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The Tortoise and the Hare	A slow tortoise beats a speedy, overconfident hare. Slow and steady wins the race.		fun-aesop-fables
The Boy Who Cried Wolf	A boy lies about a wolf, then nobody believes him when it is real. Liars are not trusted even when they tell the truth.		fun-aesop-fables
The Ant and the Grasshopper	The ant works all summer while the grasshopper plays, and has no food in winter. Prepare for the future.		fun-aesop-fables
The Fox and the Grapes	A fox cannot reach the grapes and says they were sour anyway. It is easy to scorn what you cannot have.		fun-aesop-fables
The Lion and the Mouse	A tiny mouse frees a lion from a net. Even small friends can help big ones.		fun-aesop-fables
The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs	A farmer who wants all the gold at once loses the goose. Greed can cost you everything.		fun-aesop-fables
The Crow and the Pitcher	A thirsty crow drops pebbles into a pitcher to raise the water. Clever thinking solves problems.		fun-aesop-fables
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse	A country mouse prefers a simple, safe life over the town mouse's fancy but risky one. Simple and safe beats rich and scary.		fun-aesop-fables
The Fox and the Crow	A fox tricks a crow into dropping its cheese by praising its singing. Beware of flattery.		fun-aesop-fables
The Dog and His Reflection	A dog with a bone sees his reflection in a stream and drops the bone to grab another. Greed can make you lose what you have.		fun-aesop-fables
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing	A wolf dresses as a sheep and is found out. Looks can fool, so be careful.		fun-aesop-fables
The North Wind and the Sun	The sun makes a traveler remove his coat gently, while the wind fails by force. Kindness works better than force.		fun-aesop-fables
The Lion's Share	A lion takes everything for himself after a hunt. Power can make people unfair.		fun-aesop-fables
The Milkmaid and Her Pail	A girl dreams of what she will buy with milk money and spills it. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.		fun-aesop-fables
The Bundle of Sticks	A father shows his sons that sticks bound together cannot be broken. Together we are strong.		fun-aesop-fables
The Tortoise and the Eagle	A tortoise wishes to fly and is dropped by an eagle. Be happy with who you are.		fun-aesop-fables
The Frogs Who Wanted a King	Frogs ask for a king and get a stork that eats them. Be careful what you wish for.		fun-aesop-fables
The Dog in the Manger	A dog guards the hay he cannot eat and keeps the ox from it. Don't spoil things you cannot use.		fun-aesop-fables
The Lion and the Boar	Two animals fight over a spring while vultures wait. Fighting over little things can hurt both sides.		fun-aesop-fables
The Mice in Council	Mice agree to put a bell on the cat but nobody will do it. Easy to say, hard to do.		fun-aesop-fables
The Hare and the Tortoise (retold)	Confidence without effort loses to patience and work.		fun-aesop-fables
The Shepherd Boy (shortened)	A shepherd boy's false alarms leave him unheard when real danger comes.		fun-aesop-fables
The Oak and the Reeds	A stiff oak breaks in a storm while bending reeds survive. Be flexible.		fun-aesop-fables
The Cat and the Mice	Mice hear that a cat is hiding and stay away. Beware of those pretending to be harmless.		fun-aesop-fables
The Farmer and the Snake	A man warms a frozen snake and is bitten. Not everyone you help is grateful.		fun-aesop-fables
The Two Goats	Two goats meet on a narrow bridge and neither gives way, so both fall. Pride can hurt everyone.		fun-aesop-fables
The Lark and Her Young Ones	If you want something done well, do it yourself.		fun-aesop-fables
The Wind and the Sun	A kind approach is stronger than a harsh one.		fun-aesop-fables
The Fox and the Stork	A fox serves soup on a flat plate, then the stork serves food in a tall jar. Treat others as you want to be treated.		fun-aesop-fables
The Donkey in the Lion's Skin	A donkey dresses as a lion and his bray gives him away. Pretending does not last.		fun-aesop-fables
The Wolf and the Crane	A crane helps a wolf with a bone and gets no reward. Be careful who you help, and be thankful when helped.		fun-aesop-fables
The Peacock and the Crane	A peacock mocks a crane's plain feathers, but the crane can fly. Skill beats show.		fun-aesop-fables
The Lion and the Statue	Whoever makes the story tells it his own way.		fun-aesop-fables
The Gnat and the Bull	A gnat thinks the bull noticed it. Do not think you matter more than you do.		fun-aesop-fables
The Sick Lion	A sick lion pretends nothing is wrong. People may use you if you look weak.		fun-aesop-fables
The Miser	A man buries gold and never uses it. Wealth that is not used has no value.		fun-aesop-fables
The Belly and the Members	The parts of the body quarrel with the stomach and all suffer. Everyone depends on each other.		fun-aesop-fables
The Fisherman and the Little Fish	A small fish begs to be thrown back until he is bigger. A little now is better than a lot later maybe.		fun-aesop-fables
The Ass and the Lap Dog	A donkey copies a lap dog and causes trouble. Be yourself.		fun-aesop-fables
The Horse and the Groom	Someone who wants praise should earn it first.		fun-aesop-fables
The Blind Men and the Elephant	Each feels a different part of an elephant and thinks he knows it all. A part is not the whole. (An old folktale told with Aesop's.)		fun-aesop-fables
Who was Aesop?	A storyteller of ancient Greece, thought to have lived about 2,600 years ago		fun-aesop-fables
A a	Apple (A is for apple.)		fun-alphabet-words
B b	Ball (B is for ball.)		fun-alphabet-words
C c	Cat (C is for cat.)		fun-alphabet-words
D d	Dog (D is for dog.)		fun-alphabet-words
E e	Elephant (E is for elephant.)		fun-alphabet-words
F f	Fish (F is for fish.)		fun-alphabet-words
G g	Goat (G is for goat.)		fun-alphabet-words
H h	Hat (H is for hat.)		fun-alphabet-words
I i	Igloo (I is for igloo.)		fun-alphabet-words
J j	Jam (J is for jam.)		fun-alphabet-words
K k	Kite (K is for kite.)		fun-alphabet-words
L l	Lion (L is for lion.)		fun-alphabet-words
M m	Moon (M is for moon.)		fun-alphabet-words
N n	Nest (N is for nest.)		fun-alphabet-words
O o	Octopus (O is for octopus.)		fun-alphabet-words
P p	Pig (P is for pig.)		fun-alphabet-words
Q q	Queen (Q is for queen.)		fun-alphabet-words
R r	Rabbit (R is for rabbit.)		fun-alphabet-words
S s	Sun (S is for sun.)		fun-alphabet-words
T t	Tiger (T is for tiger.)		fun-alphabet-words
U u	Umbrella (U is for umbrella.)		fun-alphabet-words
V v	Van (V is for van.)		fun-alphabet-words
W w	Whale (W is for whale.)		fun-alphabet-words
X x	Xylophone (X is for xylophone.)		fun-alphabet-words
Y y	Yo-yo (Y is for yo-yo.)		fun-alphabet-words
Z z	Zebra (Z is for zebra.)		fun-alphabet-words
How many letters are in the alphabet?	26		fun-alphabet-words
What are the vowels?	A, E, I, O, U (and sometimes Y)		fun-alphabet-words
What are the other letters called?	Consonants		fun-alphabet-words
What letter comes after A?	B		fun-alphabet-words
What letter comes after M?	N		fun-alphabet-words
What letter comes before Z?	Y		fun-alphabet-words
What is the first letter?	A		fun-alphabet-words
What is the last letter?	Z		fun-alphabet-words
What letter comes between R and T?	S		fun-alphabet-words
What letter comes between F and H?	G		fun-alphabet-words
Which letter looks like a circle?	O		fun-alphabet-words
Which letter has a tail and looks like a hook?	J		fun-alphabet-words
Which letter is the sound of a bee?	B (buzz)		fun-alphabet-words
Which letter sounds like 'you'?	U		fun-alphabet-words
Which letter sounds like 'why'?	Y		fun-alphabet-words
Which letter sounds like 'see'?	C		fun-alphabet-words
Which letter sounds like 'tea'?	T		fun-alphabet-words
Which letter sounds like 'eye'?	I		fun-alphabet-words
Which letter sounds like 'are'?	R		fun-alphabet-words
What is uppercase?	Big letters like A, B and C		fun-alphabet-words
What is lowercase?	Small letters like a, b and c		fun-alphabet-words
What is the letter after Q?	R		fun-alphabet-words
What is the letter after D?	E		fun-alphabet-words
What word starts like 'bat'?	Ball or bed (B)		fun-alphabet-words
A	Alligator: a reptile with a wide snout		fun-animal-alphabet
A (again)	Ant: can carry many times its own weight		fun-animal-alphabet
B	Bear: some sleep through winter		fun-animal-alphabet
B (again)	Butterfly: starts life as a caterpillar		fun-animal-alphabet
C	Camel: has a hump that stores fat		fun-animal-alphabet
C (again)	Cat: purrs when content		fun-animal-alphabet
D	Dolphin: a smart sea mammal		fun-animal-alphabet
D (again)	Duck: has waterproof feathers		fun-animal-alphabet
E	Elephant: the biggest land animal		fun-animal-alphabet
E (again)	Eagle: has sharp eyesight		fun-animal-alphabet
F	Frog: starts life as a tadpole		fun-animal-alphabet
F (again)	Fox: has a bushy tail		fun-animal-alphabet
G	Giraffe: the tallest animal		fun-animal-alphabet
G (again)	Gorilla: a gentle ape		fun-animal-alphabet
H	Hippo: spends most days in water		fun-animal-alphabet
H (again)	Horse: runs fast		fun-animal-alphabet
I	Iguana: a lizard that likes to bask		fun-animal-alphabet
I (again)	Impala: an antelope that leaps high		fun-animal-alphabet
J	Jellyfish: has no brain		fun-animal-alphabet
J (again)	Jaguar: a spotted cat that swims		fun-animal-alphabet
K	Kangaroo: hops and has a pouch		fun-animal-alphabet
K (again)	Koala: sleeps most of the day		fun-animal-alphabet
L	Lion: lives in a pride		fun-animal-alphabet
L (again)	Llama: a woolly animal from the Andes		fun-animal-alphabet
M	Monkey: swings in trees		fun-animal-alphabet
M (again)	Moose: the biggest deer		fun-animal-alphabet
N	Newt: a small salamander		fun-animal-alphabet
N (again)	Narwhal: a whale with a long tusk		fun-animal-alphabet
O	Octopus: has eight arms		fun-animal-alphabet
O (again)	Owl: hunts at night		fun-animal-alphabet
P	Penguin: swims but cannot fly		fun-animal-alphabet
P (again)	Panda: eats bamboo		fun-animal-alphabet
Q	Quail: a small, plump bird		fun-animal-alphabet
Q (again)	Quokka: a small smiling marsupial from Australia		fun-animal-alphabet
R	Rabbit: hops and has long ears		fun-animal-alphabet
R (again)	Raccoon: has clever paws		fun-animal-alphabet
S	Snake: has no legs		fun-animal-alphabet
S (again)	Sloth: moves slowly		fun-animal-alphabet
T	Tiger: has stripes		fun-animal-alphabet
T (again)	Turtle: has a shell		fun-animal-alphabet
U	Uakari: a monkey with a bright red face		fun-animal-alphabet
U (again)	Urial: a wild sheep of Asia		fun-animal-alphabet
V	Vulture: a bird that cleans up dead animals		fun-animal-alphabet
V (again)	Vampire bat: a bat that feeds on animal blood		fun-animal-alphabet
W	Whale: the biggest animals in the sea		fun-animal-alphabet
W (again)	Wolf: lives in a pack		fun-animal-alphabet
X	X-ray tetra: a small fish with see-through skin		fun-animal-alphabet
X (again)	Xerus: an African ground squirrel		fun-animal-alphabet
Y	Yak: a shaggy animal of the Himalayas		fun-animal-alphabet
Y (again)	Yellow-bellied marmot: a mountain rodent		fun-animal-alphabet
Z	Zebra: has black and white stripes		fun-animal-alphabet
Z (again)	Zebra finch: a small Australian songbird		fun-animal-alphabet
