That Escalated Quickly
This social media platform started as a site to rate students’ attractiveness at Harvard.
What is Facebook
A law in Switzerland requires that this pet animal must always have a companion, because it gets lonely.
What is a guinea pig
This entrepreneur co-founded Microsoft alongside Bill Gates.
Who is Paul Allen
Many think this ancient wonder was built by slaves or even aliens, but evidence shows it was built by skilled workers.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza
This offshore drilling disaster in 1969 caused one of the largest oil spills in California, leading to new environmental regulations.
What is the Santa Barbara oil spill
A small protest over tea taxes in 1773 spiraled into this major global conflict.
What is the American Revolutionary War
In 1976, this country declared a war on emus… and lost.
What is Australia
This British royal quit their job in 2020, sparking global headlines.
Who is Prince Harry
Contrary to popular belief, this fluid is never blue; its blue appearance is due to light scattering in the skin.
What is blood
This explorer famously mistook manatees for mermaids during their voyages.
Who is Christopher Columbus
The 1914 assassination of this person triggered a war.
What is Archduke Franz Ferdinand
In 2019, Florida police warned residents not to flush meth down the toilet because it could create these dangerous animals.
What are “meth gators”
This CEO infamously died viewing the Titanic in 2023.
Stockton Rush
Contrary to myth, this jungle animal is not actually slow but can run up to 45 miles per hour.
What is the sloth
This country accidentally declared war on itself in 1939 during a confusing border incident known as the Battle of Karansebes.
What is Austria
This 2008 financial firm's collapse triggered a global economic crisis.
What is Lehman Brothers
In 1986, this country accidentally attacked itself in a naval training disaster, thinking their own ships were enemy targets.
What is the Soviet Union
This player holds the record for the longest professional tennis match, which lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes at Wimbledon 2010.
Who is John Isner
Despite what many think, this vitamin is produced by the human body when exposed to sunlight, not primarily obtained from food.
What is vitamin D
This company’s stock price famously dropped after a typo in a tweet led investors to believe they were bankrupt in 2013.
What is Apple
In 1904, a small kitchen fire in this city destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in just 30 hours.
What is Baltimore
In 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced for days without stopping, in an event now called this.
What is the Dancing Plague
This Greek philosopher taught Alexander the Great and founded his own school, the Lyceum, shaping Western philosophy.
Who is Aristotle
This phrase, often attributed to Marie Antoinette, is now believed to have been falsely ascribed to her and likely originated from earlier sources.
What is “Let them eat cake”
This spacecraft was lost because NASA engineers used metric units while others used imperial units, causing a navigation error.
What is the Mars Climate Orbiter