No It's Not Funny
This children's game was originally designed in the early 1900s to demonstrate the dangers of this economic system, rather than to entertain children.
What is Monopoly?
This mathematical constant, approximately 2.71828, is the base of the natural logarithm and appears in the equation describing continuous compound growth.
What is e?
In 1980, this volcanic eruption was so powerful that it caused the summit to collapse and killed 57 people.
What is Mount St. Helens?
This man was a Russian religious dude who had a suspiciously close relationship with a royal family and was extremely difficult to kill.
Who is Grigori Rasputin?
Fifth Avenue, Baltic Avenue, Boardwalk, Pennsylvania Avenue, Park Place
What is Fifth Avenue?
Fifth Avenue is not on a Monopoly Board
This extinct bird, once found throughout North America, went from enormous populations to extinction in the span of just a few decades, largely due to commercial hunting.
What is the passenger pigeon?
In the human respiratory system, gas exchange between alveoli and pulmonary capillaries occurs primarily through this process.
What is diffusion?
This planet has a day that lasts longer than its entire year.
What is Venus?
This man spent 27 years in prison, then became the leader of the country that imprisoned him
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Dolphin, Whale, Seal, Otter, Shark
What is Shark?
A Shark is not a mammal
This mammal has been observed carrying the bodies of its dead young for days or even weeks.
What is a dolphin?
The 1884–85 conference that formalized European rules for claiming territory in Africa was held in this city.
What is Berlin?
Turritopsis dohrnii, is of this species, that can revert from its adult form back into its juvenile form, potentially allowing it to repeat its life cycle indefinitely.
What is a Jellyfish?
This man worked as a patent clerk while developing ideas that would eventually make the patent clerk job seem significantly less impressive.
Who is Albert Einstein?
Titanic, Gladiator, Braveheart, Avatar, The Godfather
What is Avatar?
Avatar is not a Best Picture Winner
In 1919, this Boston disaster killed 21 people when a substance surged through the streets at roughly 35 miles per hour.
What is the Great Molasses Flood?
A solution with a pH of 3 has this many times the hydrogen-ion concentration of a solution with a pH of 5.
What is 100 times?
This seemingly impossible phenomenon occurs when thousands of spiders release silk into the air and use it to become airborne, sometimes covering entire landscapes in webs.
What is spider ballooning?
This man was a university professor who became famous for a thought experiment involving a cat that is simultaneously alive and dead.
Who is Erwin Schrödinger?
Sodium, Potassium, Iron, Gold, Oxygen
What is Oxygen?
Oxygen is the only chemical element listed whose symbol matches the first letter of its English names
This beloved children's author wrote Winnie-the-Pooh, but suffered from depression and later became estranged from his son, Christopher Robin.
Who is A. A. Milne?
In rhetoric, this logical fallacy attacks the person making an argument rather than addressing the argument itself.
What is ad hominem?
In 1932, the Australian military was deployed against this animal after farmers complained that it was destroying their crops.
What is the Emu?
This man became wealthy selling something that people were eventually going to stop using, then invested his fortune into finding a way to preserve his legacy.
Who is Alfred Nobel?
Abroad, Bagpipe, Film, Years, Fight
What is Bagpipe?
"Bagpipe" does not contain a pair of letters that are consecutive in order in the alphabet.