Animal "Misnomers"
Despite its name, this slow-moving mammal does not actually sleep 20 hours a day.
What is a sloth?
This famous city was lost to a volcanic eruption in 79 AD and rediscovered in 1748.
What is Pompeii?
This pop star got her start on The Mickey Mouse Club before releasing "...Baby One More Time."
Who is Britney Spears?
This theoretical portal connects two distant points in spacetime, often featured in Star Trek.
What is a wormhole?
his creamy, avocado-based dip gets its name from an Aztec word meaning "avocado sauce".
What is guacamole?
This large reptile is called a "dragon," but it does not breathe fire.
What is a Komodo dragon?
This ancient Incan citadel sits high in the Andes mountains of Peru.
What is Machu Picchu?
This actor played a young thief in The Goonies long before winning an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Who is Ke Huy Quan?
This "beam" uses light to pull objects toward a ship, but scientists can currently only move microscopic particles with it.
What is a tractor beam?
This English author created the eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
Who is Agatha Christie?
This "bear" native to Australia is actually a marsupial, not a bear.
What is a koala?
This mysterious "lost" colony in North America vanished in 1590, leaving only one word carved into a tree.
What is Roanoke?
This talk show queen began her career as a local radio news anchor in Nashville.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This real-life technology allows 3D printing of biological tissues, similar to the medical bays in sci-fi.
What is bioprinting?
Named for an English astronomer, this famous comet is visible from Earth every 75 to 76 years.
What is Halley's Comet?
This "flying" mammal cannot actually fly, but it can glide up to 150 feet.
What is a flying squirrel (or sugar glider)?
This legendary island city supposedly sank into the ocean in a single day and night.
What is Atlantis?
This Marvel star worked as a waiter at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. before becoming a Guardian of the Galaxy.
Who is Chris Pratt?
This concept of "spooky action at a distance" allows particles to instantly affect each other across light-years.
What is quantum entanglement?
Designed by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, this towering iron structure was built for the 1889 World's Fair.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This blind-looking creature actually has excellent eyesight but is named for its naked skin.
What is a naked mole-rat?
This legendary golden city inspired Spanish explorers to search the jungles of South America.
What is El Dorado?
This famous horror author worked as a janitor while writing his breakout novel Carrie.
Who is Stephen King?
This theoretical mega-structure encloses a star to capture all of its power output.
What is a Dyson sphere?
This French military leader and emperor met his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?