Outbreaks
Originating in Guangdong, China in 2002, this respiratory disease went on to kill nearly 800 people worldwide.
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to do what?
Walk on the moon.
The winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics is arguably the most famous physicist of all time. Ironically, he won not for his work on relativity, but his work on the photoelectric effect. Who was this genius?!
Albert Einstein
Continue this pattern : 144, 121, 100, 81, 64...
49
Slow-moving, brain-eating...
Zombies
Infecting nearly 500 million people between 1918 and 1920, about a quarter of the world's population at the time, this H1N1 virus was by far the worst pandemic of the 20th century.
Spanish Flu
It is the best-selling book series of all time.
Harry Potter
It has a speed of 186,282 miles per second.
Light
What is the first number that contains the letter 'A' in its name?
One Thousand
Bat-morphing, blood-drinking...
Vampires
Thought to have first made the jump from monkeys to people as early as the 1920's, this sexually transmitted disease was not fully understood until many decades later.
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
Causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
It is the continent with the fewest flowering plants.
Antarctica
A young Isaac Newton is said to have been hit on the head by which fruit, leading him to come up with the theory of gravity?
Apple
How many seconds have passed in 6 weeks?
3,628,800
See-through, house-haunting...
Ghost
Also called the 'Black Death', it killed off more than 60% of Europe during the 14th Century.
Bubonic Plague
During the political election of May 20th, 1991, this country saw a record 315 million voters.
India
One law of physics states that this can neither be created nor destroyed in an isolated system.
Energy
Everyone knows Google. What number does it represent?
10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
1 with one hundred zeros.
Fur-covered, moon-howling...
Werewolf
Now eradicated from the earth thanks to effective vaccines, this infectious disease was responsible for destroying more than 70% of the Native American population.
Smallpox
Out of all the planets in our solar system, it is the only one which is NOT named after a Roman god or goddess.
Earth
This kind of electricity is created by friction, such as when you rub two balloons together.
Static
A grandmother left half her money to her granddaughter and half that amount to her grandson. She left a sixth to her brother, and the remainder, $1,000, to the dogs’ home. How much did she leave altogether?
$12,000.
One half plus one quarter plus one-sixth equals eleven-twelfths. So, the remainder, $1,000, is one-twelfth of the whole, which must have been $12,000.
Ape-like, forest-dwelling, upward-walking...
Bigfoot