Historic Heights
This highest known point in our solar system can be found on the Red Planet, is 374 miles wide, and 72,000 feet tall. That's over twice as tall as Mount Everest!
What is Olympus Mons?
This vehicle, Trieste, which was piloted by Lt. Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Picard in 1960, was the first underwater craft to successfully reach the bottom of this lowest point in Earth's oceans.
What is the Mariana Trench/Challenger Deep?
This catchy tune encourages people struggling not to give up, promising that "everything, everything will be just fine" if you give it time. Song and band, please!
What is "In the Middle" by Jimmy Eat World?
Surprise! A math question. What kind of triangle has two equal sides?
What is an isosceles triangle?
What kind of three-dimensional object has six sides all equal in length and width?
What is a cube?
Most of us learned as kids that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. Fewer of us retained the name of the first known human being to have summited it!
Who is Edmund Hillary?
Who knew the Red Planet was also home to the solar system's lowest point? This impact basin sinks to a staggering (26,900 feet below the Martian reference level.
What is Hellas Planitia?
If someone asks how you're doing and you answer like this, it means you're doing reasonably well, but with room for improvement.
What is fair to middling?
This painful-sounding phrase is used when something is a source of irritation and/or frustration.
What is "a thorn in my side?"
We are said to interact with this many dimensions, but String Theory states there could be as many as 10 or 11 total!
What is four?
Got a fear of heights? Be glad you don't have to take this bridge on the border between Guizhou and Yunnan provinces in southwestern China on your commute home - it rests over 1,850 feet above the Beipan river!
What is the Duge/Beipanjiang Bridge?
This hole is the deepest man-made borehole ever drilled, and would have gone farther had temperatures not spiked significantly higher than predicted once operators reached 40,230 feet down.
What is the Kola Superdeep Borehole?
This point, thought to be what exists at the center of a black hole, is surrounded by a gravitational field so strong not even light can escape it! Makes it really difficult to get a good idea of what it looks like in this place where the laws of physics break down.
What is the point of singularity?
Any person, place, thing or idea that has been neglected and forgotten could be said to have fallen here.
What is "by the wayside?"
Those who play Dungeons and Dragons will recognize this as one of the most useful spells out there, especially when you want to get yourself and a teammate out of a tough situation!
What is Dimension Door?
While one might expect a city in Nepal to take home the crown of "highest altitude city on Earth," it actually belongs to this mining town in Peru. Its elevation stands at a proud 16,732 feet!
What is La Rinconada?
This Palestinian city sits lower in altitude than any other in the world at 846 feet below sea level. Pretty famous biblical battle is said to have taken place there, too!
What is Jericho?
Someone experiencing this will typically be in their forties to sixties and is the result of someone reevaluating their life and decisions. Some will manifest this with doubt and regret, others with a desire to buy a sports car!
What is a mid-life crisis?
Clairvoyants, mediums, and other self-proclaimed psychics claim to receive messages from this place.
What is "the other side?"
Will Byers from Stranger Things could never have anticipated the horrors he'd encounter when he slipped into this dimension on accident.
What is the Upside-Down?
Whether you think Quipu is the largest structure in the observable universe or you're holding out hope for confirmation of the existence of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, you can agree that these kinds of cosmic structures change our idea of "big" forever. Even the smaller of the two mentioned in this clue is estimated to contain the mass of 200 quadrillion suns!
What are galaxy filaments?
This sea, technically a hypersaline salt lake, sits on the southern part of the border between Israel and Jordan and is a very popular tourist destination. The salts and mud from this lake are marketed both for beauty and wellness, and it is the lowest altitude place in the world at land level!
What is the Dead Sea?
This note is usually towards the center of a piano and is the first "do" in a scales warm-up.
What is middle C?
Someone who is grouchy upon waking could be said to have done this!
What is "wake up on the wrong side of the bed?"
This CreepyPasta maintains that there are instances in which people blip out of this reality and into one that looks like an endless amount of empty offices... sometimes containing something that you only ever glimpse out of the corner of your eye. The internet has dubbed these spaces ___ _________.
What are "the backrooms?"