Board Games
While it is significantly less morbid now, this lively game originally included spaces for suicide, poverty, prison and disgrace.
What is the Game of Life?
This is the answer to the question of how the ocean says hello. Hint: it doesn't have any hands.
What is "it waves"?
Light, noise and air are all types of this problem that the planet faces regularly.
What is pollution?
Thanksgiving came early! This term is another word for the leg of a chicken or a turkey... at least once they're cooked.
What is a drumstick?
This revolutionary product invented in 2001 was the first of its kind to feature a clickwheel for controls and allowed users to download a whopping 1000 songs!
What is the Ipod?
Somewhat ironically, this tower-toppling game's name comes from the Swahili word for "build."
What is Jenga?
This is what you could call a parade of rabbits jumping backwards. Hint: It's found in a significant portion of middle-aged men.
What is a receding hare-line?
Presenting a serious problem, every year, Americans throw away 25 trillion cups made of this non-biodegradable material.
What is Styrofoam?
A more colloquial name for this membrane in the ear canal between the external ear and the middle ear, referred to scientifically as the tympanic membrane.
What is an ear drum?
The world would never be the same! In 1868 Stephen Martinelli introduced this, a fermented drink made from fruit on his brother's farm.
What is Apple Cider?
Despite being created in an attempt to show the evils of greed, this Parker Brothers game was banned in Cuba by Fidel Castro for being too in line with Capitalist sentiments.
What is Monopoly?
This is a creative name for a locomotive carrying bubblegum. Hint: it refers to a sound made by the horn.
What is a 'chew-chew' train?
Only 1% of the earth’s water is safe for human consumption. The oceans hold approximately 96.5% of the remaining water and the rest is found in these, generally found more towards the poles of the earth...
What are ice caps?
What is a paint drum?
The first recipe for one of these was printed over 630 years ago in England in 1381. The list of ingredients included good apples, good spices, figs, raisins, pears, saffron, and cofyn (a type of pastry crust).
What is an Apple Pie?
You may not have known it, but this medical game's red-nosed protagonist actually has a name: Cavity Sam.
What is Operation?
This variation on a brand name would be a cat's favorite type of nacho cheese chip. Hint: it has to do with a sound that cats make.
What is a Purrrito?
This type of biome covers less than 7 percent of Earth’s landmass but is home to about 50 percent of all living things on the planet.
What are tropical forests/rainforests?
This word is often used to refer to something that is monotonous, lacking excitement or variety.
What is humdrum?
Due to Steve Wozniak, an Apple engineer, having a tendency to repeat digits, the price of the Apple I was this unsavory three-digit number...
What is $666?
According to Hasbro, this dice game was invented by a wealthy Canadian couple who liked to play it on their Yacht, hence the name.
What is Yahtzee?
This is what you would call a fake italian chef. Hint: it refers to what he cooks and what he is.
What is an Im-pasta?
Each year, a single cow can release between 200 and 400 pounds of this through burps and farts, which some have argued is a significant reason for the deterioration of the earth's ozone layer.
What is methane gas?
Sciaenops ocellatus, also known as a redfish or channel bass is a game fish found in the Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to northern Mexico. It is most commonly known by this name, referring to its color.
What is a red drum?
The Mac, Apple's personal brand of computers, receives its name from this, also a type of apple.
What is a Machintosh?