Not What It Sounds Like
Despite the name, this "island" in New York isn't surrounded by water—it's actually a borough.
Answer: What is Coney Island?
This black-and-white bear is native to China and eats mostly bamboo.
Answer: What is a panda?
This organ pumps blood through the circulatory system.
Answer: What is the heart?
This color is made by mixing red and blue.
What is purple?
He’s credited with inventing the light bulb, though others had similar ideas first.
Answer: Who is Thomas Edison?
It sounds like a fancy French dessert, but this "soufflé" is actually a geological formation in Utah.
Answer: What is the Chocolate Lava Flow? or What is Goblin Valley?
Answer: What is the Chocolate Lava Flow? or What is Goblin Valley?
The fastest land animal, this big cat can reach speeds up to 70 miles per hour.
Answer: What is a cheetah?
Often abbreviated as “CPR,” this life-saving technique stands for this.
Answer: What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
In Morse code, this letter is represented by a single dot.
What is E?
In 1876, this Scottish-born inventor received a patent for the telephone.
Answer: Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This “killer whale” is actually the largest member of the dolphin family.
Answer: What is an orca?
These mammals are the only ones naturally capable of true flight.
Answer: What are bats?
Insulin regulates the amount of this substance in the blood.
Answer: What is glucose (or sugar)?
This U.S. holiday always falls on the fourth Thursday in November.
What is Thanksgiving?
This invention by the Wright brothers took flight for the first time in 1903.
Answer: What is the airplane?
It sounds like a musical instrument, but this "organ" is actually a vital part of your body.
What is the pancreas? (or What is the liver?)
This sea creature, named for a Greek mythical monster, can have up to 2,500 venomous stinging cells per tentacle.
Answer: What is a jellyfish?
This common condition, also called hypertension, is known as the “silent killer” because it often has no symptoms.
Answer: What is high blood pressure?
This is the only number spelled out in English that has its letters in alphabetical order.
What is forty?
This Swedish inventor created dynamite and later established the prizes named in his honor.
Answer: Who is Alfred Nobel?
his “Panama hat” is famously worn in South America, but it actually originated in this country.
Answer: What is Ecuador?
Found in Madagascar, this primate uses a long middle finger to tap on wood and find insects inside.
Answer: What is an aye-aye?
This Latin-named bone is also known as the breastbone.
Answer: What is the sternum?
This famous clock tower is located in London.
What is Big Ben?
Often misattributed to Thomas Jefferson, this machine that revolutionized cotton processing was actually invented by Eli Whitney.
Answer: What is the cotton gin?