Fickle and Fiendish Flora and Fauna
This animal comes in coats or red or gray (and sometimes white!)
What is a fox?
A railroad crossing sign takes on this shape.
What is a circle?
The SS Imo hit the cargo ship, the SS Mont-Blank, causing the explosives it was carrying to detonate and resulting in the largest human-made explosion at the time in this Canadian port city.
What is Halifax?
Shaggy says Zoinks, Velma Says jinkies, and Daphne says this.
What is Jeepers?
A thick, chewy Japanese noodle made from wheat flour.
What is Udon?
Modified pectoral fins allow this animal to leap out of the water and glide.
This shape encompasses the silhouette of a stag on the roadside.
What is a diamond?
In 2017, a PepsiCo warehouse's roof collapsed in this country releasing 175,000 barrels (7.4 million US gallons) of fruit and vegetable juices into the streets of Lebedyan and Don River. This is now referred to as the Pepsi fruit juice flood.
What is Russia?
A wrinkle may save three children in a novel, but this saves triple that.
The Americanization of the Chinese term for fried noodles.
What is chow mein?
A group of non-flowering vascular plants that reproduces through spores rather than flowers or seeds.
What are ferns?
A yellow inverted pentagon usually designates this ahead.
What is a school zone or school crossing?
A little over a century before the Great Molasses Flood in Boston, London faced a similar disastrous deluge when a large vat burst allowing an estimated 35,000 barrels of this substance to flood the basement and streets.
What is beer? (London Beer Flood of 1814)
Based on the same template as ‘light-year’, one of these is the approximate length a man’s facial hair can grow per unit of time: five nanometres.
What is a "beard-second"?
A spring sprout used in many Asian dishes such as soups, stir-fries, and hot pots.
What are bamboo shoots?
A demersal fish found at the bottom of the ocean, it exhibit eye migration as it passes though its life stages.
What is a flounder?
While the sign itself is square, the shape of this symbol designates a carpool lane.
What is a diamond?
Emissions from U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works and its American Steel & Wire plant caused this air pollution disaster in 1948, affecting almost half the population of the small mill town in Pennsylvania
What is the Donora death fog (smog)?
According to a guide, "the language of swing", that accompanied Benny Goodman’s 1937 album The Camel Caravan, this instrument is called a "gobble-pipe".
What is a Saxophone?
A pasta slightly thicker than spaghetti in Italy (~2.08 and 2.14mm) typically made with semolina.
What is Vermicelli?
Collectively known as fig trees, this genus is native to the tropics with waxy leaves to repel herbivores and excess water.
What is a ficus?
A yellow sign with the words "NO PASSING ZONE" is this shape.
What is a pennant (pennon/pendant)?
This caused the Tunguska Event of 1908: an explosion that leveled 2,000 square miles of pine forest in Siberia along the Podkamennaya Tunguska River.
What is an asteroid (meteor air burst)?
Someone bearing news who arrives too late to be of any use, as describing the first animal released from Noah's Ark in the Book of Genesis.
What is a "raven-messenger"?
A snack often associated with Southern cuisine, it consists of two round Graham crackers, with a marshmallow filling in the center and dipped in a coating.
What is a moon pie?