Video Games
This simple 1972 Atari game is basically electronic table tennis where two players bounce a digital ball back and forth using vertical paddles.
What is Pong?
Lasagna is the favorite food of this lazy, cynical cartoon cat created by Jim Davis.
Who is Garfield?
Players travel around this classic board game trying to buy properties like Boardwalk and Park Place while avoiding going directly to jail.
What is Monopoly?
This large, crescent-shaped muscle separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities and is the primary muscle driving mammalian respiration.
What is the diaphragm?
Because of its unique structure and density, this popular breakfast cereal marshmallow shape is the only one that can actually float in milk indefinitely without getting soggy.
What are Lucky Charms?
This 1980 arcade sensation became a pop culture phenomenon, featuring a hungry yellow circle navigating a maze while eating dots and dodging four colorful ghosts.
What is Pac-Man?
This iconic, high-contrast breed is famous for its distinct dark "points" on its ears, face, paws, and tail, as well as its bright blue eyes.
What is a Siamese cat?
In this game of surgical precision, players must carefully remove anatomical parts like the "Funny Bone" or "Wishbone" without setting off a red light and a loud buzzer.
What do is Operation?
Discovered by British physician Thomas Addison, this rare endocrine disorder is characterized by the chronic underproduction of cortisol and aldosterone by this specific pair of glands.
What are the adrenal glands?
Originally intended to be a 3D textured wallpaper, this popular packing material accidentally became a multi-billion dollar stress-relief phenomenon instead.
What is bubble wrap?
Long before getting his own game, Nintendo's famous plumber Mario made his very first appearance as a character named "Jumpman" in this 1981 arcade hit.
What is Donkey Kong?
In ancient times, this civilization revered cats to the point of mummifying them and worshiped the cat-headed goddess Bastet.
What is Ancient Egypt?
Invented by a pair of Canadian journalists in 1979, this game tests players on six categories of knowledge to earn colorful plastic wedges for their game pieces.
What is Trivial Pursuit?
Characterized by high fever, confusion, and a distinct "strawberry tongue," this acute pediatric inflammatory disease can lead to dangerous coronary artery aneurysms if left untreated.
What is Kawasaki disease?
Despite what cartoons show, these large, long-necked African birds do not actually bury their heads in the sand when they are scared.
What are ostriches?
In this frustrating 1981 arcade classic, you must safely guide an amphibious creature across a busy highway full of cars and a rushing river full of logs.
This musical instruments name also refers to a specific pattern of stripes or swirls on a cat's fur, which isn't actually a breed itself.
What is a tabby?
This classic detective game requires players to deduce three things: the murderer, the weapon, and which of the mansion's rooms the crime took place in.
What is Clue?
Derived from the foxglove plant, this cardiac glycoside medication increases heart contractility but has a narrow therapeutic window, risking a toxicity marked by yellow-green halo vision.
What is digoxin?
Released in 2006, this innovative Nintendo home console became a massive hit with seniors and retirement homes because its motion-controlled remote allowed players to mimic real-life movements like bowling and tennis.
What is the Wii
This hairless breed of cat—which actually requires regular baths to clean oily skin—shares its name with a famous stone monument in Egypt.
What is a Sphynx?
Introduced in the U.S. in 1949, this word game's title is an actual verb that means "to scratch, claw, or grope about clumsily."
What is Scrabble?
The circle of Willis supplies blood to the brain, but this specific artery, formed by the junction of the two vertebral arteries, runs along the brainstem before branching into the posterior cerebral arteries.
What is the basilar artery