One in a Krillion Answers, September 2026
, Dive #77
- 1. Name a coffee shop chain
I Got EverythingKorean café chain created to employ baristas with disabilities.
- 2. Name an item designed to be filled with air
InflatoplaneGoodyear built this inflatable airplane for downed pilots in 1956.
- 3. Name a medical scan or imaging test (pictures of the body, not readouts like an EKG)
PneumoencephalogramWalter Dandy replaced spinal fluid with air to image the brain, 1919.
- 4. Name a power tool
Powder-actuated toolDrives nails into concrete with a .22 caliber blank cartridge.
- 5. Name a word for an animal's home (nests and shelters, not habitats like the ocean)
VespiaryA wasps' nest, from Latin vespa for wasp.
- 6. Name a phone accessory
Faraday bagPolice bag seized phones in these to block remote wipes.
- 7. Name a real-life language that uses a non-Latin writing system
VaiWritten in a syllabary Momolu Bukele invented in Liberia around 1833.
, Dive #76
- 1. Name something sold in a tube
Kalles KaviarSwedish cod-roe spread sold in a blue-and-yellow tube since 1954.
Space foodNASA sold souvenir astronaut meals in aluminium squeeze tubes.
- 2. Name a symbol or shape that appears on a national flag (like a star)
Armillary spherePortugal's flag carries a navigational armillary sphere behind its shield.
TundukKyrgyzstan's sun holds a tunduk, the crown of a yurt.
- 3. Name a type of chair
Ducking stoolMedieval scolds were dunked in the village pond on it.
Sedan chairTwo bearers carried this enclosed chair through 18th-century streets.
- 4. Name a standard type of insurance policy (all vehicles count as one type)
Hole-in-one insuranceGolf tournaments buy it to cover a promised ace prize.
Twins insurancePays out when an expected single birth turns out multiple.
- 5. Name a song with over a billion streams on Spotify
ArcadeDuncan Laurence won Eurovision 2019 for the Netherlands with it.
SnowmanSia's 2017 Christmas song went viral on TikTok in 2020.
- 6. Name an animal that can grow longer than 10 feet (3 m), including the tail
Bootlace wormA Scottish specimen from 1864 measured some 55 metres.
Slender giant morayStrophidon sathete, the longest moray, reaches about four metres.
- 7. Name a product used to wash or style hair (product types, not brands)
BandolineVictorian setting lotion thickened with quince-seed mucilage.
Macassar oilVictorian hair oil that gave antimacassar chair covers their name.
, Dive #75
- 1. Name a superpower Superman has in the comics or movies
Rebuild visionSuperman IV had him rebuild part of the Great Wall by staring.
Super-sneezeMxyzptlk's sneezing powder once made him destroy a distant solar system.
- 2. Name a language whose English name ends in -ish
LettishBefore 'Latvian' caught on, English speakers called Latvia's language this.
- 3. Name something used to block the sun
Inuit snow gogglesCarved from bone or antler, their narrow slits cut blinding snow glare.
VelariumSailors from the Roman fleet rigged this awning over the Colosseum.
- 4. Name a laptop brand
GRiDIts Compass laptop flew aboard the Space Shuttle in 1983.
OLPCIts green-and-white XO laptop was built for schoolchildren in developing countries.
- 5. Name a part of an airplane, inside or out (anything built in or mounted)
AshtraySmoking is banned, yet rules require one beside each lavatory door.
Crash axeAirliner cockpits carry a real axe for chopping through panels in fires.
- 6. Name a body part people have more than two of (like fingers)
LunulaeThose pale half-moons at the base of your nails have a name.
OtolithsInner-ear crystals that tell your brain which way is down.
- 7. Name an item of formal wear (clothing and shoes, not jewelry)
Albert slippersNamed for Prince Albert, these velvet slippers suit black tie at home.
Opera hatIts spring-loaded crown collapses flat to fit under a theatre seat.
, Dive #74
- 1. Name a fruit or vegetable that starts with S
SalakSnake fruit: scaly brown skin peels off to reveal garlic-shaped lobes.
SkirretTudor England's favourite sweet root, forgotten once potatoes arrived.
- 2. Name a territory, constituent country or autonomous region
Bouvet IslandNorway's ice-capped speck, about 1,700 km from the nearest land.
