Zoological Oddities
This body part of many lizards and salamanders can be regrown if eaten or dropped intentionally by the animal.
What is the tail?
This language family is home to latin-derivative languages such as Spanish, French, and Romanian.
What are Romance languages?
Who were the Greek Gods?
Who was Genghis Khan?
What is a Napoleon Complex?
This shark named after an arctic island is known for being the vertebrate with the longest recorded lifespan, reaching sexual maturity at 150 and living around 400 years.
What is the Greenland Shark?
This type of language variant is created when two languages simplify and mix in the same community over a short period of time.
What is Creole language?
The English translation of the phrase "Deus Ex Machina."
What is "God out of the Machine?"
What is London?
This story of an aging fisherman was the last major work of fiction written by Ernest Hemingway.
What is The Old Man and the Sea?
This animal that resembles a pika or a marmot is actually most closely related to elephants and manatees.
What are Hyraxes?
This linguistic concept is an often informal word or neologism formed by combining two different words, often cutting parts off of each.
What is a Portmanteau?
DAILY DOUBLE!
What is the Arc of the Covenant?
Variation of the title "Khan" were used by many of the rulers of this Muslim Indian Empire.
What was the Mughal Empire?
This main character of To Kill a Mockingbird is considered a moral hero to many and an inspiration to lawyers.
Who is Atticus Finch?
This Indonesian swine's males have large canines that never cease to grow, grow out of the snout, and curve back, resulting in older animals piercing their own skulls with their own teeth.
What is the Babirusa?
This 1871 poem by Lewis Carrol describing a fantastical hunt is one of the first popular "nonsense poems."
What is the Jabberwocky?
In this 1897 novel, the aliens who invade Earth are killed by mundane bacteria just as they are about to destroy humanity.
What is The War of the Worlds?
Kitbuga, the Mongol conqueror who was killed at the battle of Ain Jalut was a follower of this Christian denomination that was popular in Mongolia at the time.
What is Nestorianism/Church of the East?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine was one of the key pieces of literature that led to the topic of independence becoming a seriously considered cause.
What is Common Sense?
The Cuban Crocodile is often considered an evolutionary anachronism, due to it's dormant pack-hunting instincts, suggesting it hunted these large, extinct animals.
What were Ground Sloths?
This word describes a language that has been reported to exist when it in fact, never has. This occurs surprisingly often with legitimately hundreds of entirely false languages removed from databases.
What is a Spurious Language?
This Greek philosopher was the first to call the trend of the Deus Ex Machina out as a plot device.
Who was Aristotle?
This body was a council of military and political elites who would assemble to elect a Khan and to perform governmental functions in the Mongol Empire.
What was the Kurultai?
The 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath concerns the masses of people emigrating from this U.S. state in search of a future.
What is Oklahoma?