Sleeping Sound
This long-term state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals during winter is a bit more intense than a regular nap.
What is hibernation?
In the 2015 film The Martian, Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars who survives by growing this type of crop.
What are potatoes?
Appearing on about 75% of all national flags, this is the most common color used to symbolize revolution, courage, or bloodshed.
What is red?
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
Before LeBron James captured the title in 2023, this legendary L.A. Laker held the NBA's career points record.
Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
Famously broken by Chuck Yeager in 1947, this is the term for the speed of sound.
What is Mach 1?
In Breaking Bad, chemistry teacher Walter White adopts this street name as his drug-dealing alter ego, a nod to a famous German theoretical physicist.
Who is Heisenberg?
The coat of arms on the flag of Mexico depicts a golden eagle devouring a serpent atop this specific type of cactus.
What is a prickly pear cactus (or nopal)?
This is the only mammal capable of sustained flight.
What is a bat?
In tennis, this term, likely derived from the French word for "egg" due to the numeral zero's shape, means a score of zero points.
What is "love"?
Abbreviated REM, this stage of sleep during which most vivid dreams occur stands for this four-word phrase.
What is Rapid Eye Movement?
In the first season of Stranger Things, Joyce Byers communicates with her son in the Upside Down by painting letters on the wall and hanging these festive objects above them.
What are Christmas lights?
A feature on the original flag of the Philippines that was officially removed in 1998, the golden sun was originally depicted with this human-like characteristic.
What is a face?
Measured in Ohms, this is the term for the opposition to the flow of an electrical current.
What is resistance?
The only person to have won three FIFA World Cups as a player.
Who is Pele?
This type of "noise," which contains many frequencies with equal intensities, is often used as a sleep aid to mask other distracting sounds.
What is "white noise"?
This 2019 South Korean film made history as the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
Historically one of the most expensive dyes to produce, this color is so rare on national flags that it appears on only two: in the rainbow on Nicaragua's flag and on the parrot on Dominica's flag.
What is purple?
The tallest mountain in the solar system.
Olympus Mons (Mars)
This multi-stage bicycle race, primarily held in France, is arguably the most famous and difficult cycling event in the world.
What is the Tour de France?
The loudest sound created by any animal is the low-frequency call of this massive marine mammal, which can be heard for hundreds of miles underwater.
What is the blue whale?
In the 2022 Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, the villain Jobu Tupaki creates this absurdly named object, which contains a black hole that threatens to destroy the multiverse.
What is the "Everything Bagel"?
This Himalayan nation is the only country in the world whose national flag is not a rectangle or a square.
What is Nepal?
This is the collective name for the group of elements in the far-right column of the periodic table, like Helium and Neon, known for their chemical stability.
What are the Noble Gases?
A hockey player who scores a goal, registers an assist, and gets into a fight all in the same game is said to have achieved this unofficial "hat trick" named for a legendary tough guy.
What is a Gordie Howe hat trick?