- 3. Name a Fire-type Pokémon
Chi-YuA goldfish-shaped Treasure of Ruin that is Dark and Fire.
OricorioIts default Baile Style dances in Fire; other nectars change the type.
- 4. Name a city in Italy (must hold the official città title)
CrotonePythagoras founded his school here around 530 BC.
EnnaSicily's highest provincial capital, perched over 900 metres up.
- 5. Name a career in finance
Average adjusterSplits a shipwreck's losses among all the cargo owners aboard.
Floor traderHand signals and shouting in the pits, now mostly replaced by screens.
- 6. Name a sport that has a goalkeeper
MotoballMotorcycles chase the ball; only the goalkeeper stays on foot.
- 7. Name a type of card (like a birthday card or a library card)
Aperture cardA punched card with a microfilm window holding one engineering drawing.
QSL cardHam radio operators mail these to confirm a two-way contact.
, Dive #73
- 1. Name an app that comes preinstalled on an iPhone
Code ScannerHidden in the App Library, it scans QR codes without Camera.
- 2. Name a deodorant brand
MumLaunched in 1888, its roll-on copied the ballpoint pen.
- 3. Name something with wheels that isn't a vehicle
Center pivotIts wheeled towers draw the crop circles you see from airplanes.
- 4. Name a shade of red (pinks don't count)
Falu redSweden's red cottages are painted with Falun copper-mine waste.
- 5. Name a state or province anywhere in the world (must be officially called a state or province)
BatmanThis Turkish province once threatened to sue Hollywood over its name.
YapIts traditional money is stone discs up to twelve feet wide.
- 6. Name a real-life melee weapon
MacuahuitlAztec obsidian club that reportedly beheaded conquistadors' horses.
- 7. Name a city with a metro system
LausanneSmallest city with a full metro, at about 140,000 people.
, Dive #72
- 1. Name a country with three syllables (English pronunciation)
KiribatiSaid KIRR-ih-bass, three syllables despite its four vowels.
- 2. Name a country without the letter A in its name
DjiboutiIts capital city is also called Djibouti.
- 3. Name an African country’s most-spoken language.
MooréBurkina Faso's Mossi tongue outtalks French there by two to one.
OshiwamboNearly half of Namibia's households speak it at home.
- 4. Name a video game that includes Mario
AlleywayMario pilots the paddle in this Game Boy launch Breakout clone.
- 5. Name an international airport (must say full name)
Xi'an Xianyang International AirportGateway to the Terracotta Army since it opened in 1991.
- 6. Name a garden tool
BillhookHedge-layers still swing this curved blade across rural Britain.
- 7. Name a stock trading term
Triple witchingFour Fridays a year when three kinds of derivatives expire together.
, Dive #71
- 1. Name a US city with over 100,000 people
SurpriseIts founder said she would be surprised if it amounted to much.
- 3. Name a kitchen appliance (something powered)
Salamander broilerOverhead broiler in pro kitchens, named for the fire-dwelling mythical beast.
- 4. Name a villain from a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie
The OtherThanos's hooded envoy in The Avengers, snapped by Ronan in Guardians.
- 5. Name an animal without the letter A in its name (breeds count too)
Dik-dikRabbit-sized African antelope named for the females' alarm whistle.
- 6. Name a mobile phone brand
HandspringFounded by Palm's own creators; its Treo line later rejoined Palm.
- 7. Name a platform people use to listen to music (apps and services, not devices)
Radio GardenSpin a globe and tune into any live station on Earth.
, Dive #70
- 1. Name a way to prepare eggs
HaminadosSephardic eggs simmered overnight until the whites turn brown.
Khai luk khoeiThai son-in-law eggs: boiled, deep-fried, then drizzled with tamarind sauce.
- 3. Name a celebrity chef
Fannie FarmerHer 1896 cookbook standardized the level measuring cup.
- 4. Name a building material
MyceliumBricks grown from mushroom root, compostable when you're done.
- 5. Name a phone carrier
Appalachian WirelessCoal-country coverage where the big carriers' maps go blank.
Viaero WirelessPrairie towers from Nebraska to Colorado, invisible on a coastal map.
- 6. Name a computer part (accessories don't count)
Clock generatorIts quartz crystal oscillates in megahertz, multiplied up to gigahertz.
