Science & Metaphor
This part of the moon; turning evil.
What is the dark side?
This is the only mammal to lay eggs.
What is a platypus?
This 2007 film lost to No Country For Old Men.
This word means to mimic someone else's behavior.
What is a copycat?
This is the worlds largest free-standing mountain, and also Africa's largest.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
This movement of planets; also to overshadow your peers.
What is eclipse?
This creature can survive in space, -40 degrees celcius, boiling water and intense radioactivity.
What is a tardigrade?
This 1998 film lost to Shakespeare in Love.
What is Saving Private Ryan?
This word is a medieval-era weapon.
What is a catapult?
This is the deepest and largest, by volume, freshwater lake in the world; home to the world's only freshwater seals.
What is Lake Baikal?
This geographical boundary; to push the blame to someone else.
What is a fault?
This creature can create momentary heat as hot as the surface of the sun.
What is a mantis shrimp?
This 1994 film lost to Forrest Gump.
What is The Shawshank Redemption?
In a catholic church, this is the official seat of a bishop.
What is a cathedral?
This beautiful desert structure is also known as Ayers Rock.
What is Uluru?
This celestial occurrence; to signal aid.
What is a flare?
This ancient group of animals actually predate trees.
What are sharks?
This 2001 film lost to A Beautiful Mind.
What is The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring?
This word describes a disaster, measured using the Saffir-Simpson scale.
What is a catastrophe?
This waterfall, located between Zambia and Zimbabwe, is known locally as "The Smoke That Thunders".
What is Victoria Falls?
This time of day; the end of mankind.
What is twilight.
This polarizing descriptor is also the name of a group of flamingos.
What is a flamboyance?
This film lost to How Green Was My Valley.
What is Citizen Kane?
This slightly invasive procedure involves replacing the lens of the eye with an artificial one.
What is cataract surgery?
This is the driest location on earth, receiving a yearly average of 2 mm of rainfall a year, and many locations here have not seen rain for over 500 years.
What is the Atacama Desert?