Science
Humans share about 60% of their DNA with this humble grocery store item.
What is a banana?
A perfect score in bowling is this number
What is 300?
This spice, once worth its weight in gold, is now found in most kitchen spice racks for under $5
What is black pepper?
What is Argentina?
If you fold a piece of paper in half 3 times, you get this many layers
What is 8?
This organ produces insulin, which regulates blood sugar levels in the human body.
What are the pancreas?
In tennis, winning a game without your opponent scoring a single point is called this.
What is a "love" game?
This cooking method, common in Chinese cuisine, involves cooking food in a small amount of oil over very high heat while stirring constantly
What is stir-frying?
The capital of Brazil
What is Brasilia?
This is the name for a number that equals the sum of its own divisors — 6 is the smallest example, since 1+2+3=6.
What is a perfect number?
This is the term for the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another, such as from air into water
What is refraction?
This country has won the most Rugby World Cup titles, with three championships as of 2023
This condiment was originally sold as medicine in the 1830s to treat digestive ailments.
What is Ketchup?
The capital of Denmark
What is Copenhagen
A palindrome number reads the same forwards and backwards — this is the smallest four-digit palindrome.
What is 1001?
This is the term for the minimum speed an object needs to escape a planet's gravitational pull without any further propulsion.
What is escape velocity?
In basketball, a player who commits this many fouls is disqualified from the game
What is 6?
This Italian cheese, made from buffalo or cow's milk, is so perishable it is traditionally eaten within 24 hours of being made
What is mozzarella?
The capital of Iceland
What is Reykjavik?
If a train travels at 60 mph and needs to cover 250 miles, it will arrive in this many hours and minutes.
What is 4 hours and 10 minutes?
This effect, named after an Austrian physicist, explains why an ambulance siren sounds higher-pitched as it approaches and lower as it drives away
What is the doppler effect?
This boxer was stripped of his heavyweight title in 1967 for refusing military induction into the Vietnam War
Who is Muhammed Ali?
This West African grain, often called a "superfood," was a staple of the Aztec and Inca empires and is technically a seed, not a grain
What is quinoa?
Nur-Sultan, recently renamed Astana, is the capital of this central Asian country
What is Kazakhastan?
A population of bacteria doubles every hour. Starting with 50 bacteria, after 6 hours you have this many.
What is 3200?