what does RULER actually stand for
This fictional ruler of Wonderland brutally beheads those who displease her.
Who is the Queen of Hearts?
What are blueberries
This cartoon sailor looooooooves spinach.
Who is Popeye
These geometric shapes built in the deserts of Egypt were constructed as tomb sites starting around 2800 BCE.
What are pyramids.
While not necessarily a worm, Eric Carle's similarly shaped - and eponymous - character from this 1969 childrens book is very hungry.
What is the Very Hungry Caterpillar?
This specialized type of ruler, often used in drafting and engineering, has a set of bevelled edges for precise angle measurements and is also known as a "triangle ruler."
What is a protractor?
Joseph McCarthy's country wide crackdown on communism was colloquially known as this.
What is the red scare.
This patriotic-ly colored icy treat is known for having three separate layers of flavors.
What is a bomb-pop
Stolen in 1911 by a disgruntled employee attempting to repatriate this Italian masterpiece, it was found in 1913 by French police officers in a Florentine hotel before being seized and returned to it's home in The Louvre.
What is the Mona Lisa.
Roald Dahl's 1988 novel centers around a magical child who stands up to her headmistress and tyrannical family, named the Wormwoods.
What is Matilda.
This ruler, known for his struggle to maintain peace between feuding families, rules over Verona in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Lord Capulet?
Colloquially known by the color of its album cover, this is the alternative name for The Beatles' Self Titled album.
What is the White Album.
This 2D adventure game contains islands such as Skullduggery, and Shark tooth.
What is Poptropica
In 2019, this fruit was taped to the wall at Art Basel art fair by contemporary conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan. He later named the work "Comedian."
What is a banana
This epic adventure novel takes place on a desert planet complete with giant sandworms.
What is Dune?
Credited with the widespread adoption of the ruler as a 1 foot long device with 12 sections, this Greek Ruler also spread his measuring invention across his 4th Century BC conquest of the Hellenistic world.
Who is Alexander the Great
What is Yellow Jackets
This nursery rhyme, which can be dated back to the 1800s, name drops long, slender burrowing mammals, related to squirrels.
What is Pop goes the weasel.
This museum in New York city is home to Starry Night, and the most important collection of *Modern* art in the United States.
What is the Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA
Afloat a giant fruit in the sky, The Earthworm in this 1961 young adult novel is frequently at conflict with The Centipede.
What is James and the Giant Peach?
The meter stick, standardized by French scientists in the late 18th century, proposes the meter as this simple fraction of the distance between the Equator and the North Pole.
What is One out of Ten Million, or One Ten Millionth, or 1/10,000,000.
This shade of blue is known for it's intense, dark blue hue, and is named after a Germanic Central European state with rulers such as Frederick II who helped to unify the German States in 1871. Hint: _____ Blue
What is prussian blue
This handheld fastening device is used on airplanes to connect aluminum panels, and is named for the *popping* sound they make when installed.
What is a Pop Rivet.
What is blue
This 1842 Edgar Allan Poe poem uses a "hideous worm" as a metaphor for decay and the inevitable triumph of death.
What is The Conqueror Worm?