Badly Explained
Food Wars
Where'd That Come From?
It's Pikachu
200
A young girl with stockhome syndrome talks to furniture and marries her kidnapper
What is Beauty and the Beast?
200
In 1966, street vendor Ashok Vaidya created this iconic snack outside Mumbai's Dadar train station by stuffing a fried potato dumpling into a Portuguese-style bread roll, inventing the ultimate cheap, on-the-go fuel for the city's rushing textile mill workers.
What is Vada Pav?
200
Today it means a trusted guide, but originally it was the name of the Greek man whose identity the goddess Athena stole to babysit Odysseus's son.
Who is Mentor?
200
n 2001, the small Pacific island nation of Niue decided to boost its economy by officially minting legal, government-issued $1 coins featuring the face of this specific, yellow video game character?
It's Pikachu!
400
Corporate middle management is so soul-crushing that a group of office workers needs literal brain damage just to survive a 9-to-5 shift.
What is Severance?
400
A thin bread from the northern part of
India and Pakistan and a traditional element in
Mughlai cuisine. During the Mughal period, it was used to wipe off the excess oil off
the hands after the completion of an oil rich
food laden with meat and fat.
What is Rumali Roti?
400
While most people assume this internet term for an online troublemaker comes from monsters of Scandinavian mythology, it actually originated in the 1980s from a fishing technique where you drag a baited line behind a moving boat just to see what bites.
What is Troll / Trolling?
400
WHO'S THAT POKEMON?
600
Adorable trash can and flower pot fight industrialization.
What is Wall-E?
600
According to culinary legend, Italian baristas in World War II invented this specific drink and its slightly insulting name, because stationed American Soldiers couldn't handle the intensity of traditional espresso and demanded it be watered down to mimic cheap diner coffee.
What is an Americano?
600
The title of this highly predatory mobile gaming monetization mechanic isn't a technical term, it is actually just a Japanese onomatopoeia, meant to mimic the mechanical "crank" and "drop" sounds of a plastic capsule toy machine.
What is Gacha / Gachapon?
600
Three newly discovered Australian beetles were named after a Legendary Pokemon trio, due to their rarity and one researcher's love for gen 1 Pokemon games.
What are Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres?
800
Two completely unsupervised children trespass in the local woods and repeatedly hang out with a giant rabbit and a multi-legged public transit vehicle.
What is My Neighbor Totoro ?
800
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
CONNECT
- Pizza
- Lobster
- Caviar
- Nalli Nihari
- Oysters
- Oxtail
- Truffles
What is Peasant Food that became Gourmet?
800
Before it was used in statistics, this word originally referred to the financial loss caused by a damaged merchant ship at sea, which was then divided equally among all the cargo's investors to soften the blow.
What is an Average?
800
This Pokemon stopped appearing in the trading card games due to a lawsuit filed by magician Uri Geller in the early 2000s. Geller claimed that Nintendo based this Pokemon on him because he also has a spoon-bending act and its Japanese name Yungeller sounds similar to his own.
What is Kadabra?
1000
Narcissistic scientist and his two colleagues start a business capitalizing on other people’s delusional hallucinations.
What is Ghostbusters?
1000
This chaotic, pizza-destroying mascot in a red rabbit suit was permanently retired by this pizza chain in 1989 after an armed man, Kenneth Lamar Noid, fully believing the ad campaign was a personal attack against him, held an entire restaurant hostage at gun point.
What is Domino's ?
1000
Early bulletin board system (BBS) hackers developed "leetspeak" by deliberately swapping phonetic characters for digits; the root word "leet" is simply an arrogant truncation of this French-derived word for a privileged ruling class.
What is Elite?
1000
Because its spot pattern is calculated by a 32-bit personality value in the game's code, this produces a dizzyingly high number of (4,294,967,296 exactly) distinct visual variations of this pokemon.
Who is Spinda?