- 7. Name something sprayed out of a can (pump bottles don't count)
Spray-on hairRon Popeil's hair-in-a-can, sold to a million bald spots.
, Dive #69
- 1. Name a salad dressing
Boiled dressingCooked stovetop egg-and-vinegar dressing that ruled American tables before mayonnaise.
- 2. Name a language named after a country (constituent countries count; for example England → English)
Brunei MalayISO 639-3 lists Brunei Malay under the one-word name Brunei.
Sranan TongoSranan, its creole, is simply the word Surinamese.
- 3. Name a current top 200 website (by Tranco; named sites and services only)
MyFRITZ!German FRITZ!Box routers phone home here, enough to outrank Reddit.
- 4. Name a search engine
JumpStationJonathon Fletcher's 1993 crawler at Stirling, first to index page text.
- 5. Name a field of math
Tropical geometryNamed for Brazil-based Imre Simon, it flattens curves into piecewise lines.
- 6. Name a sunglasses brand (has a label line)
WillsonReading, Pennsylvania goggle maker whose tinted lenses beat Ray-Ban to market.
- 7. Name a facial hair style
HuliheeHawaiian chops run into a trimmed mustache, chin shaved clean.
, Dive #68
- 1. Name the most widely spoken language of an Asian country
DzongkhaBhutan's mountain tongue, ahead of its neighbours by a whisker.
TetumTimor-Leste's home tongue, outtalking Portuguese in the markets.
- 2. Name a mammal or reptile that lives in rivers
Mary River turtleGrows green algae hair and breathes through its rear end.
RakaliAustralia's native water rat, with a white-tipped tail.
- 3. Name a city in Japan
UtashinaiJapan's smallest city, a coal town down to 2,800 people.
YubariFamous for melons, it went bankrupt in 2007.
- 4. Name a space on a Monopoly board (US/UK)
The Angel IslingtonOnce a coaching inn, the one property named for a building.
- 5. Name a chemical element whose name ends in -ium
YtterbiumOne of four elements named after Ytterby, a Swedish village.
- 6. Name a part of a smartphone you can see or touch (accessories don't count)
Heart rate sensorSamsung put a pulse reader beside the flash, then quietly dropped it.
TrackballBlackBerry's little rolling pearl, worn smooth by a million thumbs.
- 7. Name a country with both a U and an S in its name
Saint LuciaNamed after Saint Lucy, with the twin Pitons on its flag.
, Dive #67
- 1. Name a type of door
Jib doorBuilt flush and papered over so the wall looks unbroken.
- 2. Name something used to sweeten coffee
Birch syrupTakes about 100 liters of sap per liter of syrup.
Date sugarGround dried dates, so it never fully dissolves.
- 3. Name a place people keep or store cash
Hundi
- 4. Name a country with stripes on its flag
KiribatiThree wavy white stripes stand for the Pacific Ocean.
Marshall IslandsIts diagonal band widens toward the fly to symbolize growth.
- 5. Name a disease that has a vaccine
Q feverAustralia licenses a vaccine for this livestock-borne fever.
- 6. Name a boxing weight class
BridgerweightWBC named its new 2020 division after six-year-old Bridger Walker.
- 7. Name a pattern or print (for example, stripes)
MillefleurFrench for a thousand flowers, scattered across medieval tapestry backgrounds.
, Dive #66
- 1. Name an area in a school
Bike shedIn British school lore, everything forbidden happened behind the bike sheds.
- 2. Name a national capital city that starts with A or C
AshgabatHolds the Guinness record for the most white marble buildings anywhere.
- 3. Name a type of milk
Reindeer milkSami herders once milked reindeer; it runs about 20 percent fat.
- 4. Name a Queen song
My Fairy KingIts 'Mother Mercury' lyric gave Freddie Bulsara his stage name.
- 5. Name a sport that involves catching a ball
Newcomb ballVolleyball you catch, invented in 1895 at a New Orleans women's college.
- 6. Name a rank in the military
Admiral of the NavyCreated for George Dewey in 1899; nobody has held it since.
KingsmanPrivates of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment answer to this rank.
- 7. Name a shade of green
Wintergreen dreamA metallic blue-green from Crayola's 1990 Silver Swirls box.
, Dive #65
- 2. Name an occupation that involves working with children (the job itself must focus on kids)
Hospital clownPerforms on pediatric wards to ease young patients' stays.
