CASE ARCHIVE
CASE #136·2026-10-11·To escape a predator's grip, a hagfish can tie its own body…CASE #135·2026-10-10·In 1919, a 25-foot wave of _____ swept through Boston at 35…CASE #134·2026-10-09·Nintendo was founded in Kyoto in 1889 as a company producin…CASE #133·2026-10-08·In 1796 Edward Jenner created the first vaccine using mater…CASE #132·2026-10-07·In 1959, protest voters in São Paulo, Brazil gave 100,000 w…CASE #131·2026-10-06·Ernest Vincent Wright's 1939 novel 'Gadsby' runs over 50,00…CASE #130·2026-10-05·Each year in Gloucestershire, England, competitors hurl the…CASE #129·2026-10-04·The shortest war in recorded history lasted about _____.CASE #128·2026-10-03·The Frisbee takes its name from a Connecticut _____ company…CASE #127·2026-10-02·The heart medication digitalis (digoxin) is derived from th…CASE #126·2026-10-01·Machine-spun cotton candy was co-invented in 1897 by Willia…CASE #125·2026-09-30·The unit 'furlong' originally referred to the length of a p…CASE #124·2026-09-29·Moments after being shot in the chest in 1912, Theodore Roo…CASE #123·2026-09-28·The only shot fired in a 1784 war between the Dutch Republi…CASE #122·2026-09-27·A cat named Stubbs served as the honorary _____ of Talkeetn…CASE #121·2026-09-26·As a defense mechanism, some species of _____ can squirt a…CASE #120·2026-09-25·Switzerland has _____ official national languages.CASE #119·2026-09-24·The smallest bone in the human body is the _____, found in…CASE #118·2026-09-23·Before becoming a children's toy, Play-Doh was originally s…CASE #117·2026-09-22·Before entering politics, Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou p…CASE #116·2026-09-21·_____ was an official medal event at every Summer Olympics…CASE #115·2026-09-20·Africa straddles both the equator and the _____.CASE #114·2026-09-19·The myth that Napoleon was unusually short partly stems fro…CASE #113·2026-09-18·The board game Monopoly is descended from The Landlord's Ga…CASE #112·2026-09-17·Some starfish species can regrow an entire new individual f…CASE #111·2026-09-16·The word 'trivia' comes from the Latin for 'three _____.'CASE #110·2026-09-15·The longest tennis match in history, between John Isner and…CASE #109·2026-09-14·Super glue emerged from a World War II research effort to d…CASE #108·2026-09-13·The oldest national anthem in the world still in use, datin…CASE #107·2026-09-12·A group of owls is called a _____.CASE #106·2026-09-11·In Spain, a New Year's tradition is to eat twelve _____, on…CASE #105·2026-09-10·Hawaiian pizza was invented in 1962 by a Greek-born restaur…CASE #104·2026-09-09·After a Roman church trial in 897 found the corpse of Pope…CASE #103·2026-09-08·Bubble wrap was created in 1957 by two inventors who were o…CASE #102·2026-09-07·The official state domino game of Texas is _____.CASE #101·2026-09-06·The country with the most time zones in the world is _____.CASE #100·2026-09-05·The metal _____ has such a low melting point that it will m…CASE #99·2026-09-04·The decades-long, good-natured territorial dispute between…CASE #98·2026-09-03·In 1474, the city of Basel put a rooster on trial and burne…CASE #97·2026-09-02·San Marino claims to be the world's oldest surviving _____,…CASE #96·2026-09-01·The longest papal election in history ended only after frus…CASE #95·2026-08-31·One of the most intimate and coveted posts in the Tudor roy…CASE #94·2026-08-30·Dr. Seuss wrote 'Green Eggs and Ham' to win a bet that he c…CASE #93·2026-08-29·At Point Nemo, the most remote spot in any ocean, the close…CASE #92·2026-08-28·The official state dessert of Massachusetts is _____.CASE #91·2026-08-27·In Liberia's 1927 election, the winner officially received…CASE #90·2026-08-26·The Diomede Islands are nicknamed Tomorrow Island and Yeste…CASE #89·2026-08-25·Germany finished paying reparations from World War I in the…CASE #88·2026-08-24·Liechtenstein is one of only two countries in the world tha…CASE #87·2026-08-23·Fanta was created in _____ during World War II, after a tra…CASE #86·2026-08-22·Tardigrades ("water bears") have survived direct exposure t…CASE #85·2026-08-21·The word 'nightmare' has no historical connection to _____.CASE #84·2026-08-20·The Caesar salad was created on July 4, 1924, at a restaura…CASE #83·2026-08-19·Russia spans _____ time zones.CASE #82·2026-08-18·Casu martzu, a traditional Sardinian sheep's-milk cheese, i…CASE #81·2026-08-17·The official state amphibian of Alabama is the _____.CASE #80·2026-08-16·The word 'quarantine' comes from the Venetian word for '___…CASE #79·2026-08-15·The official state beverage of Ohio is _____.CASE #78·2026-08-14·When Kleenex tissues launched in 1924, they were marketed a…CASE #77·2026-08-13·The annual Monkey Buffet Festival, where tables of fruit an…CASE #76·2026-08-12·Wrigley's chewing gum began as a free bonus given to custom…CASE #75·2026-08-11·The gemstone weight unit 'carat' derives from the _____ see…CASE #74·2026-08-10·In the 1920s a popular health tonic called Radithor was sim…CASE #73·2026-08-09·In 1952, Albert Einstein was offered the position of _____…CASE #72·2026-08-08·In 1932, Australia's military famously lost a campaign agai…CASE #71·2026-08-07·The word 'muscle' comes from the Latin for 'little _____.'CASE #70·2026-08-06·On hot days, the top of the Eiffel Tower can lean away from…CASE #69·2026-08-05·The word 'OK' likely began as a joke abbreviation for 'oll…CASE #68·2026-08-04·Canada has more _____ than any other country in the world.CASE #67·2026-08-03·Nokia's history began in 1865, when a Finnish mining engine…CASE #66·2026-08-02·A group of ferrets is known as a _____.CASE #65·2026-08-01·A performance of John Cage's organ piece 'As Slow as Possib…CASE #64·2026-07-31·Wombats produce feces that are _____ shaped.CASE #63·2026-07-30·The official state prepared food of Georgia (US) is _____.CASE #62·2026-07-29·Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president in history to ho…CASE #61·2026-07-28·President Calvin Coolidge kept a pet _____ named Rebecca, w…CASE #60·2026-07-27·The Sun makes up about _____ of the total mass of the entir…CASE #59·2026-07-26·In physics, a 'jiffy' is an actual unit of _____.CASE #58·2026-07-25·The apparent winner of the 1904 Olympic marathon was disqua…CASE #57·2026-07-24·The common blood-thinning drug warfarin was originally intr…CASE #56·2026-07-23·Before founding his sports car company in 1963, Ferruccio L…CASE #55·2026-07-22·To prove that bacteria cause stomach ulcers, physician Barr…CASE #54·2026-07-21·The official state dance of South Carolina is _____.CASE #53·2026-07-20·A group of flamingos is called a _____.CASE #52·2026-07-19·From 1912 to 1948, the Olympic Games awarded real medals in…CASE #51·2026-07-18·The official state cooking pot of Utah is the _____.CASE #50·2026-07-17·A giraffe's neck contains the same number of neck vertebrae…CASE #49·2026-07-16·The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed most of the city…CASE #48·2026-07-15·Honey found at archaeological sites thousands of years old…CASE #47·2026-07-14·The official state sport of Maryland is _____.