happening.
What is convection?
This character gets into a fight with the Humbug in Dictionopolis, causing the words to get mixed up and Milo and Tock to go to prison.
Who is the Spelling Bee?
The three values that the color blue represents on Hanukkah
What are faith, truth, and wisdom?
The 8th Pixar film to ever come out. It was released in 2007, the year before Wall-E was released.
What is Ratatouille?
The fried potato pancakes eaten on Hanukkah. They are cooked in oil because of the miracle of the oil that lasted for eight nights.
What are latkes?
You light a candle on the menorah using the shammash. The flame transfers from the shammash directly to the other candle, causing this type of heat transfer to happen.
What is conduction?
Milo had to wake Chroma up at this time
When is 5:23?
What is nitrogen?
The chemical element that has 8 as its atomic number. It is classified as a nonmetal on the periodic table of elements.
What is oxygen?
The name of the group from Israel who defeated the ancient Greeks and took back their temple
Who were the Maccabees?
Oil is used to cook latkes and other fried foods on Hanukkah because of the eight-day miracle. If you pour water into a glass with oil in it, this is the reason why the oil and water won't mix.
What is because the oil is hydrophobic?
The Soundkeeper gives Milo this as a gift before Milo, Tock, and the Humbug leave for Digitopolis.
What is the sound of laughter?
When you look at the ocean, it appears as a turquoise blue. This is the chemical formula for water.
In music, you can probably infer by the name that there are eight eighth notes in a whole note. This means that there are this many eighth notes in one quarter note.
(Hint: This may require knowledge of fraction conversions!)
What is two?
Latkes are a well-known Hanukkah fried food, but the jelly donuts served on Hanukkah are known as this
What is sufganiyot/sufganiyah?
The force that can keep a dreidel spinning for a few seconds without falling over
What is angular momentum?
In the 1961 book, the Terrible Trivium, along with this demon, are the only two Demons of Ignorance known to wear clothes.
Who is the Threadbare Excuse?
In Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, Dory is a blue tang fish. Her parents, whom she couldn't find in Finding Dory, go by these two names
Who are Jenny and Charlie?
In the 8th chapter of the Phantom Tollbooth, King Azaz flatters this character by saying that as Milo's companion, he will be "dependable, brave, resourceful, and loyal".
Who is the Humbug?
The direction from which Hanukkah candles are lit
Gelt are chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil. In chemistry, gold's symbol is Au, because of its Latin name, which is this
What is aurum?