Lions	A pride		fun-animal-group-names
Fish	A school (Or a shoal.)		fun-animal-group-names
Wolves	A pack		fun-animal-group-names
Cows	A herd		fun-animal-group-names
Sheep	A flock		fun-animal-group-names
Birds	A flock		fun-animal-group-names
Geese (flying)	A skein (On the ground they are a gaggle.)		fun-animal-group-names
Geese (on the ground)	A gaggle		fun-animal-group-names
Crows	A murder		fun-animal-group-names
Owls	A parliament		fun-animal-group-names
Bees	A swarm		fun-animal-group-names
Ants	A colony		fun-animal-group-names
Whales	A pod		fun-animal-group-names
Dolphins	A pod		fun-animal-group-names
Elephants	A herd		fun-animal-group-names
Giraffes	A tower		fun-animal-group-names
Zebras	A dazzle		fun-animal-group-names
Hippos	A bloat		fun-animal-group-names
Rhinos	A crash		fun-animal-group-names
Apes	A shrewdness		fun-animal-group-names
Monkeys	A troop		fun-animal-group-names
Kangaroos	A mob		fun-animal-group-names
Penguins	A colony (In the water a group is a raft.)		fun-animal-group-names
Flamingos	A flamboyance		fun-animal-group-names
Peacocks	An ostentation		fun-animal-group-names
Ducks (in water)	A paddling		fun-animal-group-names
Cats	A clowder		fun-animal-group-names
Kittens	A litter		fun-animal-group-names
Puppies	A litter		fun-animal-group-names
Dogs	A pack		fun-animal-group-names
Horses	A herd		fun-animal-group-names
Bears	A sloth		fun-animal-group-names
Foxes	A skulk		fun-animal-group-names
Frogs	An army		fun-animal-group-names
Toads	A knot		fun-animal-group-names
Snakes	A nest		fun-animal-group-names
Turtles	A bale		fun-animal-group-names
Jellyfish	A smack		fun-animal-group-names
Sharks	A shiver		fun-animal-group-names
Butterflies	A flutter		fun-animal-group-names
Caterpillars	An army		fun-animal-group-names
Hawks	A kettle (When they circle together in the sky.)		fun-animal-group-names
Eagles	A convocation		fun-animal-group-names
Ravens	An unkindness		fun-animal-group-names
Larks	An exaltation		fun-animal-group-names
Starlings	A murmuration		fun-animal-group-names
Pigs	A drove		fun-animal-group-names
Goats	A tribe		fun-animal-group-names
Camels	A caravan		fun-animal-group-names
Bats	A colony		fun-animal-group-names
Squirrels	A scurry		fun-animal-group-names
Otters	A romp		fun-animal-group-names
Raccoons	A gaze		fun-animal-group-names
Rabbits	A colony		fun-animal-group-names
Hedgehogs	An array		fun-animal-group-names
Porcupines	A prickle		fun-animal-group-names
Moles	A labor		fun-animal-group-names
Deer	A herd		fun-animal-group-names
Moose	A herd		fun-animal-group-names
Buffalo	A herd		fun-animal-group-names
Seals	A pod		fun-animal-group-names
Cheetahs	A coalition		fun-animal-group-names
Leopards	A leap		fun-animal-group-names
Tigers	An ambush		fun-animal-group-names
Cranes	A sedge		fun-animal-group-names
Swans	A bevy		fun-animal-group-names
Bird	Nest		fun-animal-homes
Bee	Hive		fun-animal-homes
Ant	Anthill or colony		fun-animal-homes
Bear	Den or cave		fun-animal-homes
Fox	Den (A fox den is also called an earth.)		fun-animal-homes
Rabbit	Burrow or warren		fun-animal-homes
Beaver	Lodge (Built from sticks and mud in a pond.)		fun-animal-homes
Wolf	Den		fun-animal-homes
Squirrel	Drey (A nest of leaves and twigs high in a tree.)		fun-animal-homes
Spider	Web		fun-animal-homes
Pig	Sty or pen		fun-animal-homes
Horse	Stable		fun-animal-homes
Cow	Barn or pasture		fun-animal-homes
Chicken	Coop		fun-animal-homes
Dog	Kennel or doghouse		fun-animal-homes
Fish	Pond, river or sea		fun-animal-homes
Hen	Henhouse		fun-animal-homes
Sheep	Pen or fold		fun-animal-homes
Lion	Pride territory on the grassland		fun-animal-homes
Termite	Mound		fun-animal-homes
Wasp	Paper nest		fun-animal-homes
Mole	Tunnels underground		fun-animal-homes
Prairie dog	Burrow town		fun-animal-homes
Eagle	Eyrie (A huge nest high on a cliff or tree.)		fun-animal-homes
Otter	Holt		fun-animal-homes
Badger	Sett		fun-animal-homes
Hare	Form (A shallow dent in the grass.)		fun-animal-homes
Pigeon	Loft or cote		fun-animal-homes
Hermit crab	A borrowed shell		fun-animal-homes
Snail	Its own shell		fun-animal-homes
Tortoise	Burrow or its shell		fun-animal-homes
Penguin	Colony on the ice		fun-animal-homes
Polar bear	Snow den		fun-animal-homes
Camel	Desert		fun-animal-homes
Frog	Pond or wet place		fun-animal-homes
Seal	Rocks and coast		fun-animal-homes
Gopher	Underground tunnels		fun-animal-homes
Bat	Cave or roost		fun-animal-homes
Owl	Tree hollow		fun-animal-homes
Woodpecker	A hole it digs in a tree		fun-animal-homes
Weaver bird	A woven hanging nest		fun-animal-homes
Orangutan	Nest of branches in a tree		fun-animal-homes
Gorilla	Nest of leaves on the ground or low in trees		fun-animal-homes
Wild boar	Wallow and thicket		fun-animal-homes
Mouse	Hole or nest in walls and fields		fun-animal-homes
Raccoon	Hollow tree or den		fun-animal-homes
Skunk	Burrow		fun-animal-homes
Clownfish	Sea anemone		fun-animal-homes
Coral polyp	Coral reef		fun-animal-homes
Kangaroo	Open grassland, no den		fun-animal-homes
Biggest animal ever to live?	The blue whale		fun-animal-records
Biggest animal on land today?	The African elephant		fun-animal-records
Tallest animal?	The giraffe		fun-animal-records
Fastest land animal?	The cheetah (It can sprint over 60 miles an hour for a short burst.)		fun-animal-records
Fastest bird in a dive?	The peregrine falcon (Over 180 miles an hour while diving.)		fun-animal-records
Fastest fish?	The sailfish (One of the quickest swimmers in the sea.)		fun-animal-records
Largest bird alive?	The ostrich		fun-animal-records
Smallest bird?	The bee hummingbird (It lives in Cuba and weighs about as much as a dime or two.)		fun-animal-records
Bird with the biggest wingspan?	The wandering albatross		fun-animal-records
Largest fish?	The whale shark (It is gentle and eats tiny plankton.)		fun-animal-records
Largest reptile?	The saltwater crocodile		fun-animal-records
Largest big cat?	The tiger		fun-animal-records
Largest bear?	The polar bear		fun-animal-records
Largest rodent?	The capybara		fun-animal-records
Largest primate?	The gorilla		fun-animal-records
Largest deer?	The moose		fun-animal-records
Largest frog?	The goliath frog		fun-animal-records
Largest snake by weight?	The green anaconda		fun-animal-records
Longest snake?	The reticulated python		fun-animal-records
Largest octopus?	The giant Pacific octopus		fun-animal-records
Largest insect by weight?	Some giant weta, a cricket-like insect from New Zealand		fun-animal-records
Animal with the longest neck?	The giraffe		fun-animal-records
Mammal that sleeps the most?	Some bats and opossums sleep up to 18 or more hours a day		fun-animal-records
Slowest mammal?	The sloth		fun-animal-records
Only mammal that truly flies?	The bat		fun-animal-records
Mammal that lays eggs?	The platypus and the echidna		fun-animal-records
Fastest flying insect?	Dragonflies are among the fastest		fun-animal-records
Bird that can hover backward?	The hummingbird		fun-animal-records
Bird that cannot fly but runs fast?	The ostrich		fun-animal-records
Animal with the loudest call on land?	The howler monkey is one of the loudest		fun-animal-records
Longest migration of any bird?	The Arctic tern, it flies from pole to pole		fun-animal-records
Animal that can live the longest?	Some sea creatures, like the ocean quahog clam, live hundreds of years		fun-animal-records
Longest-living land animal?	The giant tortoise (Some live more than 150 years.)		fun-animal-records
Animal with the biggest eyes?	The giant squid and the colossal squid		fun-animal-records
Animal with the biggest ears?	The African elephant		fun-animal-records
Animal with the longest tongue for its size?	The chameleon		fun-animal-records
Animal with the most legs?	Some millipedes have hundreds		fun-animal-records
Animal with the strongest bite?	The saltwater crocodile		fun-animal-records
Best digger among animals?	The giant armadillo and the aardvark are famous diggers		fun-animal-records
Which animal has the biggest heart?	The blue whale, about as big as a small car		fun-animal-records
Animal that can run on water?	The basilisk lizard, called the Jesus lizard		fun-animal-records
Which animal is the loudest in the sea?	The sperm whale clicks and the blue whale calls are among the loudest		fun-animal-records
Animal that can change color to hide?	The chameleon and the octopus		fun-animal-records
Animal that never stops growing teeth?	Rodents like beavers and rabbits		fun-animal-records
Tallest dog breed?	The Great Dane		fun-animal-records
Smallest dog breed?	The Chihuahua		fun-animal-records
Most popular pet in many homes?	Dogs and cats		fun-animal-records
Tallest bird?	The ostrich		fun-animal-records
Which animal has the longest horns?	The water buffalo is among the longest		fun-animal-records
Animal with the longest hibernation?	Some ground squirrels and bears sleep through much of winter		fun-animal-records
Fastest swimming bird?	The gentoo penguin		fun-animal-records
Which animal has the most teeth?	Snails can have thousands of tiny teeth on their tongues		fun-animal-records
Which animal builds the biggest structure?	Coral polyps build the Great Barrier Reef		fun-animal-records
Which insect lifts the most for its size?	The ant can carry many times its own weight		fun-animal-records
Biggest cat in the Americas?	The jaguar		fun-animal-records
Largest owl?	Eurasian eagle-owl and Blakiston's fish owl are among the largest		fun-animal-records
Animal with the thickest fur?	The sea otter, about one million hairs per square inch		fun-animal-records
Which animal can jump the highest for its size?	The flea		fun-animal-records
I have a long trunk and big floppy ears. Who am I?	An elephant		fun-animal-riddles
I have a black-and-white stripy coat and I look like a horse. Who am I?	A zebra		fun-animal-riddles
I have a very long neck and I eat leaves from tall trees. Who am I?	A giraffe		fun-animal-riddles
I hop and carry my baby in a pouch. Who am I?	A kangaroo		fun-animal-riddles
I am slow and carry my house on my back. Who am I?	A snail or turtle		fun-animal-riddles
I have eight arms and live in the sea. Who am I?	An octopus		fun-animal-riddles
I roar and I am the king of the jungle. Who am I?	A lion		fun-animal-riddles
I hoot at night and turn my head all the way around. Who am I?	An owl		fun-animal-riddles
I have a bushy tail and bury nuts. Who am I?	A squirrel		fun-animal-riddles
I have long ears and a fluffy tail and hop. Who am I?	A rabbit		fun-animal-riddles
I quack and swim in the pond. Who am I?	A duck		fun-animal-riddles
I give you milk and say moo. Who am I?	A cow		fun-animal-riddles
I wake up the farm with my cock-a-doodle-doo. Who am I?	A rooster		fun-animal-riddles
I have a big black-and-white body and live on ice. I waddle. Who am I?	A penguin		fun-animal-riddles
I swing from trees and love bananas. Who am I?	A monkey		fun-animal-riddles
I wear a mask and wash my food. Who am I?	A raccoon		fun-animal-riddles
I have a shell and a long neck and live for a very long time. Who am I?	A tortoise		fun-animal-riddles
I make honey and buzz around flowers. Who am I?	A bee		fun-animal-riddles
I have spots and wings and I am red. Who am I?	A ladybug		fun-animal-riddles
I start as a caterpillar and turn into something with wings. Who am I?	A butterfly		fun-animal-riddles