Studio teacherCalifornia law puts a studio teacher on set with each child actor.
- 3. Name an animal that produces its own light
Latia limpetNew Zealand's stream limpet is the only freshwater animal that glows.
Railroad wormA beetle larva glowing red at the head, green along its body.
- 4. Name a Michael Jackson song
MorphineA 1997 song about addiction that he never performed live.
Someone in the DarkMade for the ET storybook album that won him a children's Grammy.
- 5. Name another English word for a nose (any creature's counts)
GruntleScots for a pig's snout, cousin of the grunt in disgruntled.
Smelling cheatThieves' cant from Shakespeare's day, when a cheat meant any thing.
- 6. Name a Pixar protagonist (co-leads count)
PurlA ball of pink yarn navigating an office in the 2019 short.
UkuLava's volcano sang his love song for a million years.
- 7. Name a type of building used for prayer
ChantryEndowed so priests would sing Masses for one dead patron's soul.
MithraeumRoman soldiers worshipped Mithras in windowless cave-like halls underground.
, Dive #64
- 1. Name a current Fortune 500 CEO
Phebe NovakovicHas run General Dynamics since 2013.
Reshma KewalramaniVertex's boss trained as a kidney doctor.
- 2. Name a word for a baby animal
Ragged-jacketA harp seal pup halfway out of its white baby coat.
SpatA baby oyster, freshly cemented to a rock.
- 4. Name a calisthenics exercise (bodyweight exercises only)
Ice cream makerFront-lever drill named for the churning motion of the arms.
Skin the catGymnasts rotate all the way through the rings and back.
- 5. Name an article of clothing (jewelry, glasses and bags don't count)
Spencer jacketEarl Spencer singed off his coattails and started a Regency fashion.
Ta'ovalaTongans tie this woven mat around the waist for formal occasions.
- 6. Name a social media platform that's still operating
OdnoklassnikiIts name literally means classmates, with over 200 million accounts.
PlurkTaiwan's microblog scores your posting streak as karma.
- 7. Name a gas found in Earth's atmosphere
IsopreneTrees release it, and it makes the Blue Ridge haze.
Sodium vaporAstronomers fire lasers at this layer to make artificial guide stars.
, Dive #63
- 1. Name a domesticated animal (kinds of animal, not breeds)
Cochineal insectFarmed on prickly pear cactus for carmine red dye.
GayalDomesticated from the wild gaur in northeast India.
- 2. Name a cat breed (coat patterns don't count)
Kurilian BobtailPom-pom tail from the Kuril Islands between Russia and Japan.
- 3. Name a Water-type Pokémon
PyukumukuSea cucumber that punches with its own innards.
TatsugiriSushi-shaped mimic that hides inside Dondozo's mouth.
- 4. Name a movie starring Will Smith
Where the Day Takes YouHis 1992 film debut, among homeless youths in Los Angeles.
- 5. Name a household chore
Blacking the stoveGraphite polish rubbed into a cast-iron range to stop rust.
- 6. Name a country with two syllables (English pronunciation; constituent countries don't count)
PalauTwo syllables, roughly 340 islands, and one of the smallest UN members.
- 7. Name a modern country that was partly ruled by the Roman Empire (constituent countries don't count)
Saudi ArabiaRome's Arabia Petraea reached Hegra in today's Hejaz.
SlovakiaGerulata, a Roman fort, sits inside modern Bratislava.
, Dive #62
- 1. Name something you drink out of
QuaichA two-handled Scottish cup for sharing whisky.
- 2. Name a fruit with a core
MedlarMedieval England ate it only after letting it rot on the shelf.
- 3. Name a leafy green
Poke sallet
- 4. Name a film directed by Wes Anderson
Castello CavalcantiEight minutes for Prada in which a crashed racer meets his ancestors.
- 5. Name something in a first aid kit
MercurochromeThat bright-red antiseptic was pulled in 1998 for its mercury.
- 6. Name a type of diet
FletcherismHorace Fletcher wanted each mouthful chewed until it liquefied.
- 7. Name a country with an animal on its flag (constituent countries don't count)
ParaguayIts reverse side carries a lion nobody sees from the front.
, Dive #61
- 1. Name a modern country that Alexander the Great's empire reached
RomaniaHis army crossed the Danube in 335 BC to scatter the Getae.
