Space & Astronomy
Due to the high concentration of iron oxide on its surface, this fourth planet from the sun is universally nicknamed the "Red Planet."
What is Mars?
Capable of reaching speeds over 70 miles per hour in short bursts, this animal holds the unquestioned title of the fastest land animal on Earth.
What is the cheetah?
Though you might not typically think of it as one, this outer protective covering is actually the largest and heaviest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
Founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in a California garage, this massive tech company revolutionized personal computing and mobile phones with the Mac and the iPhone.
What is Apple?
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union controversially downgraded this celestial body, stripping it of its status as the ninth planet in our solar system.
What is Pluto?
Reaching weights of over 400,000 pounds, this massive marine mammal is not only the largest animal alive today, but is widely believed to be the largest animal to have ever lived in Earth's history.
What is the blue whale?
Connecting your throat to your stomach, this muscular tube uses rhythmic wave-like contractions to push your food down.
What is the esophagus?
Originally created in 2004 exclusively for Harvard students, this massive social network launched by Mark Zuckerberg was famously the subject of the movie The Social Network.
What is Facebook?
DAILY DOUBLE: Launched in 1990, this famous space telescope—named after an American astronomer—provided humanity with unprecedented views of deep space before recently being succeeded by the James Webb Space Telescope.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Because of their historical association with bad omens, a flock of these highly intelligent, black-feathered birds is notoriously referred to as a "murder."
What are crows?
Located in the upper leg, this massive bone is the longest, heaviest, and strongest bone in the entire human skeleton.
What is the femur?
In cybersecurity, a malicious program that disguises itself as harmless, legitimate software to trick a user into downloading it takes its name from this giant, hollow object used in ancient Greek mythology.
What is a Trojan Horse?
This famous, highly visible comet swings past Earth roughly every 75 to 76 years; it was last seen in 1986 and is not expected to return until 2061.
What is Halley's Comet?
Native to Australia, this venomous, egg-laying mammal looks so bizarre that 18th-century European scientists who examined the first preserved specimen assumed it was a fake creature stitched together by a taxidermist.
What is the platypus?
This specific iron-rich protein, found in your red blood cells, is directly responsible for carrying oxygen from your lungs to the rest of your body.
What is hemoglobin?
Released in 1991 by Guido van Rossum, the incredibly popular programming language Python was not actually named after the large constricting snake, but rather as a tribute to this classic 1970s British surreal comedy troupe.
What is Monty Python?
Launched in 1977, these twin NASA space probes both carry a 12-inch gold-plated phonograph record containing sounds, music, and greetings from Earth, intended for any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
What are the Voyager probes (Voyager 1 / Voyager 2)?
Often referred to by their incredibly cute nickname "water bears," these resilient, eight-legged microscopic animals are famous for their ability to survive extreme radiation, boiling heat, and even the vacuum of outer space.
What are tardigrades?
RESURRECTION QUESTION: Located in the upper neck, the U-shaped hyoid is a favorite trivia fact among anatomists because it is the only bone in the human skeleton that does not do this.
What is connect (or attach/articulate) to any other bone?
Often celebrated as the world’s very first computer programmer, this 19th-century English mathematician and writer published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?