I have a hump on my back and live in the desert. Who am I?	A camel		fun-animal-riddles
I am big and gray with a horn on my nose. Who am I?	A rhinoceros		fun-animal-riddles
I have a pink color and stand on one leg. Who am I?	A flamingo		fun-animal-riddles
I am the biggest animal in the sea. Who am I?	A blue whale		fun-animal-riddles
I have a big smile and clicks, and I jump from the waves. Who am I?	A dolphin		fun-animal-riddles
I have a pouch under my beak and I scoop fish. Who am I?	A pelican		fun-animal-riddles
I have eight legs and a web. Who am I?	A spider		fun-animal-riddles
I have a long tongue for catching ants. Who am I?	An anteater		fun-animal-riddles
I am small and green and hop and say ribbit. Who am I?	A frog		fun-animal-riddles
I am a cat with stripes and I am the biggest cat. Who am I?	A tiger		fun-animal-riddles
I have a stinger and live in a hive. Who am I?	A bee		fun-animal-riddles
I can change my colors and have a curly tail. Who am I?	A chameleon		fun-animal-riddles
I love honey and sleep all winter. Who am I?	A bear		fun-animal-riddles
I am a bird that cannot fly but I run very fast. Who am I?	An ostrich		fun-animal-riddles
I look like a little tank and roll into a ball. Who am I?	An armadillo		fun-animal-riddles
I have quills and roll up when scared. Who am I?	A hedgehog or porcupine		fun-animal-riddles
I howl at the moon. Who am I?	A wolf		fun-animal-riddles
I wag my tail and love to fetch. Who am I?	A dog		fun-animal-riddles
I purr and chase mice. Who am I?	A cat		fun-animal-riddles
I gobble and have a fan of feathers. Who am I?	A turkey		fun-animal-riddles
I live in a pond and build dams. Who am I?	A beaver		fun-animal-riddles
I am a tropical bird with a huge, colorful bill. Who am I?	A toucan		fun-animal-riddles
I glow at night in summer. Who am I?	A firefly		fun-animal-riddles
I hang upside down in caves and sleep all day. Who am I?	A bat		fun-animal-riddles
I swim in a tank, say nothing, and have fins. Who am I?	A fish		fun-animal-riddles
I wear a woolly coat and say baa. Who am I?	A sheep		fun-animal-riddles
I oink and love mud. Who am I?	A pig		fun-animal-riddles
I have a pointed horn and live in fairy tales. Who am I?	A unicorn		fun-animal-riddles
I breathe fire and fly in stories. Who am I?	A dragon		fun-animal-riddles
I am in the sea, with five arms and no head. Who am I?	A starfish		fun-animal-riddles
Dog	Woof! Woof!		fun-animal-sounds
Cat	Meow!		fun-animal-sounds
Cow	Moo!		fun-animal-sounds
Pig	Oink!		fun-animal-sounds
Sheep	Baa!		fun-animal-sounds
Horse	Neigh!		fun-animal-sounds
Duck	Quack!		fun-animal-sounds
Rooster	Cock-a-doodle-doo!		fun-animal-sounds
Hen	Cluck cluck!		fun-animal-sounds
Lion	Roar!		fun-animal-sounds
Tiger	Roar!		fun-animal-sounds
Frog	Ribbit!		fun-animal-sounds
Owl	Hoo hoo!		fun-animal-sounds
Bee	Buzz!		fun-animal-sounds
Snake	Hiss!		fun-animal-sounds
Mouse	Squeak!		fun-animal-sounds
Donkey	Hee-haw!		fun-animal-sounds
Goat	Maa!		fun-animal-sounds
Turkey	Gobble gobble!		fun-animal-sounds
Wolf	Howl!		fun-animal-sounds
Elephant	Trumpet!		fun-animal-sounds
Bird	Tweet tweet!		fun-animal-sounds
Crow	Caw caw!		fun-animal-sounds
Dove	Coo coo!		fun-animal-sounds
Bear	Growl!		fun-animal-sounds
Monkey	Ooh ooh ah ah!		fun-animal-sounds
Cricket	Chirp chirp!		fun-animal-sounds
Seal	Arf arf!		fun-animal-sounds
Dolphin	Click and whistle!		fun-animal-sounds
Bat	Squeak, too high for most people to hear		fun-animal-sounds
Mosquito	Buzzzz		fun-animal-sounds
Fly	Buzz		fun-animal-sounds
Cuckoo bird	Cuck-oo!		fun-animal-sounds
Peacock	A loud call that sounds like 'may-awe'		fun-animal-sounds
Goose	Honk!		fun-animal-sounds
Seagull	Squawk!		fun-animal-sounds
Parrot	Squawk, and it can copy words		fun-animal-sounds
Camel	Grunt and groan		fun-animal-sounds
Hyena	A laughing cackle		fun-animal-sounds
Kookaburra	A laughing 'koo-hoo-hoo-ha-ha-ha'		fun-animal-sounds
Whale	Long, low songs		fun-animal-sounds
Pigeon	Coo		fun-animal-sounds
Chick	Peep peep!		fun-animal-sounds
Rabbit	Mostly quiet; it thumps its foot		fun-animal-sounds
Lamb	Baa!		fun-animal-sounds
Cat purring	Purr		fun-animal-sounds
Rattlesnake	Rattle		fun-animal-sounds
Giraffe	Mostly quiet; it hums at night		fun-animal-sounds
Zebra	A bark or a whinny		fun-animal-sounds
Cicada	A loud buzzing whirr		fun-animal-sounds
Jesse Owens	Won four gold medals in track and field at the 1936 Olympics		fun-athletes-historical
Jackie Robinson	Broke baseball's color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers		fun-athletes-historical
Babe Ruth	Baseball slugger and pitcher, a New York Yankees star of the 1920s		fun-athletes-historical
Lou Gehrig	Yankees first baseman known as the Iron Horse		fun-athletes-historical
Roberto Clemente	Pirates outfielder, 3,000 hits, and a great humanitarian		fun-athletes-historical
Hank Aaron	Baseball home run king for decades, with 755 career homers		fun-athletes-historical
Willie Mays	Baseball star known for amazing catches		fun-athletes-historical
Muhammad Ali	Heavyweight boxing champion who called himself the Greatest		fun-athletes-historical
Wilma Rudolph	Won three gold medals in running at the 1960 Olympics		fun-athletes-historical
Jim Thorpe	Olympic gold medalist in 1912 and football and baseball star		fun-athletes-historical
Althea Gibson	First Black player to win a Grand Slam tennis title (1956)		fun-athletes-historical
Arthur Ashe	Tennis star who won Wimbledon in 1975		fun-athletes-historical
Bill Russell	Boston Celtics center who won 11 NBA titles		fun-athletes-historical
Wilt Chamberlain	Basketball center who once scored 100 points in an NBA game		fun-athletes-historical
Kobe Bryant	Los Angeles Lakers star with five NBA titles		fun-athletes-historical
Pele	Brazilian soccer star who won three World Cups		fun-athletes-historical
Diego Maradona	Argentine soccer star of the 1980s		fun-athletes-historical
Johan Cruyff	Dutch soccer star and thinker of 'total football'		fun-athletes-historical
Walter Payton	Chicago Bears running back nicknamed Sweetness		fun-athletes-historical
Jim Brown	Football running back and star of the 1950s-60s		fun-athletes-historical
Vince Lombardi	Green Bay Packers coach; the Super Bowl trophy bears his name		fun-athletes-historical
Gordie Howe	Hockey star known as Mr. Hockey		fun-athletes-historical
Joe DiMaggio	Yankees outfielder with a 56-game hitting streak in 1941		fun-athletes-historical
Ty Cobb	Early baseball star with a high batting average		fun-athletes-historical
Cy Young	Pitcher with 511 wins; the best pitcher award is named for him		fun-athletes-historical
Satchel Paige	Pitcher in the Negro leagues and later the majors		fun-athletes-historical
Josh Gibson	Negro leagues catcher called the Black Babe Ruth		fun-athletes-historical
Honus Wagner	Early baseball shortstop; his card is one of the most famous		fun-athletes-historical
Joe Louis	Heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949		fun-athletes-historical
Jack Johnson	First Black heavyweight boxing champion (1908)		fun-athletes-historical
Bobby Jones	Golfer who won the Grand Slam in 1930		fun-athletes-historical
Seabiscuit	A racehorse who became a Depression-era hero		fun-athletes-historical
Secretariat	Racehorse who won the 1973 Triple Crown		fun-athletes-historical
Man o' War	Famous racehorse of the 1920s		fun-athletes-historical
Bill Walsh	NFL coach known for the West Coast offense		fun-athletes-historical
Babe Didrikson Zaharias	Won Olympic golds in track in 1932 and became a champion golfer		fun-athletes-historical
Sonja Henie	Norwegian figure skater with three Olympic golds		fun-athletes-historical
Paavo Nurmi	Finnish distance runner, a star of the 1920s		fun-athletes-historical
Emil Zatopek	Czech runner who won three golds in 1952		fun-athletes-historical
Abebe Bikila	Ethiopian runner who won the 1960 Olympic marathon barefoot		fun-athletes-historical
Johnny Weissmuller	Olympic swimmer who later played Tarzan		fun-athletes-historical
Duke Kahanamoku	Hawaiian swimmer and the father of modern surfing		fun-athletes-historical
Gertrude Ederle	First woman to swim the English Channel (1926)		fun-athletes-historical
Pat Summitt	Tennessee women's basketball coach with many wins		fun-athletes-historical
Lou Brock	Baseball base-stealing star		fun-athletes-historical
Mickey Mantle	Yankees slugger of the 1950s and 60s		fun-athletes-historical
Ted Williams	Red Sox hitter, the last to hit .400 in a season (1941)		fun-athletes-historical
Roger Bannister	First person to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)		fun-athletes-historical
Dog	Puppy		fun-baby-animal-names
Cat	Kitten		fun-baby-animal-names
Cow	Calf		fun-baby-animal-names
Horse	Foal (A young girl horse is a filly, a young boy horse is a colt.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Sheep	Lamb		fun-baby-animal-names
Goat	Kid		fun-baby-animal-names
Pig	Piglet		fun-baby-animal-names
Chicken	Chick		fun-baby-animal-names
Duck	Duckling		fun-baby-animal-names
Goose	Gosling		fun-baby-animal-names
Swan	Cygnet		fun-baby-animal-names
Frog	Tadpole (Tadpoles have tails and live in water.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Butterfly	Caterpillar (The caterpillar is a larva that turns into a butterfly.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Deer	Fawn		fun-baby-animal-names
Bear	Cub		fun-baby-animal-names
Lion	Cub		fun-baby-animal-names
Tiger	Cub		fun-baby-animal-names
Wolf	Pup		fun-baby-animal-names
Fox	Kit (Also called a pup or cub.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Rabbit	Kit (Also called a bunny.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Kangaroo	Joey		fun-baby-animal-names
Koala	Joey		fun-baby-animal-names
Elephant	Calf		fun-baby-animal-names
Giraffe	Calf		fun-baby-animal-names
Whale	Calf		fun-baby-animal-names
Dolphin	Calf		fun-baby-animal-names
Seal	Pup		fun-baby-animal-names
Owl	Owlet		fun-baby-animal-names
Eagle	Eaglet		fun-baby-animal-names
Eel	Elver		fun-baby-animal-names
Fish	Fry (Very young fish are called fry.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Salmon	Alevin (Then they become fry and later smolt.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Frog (young)	Tadpole		fun-baby-animal-names
Hen's egg hatches into a	Chick		fun-baby-animal-names
Pigeon	Squab		fun-baby-animal-names
Turkey	Poult		fun-baby-animal-names
Peacock or peahen	Peachick		fun-baby-animal-names
Penguin	Chick		fun-baby-animal-names
Hippopotamus	Calf		fun-baby-animal-names
Rhinoceros	Calf		fun-baby-animal-names
Zebra	Foal		fun-baby-animal-names
Donkey	Foal		fun-baby-animal-names
Camel	Calf		fun-baby-animal-names
Monkey	Infant (Some are called babies or infants.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Gorilla	Infant		fun-baby-animal-names
Squirrel	Kit (Also called a kitten or pup.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Beaver	Kit		fun-baby-animal-names
Otter	Pup		fun-baby-animal-names
Bat	Pup		fun-baby-animal-names
Mouse	Pup (Also called a pinkie when newborn.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Hedgehog	Hoglet		fun-baby-animal-names
Alligator	Hatchling		fun-baby-animal-names
Turtle	Hatchling		fun-baby-animal-names
