US oddities
This is the only U.S. state capital that cannot be reached by road from the rest of its state.
What is Juneau?
Despite its name, this pizza was created in Canada by a Greek-born restaurateur who put canned pineapple on a ham pizza.
What is Hawaiian pizza?
A family's vacation takes a disastrous turn when their youngest child is accidentally left behind, forcing him to defend the house against two burglars.
What is Home Alone?
This enormous island nation off the southeast coast of Africa is the world's fourth-largest island.
What is Madagascar?
This name belongs to a mythical bird associated with rebirth, the lead actor in Joker, and a NASA lander that studied the icy northern plains of Mars.
What is Phoenix?
In 1896, this unusual event in Washington state gave its name to a town that became infamous for a fire that has burned underground for decades.
What is the Centralia mine fire?
An Italian-American restaurateur is credited with creating this salad in Tijuana in the 1920s, reportedly improvising it from ingredients he had on hand.
What is Caesar salad?
After a failed attempt to return a mysterious briefcase, a hitman and his partner become entangled with a boxer, a crime boss, and a couple planning a robbery at a diner.
What is Pulp Fiction?
This island is divided among Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, making it the third-largest island in the world.
What is Borneo?
This word can mean a throw, a sticky black substance used in road construction, or the perceived highness of a musical note.
What is pitch?
This 1839–1872 dispute between the United States and Britain over an island in the Pacific Northwest is often called the “Pig War,” despite only one animal being killed.
What is the San Juan Islands dispute?
This spicy sauce gets its name from the English county where Lea & Perrins began producing it commercially in the 19th century.
What is Worcestershire sauce?
An orange house cat travels overseas and discovers that his uncanny resemblance to an aristocratic feline could make him the heir to an English estate.
What is Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties?
Famous for its strange wildlife—including the blue-faced baboon-like gelada and the dragon's-blood tree—this island lies roughly 240 km east of the Horn of Africa.
What is Socotra?
This word can refer to a fish's protective covering, the ratio used to represent distances on a map, or a device used to measure weight.
What is scale?
This tiny Washington community is separated from the rest of the United States by Canada and can only be reached by land through British Columbia.
What is Point Roberts?
This cocktail, traditionally made with gin, Campari and sweet vermouth, was supposedly created for an Italian count who asked for his Americano to be strengthened.
What is a Negroni?
A teenage girl discovers that her apparently ordinary father is actually part of a secret organization responsible for monitoring and containing supernatural threats.
What is The Frighteners?
This Canadian island is the world's largest island in a freshwater lake.
What is Manitoulin Island?
This name belongs to a constellation, a Greek mythological figure who was punished by being forced to hold up the sky, and a major 1990s arcade fighting game character.
What is Atlas?
In 1856, this short-lived American political party held a national convention and nominated former president Millard Fillmore; members famously claimed ignorance when asked about the party's activities.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
This dessert's name translates roughly to “floating island”; it consists of meringue floating on a custard sauce and is traditionally associated with French cuisine.
What is île flottante?
After receiving an unexpected invitation to a mysterious island, several strangers discover that each has been connected to a crime that another person committed, while a recorded voice begins accusing them one by one.
What is And Then There Were None?
This island, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is the second-largest island in the Caribbean after Cuba.
What is Hispaniola?
This name belongs to a type of wild cat, a British luxury automobile marque, and an early version of Apple's Mac OS X.
What is Jaguar?