- 2. Name a mammal that lives underground
Pink fairy armadilloFour inches long, it swims through Argentine sand like water.
- 3. Name a legume
LicoriceReal licorice root grows on a pea-family plant.
- 4. Name a country whose national flag has exactly two colors
AlbaniaA black double-headed eagle on a red field, nothing else.
- 5. Name an office supply
Rubber finger tipBank tellers wear this rubber thimble to count bills.
- 6. Name a movie starring Timothée Chalamet
Miss StevensHe plays Billy, Lily Rabe's troubled student, in this 2016 indie.
- 7. Name a New York Times game
SetRan on the Times site under license from the card game's makers.
, Dive #60
- 1. Name a Google product
Google Ngram ViewerCharts how often a phrase appears in centuries of books.
Google Santa TrackerHas followed Santa's sleigh each Christmas Eve since 2004.
- 2. Name an animal that can top 40 mph (65 km/h)
Brazilian free-tailed batClocked at 100 mph in level flight.
- 3. Name a grain or cereal crop
Job's tearsIts bead-hard shells have been strung into rosaries for millennia.
- 4. Name a character from Avatar: The Last Airbender (the original series, not Korra)
Foo Foo CuddlypoopsSokka named this saber-tooth moose lion cub, then met its mother.
- 5. Name a country with both a G and an A in its name
Guinea-BissauBissau, its capital, was added to set it apart from Guinea.
- 6. Name a theme park chain
DiggerlandParks where kids drive real excavators, in the UK and New Jersey.
- 7. Name a literary device
ApophasisMentions a subject by insisting it will not be mentioned.
, Dive #59
- 2. Name a delivery service
Ninja VanStarted in Singapore in 2014 and now runs across six countries.
YamatoJapan's black-cat courier behind takkyubin delivery.
- 3. Name a country in Eastern Europe
North MacedoniaRenamed in 2019 to settle a 27-year naming dispute with Greece.
- 4. Name a word for a huge number (million or bigger)
Skewes' numberOnce the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof.
- 5. Name a tool you would find in a toolbox
SpokeshaveTwo handles and one blade, made for shaping wagon-wheel spokes.
- 6. Name a chemical element lighter than iron
ScandiumElement 21, the first transition metal on the table.
- 7. Name a sport played without a ball
Bog snorkellingRacers swim a Welsh peat bog without conventional strokes.
Shin-kickingA Cotswold Olimpicks event contested since the 1600s.
, Dive #58
- 1. Name a city with more than 10 million people in its metro area
DongguanNicknamed the world's factory; its urban area tops ten million.
LuandaAngola's capital, the largest Portuguese-speaking city outside Brazil.
- 2. Name a sacred text of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, or Buddhism
Gandavyuha SutraCarved across the upper galleries of Borobudur in Java.
Kebra NagastEthiopia's national epic tells how the Ark of the Covenant reached Aksum.
- 3. Name a protagonist of a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie
Monica RambeauHer powers came from walking through a witch's hex barrier.
- 5. Name a part of the human brain
Area postremaLeft outside the blood-brain barrier to taste poison and trigger vomiting.
- 6. Name a unit of weight or mass
BlobTwelve slugs make one blob, and yes, that is its official name.
GraveBefore 1795 the kilogram went by this name.
- 7. Name a Shakespeare protagonist
PalamonOne of The Two Noble Kinsmen, Shakespeare's last play.
, Dive #57
- 1. Name someone with over 100 million Instagram followers
Narendra ModiFirst head of government to pass 100 million Instagram followers.
- 2. Name a black and white mammal or bird
Dall's porpoiseAn orca-patterned porpoise of the North Pacific.
- 3. Name a type of skincare product
Powder cleanserA dry powder that lathers when mixed with water.
- 4. Name a video game that has earned over $1 billion
Dungeon Fighter OnlineOver twenty billion dollars earned, mostly in China.
- 5. Name a Roman god or goddess
CardeaGoddess of door hinges, and only the hinges.
- 6. Name a golf term
NiblickHickory-era lofted iron, roughly the modern nine-iron.
- 7. Name a literary genre
Roman a clefFrench for a novel with a key hiding real people behind fiction.
