Famous Projects
This tall French landmark was built for the 1889 World's Fair and is one of the most visited structures in the world.
The Eiffel Tower
This city is the Capital of British Columbia
Victoria
The second Harry Potter novel features a mysterious diary and a very large snake lurking beneath Hogwarts
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
With wingbeats reaching up to 80 times per second, this tiny bird can fly forwards, backwards, and even hover.
Hummingbird
Renting from a culinary category gets you this Italian staple whose name means "cooked paste" and comes in shapes like farfalle and bucatini
Pasta
Begun in 1942, this US government project secretly developed the world's first nuclear weapons.
The Manhattan Project
This word means a bad habit or moral flaw.
Vice
In this 1980 sci-fi sequel, Darth Vader delivers one of the most quotes lines in movie history.
The Empire Strikes Back
It's the fastest land mammal, but it's claws don't fully retract. An adaptation that helps it grip the ground when sprinting.
Cheetah
Borrowing from wildlife trivia, this massive herbivore is responsible for more human deaths in Africa each year than lions, despite it's portly appearance.
Hippopotamus
This Cold War era CIA research program attempted to study methods of mind control and behaviour modification. It's name sounds more like a video game power up than a covert project.
MK-Ultra
When renters don't pay or break rules, this is what happens. They have to move out.
Evicted/Eviction
Although not labeled as such, many gamers consider this 1983 arcade title to be the spiritual follow-up to Donkey Kong, since it was the next game to feature "Jumpman"
Mario Bros
The fastest-spinning planet in our solar system, it completes one full rotation in just under 10 hours.
Jupiter
This organism survives by attaching to a host and feeding off it's resources, essentially "renting" it's nutrients without payment.
Parasite
This ambitious project sent three humans to the Moon and back in 1969, fulfilling a presidential promise made less than a decade earlier.
Apollo 11
This Latin American dish "cooks" seafood without heat, using citrus juice to marinate raw fish along with onions, chili peppers, and herbs.
Ceviche
Published more than 50 years after To Kill a Mockingbird, this novel is technically the earlier draft but functions as the long-awaited "second" story about Scout Finch returning home to Maycomb as an adult.
Go Set a Watchmen
This F1 cornering technique involved briefly letting the rear wheels slide to rotate the car faster through a turn, executed with razor thin precision.
Drift/Power Slide
Renting from etymology reveals that this word for a sudden insight comes from the Greek meaning "to reveal" or "to show"
Epiphany
Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks include sketches for this flying machine project, centuries before powered flight became reality.
The Ornithopter
This bone's name comes from the Latin word for "little key," because it rotates like one when you move your arm.
Clavicle
The sequel to Stephen King's The Shining, this novel follows an adult Dan Torrance as he battles a psychic-vampire cult known as the True Knot.
Doctor Sleep
First Formalized by Gauss, this mathematical technique finds the quickest path between two points in varying media, explaining why light bends when entering water.
Fermat's Principle/Principle of least time
This mythological creature "rents" it's head from a human, it's body from a lion and it's tail from a scorpion.
Manticore