Anatomy
The average adult has about 22 square feet (or about 8 pounds) of this organ, making it the largest in the human body.
What is skin?
This roman emperor, assassinated by his own senators on the Ides of March, is credited with creating the 12 month calendar.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This US national park in Wyoming is iconic for its hundreds of waterfalls and natural geysers.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This was the skyscraper King Kong climbed in 1933.
What is the Empire State Building?
These leather pants go over a cowboy's jeans and protect from thorny brush.
What are chaps?
Common in athletes, ACL surgery reconstructs or replaces a ligament located in this joint of the body.
What is knee?
This kind of sculpture, popular in greek and roman art, depicts a person only from the shoulders up like a portrait might capture one's likeness.
What is bust?
This natural phenomenon describes a drastic rise in sea level due to a hurricane’s winds pushing water toward the shore.
What is a storm surge?
This is the name of Dorthy's dog in The Wizard of Oz.
Who is Toto?
These outlaws procure their stock by capturing the cattle of other owners.
What are cattle rustlers?
The four major lobes of the human brain are the frontal lobe, the parietal lobe, the occipital lobe, and this lobe.
What is the temporal lobe?
These orphaned twin brothers were raised by a she-wolf to become the founders of the city of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
A cold cup collecting water droplets or your bathroom mirror fogging up are examples of this physical process critical to the water cycle.
What is condensation?
This 1937 Brother's Grimm tale was the first feature-length animated film ever released.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Cowboy boots had this distinctive feature to prevent them from falling through the stirrups while riding.
What are high-tapered heels?
Two layers of membranes called "pleurae" cover the surface of these paired organs of the human body?
What are lungs?
This roman god of healing, prophecy and the sun is the son of Jupiter, one of the few gods sharing a name with his greek counterpart.
Who is Apollo?
This landform, named after it's shape, occurs where rivers merge with a lake or the ocean creating a triangular pattern of sediment.
What is a River Delta?
This 1968 science fiction film featured intelligent apes ruling over humans.
What is Planet of the Apes?
This invention, patented by Joseph Glidden in 1873, is credited with ending the "open range" by cheaply protecting an rancher's property and cattle.
What is barbed wire?
The "chloecyst" is another name for what small organ that stores bile?
What is the gallbladder?
This two-word latin phrase translating to 'Roman Peace' describes the two century golden age of the empire.
What is Pax Romana?
This most visited US waterpark is names for it's tropical theme and hosting the largest wave pool in North America.
What is Disney's Typhoon Lagoon?
This 1922 movie retells Dracula and is iconic for its use of prosthetics and for being the first feature film to use the word "vampire".
What is Nosferatu?
This 1862 act allowed US citizens to claim up to 160 acres of public land to motivate westward expansion.
What is the Homestead Act?