Stranger Than Fiction
This festive English novelist used to visit the morgue to stare at dead bodies.
Who is Charles Dickens?
A fish and his son travel back from Australia just in time to see a barricuda spit out his wife and children.
What is Finding Nemo?
This is the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
This "Solo" unit, equivalent to ~3.26 light years, gets its name from a mashup of "parallax in one second".
What is a parsec?
This European structure was erected in 1961, and taken down in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The Great Ormond Street Hospital owns the rights to this childlike legend after author J.M. Barrie gifted them in 1929.
Who is Peter Pan?
A pale, noseless man gets kicked out of a high school for trying to murder a child with a stick.
What is Harry Potter?
Turnips were first used for carved lanterns before this fruit took over.
What is a pumpkin?
The term given to a fraction where the numerator is larger or equal to the denominator.
What is improper?
He was the British prime minister for most of World War II.
Who was Winston Churchill?
This proud female novelist was known for brewing her own sensible beers in addition to writing.
Who is Jane Austen?
A heartwarming tale about a boat that comes out of the ocean to save a bunch of drowning rich people.
What is Titanic?
This New York City locale is famous for dropping a giant ball every New Years.
What is Times Square?
A mathematical concept commonly represented by a lemniscate, resembling a horizontal number 8.
What is infinity?
This South African leader was jailed for 27 years and later became president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This treasured author demonstrated a possible split personality when he was arrested as a student for participating in a two-day snowball riot.
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
A group of animals get so fed up with dancing lemurs that they lock themselves up in boxes and ship themselves to a zoo.
What is Madagascar?
Eating a bucket of KFC chicken is a massive Christmas Eve tradition started by a 1974 marketing campaign in this Asian country.
What is Japan?
A C-term in geometry that refers to two objects that are the same shape and size.
What is congruent?
He was the last czar (king) of Russia.
Who is Nicholas II?
Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) died on the same day, but they were overshadowed by the death of this U.S. president.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
A benevolent lizard helps rebuild a city before moonwalking into the ocean.
What is Godzilla?
This classic Christmas carol about a cold-weather activity was actually originally written for Thanksgiving.
What is Jingle Bells?
The first 3-digit number in the Fibonacci sequence, which is also the largest square in the same sequence.
What is 144?
Alexander Fleming won the Nobel prize in medicine for discovering this common substance today.
What is penicillin?