Amazing Animals
Flocks of these animals migrate north when the weather warms.
What are birds? Different species of birds migrate at different times and can fly enormous distances. For example, the yellow warbler travels back and forth between Alaska and Central America each year.
When people first fall in love, they feel like they are on this cloud.
What is cloud nine? Cloud nine denotes a feeling of euphoria.
What are the names of India’s two most famous rivers?
What are the Indus River and the Ganges River?
She was Walt Disney’s favorite princess.
Who is Cinderella? Cinderella was first released in 1950; she was the second Disney princess after Snow White.
These are installed in homes to alert owners to fire.
What are smoke alarms? All 50 states require smoke alarms in new installations.
You might run across this animal at night in its natural habitat, a dam it builds across a creek.
What is a beaver? The nocturnal animal is North America’s largest rodent and the second largest globally. Fully grown, beavers can grow up to 48 inches (122 cm) long. Their razor-sharp teeth never quit growing, but they keep them in check by felling trees for their dams.
This is where Batman fought crime.
What is Gotham City? Batman started fighting crime in Gotham City in the fourth episode of the Batman comic book, released in 1941. Before then, he was based in New York City.
What are the major mountain chains in the northeastern and northwestern areas of the subcontinent of India?
What are the Hindu Kush Mountains (northwestern) and Himalaya Mountains (northeastern).
He painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci? Before it hung in the Louvre, the Mona Lisa hung in Napoleon’s bedroom. Mona Lisa is not her name; it’s Italian for “my lady Lisa.”
In 1973, the first communication from this device was completed.
What is cell phone? The cell phone of 1970 bore no resemblance to today’s cell phone. They were called “brick phones” because they were as large as a brick and similar in design.
When you visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park, you will be warned not to feed these large carnivores.
What are bears? Black bears roam the park. Visitors can be charged a fine if they willfully come within 150 feet of a bear. People are most likely come across a black bear in the evening or night during the warmer months.
This is the fictional palace of King Arthur.
What is Camelot? The term was applied to the Kennedy presidency by Jackie Kennedy in a Life magazine interview after John’s assassination.
What famous mountain pass have invaders and migratory peoples used to move into India?
What is the Khyber Pass?
If you visit this U.S. state, you are likely to encounter a pupu platter.
What is Hawaii? It’s an appetizer platter that usually includes bacon-wrapped pineapple, tempura, spareribs, fruits, and vegetables.
In the 1970s, McDonald’s introduced this jolly menu item that is still going strong today.
What is the Happy Meal? The original packaging resembled a cereal box with games, comics, and jokes on it.
These nocturnal birds are known for their sharp vision, silent flight and distinctive calls.
What are owls? Rather than chirping, owls hoot. In addition to sharp 3D vision provided by their large eyes, owls can rotate their heads up to 270 degrees.
This fictional perfect place is located high in the Tibetan mountains and is one of the settings in James Hilton’s Lost Horizons.
What is Shangri-La? It’s a fictional utopia where people live for hundreds of years.
The first great civilization in ancient India was ________________ civilization.
What is Harappan?
This country on the Iberian Peninsula allows some workers to take a nap during the workday.
What is Spain? The nap is known as a siesta. You’ll find siesta is still observed mostly in shops, especially during the summer from 2–4 p.m.
In 1979, Sony released this device for playing cassette tapes.
What is the Walkman? At last, we had a personal and portable device for playing favorite tunes.
This is the largest species of feline in the world.
What are tigers? Tigers can weigh up to 660 pounds, whereas lions typically reach only 550 pounds. Both lions and tigers can grow to be 10 feet long from head to tail.
He comes from Ork.
Who is Mork? In the TV sitcom Mork and Mindy, Mork is an Orkan who comes to Earth to observe human behavior.
What is India's holiest city?
What is Varanasi?
In the early 1970s, he was a weatherman in Nashville, Tennessee, before he became the longest-running host of a single TV game show.
Who is Pat Sajak? Sajak hosted Wheel of Fortune for 41 seasons and retired in 2024. His co-host Vanna White is still turning letters on the hit game show.
This was the first kind of computer disc.
What is floppy? The first floppy disc was eight inches in diameter. Today, computers use internal hard drives, external drives, or the cloud for backups.
One in two million lobsters is this color.
What is blue? In fact, they’re bright blue. But that’s not the rarest lobster. The orange lobster is a one-in-30-million find.
This mythological Norse location is the palace home of fallen warriors.
What is Valhalla? Legend tells that the warriors will live at Valhalla until Ragnarök, or Doomsday, when they will fight once more alongside the Norse god Odin.
The change in seasonal wind direction that cause lots of rainfall in south Asia from June to October and is critical to India’s farmers and economy is called a...
What is Kashmir?
This bird’s eggs are bigger than its brain.
What is ostrich? You’ve heard the expression bird brain. The ostrich’s brain is no match for its eggs, which are the largest of all bird species. Dinosaurs laid the only eggs larger than those of the ostrich.
This was the first video arcade game, introduced in 1974.
What is Pong? Pac-Man didn’t arrive until the following year.