Digit(al) Exercise
Regarded as one of the greatest video games of all time, what 1981 arcade game features the titular amphibian trying to cross a road without getting squashed by cars, and a river without getting eaten by predators?
Frogger
What species is the largest tree in Ohio by circumference?
Sycamore
The powerhouse of the cell!
The mitochondria
This creature with a Spanish name sucks the blood of goats.
El Chupacabra
Which company makes Mountain Dew?
In January 2021, a short squeeze orchestrated by Reddit users caused a skyrocketing of the price of what retail chain that sells video games and consumer electronics?
GameStop
What nut-bearing tree was once common in Ohio, but is now nearly extinct?
American Chestnut
In 2006, the solar system went from having nine planets to just eight. What was the name of the planet demoted to a dwarf?
Pluto
This Appalachian creature mimics the appearance, sounds, and voices of animals and humans to lure in their prey.
Skinwalker
This once-popular media rental company still has one operating location in Alaska. You can rent it out for a sleepover!
Blockbuster
In 2014, Google partnered with Game Freak and Nintendo as part of an April Fool's Day prank to create a new version of Google Maps populated by small creatures. This prank inspired what massively popular 2016 video game?
Pokemon Go
This microscopic extremophile can survive just as well in your oven as it can the icy depths of space, but you're more likely to find it hanging out in some moss.
Tardigrade
This scientist is best known for his equations describing the curvature of spacetime. He was less well-known for marrying his first cousin.
Albert Einstein
What cryptid is said to haunt the Pine Barrens, often described as a flying creature with bat-like wings, a horse-like head, and hooves.
Jersey Devil
This brand ran a popular ad campaign in the 2010s featuring a highly-intelligent caveman.
Geico
What is thought to be the first video game, created in 1958 and becoming popular in the 1970s?
Pong
What is the only animal who's range spans from the icy top of North America all the way to South America?
Coyote
This country invented the metric system. It's capital also houses the items that define the standard for those measurements.
France
This children's book and television series ran an episode called "Calling All Creeps!" in which the children of the story were terrorized by purple, scaly, humanoid creatures resembling cryptids of myth.
Goosebumps
You may know this brand from your high school math classroom but, until recently, most of their money was made selling complete weapons systems to the U.S. Military.
Texas Instruments
The 1995 point-and-click adventure game "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is based on the short story of the same name by what sci-fi author who also wrote "A Boy and His Dog"?
Harlan Ellison
What is the largest living organism on Earth by mass and footprint?
Humongous Fungus
In 2019, utilizing the Event Horizon Telescope, researchers took the first direct image of a supermassive black hole. What is the name of the galaxy that hosts the black hole?
M87
This creature, when spotted, turns into a puddle made of its own tears.
Squonk
Complete this quote from Toby Ziegler from the pilot episode of The West Wing, wherein he is asked to turn off his cell phone on an airplane: "Are you telling me I can still flummox this thing with something I bought at _______?"
Radio Shack