The name of this Australian performing arts center, which is adorned with precisely 1,056,006 self-cleaning white tiles specially made by Swedish company Höganäs AB
What is the Sydney Opera House?
Professor of Chemistry Ben L. Feringa shrunk this well known machine down to the scale of a single complex molecule; fun fact, his model operates at precisely 7 K (-447 F)
What is a (nano)car?
Penguins are only found in Antarctica
What is False? (Australia, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.)
The average amount of popcorn that Americans collectively eat per year, in gallons
What is 4.25 billion?
Name of this time-tested but still remarkably secure deadlock variant, often installed on wooden doors
What is a five-lever mortice?
Although raindrops are commonly associated with the "teardrop" shape, droplets of rain are typically spherical, and larger drops tend to moreso resemble this classic American menu staple
What is a hamburger/cheeseburger/Big Mac™/Whopper™?
Authorities in this state, back in 2007, started adding to city stop signs to... "encourage drivers to obey the signs." Some other examples are "In the name of love," "FREEZE!" and "Whoaaa"
What is Illinois?
Many people fear long extinct creatures such as the dinosaurs and the megalodon for their massive size, but this well known marine mammal is actually the largest animal ever known to have existed
What is a blue whale?
The original meaning of the word "L.A.S.E.R," an acronym referring to small devices that leverage electromagnetic radiation, producing highly concentrated beams of light
What is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation?
Minecraft "Creepers" are named after the first computer virus
True
The brand of bubblegum that Chad Fell used to blow his world-record winning bubble on 4/24/2004, with a staggering 20 inch diameter
What is Dubble Bubble?
Master Lock's best selling product, the portable personal safe, contains this type of lock; it can be decoded with one thin strip of sturdy material
What is a sesame lock?
In a prison, you'd never want to drop this; records of it go to the Sumerians as far back as 3000 BC
What is soap?
The rainy country where this sign originates, denoting that you are on the Wild Atlantic Way, a 1,550 mile coastal walking path
What is Ireland?
This pseudo-horned animal is the tallest animal on Earth standing at up to 19 feet tall; step aside Barbie, almost one third of that height is composed entirely of neck!
What is a (Masai) giraffe?
Popular brand SanDisk managed to squeeze this much data onto a MicroSD card, for a similar price to normal scale SSDs of the same size!
What is 1.5 terabytes?
The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776
The state whose senator initiated a movement to get popcorn banned from movie theaters, because eating it was too noisy. He said it was "necessary in the interest of public welfare"
What is Oregon?
This varied crustacean either stabs or smashes, but all forms have one thing in common; their explosive pull-lock-snap punching mechanism
What are mantis shrimp?
A 2004 hit classic song by Snoop Dogg, which ranked #51 on the October 2nd Billboard Hot 100 that year, as the highest ranking debut
What is "Drop It Like It's Hot"?
Meaning of this brown United Kingdom road sign with crossed swords
What is a historical battlefield?
The official name of CERN's massive particle accelerator, which sits 574 feet below the France-Switzerland border boasting an impressive circumference of 17 miles (27 km)
What is the Large Hadron Collider?
This Google project, intended to explore and develop in the realm of touchless gesture controls, had its capacity once used to play "the world's smallest violin"
What is Project Soli?
One gigabyte is equal to 1000 megabytes
What is False? (1024 megabytes)
The 1988 world record champagne cork pop distance
What is ~174 feet?
Name for the locking shell that covers a beetle's wings, also an equipment that allows you to fly in Minecraft
What is an elytra?
The terminal velocity in miles/hour of a penny, perhaps particularly one dropped from the Empire State Building
What is 65 MPH?
The intended meaning of this uniquely interesting German sign
What is a dead end?
The Three Gorges Dam spanning the Yangtze River in China is more than just a gravity dam; both the Three Gorges Dam and the South American Itaipu Dam serve as this kind of community infrastructure
What is a hydroelectric power station?
This Japanese corporation, the largest IT services provider in Japan by revenue, developed the world's smallest independent sensor. It doesn't even require batteries!
What is Fujitsu?
Humans have the same amount of neck vertebrae as giraffes
What is True?
A fascinating plant whose seed pods eerily resemble human skulls; they can "pop" open to release their seeds
What are snapdragons?
This endearingly dangerous sea-bug that latch-locks and releases its claw to shoot "water bullets" to hunt and defend itself
What is a bullet/pistol/snapping shrimp?
According to Times Square's official website, the New Year ball drop is a tradition that took hold to replace this older, somewhat opposite American New Year's tradition which was banned (but we still do it for the 4th)
What is/are (a) firework(s)?
The country of origin for this road sign, which indicates a two-way road where overtaking and passing are not allowed
What is Russia?