State Smarts
This state’s official fossil is the stegosaurus, chosen partly because its bones were first discovered in this state.
What is Colorado
This mammal is the only one capable of true flight.
What is a bat?
This fruit floats in water because 25% of its volume is air.
What is an apple?
This phrase means “Let’s not overcomplicate things”—especially when someone’s trying to solve everything at once.
What is “Don’t boil the ocean”?
This holiday is the busiest day of the year for plumbers, thanks to all the cooking and cleanup.
What is Thanksgiving?
This state banned hunting camels in 1951—even though it once hosted a U.S. Army camel corps in the 1800s.
What is Arizona
This sea creature has three hearts and blue blood.
What is an octopus?
This popular condiment was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.
What is ketchup?
This saying describes a situation where a team is figuring things out while already in motion.
What is “Building the plane while flying it”?
This holiday has a tradition in Japan where families eat KFC for dinner.
What is Christmas?
This state has a town named “Boring,” which is officially paired with a town called “Dull” in Scotland for tourism.
What is Oregon
This bird can mimic human speech better than most parrots, despite its crow-like appearance.
What is a Raven?
This food item is technically a berry, while its namesake cousin is not.
What is a banana? (Fun twist: strawberries aren’t true berries, but bananas are.)
This phrase is used when someone wants to pause a topic and revisit it later.
What is “Put a pin in it”?
This holiday’s name comes from an old English word meaning “to watch” or “to keep vigil.”
What is Halloween? (From “All Hallows’ Eve”)
This state has more shoreline than the entire U.S. Atlantic coast, thanks to its thousands of lakes.
What is Michigan
This animal’s fingerprints are so similar to humans that they’ve confused crime scene investigators.
What is a koala?
This nut isn’t actually a nut—it’s a legume.
What is a peanut?
This expression means someone is overwhelmed by too much information at once.
What is “Drinking from the firehose”?
In this country, people celebrate New Year’s by jumping off chairs at midnight.
What is Denmark?
This state is home to the only U.S. city that’s also the name of a punctuation mark.
What is Comma, North Carolina
This amphibian can survive being frozen solid and thawed—making it one of the most resilient creatures on Earth.
What is a wood frog?
This food was the first ever microwaved item, accidentally popped during radar experiments.
What is popcorn?
This phrase is used when a team decides to take a detailed discussion out of a larger meeting.
What is “Let’s take this offline”?
This classic Christmas song was actually written for Thanksgiving in 1857.
What is “Jingle Bells”?