Snake	Hatchling (Some baby snakes are called snakelets.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Skunk	Kit		fun-baby-animal-names
Porcupine	Porcupette		fun-baby-animal-names
Crow	Chick (Young crows are also called fledglings.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Flamingo	Chick		fun-baby-animal-names
Ostrich	Chick		fun-baby-animal-names
Kiwi	Chick		fun-baby-animal-names
Hawk	Eyas (A young hawk or falcon taken for training is called an eyas.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Spider	Spiderling		fun-baby-animal-names
Beetle	Grub (The young stage of many beetles.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Fly	Maggot		fun-baby-animal-names
Bee	Larva		fun-baby-animal-names
Ant	Larva		fun-baby-animal-names
Octopus	Paralarva (Newly hatched ones float in the sea.)		fun-baby-animal-names
Shark	Pup		fun-baby-animal-names
Starfish	Larva		fun-baby-animal-names
Llama	Cria		fun-baby-animal-names
Alpaca	Cria		fun-baby-animal-names
Antelope	Calf		fun-baby-animal-names
Moose	Calf		fun-baby-animal-names
Walrus	Calf		fun-baby-animal-names
Platypus	Puggle		fun-baby-animal-names
Opossum	Joey		fun-baby-animal-names
Wombat	Joey		fun-baby-animal-names
Black-capped Chickadee	Chick-a-dee-dee-dee, or a whistled fee-bee		fun-bird-songs
American Robin	Cheerily, cheer-up, cheerio, a rolling song		fun-bird-songs
Northern Cardinal	Cheer, cheer, cheer, or birdie, birdie, birdie		fun-bird-songs
Blue Jay	A loud 'jay! jay!' and sometimes a bell-like sound		fun-bird-songs
American Crow	Caw, caw		fun-bird-songs
Mourning Dove	A soft 'coo-AH, coo, coo, coo'		fun-bird-songs
Great Horned Owl	Hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo, hoo		fun-bird-songs
Barred Owl	Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?		fun-bird-songs
Eastern Screech-Owl	A trembling, whinny-like trill		fun-bird-songs
Barn Owl	A harsh screech, not a hoot		fun-bird-songs
Whip-poor-will	Whip-poor-will, repeated		fun-bird-songs
Eastern Phoebe	Fee-bee		fun-bird-songs
Eastern Towhee	Drink your tea		fun-bird-songs
White-throated Sparrow	Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody		fun-bird-songs
Song Sparrow	Maids, maids, maids, put on your tea-kettle-ettle		fun-bird-songs
American Goldfinch	Per-chick-o-ree in flight, a bouncy twittering		fun-bird-songs
Carolina Wren	Teakettle, teakettle, teakettle		fun-bird-songs
Ovenbird	Teacher, teacher, teacher, getting louder		fun-bird-songs
Common Yellowthroat	Witchety, witchety, witchety		fun-bird-songs
Yellow Warbler	Sweet, sweet, I'm so sweet		fun-bird-songs
Red-winged Blackbird	Conk-la-ree		fun-bird-songs
Western Meadowlark	A flute-like gurgling song		fun-bird-songs
Killdeer	Kill-dee, kill-dee		fun-bird-songs
Common Loon	A wavering wail and a yodel		fun-bird-songs
Mallard	A raspy quack from the female		fun-bird-songs
Canada Goose	Honk, honk		fun-bird-songs
Sandhill Crane	A rolling, rattling bugle		fun-bird-songs
Wild Turkey	Gobble gobble from males		fun-bird-songs
Ruffed Grouse	A drumming sound made with wings		fun-bird-songs
Northern Bobwhite	Bob-white!		fun-bird-songs
Common Nighthawk	A buzzy 'peent' at dusk		fun-bird-songs
Brown Thrasher	Sings each phrase twice		fun-bird-songs
Northern Mockingbird	Copies many sounds, repeating each three times		fun-bird-songs
Gray Catbird	A mew like a cat plus a mixed song		fun-bird-songs
Wood Thrush	Ee-oh-lay, a flute-like song		fun-bird-songs
Hermit Thrush	A clear, airy, flute-like song		fun-bird-songs
Chipping Sparrow	A long dry trill, chip-chip-chip		fun-bird-songs
House Wren	A bubbling jumble of notes		fun-bird-songs
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	Like a robin that took singing lessons		fun-bird-songs
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	A thin, mewing zeee		fun-bird-songs
Pileated Woodpecker	A loud wild laugh, kuk-kuk-kuk, and big drumming on wood		fun-bird-songs
Downy Woodpecker	A whinny and a soft pik		fun-bird-songs
Hummingbird	A tiny squeak and a humming wing buzz		fun-bird-songs
Kookaburra	A loud laughing cackle		fun-bird-songs
Cuckoo (the clock bird)	Cuck-oo, cuck-oo		fun-bird-songs
Bald Eagle	A weak high chirp, not the scream in the movies		fun-bird-songs
Red-tailed Hawk	A harsh, rasping scream, kee-eeeee-arr		fun-bird-songs
Common Raven	A deep croak		fun-bird-songs
Rooster	Cock-a-doodle-doo		fun-bird-songs
Peacock	A loud, cat-like cry		fun-bird-songs
Snow Goose	A high honking chorus		fun-bird-songs
Blue-winged Teal	Peeping and whistles		fun-bird-songs
What makes a bird a bird?	Feathers, a beak, two wings and eggs with hard shells		fun-birds-world
Ostrich	The largest bird; it cannot fly but runs fast		fun-birds-world
Emu	A big Australian bird that cannot fly		fun-birds-world
Kiwi	A small flightless bird of New Zealand		fun-birds-world
Penguin	A flightless swimmer of the Southern Hemisphere		fun-birds-world
Albatross	Has the widest wingspan; glides over the ocean for hours		fun-birds-world
Bald eagle	A sea eagle of North America		fun-birds-world
Golden eagle	A powerful brown eagle of mountains in the Northern Hemisphere		fun-birds-world
Condor	A giant vulture of the Andes		fun-birds-world
Peregrine falcon	The fastest diving bird		fun-birds-world
Hummingbird	The only birds that can fly backward		fun-birds-world
Owl	Silent night hunter with forward-facing eyes		fun-birds-world
Parrot	A colorful bird that can copy sounds		fun-birds-world
Macaw	A large, brightly colored parrot		fun-birds-world
Cockatoo	A parrot with a crest		fun-birds-world
Budgie (parakeet)	A small parrot kept as a pet		fun-birds-world
Toucan	A tropical bird with a huge colorful bill		fun-birds-world
Flamingo	A pink bird that stands on one leg		fun-birds-world
Peacock	The male fans out a huge, showy tail		fun-birds-world
Swan	A graceful water bird		fun-birds-world
Goose	A big water bird that flies in a V		fun-birds-world
Duck	A swimming bird with waterproof feathers		fun-birds-world
Pelican	Has a large throat pouch for scooping fish		fun-birds-world
Stork	A long-legged bird with a big bill		fun-birds-world
Heron	A tall wading bird that hunts fish		fun-birds-world
Crane	A tall bird known for its dancing		fun-birds-world
Puffin	A seabird with a colorful beak		fun-birds-world
Seagull	A seabird found near coasts and cities		fun-birds-world
Cormorant	A diving seabird that dries its wings in the sun		fun-birds-world
Kingfisher	Dives to catch fish		fun-birds-world
Woodpecker	Pecks wood to find insects		fun-birds-world
Crow	A very smart black bird		fun-birds-world
Raven	A big black bird that can solve puzzles		fun-birds-world
Magpie	A black and white bird in the crow family		fun-birds-world
Robin	A songbird known for its red-orange chest		fun-birds-world
Nightingale	A bird famous for its beautiful song		fun-birds-world
Skylark	Sings while flying high		fun-birds-world
Swallow	A fast flyer that catches insects		fun-birds-world
Swift	A bird that can stay in the air for months		fun-birds-world
Cuckoo	Lays eggs in other birds' nests		fun-birds-world
Kookaburra	An Australian bird with a laughing call		fun-birds-world
Lyrebird	An Australian bird that copies sounds		fun-birds-world
Bird of paradise	A bird with amazing feathers and dances of New Guinea		fun-birds-world
Hoatzin	A South American bird with claws on its young wings		fun-birds-world
Secretary bird	A tall African bird that stomps on snakes		fun-birds-world
Shoebill	A huge-billed bird from African swamps		fun-birds-world
Cassowary	A big flightless bird with a bony casque on its head		fun-birds-world
Rhea	A flightless South American bird like an ostrich		fun-birds-world
Dodo	A flightless bird of Mauritius that went extinct in the 1600s		fun-birds-world
Turkey	A large bird of North America, bred for food		fun-birds-world
Chicken	The most common domestic bird		fun-birds-world
Pigeon	A city bird that can find its way home		fun-birds-world
Dove	A symbol of peace		fun-birds-world
Snowy owl	A white Arctic owl		fun-birds-world
Great horned owl	An owl with feather tufts shaped like horns		fun-birds-world
Harpy eagle	A rainforest eagle with big talons		fun-birds-world
Vulture	A scavenger that eats dead animals		fun-birds-world
Roadrunner	A fast ground bird of the Southwest		fun-birds-world
Tern	A graceful seabird; the Arctic tern migrates the farthest		fun-birds-world
Sandpiper	A small shorebird		fun-birds-world
Ibis	A wading bird with a curved bill		fun-birds-world
Quetzal	A sacred bird of Central America with long tail feathers		fun-birds-world
Weaver bird	A bird that weaves intricate nests		fun-birds-world
Bowerbird	A bird that decorates a stage to impress a mate		fun-birds-world
Hornbill	A bird with a large curved bill and a casque		fun-birds-world
Sparrow	A small brown songbird		fun-birds-world
Finch	A small seed-eating songbird; Darwin studied Galapagos finches		fun-birds-world
Checkers (Draughts)	Jump over opponent's pieces to capture; reach the far row to be crowned king		fun-board-games
Chess	Checkmate the other king		fun-board-games
Monopoly	Buy and trade properties and collect rent; the last player with money wins		fun-board-games
Scrabble	Make words on a board with letter tiles to score points		fun-board-games
Clue	Work out who did it, with what, and where		fun-board-games
Risk	Move armies to conquer the map		fun-board-games
Candy Land	Follow colored spaces to reach the Candy Castle		fun-board-games
Chutes and Ladders	Climb ladders and slide down chutes to reach 100		fun-board-games
Connect Four	Drop discs to line up four of your color in a row		fun-board-games
Battleship	Guess where the other player's ships are hiding on a grid		fun-board-games
Sorry!	Move your pawns around the board and send others back to start		fun-board-games
Parcheesi	Race four pawns around the board and home		fun-board-games
Ludo	A race game where you roll a die to bring tokens home		fun-board-games
Backgammon	Race checkers around the board using dice		fun-board-games
Mancala	Move stones around pits to capture more than your opponent		fun-board-games
Go	Surround more territory than your opponent with stones; it began in China over 2,500 years ago		fun-board-games
Dominoes	Match the dots on tiles end to end		fun-board-games
Yahtzee	Roll five dice to score combinations		fun-board-games
Boggle	Find words in a grid of letter cubes before time runs out		fun-board-games
Jenga	Pull blocks from a tower without making it fall		fun-board-games
Operation	Remove silly body parts without touching the sides		fun-board-games
Twister	Put your hands and feet on colored circles		fun-board-games
Pictionary	Draw clues so teammates can guess the word		fun-board-games
Charades	Act out words with no talking		fun-board-games
Trivial Pursuit	Answer questions of many kinds to collect wedges		fun-board-games
Catan	Trade resources and build roads and settlements		fun-board-games
Ticket to Ride	Collect train cards and claim railway routes		fun-board-games
Carcassonne	Place tiles to build roads, cities and fields		fun-board-games
Guess Who?	Ask yes or no questions to find the other player's character		fun-board-games
Hungry Hungry Hippos	Marbles race to be gobbled up by your hippo		fun-board-games
Mouse Trap	Build a silly contraption to catch the mouse		fun-board-games
Othello (Reversi)	Flip your opponent's discs by trapping them between yours		fun-board-games
