Board Games
This colorful game has players build an overly complicated contraption just to catch a plastic mouse.
What is Mouse Trap?
Launched in 1999, this website let kids adopt up to four cartoon pets, feed and dress them, play dozens of tiny Flash games to earn virtual points, and explore themed lands like a Haunted Woods, Mystery Island, and a cloud city ruled by faeries.
What is Neopets?
This location on Earth holds the record for the lowest elevation on land, sitting more than 1,300 feet below sea level.
What is the Dead Sea shoreline?
This small Australian marsupial is famous for its “smile,” which makes it look cheerful in photos even though it’s just the natural shape of its mouth.
What is the quokka?
The dragon that resides in the Misty Mountains in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit"
Who is Smaug?
In this frantic game, players slam plastic levers to make colorful hippos gobble as many marbles as possible.
What is Hungry Hungry Hippos?
This 1990s browser-based chat world let users move pixel avatars around rooms, decorate tiny isometric apartments, and trade virtual furniture pieces known as “furni.”
What is Habbo Hotel?
Produced on a small Scandinavian farm, this extremely rare cheese is made from the milk of the world’s largest species of horned animal and is among the most expensive cheeses on Earth, selling for over $1,000 per pound.
What is moose cheese?
This deep-sea fish has a completely transparent, dome-shaped head, allowing its upward-pointing eyes to stare through its own skull to spot prey in the darkness above.
What is the barreleye fish?
This type of dragon is traditionally depicted with four legs and has a lack of wings.
“Grape Escape” is a game where you mold little clay figures and race them through traps — and it famously contains a what?
What is a clay-squishing torture machine?
This early-2000s humor site was known for endless pages of image macros—often featuring animals with intentionally misspelled captions—and helped ignite mainstream meme culture long before social media took off.
What is I Can Has Cheezburger?
This mountain in Papua, once thought to be taller than Everest until precise measurements proved otherwise, still holds the record for the highest mountain from Earth’s center, thanks to its location near the equator.
What is Mount Chimborazo?
This African insectivore looks like a shrew mixed with a tiny antelope and can run at surprising speeds on long, spindly legs, earning it a name that references “jumping” despite not being a rodent at all.
What is an elephant shrew (or sengis or jumping shrew)?
While not a traditional dragon, this creature is often depicted as a feathered serpent deity from Aztec or other Mesoamerican Mythologies.
What is the Quetzalcoatl?
This adventure board game is famous for letting a huge red marble roll down a plastic volcano, knocking over anything in its path.
What is Fireball Island?
Debuting in 1997, this early chat program let users set away messages, customize buddy icons, and hear the iconic “door open” and “door close” sounds whenever friends logged on or off.
What is AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)?
This deep spot in the Pacific Ocean is the only known place on Earth where a man-made object has reached the planet’s absolute lowest natural point—nearly 7 miles beneath the surface.
What is the Challenger Deep?
This salamander from Mexico retains its juvenile features for its entire life, never developing lungs, and can regrow entire limbs, parts of its spine, and even sections of its brain.
What is the axolotl?
This dragon is usually depicted as serpent like, and while not always, is commonly depicted to have two front arms.
What is a lindwurm?
This 1982 arcade-inspired board game has players move plastic figures along a winding maze while chasing down tiny cardboard fruit tokens that appear in specific intervals.
What is the Ms. Pac-Man board game?
Released in 1996, this early Windows messaging program let users chat over dial-up using a shared server list, send “pagers,” create custom nicknames with ASCII art, and even run private chatrooms—long before modern social apps existed.
What is ICQ?
This rare mineral, found only in tiny amounts inside a Siberian meteorite crater, holds the record for the highest melting point of any naturally occurring substance, so extreme that no conventional furnace on Earth can liquefy it.
What is tantalum carbide (or hafnium carbide)?
This deep-sea creature lives around hydrothermal vents and survives by using bacteria inside its own body to make food, has no mouth or digestive system at all, and sports bright red, blood-filled plumes instead of a head.
What is the giant tube worm (Riftia pachyptila)?
This dragon deity has many different appearances and depictions on modern culture such as final fantasy and Dungeons and Dragons, but is also depicted as a celestial fish in Arabian mythology.
Who is Bahamut?