Des(s)erts
This Italian dessert is made with ladyfingers, mascarpone cheese, and coffee.
What is tiramisu?
What is Spain?
This tropical fruit, originating from southeast Asia, is the largest fruit that grows on a tree.
What is jackfruit? (also will accept jack tree or nangka)
This is the very first video game every played in outer space. It was played on a Gameboy in 1993.
What is Tetris?
Construction of the Great Wall of China began in this century (BC).
What is the 7th Century BC?
This desert located in South America is considered one of the driest places on Earth with parts similar to Mars.
What is the Atacama Desert? (with an average yearly rainfall ranging anywhere from 1mm - 15mm annually)
Created by H. Ty Warner, this stuffed animal fad debuted in 1993.
What are Beanie Babies?
Florida produces the most amount of this fruit in the United States
What is an orange?
This planet could float in water because it's mostly made of gas. It is the sixth planet from the sun.
What is Saturn?
The Parthenon was dedicated to this Greek goddess.
Who is Athena?
This desert located in North America shares a similar name with a type of dog and Mexican state.
What is the Chihuahuan Desert?
This actor starred in two of the top 10 highest grossing films of the 1990s.
Who is Will Smith? (in Independence Day and Men in Black)
This carnivorous plant is native only to North and South Carolina.
What is a Venus flytrap?
This is the name of the blackhole thought to exist at the center of the Milky Way.
What is Sagittarius A*?
The shortest war in world history lasted this long.
What is 38 minutes? (August 27, 1896, the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896)
Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte is a dessert named after a region in Germany where it was first created. The English name for this dessert is called this.
What is Black Forest Cake?
In 1997, she became the first female Secretary of State.
Who is Madeleine Albright?
In the fields of horticulture and botany, this term means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves.
What is deciduous?
The sun is primarily made of these two gases.
What are hydrogen (70%) and helium (28%)?
This U.S. mail service started in 1860.
What is the Pony Express?
2 Separate Answers: 1) This is the largest desert in the world. It is also the coldest desert in the world. 2) This is the city that had the longest ice cream dessert in history according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
What is the Antarctic Desert and College Station, TX? (The ice cream was 4,549ft. and achieved in March 2018 at the Spirit of Texas Festival)
The first version of this was released on the Stanford website in August 1996. It used nearly half of Stanford's entire network bandwidth.
What is Google?
This term is Japanese for 'tray planting.' It is the Japanese and East Asian art of growing and training miniature trees in containers, developed from the traditional Chinese art form of penjing.
What is bonsai?
As far as we know, this is the only planet completely inhabited by robots on its surface.
What is Mars?
This Central American civilization were known for their breakthroughs in astronomy and mathematics.
Who are the Mayans?