Tic-tac-toe	Get three of your marks in a row		fun-board-games
Hangman	Guess letters to reveal a word before the drawing is done		fun-board-games
Dots and Boxes	Draw lines to complete boxes		fun-board-games
Sudoku	Fill a grid so each row, column and box has 1 to 9		fun-board-games
Rubik's Cube	Twist the faces until each side is one color		fun-board-games
Tangram	Arrange seven shapes to make a picture		fun-board-games
Jigsaw puzzle	Fit pieces together to make a picture		fun-board-games
Stratego	Capture the opponent's flag using hidden ranked pieces		fun-board-games
Pente	Get five stones in a row		fun-board-games
Nine Men's Morris	Make 'mills' of three in a row to capture		fun-board-games
Senet	An ancient Egyptian race game		fun-board-games
Royal Game of Ur	An ancient game from Mesopotamia, about 4,500 years old		fun-board-games
Pachisi	The ancient Indian game that Parcheesi and Ludo came from		fun-board-games
Snakes and Ladders	The Indian game that inspired Chutes and Ladders		fun-board-games
Die	One of a pair of dice; has six sides with 1 to 6 dots		fun-board-games
Opposite sides of a standard die add to	7		fun-board-games
Pawn	A small game piece that moves on the board		fun-board-games
Turn	Your chance to play		fun-board-games
Fair play	Following the rules and being kind whether you win or lose		fun-board-games
Alice	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll		fun-book-characters
The Mad Hatter	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll		fun-book-characters
The Cheshire Cat	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll		fun-book-characters
Dorothy Gale	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum		fun-book-characters
The Scarecrow	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum		fun-book-characters
Tom Sawyer	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain		fun-book-characters
Huckleberry Finn	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain		fun-book-characters
Peter Pan	Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie		fun-book-characters
Captain Hook	Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie		fun-book-characters
Mowgli	The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling		fun-book-characters
Baloo	The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling		fun-book-characters
Heidi	Heidi by Johanna Spyri		fun-book-characters
Anne Shirley	Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery		fun-book-characters
Pollyanna	Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter		fun-book-characters
Jo March	Little Women by Louisa May Alcott		fun-book-characters
Mary Lennox	The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett		fun-book-characters
Sara Crewe	A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett		fun-book-characters
Black Beauty	Black Beauty by Anna Sewell		fun-book-characters
Pinocchio	The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi		fun-book-characters
Robinson Crusoe	Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe		fun-book-characters
Gulliver	Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift		fun-book-characters
Long John Silver	Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson		fun-book-characters
Jim Hawkins	Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson		fun-book-characters
Sherlock Holmes	Detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle		fun-book-characters
Dr. Watson	Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle		fun-book-characters
Oliver Twist	Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens		fun-book-characters
Ebenezer Scrooge	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens		fun-book-characters
Tiny Tim	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens		fun-book-characters
David Copperfield	David Copperfield by Charles Dickens		fun-book-characters
Pip	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens		fun-book-characters
Elizabeth Bennet	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen		fun-book-characters
Jane Eyre	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte		fun-book-characters
Don Quixote	Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes		fun-book-characters
Captain Nemo	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne		fun-book-characters
Phileas Fogg	Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne		fun-book-characters
Captain Ahab	Moby-Dick by Herman Melville		fun-book-characters
Ishmael	Moby-Dick by Herman Melville		fun-book-characters
Rip Van Winkle	A short story by Washington Irving		fun-book-characters
Ichabod Crane	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving		fun-book-characters
Toad of Toad Hall	The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame		fun-book-characters
Ratty and Mole	The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame		fun-book-characters
Peter Rabbit	The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter		fun-book-characters
Winnie-the-Pooh	Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne		fun-book-characters
Christopher Robin	Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne		fun-book-characters
Eeyore	Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne		fun-book-characters
Rapunzel	A tale collected by the Brothers Grimm		fun-book-characters
Hansel and Gretel	A tale collected by the Brothers Grimm		fun-book-characters
The Ugly Duckling	A tale by Hans Christian Andersen		fun-book-characters
The Little Mermaid	A tale by Hans Christian Andersen		fun-book-characters
Cinderella	A tale retold by Charles Perrault		fun-book-characters
Puss in Boots	A tale retold by Charles Perrault		fun-book-characters
Aladdin	A tale from The Thousand and One Nights		fun-book-characters
Scheherazade	The storyteller of The Thousand and One Nights		fun-book-characters
Frankenstein's creature	Frankenstein by Mary Shelley		fun-book-characters
Dr. Jekyll	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson		fun-book-characters
Hercule Poirot	Detective stories by Agatha Christie		fun-book-characters
Tarzan	Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs		fun-book-characters
Raggedy Ann	A doll created by Johnny Gruelle		fun-book-characters
The Velveteen Rabbit	The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams		fun-book-characters
Paul Bunyan	American tall tale hero		fun-book-characters
Johnny Appleseed	American folk hero who planted apple trees		fun-book-characters
How many cards are in a standard deck?	52, not counting jokers		fun-card-games-poker
What are the four suits?	Hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades		fun-card-games-poker
Which suits are red?	Hearts and diamonds		fun-card-games-poker
Which suits are black?	Clubs and spades		fun-card-games-poker
How many cards are in each suit?	13		fun-card-games-poker
What are the face cards?	Jack, queen and king		fun-card-games-poker
What is an ace?	The card marked A; high or low depending on the game		fun-card-games-poker
How many face cards are in a deck?	12		fun-card-games-poker
What is a royal flush?	Ace, king, queen, jack and ten all of the same suit; the top poker hand		fun-card-games-poker
What is a straight flush?	Five cards in a row, all of the same suit		fun-card-games-poker
What is four of a kind?	Four cards of the same rank		fun-card-games-poker
What is a full house?	Three of a kind plus a pair		fun-card-games-poker
What is a flush?	Five cards of the same suit, not in order		fun-card-games-poker
What is a straight?	Five cards in order, any suits		fun-card-games-poker
What is three of a kind?	Three cards of the same rank		fun-card-games-poker
What is two pair?	Two different pairs		fun-card-games-poker
What is one pair?	Two cards of the same rank		fun-card-games-poker
What is a high card?	No pairs or sets; the highest card plays		fun-card-games-poker
Order of poker hands, strongest to weakest?	Royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, pair, high card		fun-card-games-poker
What does 'ante' mean?	A small bet placed before cards are dealt		fun-card-games-poker
What does 'fold' mean?	To quit the hand		fun-card-games-poker
What does 'call' mean?	To match another player's bet		fun-card-games-poker
What does 'raise' mean?	To bet more than the last bet		fun-card-games-poker
What is Go Fish?	A game where you ask for matching cards to make sets of four		fun-card-games-poker
What is War?	A game where players flip cards and the higher one wins both		fun-card-games-poker
What is Old Maid?	A game where players try not to be left with the odd queen		fun-card-games-poker
What is Crazy Eights?	A game where you match suit or rank and eights are wild		fun-card-games-poker
What is Rummy?	A game about making sets and runs		fun-card-games-poker
What is Gin Rummy?	A two-player rummy game where you try to match all your cards		fun-card-games-poker
What is Blackjack?	A game where you try to reach 21 without going over		fun-card-games-poker
In blackjack, what is a face card worth?	10		fun-card-games-poker
In blackjack, what is an ace worth?	1 or 11		fun-card-games-poker
What is Solitaire?	A card game played alone		fun-card-games-poker
What is Klondike?	The most common kind of solitaire		fun-card-games-poker
What is Spades?	A trick-taking game where spades are always trump		fun-card-games-poker
What is Hearts?	A trick-taking game where you try to avoid hearts		fun-card-games-poker
What is Bridge?	A partnership trick-taking game with bidding		fun-card-games-poker
What is Uno?	A game with colored number and action cards; first to empty their hand wins		fun-card-games-poker
What is Snap?	A speed game where you shout when two matching cards appear		fun-card-games-poker
What is Spit or Speed?	A fast two-player game where you play cards onto center piles		fun-card-games-poker
What is Memory or Concentration?	A game of flipping cards to find matching pairs		fun-card-games-poker
What is a trick?	One round in which each player plays a card		fun-card-games-poker
What is trump?	A suit that beats other suits in some games		fun-card-games-poker
What is shuffling?	Mixing up the cards		fun-card-games-poker
What does it mean to 'deal'?	To hand out the cards		fun-card-games-poker
What is the 'stock' pile?	The pile of leftover cards you draw from		fun-card-games-poker
What is the 'discard' pile?	The pile where used cards are placed		fun-card-games-poker
What is a run or sequence?	Cards of the same suit in order		fun-card-games-poker
What is a 'set' in rummy?	Three or four cards of the same rank		fun-card-games-poker
What is cribbage?	A game scored with pegs on a board		fun-card-games-poker
What is a 'wild card'?	A card that can stand for any other card		fun-card-games-poker
What are jokers?	Extra cards often used as wild cards		fun-card-games-poker
What is a pip?	A symbol on a card showing its suit and number		fun-card-games-poker
How many cards in a Texas Hold'em hand?	Each player has two private cards plus five shared cards		fun-card-games-poker
How many cards are in a pinochle deck?	48		fun-card-games-poker
What are the red-suit queens?	Queen of hearts and queen of diamonds		fun-card-games-poker
Which king has no mustache?	The king of hearts, in many decks		fun-card-games-poker
