Wolf Facts
Decades after being eliminated from almost all of the continental United States, gray wolves were reintroduced to this federally protected area in Wyoming in 1995.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This large, fluffy, forest-dwelling creature with a loud roar is the mascot of Miyazaki's animation studio, Studio Ghibli.
What is Totoro?
Her 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale gained newfound popularity and prominence after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
This fiery, temperamental woman is the main Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes.
Who is Pele?
These legumes are used to make edamame.
What are soybeans?
The absence of wolves across large areas of their historical range has allowed this much smaller canine species to expand its population across almost all of the continental US.
What is the coyote?
This 1997 animated movie tells the story of a war between the humans of Irontown and the animal gods who live in the forest surrounding it.
What is Princess Mononoke/Mononoke-Hime?
His 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is credited as one of the most important texts of Latin American magical realist literature.
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
If measured from its base on the ocean floor to its summit 13,000 feet above water, this dormant volcano is the tallest mountain in the world.
In The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter said he ate this type of government worker's "liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
What is a census taker?
This colorfully named, critically endangered wolf species is generally only found in the Carolinas, although there's evidence of wolf-dog mixes with this species' DNA as far as Galveston, Texas.
What is the red wolf?
Phil Hartman's last performance in a film was as Jiji, the cat familiar of this title witch who runs a delivery service.
Who is Kiki?
After winning the Booker prize for her novel The God of Small Things, this Indian author had to answer for charges of obscenity in her home country.
Who is Arundhati Roy?
Known as the Forbidden Isle due to its greatly limited access to outsiders, this island is the only one where Hawaiian is the most-spoken language.
What is Ni'ihau?
This bat species that shares part of its name with a type of canine is the largest bat species in the world.
What is the flying fox?
Thanks to their high metabolisms, wolves are able to rehydrate themselves by eating ice without succumbing to this medical condition.
What is hypothermia?
In the 2001 animated film Spirited Away, the large-headed witch Yubaba runs this kind of relaxation-related business.
What is a bathhouse?
This Oakland-born author's novels often deal with the strained relationships between Chinese-American mothers and daughters.
Who is Amy Tan?
According to Hawaiian mythology, the Hawaiian people originated from the relationship between Wakea, Sky Father, and Papahanaumokukea, this being.
Who is Mother Earth?
During National Novel Writing Month, participants are generally expected to write at least this number of words in order to complete the challenge.
What is 50,000?
Wolves are able to deliver a bite pressure of 1500 pounds per square inch, more than 1.5 times stronger than that of these large felines.
What are lions?
Sophie Hatter ends up having unforgettable adventures when she decides to stay in this unusual dwelling owned by the mysterious wizard Howl.
What is a moving castle?
This Nigerian-born author is known for both her award-winning fiction like Half of a Yellow Sun and her speeches about feminist causes and "the danger of a single story."
Who is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?
The 1874 election of the next monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom was hotly contested between Queen Emma, the widow of the deceased monarch, and this man, who was eventually elected and served 17 years in office.
Who is David Kalakaua?
These two Alaskan locales served as the starting and ending points of the 2021 Iditarod.
What are Anchorage and Willow?