Science & Biology
US City Nicknames
Between the Covers
Babe Ruth & Baseball
Holy Cats, Batman
Movie Myths Busted
100
Because this force is 62% less on Mars than on Earth, a 150 pound person here would only weigh 57 pounds there.
Gravity
(The same person would weight 25 pounds on the moon)
100
Home of the Kellogg Company and birthplace of Post, this Michigan city is understandably called Cereal City.
Battle Creek
100
Located in the front of every book, this page shows its name and author, the publishing company and edition.
The Title Page
100
After trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919, this team didn't win a World Series for 84 years.
The Red Sox
100
When it's raining unbelievably hard, it's called this.
Raining Cats and Dogs
100
Clint Eastwood made it look easy in For a Few Dollars More, but IRL, you cannot shoot this off someone without hurting them.
Their Hat
(A bullet goes right through, and buckshot will take off the hat but also hit the wearer)
200
Of the five common senses, this one is most closely linked to memory.
Smell
200
Anyone in Kentucky can direct you to Derby City, proud host of the Kentucky Derby for nearly 150 years.
Louisville
200
Usually numbered, these are a book's thematic or narrative divisions.
Chapters
200
Babe Ruth played for the Red Sox, the Yankees and the Braves, but only ever wore this number.
Three
200
Attempting to organize an inattentive and disorderly group of children can feel like doing this.
Herding Cats
200
Despite what happened in a certain James Bond movie, you cannot asphyxiate someone by completely covering their bodies in this.
Paint
(Although they may have a reaction to some of its components)
300
This essential element is released by plants and trees as a byproduct of photosynthesis.
Oxygen
300
City of the Big Shoulders is just one alias of this Illinois city and comes from Carl Sandburg's 1916 poem honoring its industrial might.
Chicago
300
This list of sections and/or chapters with corresponding page numbers follows a book's Title Page.
The Table of Contents
300
Babe Ruth was the undisputed Home Run King for nearly 40 years, until this Atlanta Braves outfielder broke his record on April 8, 1974.
Hank Aaron
300
A type of playing marble with a swirl of color inside.
A Cat's Eye
300
While you can certainly puncture one of these with a rifle shot, its pressurized contents will make it rocket around, not explode, though that might still be enough to kill the shark.
A SCUBA Tank
400
Defined as the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1g of water by 1° C, millions of people track this nutrition-related value as part of a daily weight management program.
The Calorie
400
With dozens of award-winning golf courses stretched along its Atlantic coastline and perfect weather year round, this South Carolina city is AKA the Golf Capital of the World.
Myrtle Beach
400
Most often found in books of an academic nature, this is a list citing the sources used when writing it.
The Bibliography
400
Babe Ruth held the single-season slugging avg record for more than 80 years until this San Francisco player bumped him out of 1st place in 2001.
Barry Bonds
400
These tall, summer perennials are typically found in wet or intermittently wet habitats, such as along ponds and channels.
Cattails
400
While Smokey Bear says only YOU can prevent forest fires, only BUGS BUNNY can stop this by sticking his finger in the end, so please don't try it at home.
A Shotgun From Firing
500
This Polish mathematician and astronomer proved the sun to be the center of the solar system in 1512.
Nicolas Copernicus
500
This Florida city's pet name, the Big Guava, comes from a combination of New York's Big Apple and the unsuccessful 19th century quest for wild guava trees that led to the city's founding and subsequent growth.
Tampa
500
Found in the back of non-fiction books like cookbooks, self-help and true-crime, this is an alphabetical list of subjects within the book and their associated page numbers.
The Index
500
Babe Ruth was one of the first five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936, along with this 22-year Detroit Tiger center-fielder.
Ty Cobb
500
This nightwear-sounding phrase describes someone or something as the very best.
The Cat's Pajamas
500
Sorry Pirates of the Caribbean fans, flipping over one of these won't make an emergency submersible unless you can add another 2000 pounds to counteract its natural buoyancy.
A Rowboat
600
All organic compounds contain this element.
Carbon
600
Awed by the area's cottonwood forests, early French explorers named this Idaho city after the French word for "wooded," and its nickname quickly became the City of Trees.
Boise
600
Sometimes left blank, this page with the fancy name faces the Title Page and may have additional information about the author, their books and/or an illustration.
The Frontispiece
600
Babe Ruth played in 10 of the 17 World Series Championships between 1917 and 1932, and took home this many titles.
Seven
600
This term refers to a person used by another to do dangerous, distasteful, or unlawful work, and stems from Aesop's fable, the Monkey and the Cat.
A Cat's Paw
600
In Point Break, Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze have a shouted conversation while doing this but, in reality, the rushing wind drowns out everything else.
Skydiving