Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Asunción — one of these is not a national capital.
What is Rio de Janeiro?
This phrase refers to an auto accident in which the driver at fault fails to stay & identify himself.
What is a hit-and-run?
In 1931, Harold Edgerton made a strobe light work with this device that takes pictures.
What is a camera?
Measuring up to 100 feet and weighing up to 200 tons, the blue whale holds the record as the largest animal to ever live on Earth, even bigger than these prehistoric giants.
What are dinosaurs?
Calcutta, Thimphu, Phnom Penh — one of these is not a national capital.
What is Calcutta?
If the guy hired to throw unruly people out of bars writes a bad check, he’s doubly one of these.
What is a bouncer?
In 1963, Seymour Cray and his team introduced the first “super” one of these machines.
What is a computer?
These massive underwater vocalizations made by humpbacks can last for hours and are called this.
What are whale songs?
Lusaka, Casablanca, Dakar — one of these is not a national capital.
What is Casablanca?
In Wyoming, this crime is fourth degree when property worth less than $200 is purposely burned.
What is arson?
In 1963, Dr. Thomas Starzl performed the first transplant of this organ used for filtering toxins.
What is the liver?
The narwhal is sometimes nicknamed the “unicorn of the sea” because of this long, spiral feature.
What is a tusk or tooth?
Nicosia, Istanbul, Belgrade — one of these is not a national capital.
What is Istanbul?
Term for a person who conceals himself on a ship to avoid paying for passage.
What is a stowaway?
This famous inventor from Menlo Park got a patent in 1891 for sending signals by electricity.
Who is Thomas Edison?
A blue whale can consume up to 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of these tiny shrimp-like creatures in a single gulp.
What is krill?
Kathmandu, Kabul, Karachi — one of these is not a national capital.
What is Karachi?
From the Middle English for “to wander,” it’s the crime of a person without home or money idly roaming in public.
What is vagrancy?
In 1939, Dr. Louis Fieser created this vitamin that helps blood clot.
What is vitamin K?
Sperm whales get their names from “spermaceti,” a waxy substance found in the head of the whales and used as a key ingredient for making this.
What are oil lamps, candles, lubricants, cosmetics, creams & ointments?