Food
This French term refers to the base for all types of sauces. It is made with flour and fat.
What is a roux?
This was the first big, commercially successful video game.
What is Pong?
Only 18% of Americans know how to do this.
What is driving a manual transmission?
This is the most common element in the human body.
What is oxygen?
This common and effective pain killer, known since antiquity, was originally distilled from the bark of willow trees.
What is aspirin?
This house in the British parliament, the equivalent of Canada's Senate, is partially made up of members who are born to the job.
What is the House of Lords?
This Canadian meat pie dish, originating from the province of Quebec, is often made with minced pork, veal, beef, and potatoes.
What is Tourtiere?
This company, one of the world's largest makers of video games, was founded in 1889.
What is Nintendo?
This company is the largest maker of automobiles in the world by number of units produced.
What is Toyota?
The process of metal rusting when exposed to the element oxygen is called this.
What is oxidation?
This process involves applying high heat to a wound to stop blood flow.
What is cauterization?
This city, the capital of Austria, is named for the river that it sits upon.
What is Vienna?
Ginger beef, a favourite in Chinese food, originated in what city?
Calgary, Alberta
Studies have shown that playing video games may reduce the prevalence of this type of disease by up to 28%.
What is age-related dementia?
1902 saw the first issuance of one of these in history.
What is a speeding ticket?
The Hindenburg explosion, when a large zeppelin caught fire and exploded, was caused when the blimp was filled with this lighter-than-air element.
What is hydrogen?
Eating this part of a polar bear will cause hypervitaminosis A, or a dangerously high level of vitamin A.
What is the liver?
This library, once the greatest in the world, was accidentally burned and destroyed by Roman soldier during Julius Caesar's conquest of Egypt.
What was the Library of Alexandria?
This is the technical term for a bunch of bananas.
What is a hand?
This game is the best-selling video game of all time, with over $180 million in sales.
What is Minecraft?
This company is the largest tire manufacturer in the world by number of tires made.
What is Lego?
This is the mass noun for a group of owls.
What is a parliament?
This process involves removing salt from seawater to make it drinkable.
What is desalination?
The name of this document, which laid out the rights of common people in England, is Latin for "the Great Charter."
What is the Magna Carta?
This processed food uses 25% of the world's production of hazelnuts.
What is Nutella?
Playing video games for at least three hours per week made individuals make 37% fewer errors and perform 27% faster in what profession?
What is surgery?
The automobile (a car) was invented by this man.
Who was Carl Benz?
This cloud of asteroids is often cited as the outer limit of the Solar system.
What is the Oort cloud? (or the Opik-Oort cloud)?
This illness, caused by changing pressure too quickly (such as surfacing too quickly after deep-sea diving) causes terrible pain in the bodies joints. It is named after what people often do when they are suffering from it.
What is the Bends?
This piece of land, now long underwater, once connected North America to Asia, and likely allowed for the human colonisation of North and South America.
What was the Bearing Land Bridge (or Beringia)?