Cool Critters
This black-and-white bear from China eats mostly bamboo.
What is the giant panda?
The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed much of the city but began in a shop that sold this carbohydrate-rich staple.
What is bread?
In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy wears these magical shoes to get home.
What are ruby slippers?
This long-running CBS show drops contestants in remote locations to outwit, outplay, and outlast each other.
What is Survivor?
This 1991 invention by Tim Berners-Lee revolutionized how we access information online.
What is the World Wide Web?
This bird is known for being able to mimic human speech, with the African grey being especially skilled.
What is a parrot?
This massive prehistoric monument in England is older than both the pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China.
What is Stonehenge?
This 2004 film features a train that takes children to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
What is The Polar Express?
This British baking competition awards its winner the title of “Star Baker” each week.
What is The Great British Bake Off?
This programming language, named after a comedy group, is known for its whitespace syntax.
What is Python?
This deep-sea creature can produce its own light through bioluminescence, often using a lure to attract prey.
What is an anglerfish?
Before becoming a famous American founding father, Benjamin Franklin once ran away from this city where he was apprenticed as a printer.
What is Boston?
In The Prestige, the “Transported Man” trick hides a dark secret involving this type of scientific marvel rather than actual magic.
What is a cloning machine?
This reality series stars Gordon Ramsay and challenges chefs to create gourmet meals under intense pressure.
What is Hell’s Kitchen?
This cryptographic technology underpins Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by providing a secure, decentralized ledger.
What is blockchain?
This insect, found mostly in Africa, can carry objects over 50 times its own body weight — the strongest relative to size in the animal kingdom.
What is a dung beetle?
This ancient civilization built the first known paved roads, thousands of years before Rome.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
In To Kill a Mockingbird, the courtroom scenes were filmed on a meticulously recreated set of this real Alabama county’s courthouse, where Harper Lee’s father once practiced law.
What is Monroe County?
In Jersey Shore, this cast member was known for the catchphrase “GTL” — gym, tan, and this last activity.
What is laundry?
This cybersecurity practice involves pretending to be a trusted entity to trick individuals into revealing sensitive information.
What is phishing?
This small desert mammal has disproportionately large ears to help dissipate heat, and is sometimes called the “desert fox.”
What is the fennec fox?
The Library of Alexandria’s destruction is often blamed on one event, but it actually suffered multiple burnings over centuries — including one ordered by this Roman leader in 48 BCE.
Who is Julius Caesar?
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this magical object allows Harry to see where people are on the castle grounds.
What is the Marauder’s Map?
In the first season of The Real World (1992), the show’s cast lived together in this U.S. city.
What is New York City?
This 1980s computer virus was one of the first to spread via floppy disks, infecting IBM PCs worldwide.
What is the Brain virus?