Unique Places
It’s walls expose nearly 2 billion years of Earth’s history with ancient rock layers carved by the Colorado River in Arizona.
What is The Grand Canyon?
One of the most classic books starts with:
"The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day."
Day and play, as well as cat and hat, are:
What is a rhyme?
Thomas Edison, being a genius and afraid of the dark, invented this:
What is the light bulb?
If you rode a smaller version of this vehicle, you were in the special classes in school.
What is a bus?
Awful to step on, this simple toy that’s just a bunch of building blocks has its own theme park.
What is Lego’s?
The famous name for this place is at a highly classified US Air Force facility in Nevada located at Groom Lake. They host testing of several classified aircraft, among other top secrets.
What is Area 51?
A homonym, these two words mean a feudal horseman, and when it's dark outside.
What is knight and night?
In 1920, a cotton buyer named Earle Dickson had a wife named Josephine who was very clumsy. Medical attention wasn't cheap, even back in the day. So one day, Earle cut a small piece of gauze and placed it on another strip of gauze with adhesive. This paved the way for this invention.
What is a band-aid?
Famous slang used in Among Us to describe someone who's actions maybe aren't trustworthy. This slang is also used towards someone who just did something gay.
What is sus?
Elliot Handler, the inventor of this toy, is married to Barbara Roberts, the inventor of Barbie.
This toy is usually priced at $1 each and is fun to race them.
What is Hot Wheels?
On the edge of Lake Powel in the state of the Mormon's, this bridge is the largest natural bridge in the world at 290 feet tall and 270 feet across.
What is Rainbow Bridge National Monument?
A homophone of a letter in the alphabet, this five-letter word sounds the same if you remove its last 4 letters.
What is queue?
In 1905, an 11-year-old mixed a drink made with soda, powder, and water. He had a stirring stick in it and accidentally left it outside over night in the cold. This was the invention of this sweet treat.
What is a popsicle?
To find the circumference of a circle, you need to multiply 2*pie*blank?
What is radius?
Invented by a Hungarian Professor, it has 43 quintillion possible configurations and the world record for solving it is 3.05 seconds. This toy will have you thinking outside of the box.
What is a Rubik's Cube?
California’s largest lake, an accidental desert oasis formed in 1905. Today, the body of water is toxic.
A spoonerism is a verbal error in which a speaker accidentally transposes the initial sounds or letters of two or more words. So a spoonerism of the words "jelly beans" is
What is belly jeans?
Engineer Percy Spencer accidentally melted a candy bar while by a magnetron; which led to this invention in most houses today.
What is a microwave?
The name of this college course outline comes from a misreading of a word for a book’s title label.
What is a syllabus?
This toy was patented in the 1960s as a “liquid filled die agitator”. It can tell the future and it pulls inspiration from a billiards table.
What is the magic 8 ball?
The World’s largest indoor desert is at Henry Doorly Zoo in this city; Nebraska’s most populous. Peyton Manning loved saying this during games.
What is Omaha?
“No lemon, no melon”, “Was it a car or a cat I saw?”, and “Step on no pets” have something in common. What is the term for this?
What is a palindrome?
On his lunch hour, producer Bob Stewart saw an auction that inspired him to create this TV classic.
What is The Price is Right?
It’s the medical term for ringing in the ears.
What is tinnitus?
A stuffed toy launched in 2017, they have over 3,000 designs and can be a pocket-sized pal or a giant cuddle buddy. Teddy bears might go extinct to these.
What is a Squishmallow?