Flora and Fauna
This plant uses insects as a food source, luring them with nectar before trapping them in its snapping leaves.
What is a Venus flytrap?
This psychological phenomenon occurs when hostages begin to sympathize with or defend their captors.
What is Stockholm syndrome?
What four letter word can be a man’s name, part of a duck, or a proposed law?
Bill
Astronomical distances are often described in what timely measurement, with one unit roughly equivalent to 5.88 trillion miles?
What is a Light Year?
Transylvania is commonly associated with Dracula. Where is this region located?
Romania
This animal spends most of its day sleeping—up to 20 hours—and can barely be bothered to climb down from a tree to go to the bathroom.
What is a sloth?
In relationships, this pattern describes a cycle of idealization, devaluation, and discard — common in toxic dynamics.
What is love bombing?
One extra letter turns this diabolical creature into a good buddy.
What is a fiend and a friend?
This is known as the red planet, and has shown evidence that it may have had microscopic life on it long ago.
What is Mars?
What root vegetable was traditionally used to carve Jack-O-Lanterns?
Turnip
This large, flightless bird is the national symbol of New Zealand, known for its nocturnal habits and inability to fly.
What is a kiwi?
This term, borrowed from pop culture, describes manipulating someone into doubting their own memory or sanity.
What is gaslighting?
What two digit number has the most syllables in it when you say it out loud?
77
Andromeda, Ursa Major, and Orion are examples of what?
Constellations
The lycanthrope is commonly called a ___?
Werewolf
This plant produces one of the world’s largest—and smelliest—flowers, smelling like rotting flesh.
What is the corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum)?
Often discussed in trauma recovery circles, this response joins “fight,” “flight,” and “freeze” as a fourth stress reaction.
What is fawn?
An example of a contronym, where one word has two opposite meanings, what four-letter word means to cover lightly with a powdered substance and to remove a fine substance from a surface?
Dust
How many phases of the moon are there?
8
What ancient Celtic festival is Halloween said to originate from?
Samhain