Gamez
The character known today as Mario was initially called by this name in his debut in the 1981 arcade title Donkey Kong
Jumpman
This active ingredient in chili peppers is an irritant for mammals that produces a burning sensation wherever it comes into contact with the mucous membranes and other tissues.
Capsaicin
Fortified wine has what additive?
Brandy or other distilled spirits
Name Earth's largest natural structure that is able to be visualized from outer space.
Great Barrier Reef
The name of what fearsome pre-historic creature, popularized by Spielberg, literally means 'robber' in Latin?
Raptor (velociraptor means 'swift robber')
What is the most heavily represented Nintendo Franchise in Super Smash Bros Ultimate (in terms of playable character count)?
Pokemon (9 - Charizard, Greninja, Ivysaur, Jigglypuff, Lucario, Mewtwo, Pichu, Pikachu, Squirtle)
This chili pepper was declared "hottest in the world" by Guiness World Records in 2013 with an average SHU of 1.7M.
Carolina Reaper
This type of wine was said to be served at King Midas' funeral.
Moscato
The historian Herodotus (circa ~400 BC) made an early list of the Seven Wonders of the (Ancient) World. What is the only wonder in that list that still exists today?
Great Pyramid of Giza
In the US, baseball parks are often designed so that the batter is facing east, in order that the afternoon sun does not shine in his eyes. This means that left-handed pitchers are always throwing from a particular direction. What term for a left-hander originated from this practice?
Southpaw
Name one of the two pokemon in the iconic opening fight cinematic in the original Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue (JP 1996, NA 1998).
Gengar or Nidorino
The Scolville Heat Scale (SHU) is a popular measuring stick for the heat of chili peppers. What do the numbers on the scale actually refer to?
Dilution factor (required to nullify/make the heat barely perceptible to a panel of taste testers)
This organic substance is present in galls, barks, and other pant tissues is said to add bitterness and astringency to wine.
tannin
This body of water, formed at the end of the last Ice Age by glacial retreat, is home to about 84 percent of North America's fresh water supply.
Great Lakes
The Klein bottle which has no distinction between inside and outside surfaces can be made by gluing two of what similar objects?
Möbius strips
Which Zelda title takes place earliest in the timeline by chronological lore?
Skyward Sword (Wii, 2011)
The ASTA (American Spice Trade Association) uses a more objective scale to quantify pepper heat known as ___ units, i.e. one part capsaicin per million parts dried pepper grass. (HINT: this is a common noun synonyn for "spiciness")
Pungency
Chaptalization is an artificial process to increase the final alcohol level in a wine by the addition of ___ during the fermentation process.
sugar
This series of fortifications has been called "the longest cemetery on Earth." Over a million individuals have died during its construction.
Great Wall of China
The name of what popular ice cream was named from two made-up words that were meant to look Scandinavian to American eyes?
Häagen-Dazs
The horrendous sales of this film-to-game adaptation for the ATARI 2600 has been cited as a major contributing factor to the video game industry crash of 1983. According to an urban legend, overproduction resulted in millions of cartridges being buried in a New Mexico landfill.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Why does drinking water not provide symptomatic relief after ingesting capsaicin?
Capsaicin has numerous hydrocarbon tails and therefore is hydrophobic/not water soluble (thus remaining bound to the taste receptors on your tongue).
This adjective meaning "characterized by or given to drunken revelry" has its etymological origins in festivals held to honor the Roman god of wine harvest and ritual madness.
Bacchanalian
ABC Australia reported that roughly 10% of this small polynesian contry's gross revenue comes from a deal to commercialize its country code top-level domain exntesion ".tv"
Tuvalu
In the general theory of relativity, what is the term for a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect the observer?
Event horizon