Foods Has Secrets
This familiar flavoring is produced from the fruit—or pod—of an orchid.
What is vanilla?
Because Australia is classified as a continent, this icy territory is considered the world’s largest island.
What is Greenland?
In these fish named after an animal on land, the male carries the developing young and gives birth.
What are seahorses?
The more I dry, the wetter I become.
What is a towel?
Literally combining the Japanese words for “harbor” and “wave,” this natural phenomenon can follow an undersea earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
Botanically, this spiky tropical food is not one fruit but numerous fruits produced by separate flowers that fuse together.
What is a pineapple?
This continent contains both Earth’s highest elevation and its lowest exposed point on land.
What is Asia?
This insect gives directions to food using a “waggle dance” that communicates distance and direction.
What is a honeybee?
I have cities without buildings, forests without trees, and rivers without water.
What is a map?
This word for dense tropical wilderness comes through Hindi and Urdu words for “forest”—but its older Sanskrit ancestor meant “desert region.”
What is a jungle?
Every thread of this expensive spice is the dried stigma of a crocus flower and must be separated from the petals.
What is saffron?
This mountainous African kingdom is completely surrounded by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
This fish hunts above the waterline, shooting jets of water that knock insects off branches and into its reach.
What is an archerfish?
A man looks at a photograph and says, “I have no brothers or sisters, but this person’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the photograph?
Himself
Inspired by a fairy tale whose title used an old name for Sri Lanka, this word describes making fortunate discoveries by accident.
What is serendipity?
Before cacao beans are dried and roasted, microbes perform this essential process that helps develop chocolate’s flavor.
What is fermentation?
Plunging 979 meters from a flat-topped mountain, this South American landmark is the world’s highest waterfall on land.
What is Angel Falls?
This Mexican salamander can regenerate an entire lost limb, making it a valuable subject for scientists studying regeneration.
What is an axolotl?
I’m a three-digit number. My tens digit is five greater than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
What is 194?
This word for regular compensation for your work ultimately derives from the Latin word for salt.
What is a salary?
Which two spices come from the same fruit—one from its seed and the other from the red covering around it?
Nutmeg and mace.
Also called the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, this South Pacific location is farther from land than any other point in the ocean. Approximately 2,688 kilometers from the nearest land.
Hint: Named after Jules Verne’s submarine captain.
What is Point Nemo?
Nicknamed “water bears,” these tiny animals survived exposure to the vacuum of space during a 2007 experiment.
What are tardigrades?
In one family, each girl has as many brothers as sisters. Each boy has twice as many sisters as brothers. How many boys and girls are there?
What are three boys and four girls?
Used in everyday English for a state of perfect bliss, this word comes from Sanskrit for the “act of extinguishing.”
What is nirvana?