, Dive #56
- 1. Name a city in California
CalexicoCalifornia plus Mexico on the border; Mexicali mirrors it across the line.
Rough and Ready
- 2. Name an animal with horns or antlers
Four-horned antelopeOnly wild bovid with four horns, all on one small Indian head.
TakinBhutan's national animal, built like a goat crossed with a moose.
- 3. Name a Spanish or Portuguese dish
AlheiraSausage invented by Portuguese Jews to fake eating pork under the Inquisition.
Cozido das FurnasAzorean stew buried in volcanic ground and cooked by the earth.
- 4. Name an aquatic mammal
DesmanSnorkel-nosed aquatic mole of Pyrenean and Russian streams.
Water OpossumOnly aquatic marsupial; its pouch seals watertight when diving.
- 5. Name a carnivorous mammal
Northern grasshopper mouseDesert mouse that hunts scorpions and howls at the moon.
Woolly false vampire batHunts birds and rodents; drinks no blood despite the name.
- 6. Name a video game genre
Immersive simDeus Ex and Thief defined it; critics adore it, publishers fear it.
- 7. Name a street suffix (like Street or Avenue)
StravenueTucson's diagonal street-avenue hybrid, abbreviated STRA by the USPS.
, Dive #55
- 1. Name a city in Canada with over 100,000 people
Red DeerCleared this prompt's bar by 844 people in the 2021 census.
- 2. Name an animal with a shell
ArgonautFemale octopus that secretes her own paper-thin shell to brood eggs.
- 3. Name a Middle Eastern dish
MolokhiaOne Fatimid caliph reportedly banned commoners from eating it.
- 4. Name a Breaking Bad character
Ken WinsHis plate read KEN WINS until Walt torched his BMW.
- 5. Name a war fought in the 20th century
Toyota WarChad routed Libya in 1987 with Toyota pickup trucks.
War of the Stray DogA 1925 Greek-Bulgarian clash sparked by a dog crossing the border.
- 7. Name a mobile game with over 100 million downloads
Bus Simulator IndonesiaIndonesian-made, its buses honk telolet; 100 million installs on Play.
, Dive #54
- 1. Name a country where English is an official language
BurundiBurundi made English official in 2014, alongside Kirundi and French.
- 2. Name an animal that lives in the Arctic or Antarctica
Antarctic midgeA flightless fly, the largest animal living entirely on Antarctic land.
- 3. Name a dead language
DalmatianIts last speaker, Tuone Udaina, died in an 1898 road explosion.
- 4. Name a Mario character
TatangaHe kidnapped Daisy in 1989's Super Mario Land, before Bowser ever did.
- 5. Name a country with the letter Y in its name
SeychellesIts inner islands are the only mid-ocean islands made of granite.
- 6. Name a sport played with a stick, bat, or club
KilikitiSamoan cricket, batted with a three-sided club carved like a weapon.
- 7. Name a type of bicycle
Swing bikeIt pivots at the middle so both wheels steer.
Tall bikeTwo frames welded one on top of the other.
, Dive #53
- 1. Name a luxury watch brand
Konstantin ChaykinRussian maker of the Joker, a watch with a grinning dial.
KrayonIts Everywhere watch computes sunrise and sunset for any spot on Earth.
- 2. Name a mammal with stripes
TenrecMadagascar's streaked tenrec wears yellow stripes and chirps by rubbing its quills.
- 3. Name a style or cut of jeans
Puddle jeansCut so long the hems pool on the floor around your shoes.
- 4. Name a Disney song
Little April ShowerBambi's rainstorm sequence, scored as a song in 1942.
- 5. Name a mode of transportation
VelocipedeNicknamed the boneshaker for its iron-rimmed wheels on cobblestones.
- 6. Name a type of home or dwelling
RondavelRound, thatched, and still the standard rural house across southern Africa.
TrulloCone-roofed huts of Puglia, stacked from limestone without mortar.
, Dive #52
- 1. Name a national capital city that starts with B
BasseterreFounded by the French in 1627, its name just means lowland.
- 2. Name a mammal or reptile that lives in the desert
Marsupial moleBlind and earless, it swims through Australian sand.
Peringuey's adderSidewinds the Namib and drinks fog straight off its scales.
- 3. Name a type of cookie (brands don't count)
BizcochitoNew Mexico made it America's first official state cookie in 1989.
