Accidental Inventions
This popular children's toy began as a household cleaning product. Combining water, flour and salt, children realized that this mixture was great for home crafts.
What is Play-Doh
The main God of Norse mythology.
Who is Odin
This yellow arcade-character is known for eating dots and ghosts.
Who is PacMan
This North American cryptid is often described as a large, hairy, ape-like being.
What is Bigfoot
This HBO series, based on a book series by George R.R. Martin, features the struggle for the Iron Throne in the land of Westeros.
What is Game of Thrones
In 1968, a 3M employee was developing an adhesive in airplane manufacturing. What was instead created is a weak, sticky sheet found in office drawers worldwide.
What are Post-It Notes
In Egyptian mythology, this God is depicted with the head of a jackal.
Who is Anubis
This Nintendo platformer features two Italian plumbers that love to stomp on Goombas.
What is "Super Mario"
This bipedal cryptid is said to roam the Himalayas, also inspiring the name for popular tumblers.
What is the Yeti
Based on a same-titled 1983 novel, this story follows the life of an orphaned chess prodigy.
What is The Queen's Gambit
A Scottish bacteriologist discovered a fungus that was later converted into a common medicine used to treat infections that you might find in a pharmacy today.
What is Penicillin
In Aztec mythology, this feathered serpent god is known as the creator.
Who is Quetzalcoatl
Regarded as one of the greatest video games of all time, what 1981 arcade game features the titular amphibian trying to cross a road without getting squashed by cars, and a river without getting eaten by predators?
What is Frogger
This legendary creature is said to inhabit a famous freshwater body in the Scottish Highlands.
Who is the Loch Ness Monster
Based on a novel by Margaret Atwood, depicts a dystopian future where women are subjugated in the Republic of Gilead.
What is The Handmaid's Tale
This explosive was the result of an accidental mixture of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
What is dynamite
The Japanese Sun Goddess.
Who is Amaterasu
Released in 1980, this Nintendo classic is widely accredited as one of the first platformers of all time, whilst also being Barrels of fun.
What is Donkey Kong
This humanoid creature is a cornerstone of West-Virginian folklore, inspiring a 2002 horror film focusing on a flying black cryptid.
What is the Mothman
This popular Netflix series is based on a memoir written about experiences in a women's prison.
What is Orange is the New Black
This medicine, often used to suppress pain, was first used as a leisurely substance at "laughing parties".
What is Anesthesia
The main instrument played by Apollo in Greek mythology.
What is the Lyre
The odd-one out. This orange ghoul chases PacMan like it's friends, but does not have a name that rhymes with the others.
Who is Clyde
This mysterious cryptid is said to roam Northern Canada. Featuring a wingspan of 70 feet, the reach of this bird has even inspired the name of a Nova Scotian lacrosse team.
What is the Thunderbird
This Netflix series is based on a fantasy novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski and stars Henry Cavill as a monster hunter named Geralt of Rivia.
What is The Witcher