Siamese	Slim, cream-colored cat with dark face, ears, paws and tail, and a loud voice		fun-cat-breeds
Persian	Long fluffy fur and a flat face		fun-cat-breeds
Maine Coon	One of the largest house cats, with a bushy tail and tufted ears		fun-cat-breeds
Bengal	Spotted coat like a small leopard		fun-cat-breeds
Ragdoll	Large, calm and goes limp when held		fun-cat-breeds
Sphynx	A cat with almost no fur		fun-cat-breeds
Scottish Fold	Ears that fold forward		fun-cat-breeds
British Shorthair	Round face and thick plush gray-blue coat		fun-cat-breeds
Abyssinian	Sleek, active cat with a ticked coat		fun-cat-breeds
Russian Blue	Silvery-blue coat and green eyes		fun-cat-breeds
Manx	A cat with no tail or a very short one		fun-cat-breeds
Norwegian Forest Cat	Long thick coat for cold winters		fun-cat-breeds
Birman	Long hair, blue eyes and white paws		fun-cat-breeds
Burmese	Sleek and friendly cat from Southeast Asia		fun-cat-breeds
Turkish Angora	Silky white long-haired cat		fun-cat-breeds
Calico	A coat color pattern of white, orange and black; not a breed		fun-cat-breeds
Tabby	A coat pattern of stripes, dots or swirls; not a breed		fun-cat-breeds
Tuxedo	A black and white coat pattern; not a breed		fun-cat-breeds
A cat's whiskers	Help it sense space and objects around it		fun-cat-breeds
A cat's purr	Usually means it is happy, but cats may also purr to calm themselves		fun-cat-breeds
Cat sleep	Cats sleep about 12 to 16 hours a day		fun-cat-breeds
Cat paws	Claws can pull back in so they stay sharp		fun-cat-breeds
Cat eyes	Cats see well in dim light		fun-cat-breeds
Cat jump	A cat can leap about five or six times its body length		fun-cat-breeds
Cat land	Cats can twist in the air to land on their feet		fun-cat-breeds
Cat tail	A tail held straight up often means a friendly cat		fun-cat-breeds
Cat meow	Cats mostly meow to talk to people, not other cats		fun-cat-breeds
Cat kneading	Pressing paws in and out, a cozy habit from kittenhood		fun-cat-breeds
Cat grooming	Cats lick their fur to stay clean		fun-cat-breeds
Cat's rough tongue	Tiny hooks on it work like a comb		fun-cat-breeds
Cat teeth	Adult cats have 30 teeth		fun-cat-breeds
Kitten count	A mother cat can have a litter of about three to five kittens		fun-cat-breeds
Kitten eyes	Kittens are born with their eyes closed and open them after about a week		fun-cat-breeds
Cat nap	A short, light sleep		fun-cat-breeds
Hairball	Fur a cat swallowed while grooming and then coughs up		fun-cat-breeds
Catnip	A plant that makes many cats playful		fun-cat-breeds
Big cat family	Lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars are all relatives of house cats		fun-cat-breeds
House cat history	Cats have lived with people for thousands of years		fun-cat-breeds
Ancient Egypt cats	Egyptians honored cats and a cat goddess named Bastet		fun-cat-breeds
Cats and milk	Many adult cats cannot digest cow's milk well; fresh water is best		fun-cat-breeds
Cat ears	Cats can turn each ear to hear sounds from different directions		fun-cat-breeds
Cat's nose	Each cat's nose print is unique, like a fingerprint		fun-cat-breeds
Cat whisker length	About as wide as the cat's body		fun-cat-breeds
Cats sweat	Only a little, through their paws		fun-cat-breeds
Cat age in human years	A one-year-old cat is about like a teenager		fun-cat-breeds
Stray vs feral	Strays were once pets; feral cats grew up wild		fun-cat-breeds
Cat doors	A cat flap lets pets come and go		fun-cat-breeds
Tortoiseshell	A coat of black and orange patches; not a breed		fun-cat-breeds
Lynx	A wild cat with ear tufts and a short tail		fun-cat-breeds
Cheetah	Wild cat that cannot fully pull in its claws		fun-cat-breeds
Italian Game	1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4		fun-chess-openings-notation
Ruy Lopez (Spanish Game)	1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5		fun-chess-openings-notation
Scotch Game	1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4		fun-chess-openings-notation
Sicilian Defense	1. e4 c5		fun-chess-openings-notation
French Defense	1. e4 e6		fun-chess-openings-notation
Caro-Kann Defense	1. e4 c6		fun-chess-openings-notation
Pirc Defense	1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6		fun-chess-openings-notation
Scandinavian Defense	1. e4 d5		fun-chess-openings-notation
Queen's Gambit	1. d4 d5 2. c4		fun-chess-openings-notation
Queen's Gambit Declined	1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6		fun-chess-openings-notation
Slav Defense	1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6		fun-chess-openings-notation
King's Indian Defense	1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 and Black plays Bg7		fun-chess-openings-notation
Nimzo-Indian Defense	1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4		fun-chess-openings-notation
English Opening	1. c4		fun-chess-openings-notation
Reti Opening	1. Nf3 followed by c4		fun-chess-openings-notation
King's Gambit	1. e4 e5 2. f4		fun-chess-openings-notation
Vienna Game	1. e4 e5 2. Nc3		fun-chess-openings-notation
London System	A setup with d4, Nf3, Bf4, e3 and c3		fun-chess-openings-notation
Dutch Defense	1. d4 f5		fun-chess-openings-notation
Petrov's Defense	1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6		fun-chess-openings-notation
Alekhine's Defense	1. e4 Nf6		fun-chess-openings-notation
Evans Gambit	1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4		fun-chess-openings-notation
Fried Liver Attack	A sharp Italian line with Nxf7 after Ng5 and Nxd5		fun-chess-openings-notation
Two Knights Defense	1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6		fun-chess-openings-notation
K	King		fun-chess-openings-notation
Q	Queen		fun-chess-openings-notation
R	Rook		fun-chess-openings-notation
B	Bishop		fun-chess-openings-notation
N	Knight		fun-chess-openings-notation
No letter	A pawn move, like e4		fun-chess-openings-notation
x	A capture, like Nxe5		fun-chess-openings-notation
+	Check		fun-chess-openings-notation
#	Checkmate		fun-chess-openings-notation
O-O	Castling kingside (short castling)		fun-chess-openings-notation
O-O-O	Castling queenside (long castling)		fun-chess-openings-notation
=Q	Promotes a pawn to a queen, like e8=Q		fun-chess-openings-notation
!	A good move		fun-chess-openings-notation
?	A mistake		fun-chess-openings-notation
??	A blunder		fun-chess-openings-notation
!!	A brilliant move		fun-chess-openings-notation
1-0	White won the game		fun-chess-openings-notation
0-1	Black won the game		fun-chess-openings-notation
1/2-1/2	The game was a draw		fun-chess-openings-notation
e4	The square on file e, rank 4		fun-chess-openings-notation
a1	The bottom-left corner square from White's side, a dark square		fun-chess-openings-notation
h8	The top-right corner from White's side, a dark square		fun-chess-openings-notation
Algebraic notation	The standard way to record chess moves using squares and piece letters		fun-chess-openings-notation
FEN	A line of text that describes a chess position		fun-chess-openings-notation
PGN	A file format for saving chess games		fun-chess-openings-notation
Elo rating	A number that estimates a player's strength		fun-chess-openings-notation
Grandmaster	The highest title a chess player can earn		fun-chess-openings-notation
Mikhail Botvinnik	World champion from the Soviet Union and teacher of future champions		fun-chess-openings-notation
Bobby Fischer	American world champion in 1972		fun-chess-openings-notation
Deep Blue	IBM computer that beat the world champion Kasparov in a match in 1997		fun-chess-openings-notation
Capablanca	Cuban world champion, famous for clear, simple play		fun-chess-openings-notation
Paul Morphy	American chess star of the 1850s		fun-chess-openings-notation
Wilhelm Steinitz	The first official world champion, 1886		fun-chess-openings-notation
Alekhine	Russian-born world champion who gave his name to an opening		fun-chess-openings-notation
How does the king move?	One square in any direction		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How does the queen move?	Any number of squares in any straight line: sideways, forward, backward or diagonal		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How does the rook move?	Any number of squares forward, backward or sideways		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How does the bishop move?	Any number of squares diagonally, staying on its color		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How does the knight move?	In an L shape: two squares one way and one square the other. It can jump over pieces		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How does a pawn move?	Forward one square; on its first move it may go two		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How does a pawn capture?	One square diagonally forward		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How many squares are on a chessboard?	64, in an 8 by 8 grid		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How many pieces does each player start with?	16		fun-chess-pieces-rules
Who moves first in chess?	White		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is the goal of chess?	To checkmate the other player's king		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is check?	When a king is under attack		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is checkmate?	A king in check with no escape; the game ends		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is stalemate?	A player has no legal move but is not in check; the game is a draw		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is castling?	Moving the king two squares toward a rook, with the rook jumping to the other side		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is promotion?	A pawn reaching the far end becomes a queen, rook, bishop or knight		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is en passant?	A special pawn capture of a pawn that has just moved two squares		fun-chess-pieces-rules
Which piece can jump?	The knight		fun-chess-pieces-rules
Which pieces start on the back row?	Rooks, knights, bishops, queen and king		fun-chess-pieces-rules
Where does the queen start?	On her own color: white queen on a light square, black queen on a dark square		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a draw?	A tie game		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What are some ways a game can be drawn?	Stalemate, agreement, repeating positions, or not enough pieces		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a fork?	One piece attacks two or more pieces at once		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a pin?	A piece cannot move without exposing a more valuable piece behind it		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a skewer?	A valuable piece is attacked and when it moves, a piece behind it is captured		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is the touch-move rule?	If you touch a piece you must move it if you can		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How many points is a pawn worth?	1		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How many points is a knight worth?	3		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How many points is a bishop worth?	3		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How many points is a rook worth?	5		fun-chess-pieces-rules
