Nomenclature Culture
Japan is not JAPAN?! Japanese people call their nation this.
Nippon or Nihon
This chocolate brand's billionaire owner narrowly avoided dying on the Titanic because of last-minute business emergencies prevented him from boarding.
Milton Hershey
The most abundant gas on Earth
Nitrogen
This University of Miami alumni is a profession WWE wrestler turned Hollywood actor. What can I say except, "You're welcome"!
This privately owned company stopped all operations after a disaster occurred when sending the submarine Titan to explore the depths of the Titanic in 2023.
Oceangate
Chomolungma is the local name for this record breaking mountain.
Mount Everest
The origin of this candy- licorice root was used to soothe bad coughs and stomach problems. They were manufactured into long, hollow, flexible tubes so that consumers could use physically as an edible straw to sip fluids.
Twizzlers
This actor voiced Woody in Toy Story.
Everybody hates him. Especially Will Smith, who smacked this comedian on stage at the 94th Academy Awards.
Chris Rock
Turritopsis dohrnii.
This specific species of this animal is immortal. When facing starvation, physical damage, or old age, it does not die but rather goes through a process called transdifferentiation- its adult cells transform back into a younger, immature polyp stage.
Jellyfish
Born 100 years ago in Los Angles this actress was named this- before she skyrocketed into Hollywood stardom under the name Marilyn Monroe.
Norma Jean Mortenson
This popular chocolate bar was originally split into three pieces in its packaging each featuring a different flavor (vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry)
Three Musketeers
The capital city of Australia. Not Sydney.
Canberra
Easy! This actress is known for her roles as a falsely promiscuous high schooler, Spiderman's late crush, a survivor of a zombie apocalypse, and a romantic falling in love over jazz.
Emma Stone
The Danube River flows through four capital cities. Belgrade, Vienna, Budapest, and this Slovakian city.
Bratislava
This famous Danish building block toy brand got its name from an abbreviation of the translation of ther words "play well"
LEGO "leg godt"
The original name of candy corn, invented in the 1880s.
Chicken Feed
The first feature-length animated movie ever released.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
American singer-songwriter known for songs such as "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", and "Longfellow Serenade"
Neil Diamond
The deepest point of the ocean is found in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. If Mount Everest was paced at the bottom, there would still be over a mile of water covering the peak.
Challenger Deep
In Iceland, Juliet's last name would one of these two options
Jensdottir or Joalsdottir
In 1917, the Curtiss Candy Company didn't just rely on standard billboards to launch this candy bar. They dropped them from planes with small homemade parachutes! The stunt caused chaotic traffic jams and localized panic, leading cities to quickly ban commercial candy-dropping from the skies.
Babe Ruth bar
A group of flamingos.
A flamboyance
This actor is most known for his roles in Jurassic Park and The Fly is actually a talent jazz musician and performs regularly with his jazz band, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra.
Jeff Goldblum
By using steam shovels and dynamite over eight years, this city completely reversed the flow of their river in 1900 as a result of industrial waste and raw sewage entering Lake Michigan- the city's primary source of clean drinking water.
Chicago