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Bordered by both the U.S. and Canada, it’s the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area.
What is Lake Superior?
This teenage pharaoh restored Egypt’s old gods, died before turning 20, and became world-famous only after Howard Carter found his nearly untouched tomb in 1922.
Who is Tutankhamun (King Tut)?
Often mistaken for a type of billy that climbs cliffs, this sure-footed creature is actually an antelope.
Answer: What is a mountain goat?
This is the “blueprint” molecule that tells your cells how to build you.
Answer: What is DNA?
Founded in Vermont by two childhood friends, Ben & Jerry’s has created flavors from “Cherry Garcia” to “Half Baked.” As of 2023, approximately this many official flavors have been released.
Answer: What is 60?
This island nation is home to over 17,000 islands, but most people can only name Bali or Java.
What is Indonesia?
When he said, “Tear down this wall,” he wasn’t standing in front of the one in China.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
With the word “bear” in its name and a taste for bamboo, many think it’s a true bear — but this smaller species is closer to raccoons.
Answer: What is a red panda?
Although we call them “shooting stars,” these flashes of light are actually caused by tiny bits of rock burning in the atmosphere.
Answer: What is a meteor?
This country eats more ice cream per person than any other — averaging about 20 liters per year.
Answer: What is New Zealand?
At 4,345 miles long, this South American river is the world’s largest by volume — and home to pink dolphins.
What is the Amazon River?
In 1492, he sailed west for spices but came back with pineapples, parrots, and a very wrong map of the world.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Its armor-like shell and digging habits make some assume it’s related to turtles, but it’s a mammal with a very long tongue.
Answer: What is an armadillo?
This supercontinent began fragmenting in the Mesozoic, ultimately giving rise to today’s continental arrangement.
Answer: What is Pangea
The “31” in this brand’s logo promises a new flavor for every day of the month.
Answer: What is Baskin-Robbins?
It’s the only country in the world where you can ski in the Alps in the morning and swim in the Mediterranean in the afternoon.
What is France?
Of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, this is the only one still standing.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Its name suggests it’s a type of fish, but this air-breathing amphibian can survive out of water for months.
Answer: What is a lungfish?
Also known as quicksilver, this element is unique among metals for being liquid at standard temperature and pressure.
Answer: Mercury
This frozen dessert — technically not ice cream — is made with more milk than cream, giving it a lower fat content and a denser texture.
Answer: What is gelato?
It’s Africa’s most populous nation and the continent’s largest economy — and home to the film industry known as Nollywood.
What is Nigeria?
Three days after the first atomic bomb was dropped, this Japanese port city became the second — and so far last — place in history to experience a nuclear attack in war.
What is Nagasaki?
Its bulging eyes and folded “arms” make it look like an insect, but this ocean predator is a crustacean whose punch can shatter glass.
Answer: What is a mantis shrimp?
This group of elements would rather ghost you than bond with you — but in 1962, xenon surprised everyone by going steady with fluorine.
Answer: What are noble gases?
This tricolor dessert could save you from a flavor crisis and shares its name with people from an Italian city.
Answer: What is Neapolitan?