Spice Up Your Life
This herb's Latin name is mentha
What is mint?
These lines are the same distance apart and will never touch
What are parallel lines?
This famous Italian explorer thought he reached Asia but was actually on the shores of the Caribbean.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
These Egyptian structures served as monumental tombs for pharaohs and still tower over Giza.
What are the pyramids?
This system includes your heart and blood vessels and keeps oxygen moving through your body.
What is the circulatory system?
This spice, the dried fruit of a pepper plant, is a common pungent powder used to make spicy dishes.
What is black pepper?
The sum of the interior angles in any triangle will always equal this number.
What is 180 degrees?
For centuries, maps placed this African city much farther inland than it actually is, assuming it had to be near gold mines.
What is Timbuktu?
Built from over two million stones, this ancient structure in the Andes was so well-fitted that not even a knife blade can slide between its blocks
What is Machu Picchu?
This system controls voluntary movement and includes your skull, ribs, and femur.
What is the skeletal system?
This spice comes from the ground seeds of the Brassica juncea or Brassica nigra plants.
What is mustard?
An icosahedron is a polyhedron with 20 faces, each of which is one of these basic shapes.
Medieval European maps often put this city at the literal center of the world.
What is Jerusalem?
The Romans perfected this curved architectural feature that allowed them to build aqueducts and giant bridges.
What is an arch?
This system breaks down your food into nutrients your body can use.
This "berry" from a Central American evergreen gets its name because its flavor is a combination of cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
What is allspice?
Each unit in a popular brand of chips, introduced in 1968, is a hyperbolic paraboloid, a type of three-dimensional curve.
What are pringles?
Before accurate longitude existed, this ocean between the Americas and Asia often looked comically small on maps.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This massive Mesoamerican pyramid in modern-day Mexico is dedicated to the feathered serpent deity.
What is the Temple of the Feathered Serpent?
This system sends electrical signals through neurons to help you think, move, and react.
What is the nervous system?
The spice known as the world's most expensive by weight is made from the dried stigmas of the Crocus sativus flower.
What is saffron?
When a transversal line cuts through two parallel lines, these angles, found on opposite sides of the transversal and between the parallel lines, are congruent.
What are alternate interior angles?
Many 16th-century maps showed California as this—not a peninsula.
What is an island?
The Tower of Babel is believed to be one of these.
What is a ziggurat?
Hormones like adrenaline and insulin belong to this regulatory system.
What is the endocrine system?