Why Would You Purchase That?
In 2024, a buyer paid about $6.2 million for a piece of conceptual art consisting of this everyday fruit duct-taped to a wall.
What is a banana?
In medieval Europe, animals could occasionally be put on trial for crimes. This animal was famously associated with trials for causing damage or mischief.
What is a pig?
This organ uses roughly 20% of the body's energy despite making up only about 2% of its mass.
What is the brain?
On August 21, 1959, President Eisenhower officially admitted this place as the 50th U.S. state.
What is Hawaii?
Dolly famously sang about this “coat” that her mother made for her from scraps of fabric.
What is a coat of many colors?
This completely functional object made from 18-karat gold was installed at the Guggenheim Museum and was actually available for visitors.
What is a toilet?
In 1814, London experienced an extremely bizarre disaster when this sweet substance flooded the streets after a vat burst.
What is beer?
Contrary to the cartoon version, bananas are technically classified as this type of fruit.
What is a berry?
On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the crucial 36th state to ratify this amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This Dolly Parton hit was later famously recorded by Whitney Houston for The Bodyguard soundtrack.
What is “I Will Always Love You”?
In 2007, this actor paid $276,000 at auction for the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar. Years later, he had to surrender it after authorities determined it had been illegally imported.
Who is Nicolas Cage?
In 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg reportedly began uncontrollably doing this, with some continuing for days.
What is dancing?
A 1954 meteorite fall in Alabama made Ann Hodges famous after a piece of extraterrestrial rock crashed through her home's roof, bounced off a radio and struck her while she was lying on a sofa. What was the meteorite eventually known as?
What is the Hodges meteorite?
On August 21, 1911, the theft of this famous painting from the Louvre shocked the world and helped make the artwork even more famous.
What is the Mona Lisa?
Dolly Parton founded this literacy programme in 1995, which has distributed hundreds of millions of free books to children.
What is Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library?
At auction, someone paid $25,000 for this personal item belonging to Abraham Lincoln.
What is a lock of his hair?
In 1527, a mob threw members of this country's government out of a window in Prague, an event that helped trigger the Thirty Years' War.
What is Bohemia?
Venus has a 243-Earth-day rotation period but only a 225-Earth-day orbital period. Because it rotates slowly and backward, approximately how long does sunrise-to-sunset take on Venus?
What is about 117 Earth days?
On August 20, 1977, NASA launched this spacecraft, which would eventually travel farther from Earth than any other human-made object.
What is Voyager 2?
Dolly wrote and recorded both “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” during the same particularly productive period of her career. What decade were both songs originally released?
What is the 1970s?
In 2024, billionaire Ken Griffin reportedly spent $44.6 million on this dinosaur fossil, making it the most expensive fossil ever sold at auction.
What is a Stegosaurus?
In 1807, the British military launched this bizarre campaign against a flightless bird in Australia. Despite having machine guns, the military ultimately failed to solve the problem.
What is the Great Emu War?
This microscopic animal can survive extreme dehydration and has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to withstand radiation and other extreme conditions.
What is a tardigrade?
On August 27, 1883, one of history's most powerful volcanic eruptions occurred when this Indonesian volcano catastrophically exploded, producing sounds reportedly heard thousands of miles away.
What is Krakatoa?
Dolly Parton's first full-length solo studio album, released in 1967, had this title.
What is Hello, I'm Dolly?