How many points is the queen worth?	9		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What are the files?	The columns of the chessboard, labeled a to h		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What are the ranks?	The rows of the board, numbered 1 to 8		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is the center?	The four middle squares: d4, e4, d5, e5		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What does 'J'adoube' mean?	French for 'I adjust'; said when fixing a piece without moving it		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a gambit?	An opening where a player gives up a pawn for an advantage		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is the endgame?	The late stage when few pieces are left		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is the middlegame?	The part after the opening when most fighting happens		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is the opening?	The first moves, used to develop pieces		fun-chess-pieces-rules
Why develop pieces early?	To get knights and bishops into the game and prepare to castle		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a blunder?	A bad mistake		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a sacrifice?	Giving up material to gain something better		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What does 'resign' mean?	To end the game by giving up		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a tempo?	A move or a unit of time in the game		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a passed pawn?	A pawn with no enemy pawns blocking its path		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a doubled pawn?	Two pawns of the same color on the same file		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is the fool's mate?	The shortest checkmate, in two moves		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is scholar's mate?	A quick four-move checkmate that beginners should watch for		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a discovered attack?	Moving one piece reveals an attack from another		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is zugzwang?	When every move a player can make makes things worse		fun-chess-pieces-rules
What is a rank mate or back-rank mate?	A checkmate on the back row when the king is trapped by its own pawns		fun-chess-pieces-rules
One sun in the sky	1 (one)		fun-counting-animals
Two ears on a rabbit	2 (two)		fun-counting-animals
Three little pigs	3 (three)		fun-counting-animals
Four legs on a dog	4 (four)		fun-counting-animals
Five toes on a foot	5 (five)		fun-counting-animals
Six legs on a bee	6 (six)		fun-counting-animals
Seven dwarfs	7 (seven)		fun-counting-animals
Eight legs on a spider	8 (eight)		fun-counting-animals
Eight arms on an octopus	8 (eight)		fun-counting-animals
Nine lives of a cat	9 (nine)		fun-counting-animals
Ten fingers on two hands	10 (ten)		fun-counting-animals
Eleven players on a soccer team	11 (eleven)		fun-counting-animals
Twelve eggs in a dozen	12 (twelve)		fun-counting-animals
Thirteen	13 (thirteen)		fun-counting-animals
Fourteen	14 (fourteen)		fun-counting-animals
Fifteen	15 (fifteen)		fun-counting-animals
Sixteen	16 (sixteen)		fun-counting-animals
Seventeen	17 (seventeen)		fun-counting-animals
Eighteen	18 (eighteen)		fun-counting-animals
Nineteen	19 (nineteen)		fun-counting-animals
Twenty	20 (twenty)		fun-counting-animals
How many wings does a bird have?	2		fun-counting-animals
How many legs does a chicken have?	2		fun-counting-animals
How many legs does a cow have?	4		fun-counting-animals
How many legs does an insect have?	6		fun-counting-animals
How many eyes does a person have?	2		fun-counting-animals
How many ears does an elephant have?	2		fun-counting-animals
How many tails does a cat have?	1		fun-counting-animals
How many horns does a unicorn have?	1		fun-counting-animals
How many horns does a triceratops have?	3		fun-counting-animals
How many arms does a starfish usually have?	5		fun-counting-animals
How many hearts does an octopus have?	3		fun-counting-animals
How many legs does a horse have?	4		fun-counting-animals
How many legs does a snake have?	0		fun-counting-animals
How many days in a week?	7		fun-counting-animals
How many colors in a rainbow?	7		fun-counting-animals
How many ducks in a row if there are 3 and 2 more come?	5		fun-counting-animals
2 cats + 1 cat =	3 cats		fun-counting-animals
3 dogs + 2 dogs =	5 dogs		fun-counting-animals
5 fish - 1 fish =	4 fish		fun-counting-animals
Count by twos	2, 4, 6, 8, 10		fun-counting-animals
Count by fives	5, 10, 15, 20		fun-counting-animals
Count by tens	10, 20, 30, 40, 50		fun-counting-animals
Count backward from 5	5, 4, 3, 2, 1, blast off!		fun-counting-animals
Count backward from 10	10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1		fun-counting-animals
What number comes after 9?	10		fun-counting-animals
What number comes after 19?	20		fun-counting-animals
What number comes before 5?	4		fun-counting-animals
What number is between 6 and 8?	7		fun-counting-animals
What is a pair?	Two of something, like two shoes		fun-counting-animals
What is a dozen?	Twelve		fun-counting-animals
Sauroposeidon	One of the tallest dinosaurs, with a very long neck		fun-dinosaurs-more
Amargasaurus	A sauropod with two rows of tall spines on its neck		fun-dinosaurs-more
Dreadnoughtus	A giant sauropod found in Argentina		fun-dinosaurs-more
Patagotitan	One of the biggest dinosaurs known, from Patagonia		fun-dinosaurs-more
Saltasaurus	A sauropod with bony armor on its back		fun-dinosaurs-more
Stegoceras	A small dome-headed dinosaur		fun-dinosaurs-more
Corythosaurus	A duck-billed dinosaur with a rounded crest		fun-dinosaurs-more
Lambeosaurus	A duck-billed dinosaur with a hatchet-shaped crest		fun-dinosaurs-more
Hadrosaurus	The first dinosaur skeleton found in North America		fun-dinosaurs-more
Tenontosaurus	A plant-eater that was prey for Deinonychus		fun-dinosaurs-more
Psittacosaurus	A small dinosaur with a parrot-like beak		fun-dinosaurs-more
Triceratops horn count	Three horns: two long over the eyes and one short on the nose		fun-dinosaurs-more
Pentaceratops	A horned dinosaur with a huge frill		fun-dinosaurs-more
Torosaurus	A relative of Triceratops with a very long frill		fun-dinosaurs-more
Centrosaurus	A horned dinosaur that lived in herds		fun-dinosaurs-more
Nodosaurus	An armored dinosaur with no tail club		fun-dinosaurs-more
Euoplocephalus	An armored dinosaur with a tail club		fun-dinosaurs-more
Minmi	A small armored dinosaur from Australia		fun-dinosaurs-more
Scutellosaurus	A tiny early armored dinosaur		fun-dinosaurs-more
Troodon	A smart-looking dinosaur with large eyes		fun-dinosaurs-more
Oviraptor name	Egg thief, a name later found to be unfair		fun-dinosaurs-more
Microraptor	A tiny feathered dinosaur with four wings		fun-dinosaurs-more
Sinosauropteryx	One of the first feathered dinosaurs found in China		fun-dinosaurs-more
Yutyrannus	A big feathered tyrannosaur		fun-dinosaurs-more
Albertosaurus	A tyrannosaur from Canada		fun-dinosaurs-more
Gorgosaurus	A tyrannosaur with a slimmer build		fun-dinosaurs-more
Tarbosaurus	An Asian relative of T. rex		fun-dinosaurs-more
Acrocanthosaurus	A big meat-eater with a ridge on its back		fun-dinosaurs-more
Megalosaurus	The first dinosaur ever given a scientific name (1824)		fun-dinosaurs-more
Iguanodon discovery	One of the first dinosaurs scientists identified		fun-dinosaurs-more
Eoraptor	A small early dinosaur from Argentina		fun-dinosaurs-more
Liliensternus	An early meat-eater with a crest		fun-dinosaurs-more
Cryolophosaurus	A dinosaur from Antarctica with a head crest		fun-dinosaurs-more
Leaellynasaura	A small dinosaur found in Australia that lived in dim polar light		fun-dinosaurs-more
Dracorex	A dome-headed dinosaur with spikes; the name means dragon king		fun-dinosaurs-more
Pteranodon wingspan	About 20 feet or more across		fun-dinosaurs-more
Wooly mammoth	An Ice Age elephant relative with long tusks and shaggy fur		fun-dinosaurs-more
Mastodon	An elephant relative of North America with a lower, longer body		fun-dinosaurs-more
Smilodon	The sabertooth cat with long upper fangs		fun-dinosaurs-more
Woolly rhinoceros	An Ice Age rhino with thick hair		fun-dinosaurs-more
Giant ground sloth	A huge sloth of the Ice Age		fun-dinosaurs-more
Glyptodon	A giant armored mammal like a huge armadillo		fun-dinosaurs-more
Megalodon timeline	Lived millions of years after the dinosaurs ended		fun-dinosaurs-more
Dire wolf	A big Ice Age wolf		fun-dinosaurs-more
Terror bird	A large flightless bird that hunted in South America		fun-dinosaurs-more
Irish elk	A giant deer with very wide antlers		fun-dinosaurs-more
La Brea Tar Pits	Tar pits in Los Angeles where many Ice Age animals were found		fun-dinosaurs-more
Ice Age	A time when ice sheets covered much of the Earth		fun-dinosaurs-more
Extinct	No longer alive anywhere		fun-dinosaurs-more
Endangered	At risk of becoming extinct		fun-dinosaurs-more
Fossil record	The history of life shown by fossils		fun-dinosaurs-more
Amber	Hardened tree resin that can trap insects for millions of years		fun-dinosaurs-more
Footprint fossil	A track left in mud that turned to stone		fun-dinosaurs-more
Bone bed	A place with many fossil bones together		fun-dinosaurs-more
Excavation	Carefully digging up fossils		fun-dinosaurs-more
Mounted skeleton	A fossil skeleton put together for a museum		fun-dinosaurs-more
Cast	A copy of a fossil bone		fun-dinosaurs-more
Where was Sue found?	South Dakota, in 1990		fun-dinosaurs-more
Where is the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History?	Washington, D.C.		fun-dinosaurs-more
Fossil formation	Minerals slowly replace the bone or shell until it becomes stone		fun-dinosaurs-more
What is a trace fossil?	A sign of life like a footprint, rather than a body		fun-dinosaurs-more
What do we call plant-eating dinosaurs?	Herbivores		fun-dinosaurs-more
What do we call meat-eating dinosaurs?	Carnivores		fun-dinosaurs-more
How do we know the colors of some dinosaurs?	Scientists study tiny structures in fossil feathers		fun-dinosaurs-more
Did all dinosaurs roar?	No one knows; some may have made low booms like birds and crocodiles		fun-dinosaurs-more
Are birds dinosaurs?	Yes, birds are living dinosaurs		fun-dinosaurs-more
Largest known meat-eating dinosaur, often said	Spinosaurus		fun-dinosaurs-more
What dinosaurs were the biggest overall?	Giant long-necked sauropods		fun-dinosaurs-more
Tyrannosaurus rex	A giant meat-eater with a huge head and tiny arms (Say: tie-RAN-oh-SORE-us)		fun-dinosaurs
Triceratops	A plant-eater with three horns and a bony frill (Say: try-SER-uh-tops)		fun-dinosaurs
Stegosaurus	A plant-eater with plates on its back and spikes on its tail		fun-dinosaurs
Velociraptor	A small, fast, feathered hunter about the size of a turkey		fun-dinosaurs
Brachiosaurus	A tall plant-eater with a long neck and front legs longer than back legs		fun-dinosaurs
Diplodocus	A very long dinosaur with a whip-like tail		fun-dinosaurs
Ankylosaurus	A plant-eater with armor and a clubbed tail		fun-dinosaurs
