Outbreaks
Potpourri
Physics
Numbers
Monsters!
100

Originating in Guangdong, China in 2002, this respiratory disease went on to kill nearly 800 people worldwide.

SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)

100

On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to do what?

Walk on the moon.

100

The winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics is arguably the most famous physicist of all time. Ironically, he won not for his work on relativity, but his work on the photoelectric effect. Who was this genius?!

Albert Einstein

100

Continue this pattern : 144, 121, 100, 81, 64...

49

100

Slow-moving, brain-eating...

Zombies

200

Infecting nearly 500 million people between 1918 and 1920, about a quarter of the world's population at the time, this H1N1 virus was by far the worst pandemic of the 20th century.

Spanish Flu

200

It is the best-selling book series of all time.

Harry Potter

200

It has a speed of 186,282 miles per second.

Light

200

What is the first number that contains the letter 'A' in its name?

One Thousand

200

Bat-morphing, blood-drinking...

Vampires

300

Thought to have first made the jump from monkeys to people as early as the 1920's, this sexually transmitted disease was not fully understood until many decades later.

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)

Causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)

300

It is the continent with the fewest flowering plants.

Antarctica

300

A young Isaac Newton is said to have been hit on the head by which fruit, leading him to come up with the theory of gravity?

Apple

300

How many seconds have passed in 6 weeks?

3,628,800

300

See-through, house-haunting...

Ghost

400

Also called the 'Black Death', it killed off more than 60% of Europe during the 14th Century.

Bubonic Plague

400

During the political election of May 20th, 1991, this country saw a record 315 million voters.

India

400

One law of physics states that this can neither be created nor destroyed in an isolated system.

Energy

400

Everyone knows Google. What number does it represent?

10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

1 with one hundred zeros.

400

Fur-covered, moon-howling...

Werewolf

500

Now eradicated from the earth thanks to effective vaccines, this infectious disease was responsible for destroying more than 70% of the Native American population.

Smallpox

500

Out of all the planets in our solar system, it is the only one which is NOT named after a Roman god or goddess.

Earth

500

This kind of electricity is created by friction, such as when you rub two balloons together.

Static

500

A grandmother left half her money to her granddaughter and half that amount to her grandson. She left a sixth to her brother, and the remainder, $1,000, to the dogs’ home. How much did she leave altogether?

$12,000.

One half plus one quarter plus one-sixth equals eleven-twelfths. So, the remainder, $1,000, is one-twelfth of the whole, which must have been $12,000.

500

Ape-like, forest-dwelling, upward-walking...

Bigfoot