Video Games
Originally released as “Puck Man,” this arcade game received a name change before its North American release.
Pac-Man
Thanks to its overseas territories, this European country holds the record for the most time zones.
France
An octopus has this many hearts: two serving its gills and one serving the rest of its body.
Three
Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel about a shark terrorizing a seaside community became this blockbuster.
Jaws
These Australian marsupials produce unusually cube-shaped droppings.
Wombats
This Soviet software engineer created Tetris.
Alexey Pajitnov
Completely surrounded by South Africa, this kingdom is an independent country—not a South African province.
Kingdom of Lesotho
This metal, rather than iron, helps give octopus blood its blue color.
Copper
William Steig’s 1990 picture book became this animated movie featuring Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy.
Shrek
Botanically speaking, bananas belong to this fruit category, but strawberries do not.
Berries
The name “Tetris” combines the Greek word for four with this sport.
Tennis
This Pacific island nation has no official capital, though Yaren serves as its de facto capital district.
Nauru
About two-thirds of a common octopus’s neurons are located in these eight appendages.
Arms
Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel became this Alfred Hitchcock film starring Anthony Perkins.
Psycho
This landmark can become taller during warm weather because its iron expands.
Eiffel Tower
This company developed and published the original Pac-Man arcade game.
Namco (or Bandi-Namco)
Bordered only by Austria and Switzerland, this principality is one of the world’s two doubly landlocked countries.
Liechtenstein
These specialized pigment-containing skin cells help octopuses change color almost instantly.
Chromatophores
Roderick Thorp’s novel Nothing Lasts Forever became this Bruce Willis action/Christmas movie.
On this planet, one rotation takes about 243 Earth days—longer than its roughly 225-day year.
Venus
Borrowing its name from an arcade character, this corporate defense strategy involves a takeover target trying to buy its would-be buyer.
Pac-Man Defense
This Central Asian nation is the world’s other doubly landlocked country.
Uzbekistan
An octopus’s doughnut-shaped brain surrounds this tube, which carries food toward its stomach.
Esophagus
Gary K. Wolf’s "Rabbit" inspired this movie combining animation and live action.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
These cartilaginous predators have an evolutionary history that predates the first trees.
Sharks