Human Body
Creepy Cuties
Ocean Oddities
Spooky Lakes
The Science of Monsters
100
This acid is one of the 7 strong acids, but it is also found in your stomach to dissolve food. The chemical name for stomach acid is...
What is Hydrochloric Acid (HCl)?
100
House centipedes are gross, and they have extremely long legs, but their back legs are extra long and flexible. With these long back legs they do something called "lassoing". Is this technique for mating, murdering or misleading?
MURDER. These legs rope around prey to catch them. Sometimes they keep prey in these legs as a snack for later.
100
The female of this species is extremely scary with its bioluminescent lure, dangling like a glowing fishing rod from its head, attracting unsuspecting prey right into its gaping jaws.
What is the angler fish?
100
Known for its "Witches of November" and the infamous wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, this great lake is known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes"
What is Lake Superior?
100
Some reports state that the legend of mermaids came from this sea animal also sometimes called a sea cow.
What is a manatee?
200
Of the 5 senses, this one is closely linked to memory recall
What is smell? Certain smells trigger strong emotional responses linked to memory.
200
This animal is known for being prickly and rolling into a ball. Occasionally when they are dropped or bonked, they can inflate like a balloon. This animal is a...
What is a hedgehog? 
200
Considered one of the deadliest animals in the ocean, this animal is extremely venomous. Its tentacles can cause cardiac arrest, paralysis, or death within minutes of contact
What is the box jellyfish?
200
The well-known haunted lake in Georgia known for a history of tragic drownings and the flooding of a predominantly Black community named Oscarville.
What is Lake Lanier?
200
Some research suggests that both werewolves and vampires are linked to this animal-borne disease that is incurable once symptoms arise.
What is rabies?
300
Babies are born without this bone.
What are patellas (kneecaps)?
300
These amphibians have a perpetually smiling face, frilly gills, and a unique ability to regenerate lost limbs.
What is an axolotl?
300
This is what it is called when a whale dies and sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
What is a Whale Fall?
300
Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake in the world is located here.
What is Siberia, Russia?
300
The zombie legend can be traced back to this Caribbean country that supposedly had "zombie masters" and "witch doctors".
What is Haiti?
400
Babies are born with significantly more bones than adult humans. The number of bones is...
What is 275-300? Many of a baby's bones fuse back together and by adulthood we have 206.
400
The tarsier, a cute but creepy primate found in South Asian forests has pancake like eyes that can't move. In order to see they must move their head, the amount of degrees that a tarsier can rotate it's head is...
What is 180°?
400
These creatures, closely related to roly polys, are known to eat the tongue of fish and replace it becoming parasitic. This organism is called...
What is an isopod or tongue eating louse?
400
Blood Falls, a waterfall in Antarctica looks bloody but the red color is actually a result of an abundance of this element.
What is iron?
400
The vampire legend of distended stomachs and blood filled mouths is due to this real life phenomena.
What is "post-mortem bloat"?
500
In the average body, bacteria and other microorganisms outnumber your regular cells by a significant number. The ratio of bacteria cells to human cells is this. (ex. 3:1)
What is 10:1. There are 10x as many bacteria cells in the body as human cells. Bacterial cells make up 3% of human body mass.
500
Velvet worms are invertebrates with many feet and a soft wiggly body that shoot protein rich slime of glands on the side of their heads. They can shoot the slime at this staggering rate. (Answer in mph)
What is 19.2 mph?
500
Commonly referred to as a "snot flower" this organism is really...
What is a "bone eating worm"?
500
Lake Nyos, a lake in Cameroon killed 1,700 people when it burped up this gas.
What is CO2?
500
Many link the vampire legend to Elizabeth Barothy, a countess who had this terrifying nickname.
Can't name her? Where is she from?
What is "The Blood Countess"?
Where is Hungary?