Mario
Mario's evil and greedy counterpart who stars in several of his own games goes by this name.
Who is Wario?
This date is when America first celebrated its independence from Britain.
What is July 4, 1777?
The media company Sony launched this video game console in 1994 to take dominance of the video game market from Nintendo and Sega.
What is the Playstation?
This fruity expression means that the characteristics of a person are very similar to the people that they live with or are around often.
What is "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree"?
This term is known as the answer to an addition problem.
What is the sum?
Daily Double!
Although the first game to feature both Mario brothers was the 1983 arcade game "Mario Bros.", their first home console release wasn't until this year.
What is 1985?
This program created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, helped boost the American economy after the infamous stalk market crash that led America into the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Microsoft's plans for the next generation of Xbox, set to release in 2020, is codenamed as this project.
What is Project Scarlet?
This phrase means not to take risks so you don't suffer big consequences.
What is "Better safe than sorry"?
This is a branch of mathematics that deals with the shapes, sizes, and relative positions of figures.
What is Geometry?
Following the success of "Super Mario Bros.", Nintendo made a follow up game that was deemed too difficult for American gamers. Because of this Nintendo rebranded this Japanese game as the quirky sequel to "Super Mario Bros." for America.
What is "Doki Doki Panic"?
This colony was the proposed 14th colony that would've covered most of present day West Virginia.
What is Vandalia?
In 1988, Sega's answer to Nintendo's popular N.E.S. video game system was the Sega Genesis which was launched with an ad campaign that featured this slogan on television commercials.
What is "Genesis does what Nintendon't"?
This phrase isn't referring to birds and their eggs, it means to not proclaim your victory until the game won, is commonly used when a player in a game is being cocky about winning.
What is "don't count your chickens before they hatch"?
This term is a relation that makes a non-equal comparison between two mathematical expressions.
What is an inequality?
Mario's first adventure in the 1981 arcade game "Donkey Kong" saw him leaping over barrels and climbing ladders to reach his damsel distress, Pauline. However, in this game Mario was known by this name.
What is Jumpman?
December 7th, 1941 is a day that would live down in infamy for an attack on this American naval base.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Nintendo's first home video game console was known in America as the N.E.S., an acronym which stands for this.
What is the Nintendo Entertainment System?
Daily Double!
This phrase means that you can't criticize a person based off of your first impressions of him.
What is "you can't judge a book by its cover"?
The formula a^2 plus b^2 equals c^2 is commonly known as this.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
The "Mario Party" series of spin-off games have been going strong since 1998. Although fans argue about the quality of some of these games, they all realize that there are this many of them.
What is 16?
This state was the first to be admitted to the Union.
What is Delaware?
This futuristic video game console produced by Nintendo was a virtual reality headset that was 20 years ahead of its time. The console was criticized for causing severe headaches and eyestrain which resulted in the console being pulled from store shelves after being on the market for barely a year.
What is the Virtual Boy?
This phrase means that other people's life situations are always better than your own.
What is "the grass is always greener on the other side"?
This term is the part of mathematics in which letters and other symbols are used to represent numbers and quantities in formulas and equations.
What is algebra?