Things that are Pink
Math
News of the Week (in History)
Of the Sea
Father Figures
Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Potpourri
100
Turn to this bright pink liquid if you're having tummy troubles. Its active ingredient is bismuth subsalicylate, which is normally a beige color, but the pink sure makes it easy to find in your medicine chest.
What is Pepto Bismol?
100
The Romans used mathematics for simple calculations, so their numeral system does not contain this digit. They understood the concept of “nothing” but didn’t need a separate notation for it.
What is Zero?
100
June 28, 1969: In what is now regarded by many as history’s first major protest on behalf of equal rights for LGBTQ people, a police raid of this popular gay club in NYC, causing patrons and local allies to riot against the authorities.
What is the Stonewall Inn?
100
The deepest ocean trench on earth, this is located in the western Pacific and measures about 7 miles deep.
What is the Mariana Trench?
100
Though not Cosette's biological father, Jean Valjean provides her with love, care, and protection, becoming a father figure in every sense in this novel written by Victor Hugo.
What is Les Miserables?
100
Known for her service to the poor in Calcutta, India, she is known for this: “Do small things with great love.” She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Who is Mother Theresa?
100
In Peru (the country, not the town in Maine), its considered good luck to wear this color underwear on New Year's Day.
What is yellow?
200
Lake Hillier has vibrant pink water and is located on Middle Island, part of this "down under" nation . Its color is the result of an organism called Dunaliella salina.
What is Australia?
200
Every odd number contains this letter.
What is E?
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200
June 22 1940 The first of this soft serve ice cream restaurant opens along historic Route 66 in Joliet, Illinois. Quick fieldtrip to get a Dilly Bar? Anyone?
What is Dairy Queen?
200
The highest-recorded one of this water-based earthquake was in Alaska. Collapsing land pushed a wave 30 meters up the sides of the bay. What is wilder is that this wave went up the sides of the slopes, snapping trees that were 524 meters above the waterline!
What is a Tsunami?
200
This young magician, having lost his own father when he was just a baby, has many father figures in his life, including Arthur Weasley, Sirius Black and Hagrid.
Who is Harry Potter?
200
2 Known for his love of animals, this Patron saint of the environment prayed: “Lord, make me a channel of your peace.” There's a town named for him in Aroostook County
Who is St Francis (of Assisi)
200
Nepeta cataria, commonly known as this, is as effective on lions and tigers as on the smaller domestic house pet its named for.
What is catnip?
300
Derived from the Portuguese and Spanish words for "flame colored" this bird is pink because of the carotenoids in its food.
What is the flamingo?
300
The word “mathematics” only appears in one Shakespearean play, this one about Petruchio and his attempts to make his wife Kate behave like he thinks a wife should.
What is Taming of the Shrew?
300
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed this, officially known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services, for their efforts in WWII.
What is the G.I. Bill?
300
70% of the earth's oxygen is made through these tiny organisms that live suspended in the water column, drifting passively with currents, rather than actively swimming against them.
What is Plankton?
300
Though not her actual father, Matthew Cuthbert takes in this freckly orphan girl even though he was expecting a boy to help on his farm, Green Gables.
Who is Anne Shirley?
300
When Jesus was arrested, this patron saint of fishermen denied him, saying: “I do not know him.” Jesus forgave him and made him the first Pope.
Who is St Peter?
300
A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers on this mode of transportation
What is a hot air balloon?
400
Sometimes known as fairy floss, this alliterative sweet treat is made by heating and liquefying sugar, and spinning it centrifugally through minute holes, causing it to rapidly cool and re-solidify into fine strands.
What is Cotton Candy?
400
This French philosopher and mathematician's triangle is a triangular array of numbers where each number is the sum of the two numbers directly above it. It's a visual representation of binomial coefficients and has numerous applications in mathematics, particularly in algebra.
Who is Blaise Pascal?
400
June 27, 1829: this museum complex was established when an English scientist who had never been to the US insisted that his wealth be used to create, in Washington DC, an "Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.”
What is the Smithsonian Institute?
400
Historians believe that he noble sea cow, also known by this name, are what sailors saw when they claimed to see mermaids.
What is the Manatee?
400
Silas Marner, written by this author, about a hermit-like weaver who’s life has been full of hardship but changes completely when he finds an abandoned child outside his home.
Who is George Eliot?
400
Famous for using the three-leaf clover to explain the Trinity, this Patron saint of Ireland was kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery. After escaping, Jesus asked him to return to Ireland to spread the word of God.
Who is St Patrick?
400
Star Wars creators designed this Jedi master to resemble Albert Einstein.
Who is Yoda?
500
The OPI company give this beauty product's pink shades fun names like "Not So Bora-Bora-ing Pink" and "Aphrodite's Pink Nightie."
What is nail polish?
500
Teenagers texting in this Asian country formerly known as Siam will send the digits 555 to indicate that something is funny. In their language, 5 is pronounced as ha which when translated becomes hahaha.
What is Thailand?
500
July 23, 1991 nicknamed the “Teflon Don” after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, this head of the Gambino crime family was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering.
Who is John Gotti?
500
Unlike a chameleon, which takes over a minute to change its color to protect itself, these marine animals can do it in as fast as .2 seconds. They do it by inflating tiny balloon-like cells in their skin called chromatophores, filling each chromatophore with a different-colored pigment, sort of like the pixels in your TV.
What is the octopus?
500
The children's classic "Pinocchio" follows the story of this character, an older Italian puppeteer who never had a son. Since he always wanted a son, he builds a wooden puppet who miraculously comes to life. .
Who is Geppetto?
500
Unlike what is widely believed, this woman, saint of repentant sinners, women, hairdressers, perfumers, and pharmacists, was not a prostitute. But she repented so sincerely that when Jesus arose from the dead, he appeared to her before his disciples.
Who is Mary Magdalene?
500
This puree was the first food to be eaten in space by an American astronaut.
What is applesauce?