My Deer Friends
What makes the sika deer of Nara Park distinct?
They Bow
Headquartered in Colorado, this railroad was famous for its narrow-gauge lines that navigated the steep grades of the Rocky Mountains, and it still operates a scenic route between Durango and Silverton
What is the Denver & Rio Grande Western (D&RGW)?
This English pirate, was famous for weaving slow-burning fuses into his beard to terrify his enemies
Who was Blackbeard?
In 1996, this fast-food giant took out full page ads claiming it had purchased a historic Philadelphia landmark and renamed it the "Liberty Meats" bell
What is Taco Bell?
For 40 years, this "discovery" in Sussex was hailed as the evolutionary link between apes and humans until 1953, when it was revealed to be an orangutan jaw bone paired with a human skull
What is the Piltdown Man?
What did the term 'deer' refer to in Old English?
All Wild Animals
This person memorized the plans for a steam machine and bringing it from England to the US, which paved the way for the steam engine?
Who is Samuel Slater?
Navigators in the Age of Discovery relied on this naturally magnetized piece of the mineral magnetite, whose name literally translates to "way stone."
What is a Lodestone?
On April 1, 2010, this tech giant "unveiled" its "Animal Translate" app for Android, claiming to bridge the communication gap between humans and their household pets
What is Google?
Dating back to at least 1698, a recuring April Fool's prank involving tricking crowds into gathering at the Tower to witness the "washing" of these royal beasts
What are Lions?
Deer continued to be a main source of food for millennia even after people began farming in which modern day country?
China
Prior to the 1883 adoption of Standard Time, this specific railroad-led gathering in Chicago established the four-zone system to eliminate the "temporal chaos" of over 50 different local times
What is the General Time Convention?
To make their ships faster and more maneuverable in shallow water, pirates would often perform this process, which involved cutting down the high forecastle and aftercastle of a captured merchant vessel
What is razing?
In 1957, the BBC's "Panorama" convinced millions of viewers that this food grew on trees during a segment about a 'harvest' in Switzerland
What is Spaghetti?
In 1835, The Sun newspaper published a series of articles claiming that famed astronomer John Herschel had discovered bat-winged humanoids and bipedal beavers living on this celestial body.
What is the Moon?
What type of cells are in deer antlers?
Cancerous Cells
Approximately how much does a modern freight locomotive weigh in lbs?
~400,000 lbs
In 2009, the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama led to the first successful rescue by U.S. Navy SEALs in this body of water, a key transit point for Somali pirates known as "the graveyard of ships."
What is the Indian Ocean or The Somali Basin?
In 1994, this software company claimed it had acquired the Catholic Church to provide "online sacraments" to standardize the faith
What is Microsoft?
In 1869, this 10-foot-tall "petrified man" was "discovered" in New York; it was actually a block of gypsum carved by George Hull to mock a biblical literalist
What is the Cardiff Giant?
In the 1942 Walt Disney Pictures film, Bambi is a white-tailed deer, while in Felix Salten's original 1923 book "Bambi, a Life in the Woods", he is a...?
Roe Deer
While Thomas Newcomen created the first practical atmospheric engine, this Scottish inventor is credited with the "true" steam revolution by adding a separate condenser to prevent massive heat loss.
Who was James Watt?
These two women are the most famous female pirates of the Caribbean; they reportedly fought side-by-side on Calico Jack Rackham's ship
Who are Anne Bonny and Mary Read?
In 1962, Sweden's only TV channel tricked viewers into pulling nylon stockings over their TV screens to instantly convert their broadcast into this
What is Color?
What is Formosa or Taiwan?