GaribaldiBritish kids call this currant biscuit the squashed fly biscuit.
- 4. Name a Seinfeld character
Ruthie CohenMonk's cashier in 101 episodes, and almost never a line.
- 5. Name a type of engineering
Explosives EngineeringMissouri S&T offers a minor in it, blasting design included.
- 6. Name a unit of distance
BarleycornShoe sizes still step up by one third-inch barleycorn.
- 7. Name a medical instrument
OrchidometerTwelve numbered beads doctors hold against testicles to size them.
PleximeterSmall plate doctors tapped on the chest to sound out lungs.
, Dive #51
- 1. Name a European country
AndorraIts two heads of state are a Spanish bishop and France's president.
- 2. Name a living mammal native to Africa
AardwolfA hyena relative that eats up to 300,000 termites a night.
- 3. Name an American fast food chain
RunzaNebraska chain built on the bierock, a beef-and-cabbage stuffed bun.
- 4. Name a Taylor Swift song
Mary's SongA 2006 debut track about her elderly neighbors' lifelong marriage.
- 5. Name a country that celebrates an independence day
East TimorRestored its independence on May 20, 2002, the century's first new nation.
- 6. Name a game in Wii Sports or Wii Sports Resort
Power CruisingJet-ski slalom through buoy gates around Wuhu Island.
- 7. Name a palindrome that's a real English dictionary word
RotavatorA rotary tiller trademark that Collins lists as a plain word.
, Dive #50
- 1. Name a capital city in the Americas
BelmopanBelize built it inland after a hurricane flattened Belize City.
- 2. Name an animal known for camouflage
Satanic leaf-tailed geckoMimics a dead leaf down to fake vein damage.
- 3. Name a country that fought in World War II
CubaDeclared war on the Axis days after Pearl Harbor.
MongoliaDeclared war on Japan in August 1945 alongside the Soviets.
- 4. Name a language that is an official language of a European country
Maltese Sign LanguageMalta made its sign language official by law in 2016.
- 5. Name an astronaut or cosmonaut
Arnaldo Tamayo MendezFirst Black person in space, 1980, three years before NASA's.
- 6. Name a block in Minecraft
Dragon EggOne per world, dropped when the Ender Dragon dies.
Nether Reactor CorePocket Edition's stand-in for the Nether, removed in 2015.
- 7. Name a country smaller than Belgium (by area)
LesothoA kingdom entirely surrounded by South Africa.
, Dive #49
- 1. Name a type of gun (types and models both count)
Punt gunA boat-mounted monster that could drop fifty ducks per shot.
- 2. Name a creature you might find in a tide pool
Pistol shrimpSnaps its claw into a bubble nearly as hot as the sun.
- 3. Name an HBO show
The Larry Sanders ShowGarry Shandling's 1992 talk-show satire taught HBO comedy everything.
- 4. Name a DreamWorks animated character
RamesesRalph Fiennes voiced the pharaoh in DreamWorks' hand-drawn Prince of Egypt.
- 5. Name a country that was an ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War
GrenadaIts Soviet-Cuban tilt triggered the 1983 US invasion.
- 6. Name an athlete with multiple Olympic gold medals
Eddie EaganWon gold boxing in 1920 and bobsledding in 1932.
Ray EwryBeat childhood polio, then won eight golds in the standing jumps.
- 7. Name a chess term
NovotnyA study idea where you sacrifice a piece on the exact square where two enemy pieces cross, jamming both at once. Composers adore it.
, Dive #48
- 1. Name a country in Oceania
MicronesiaIts Yap islanders still trade ownership of giant stone coins.
- 2. Name an animal whose name starts with B (breeds count too)
BabirusaIts upper tusks can curl back and pierce its own skull.
- 3. Name a deep fried food
Fried butterA Texas State Fair invention: butter, battered and bubbling.
- 4. Name a Transformers character
ReflectorThree robots forming one camera, sold only by mail order.
- 5. Name a member of the Beatles
Jimmie NicolRingo's tonsillitis stand-in whose catchphrase inspired Getting Better.
- 6. Name a country that has territories or dependencies
GreeceMount Athos, an autonomous monastic republic since Byzantine times.
- 7. Name an American airline (U.S.-based, past or present)
Hooters AirIt really flew, 2003 to 2006.