Spinosaurus	A huge meat-eater with a sail on its back that hunted fish		fun-dinosaurs
Allosaurus	A big meat-eater that lived before T. rex		fun-dinosaurs
Parasaurolophus	A duck-billed dinosaur with a long hollow crest		fun-dinosaurs
Pachycephalosaurus	A dinosaur with a thick, domed skull		fun-dinosaurs
Iguanodon	A plant-eater with thumb spikes		fun-dinosaurs
Compsognathus	A tiny meat-eater about the size of a chicken		fun-dinosaurs
Apatosaurus	A giant long-necked plant-eater once called Brontosaurus		fun-dinosaurs
Argentinosaurus	One of the largest dinosaurs ever found, from Argentina		fun-dinosaurs
Giganotosaurus	A giant meat-eater from South America		fun-dinosaurs
Archaeopteryx	A feathered animal that links dinosaurs and birds		fun-dinosaurs
Carnotaurus	A meat-eater with horns above its eyes		fun-dinosaurs
Dilophosaurus	A meat-eater with two crests on its head		fun-dinosaurs
Gallimimus	A fast, ostrich-like dinosaur		fun-dinosaurs
Maiasaura	A duck-billed dinosaur called 'good mother lizard' that cared for its young		fun-dinosaurs
Protoceratops	A small horned relative of Triceratops		fun-dinosaurs
Styracosaurus	A dinosaur with a frill of long spikes		fun-dinosaurs
Therizinosaurus	A dinosaur with enormous claws		fun-dinosaurs
Utahraptor	A big raptor with a large sickle claw		fun-dinosaurs
Oviraptor	A feathered dinosaur with a toothless beak		fun-dinosaurs
Herrerasaurus	One of the earliest known dinosaurs		fun-dinosaurs
Plateosaurus	An early long-necked plant-eater		fun-dinosaurs
Coelophysis	A slim, fast early meat-eater		fun-dinosaurs
Edmontosaurus	A large duck-billed plant-eater		fun-dinosaurs
Camarasaurus	A big long-necked plant-eater with a boxy head		fun-dinosaurs
Baryonyx	A fish-eating dinosaur with a long snout and big claws		fun-dinosaurs
Deinonychus	A clawed hunter that helped show dinosaurs were like birds		fun-dinosaurs
Mamenchisaurus	A dinosaur with one of the longest necks		fun-dinosaurs
Kentrosaurus	A spiky cousin of Stegosaurus		fun-dinosaurs
Ceratosaurus	A meat-eater with a horn on its nose		fun-dinosaurs
What is a fossil?	The remains or print of a plant or animal preserved in rock		fun-dinosaurs
What is a paleontologist?	A scientist who studies fossils and ancient life		fun-dinosaurs
Herbivore	An animal that eats only plants		fun-dinosaurs
Carnivore	An animal that eats meat		fun-dinosaurs
Omnivore	An animal that eats both plants and meat		fun-dinosaurs
Mesozoic Era	The time of the dinosaurs		fun-dinosaurs
Triassic Period	The first of the three dinosaur periods		fun-dinosaurs
Jurassic Period	The middle dinosaur period, with giants like Diplodocus		fun-dinosaurs
Cretaceous Period	The last dinosaur period, home of T. rex and Triceratops		fun-dinosaurs
Did dinosaurs live with people?	No, dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago		fun-dinosaurs
What are dinosaurs' living relatives?	Birds		fun-dinosaurs
What probably ended the age of the dinosaurs?	A huge asteroid hit the Earth and changed the climate		fun-dinosaurs
Dinosaur eggs	Dinosaurs laid eggs, like birds and reptiles		fun-dinosaurs
Coprolite	Fossilized dinosaur dung that tells us what they ate		fun-dinosaurs
Dinosaur footprints	Fossil tracks show how dinosaurs walked		fun-dinosaurs
What does 'dinosaur' mean?	Terrible lizard		fun-dinosaurs
Pterosaurs	Flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs but were not dinosaurs		fun-dinosaurs
Pteranodon	A flying reptile with a long head crest		fun-dinosaurs
Plesiosaurs	Sea reptiles with long necks; not dinosaurs		fun-dinosaurs
Mosasaurus	A giant sea reptile that lived near the end of the dinosaur age		fun-dinosaurs
Ichthyosaurus	A dolphin-shaped sea reptile		fun-dinosaurs
Mammoth	A woolly elephant relative from the Ice Age, long after the dinosaurs		fun-dinosaurs
Sabertooth cat	An Ice Age cat with long fangs, not a dinosaur		fun-dinosaurs
Dimetrodon	A sail-backed animal that lived before dinosaurs		fun-dinosaurs
Quetzalcoatlus	One of the biggest flying animals ever, a pterosaur		fun-dinosaurs
Sauropod	A giant long-necked plant-eating dinosaur		fun-dinosaurs
Theropod	A two-legged dinosaur group that includes T. rex and birds		fun-dinosaurs
Ornithopod	A group of plant-eaters like Iguanodon and duck-bills		fun-dinosaurs
Ceratopsian	A horned and frilled dinosaur group such as Triceratops		fun-dinosaurs
Where was the first T. rex 'Sue' found?	South Dakota, in the United States		fun-dinosaurs
Labrador Retriever	Friendly and loves to fetch and swim; often a helper dog		fun-dog-breeds
Golden Retriever	Gentle and golden-coated; great family dog		fun-dog-breeds
German Shepherd	Smart, loyal; works as a police and service dog		fun-dog-breeds
Beagle	A small hound with a super nose and a loud bay		fun-dog-breeds
Poodle	Curly coat and very smart; comes in toy, miniature and standard sizes		fun-dog-breeds
Bulldog	Wrinkly face, stocky body, calm nature		fun-dog-breeds
Dachshund	Long body and short legs; nicknamed the wiener dog		fun-dog-breeds
Chihuahua	The smallest dog breed		fun-dog-breeds
Great Dane	One of the tallest dog breeds, gentle giants		fun-dog-breeds
Siberian Husky	Thick coat, blue eyes, pulls sleds		fun-dog-breeds
Border Collie	Very smart herding dog that loves jobs		fun-dog-breeds
Dalmatian	White coat with black spots; famous firehouse dog		fun-dog-breeds
Pug	Small, wrinkled face, curled tail		fun-dog-breeds
Boxer	Playful, energetic, strong		fun-dog-breeds
Corgi	Short legs and big ears; herds cattle		fun-dog-breeds
Saint Bernard	Huge Swiss rescue dog		fun-dog-breeds
Greyhound	The fastest dog breed, built to run		fun-dog-breeds
Shih Tzu	Small and fluffy with a long silky coat		fun-dog-breeds
Yorkshire Terrier	Tiny but brave, with long silky hair		fun-dog-breeds
Rottweiler	Strong and loyal guard dog		fun-dog-breeds
Australian Shepherd	Energetic herding dog with a merle coat		fun-dog-breeds
Cocker Spaniel	Long floppy ears and a happy nature		fun-dog-breeds
Pomeranian	Tiny, fluffy, foxlike face		fun-dog-breeds
Basset Hound	Low body, droopy ears, great sniffer		fun-dog-breeds
Bernese Mountain Dog	Big, fluffy, black, white and brown		fun-dog-breeds
Newfoundland	Giant, webbed feet, strong swimmer		fun-dog-breeds
Samoyed	White fluffy coat with a smiling face		fun-dog-breeds
Akita	Large, loyal dog from Japan		fun-dog-breeds
Shiba Inu	Small fox-like dog from Japan		fun-dog-breeds
Maltese	Small white dog with silky hair		fun-dog-breeds
Bloodhound	Famous for its amazing sense of smell		fun-dog-breeds
Whippet	Slim and fast, like a small greyhound		fun-dog-breeds
Irish Setter	Gleaming red coat		fun-dog-breeds
Afghan Hound	Long silky hair and a regal look		fun-dog-breeds
Chow Chow	Fluffy lion-like mane and a blue-black tongue		fun-dog-breeds
Jack Russell Terrier	Small, bouncy and full of energy		fun-dog-breeds
Papillon	Small dog with butterfly-shaped ears		fun-dog-breeds
Lhasa Apso	Small long-haired dog from Tibet		fun-dog-breeds
Doberman Pinscher	Sleek, quick, smart guard dog		fun-dog-breeds
Alaskan Malamute	Large sled-pulling dog		fun-dog-breeds
Old English Sheepdog	Shaggy gray and white herding dog		fun-dog-breeds
Scottish Terrier	Small with a beard and perky ears; nicknamed the Scottie		fun-dog-breeds
Basenji	Known as the barkless dog; it yodels		fun-dog-breeds
Vizsla	Golden-red hunting dog from Hungary		fun-dog-breeds
Weimaraner	Silvery-gray coat and light eyes		fun-dog-breeds
Pembroke Welsh Corgi	The Queen of England's favorite kind of dog		fun-dog-breeds
Mastiff	Huge, calm and powerful		fun-dog-breeds
Bichon Frise	Small, white, fluffy powder puff		fun-dog-breeds
Collie	Long-haired herding dog, made famous by Lassie		fun-dog-breeds
Siberian Husky voice	Huskies often 'talk' and howl instead of barking		fun-dog-breeds
Ra	Sun god, shown with a falcon head and a sun disk		fun-egyptian-myths
Osiris	God of the afterlife and rebirth		fun-egyptian-myths
Isis	Goddess of magic, motherhood and healing		fun-egyptian-myths
Horus	Falcon-headed sky god; the Eye of Horus is a symbol of protection		fun-egyptian-myths
Set	God of storms, deserts and chaos		fun-egyptian-myths
Anubis	Jackal-headed god of mummification and guide of the dead		fun-egyptian-myths
Thoth	Ibis-headed god of writing, wisdom and the moon		fun-egyptian-myths
Bastet	Cat goddess of home and protection		fun-egyptian-myths
Hathor	Goddess of music, joy and love, shown with cow horns		fun-egyptian-myths
Sekhmet	Lioness goddess of power		fun-egyptian-myths
Ptah	God of craftspeople and builders		fun-egyptian-myths
Nut	Goddess of the sky		fun-egyptian-myths
Geb	God of the Earth		fun-egyptian-myths
Nephthys	Goddess who guards the dead, sister of Isis		fun-egyptian-myths
Sobek	Crocodile god of the Nile		fun-egyptian-myths
Khnum	Ram-headed god who shapes people on a potter's wheel		fun-egyptian-myths
Maat	Goddess of truth and balance, shown with a feather		fun-egyptian-myths
Taweret	Hippo goddess who protected mothers and babies		fun-egyptian-myths
Bes	A funny dwarf god who guarded homes and children		fun-egyptian-myths
Pharaoh	The king or queen of ancient Egypt		fun-egyptian-myths
Pyramid	A huge stone tomb for a pharaoh		fun-egyptian-myths
Great Pyramid of Giza	Built for Pharaoh Khufu about 4,500 years ago		fun-egyptian-myths
Sphinx	A statue with a lion's body and a human head, near the Pyramids		fun-egyptian-myths
Mummy	A body preserved so it would last		fun-egyptian-myths
Sarcophagus	A stone coffin		fun-egyptian-myths
Hieroglyphs	Egyptian picture writing		fun-egyptian-myths
Papyrus	Paper made from a river plant		fun-egyptian-myths
Rosetta Stone	A stone that helped scholars read hieroglyphs		fun-egyptian-myths
Nile River	The long river that gave Egypt water and rich soil		fun-egyptian-myths
Scarab	A beetle symbol of rebirth and the rising sun		fun-egyptian-myths
Ankh	A cross with a loop that means life		fun-egyptian-myths
Eye of Horus	A symbol of protection and health		fun-egyptian-myths
Cartouche	An oval with a royal name written in hieroglyphs		fun-egyptian-myths
Tutankhamun	The 'boy king' whose tomb was found nearly full of treasures in 1922		fun-egyptian-myths
Cleopatra VII	The last active ruler of ancient Egypt		fun-egyptian-myths
Ramses II	A famous pharaoh who built great temples		fun-egyptian-myths
Hatshepsut	A woman who ruled as pharaoh		fun-egyptian-myths
Valley of the Kings	Where many pharaohs were buried		fun-egyptian-myths
Canopic jars	Jars that held preserved organs		fun-egyptian-myths
Book of the Dead	A collection of spells to guide a person in the afterlife		fun-egyptian-myths
😀	Grinning face: happy		fun-emoji-meanings
😂	Face with tears of joy: laughing		fun-emoji-meanings
🙂	Slight smile: friendly		fun-emoji-meanings
😊	Smiling face with happy eyes: warm and pleased		fun-emoji-meanings
😍	Heart eyes: loves something		fun-emoji-meanings
😎	Sunglasses face: cool		fun-emoji-meanings
😢	Crying face: sad		fun-emoji-meanings
😡	Angry face: mad		fun-emoji-meanings
😴	Sleeping face: sleepy		fun-emoji-meanings
🤔	Thinking face: wondering		fun-emoji-meanings
😮	Open mouth: surprised		fun-emoji-meanings
🥳	Party face: celebrating		fun-emoji-meanings
😱	Screaming face: shocked		fun-emoji-meanings
🤗	Hugging face: a hug		fun-emoji-meanings
👍	Thumbs up: good or yes		fun-emoji-meanings
👎	Thumbs down: bad or no		fun-emoji-meanings
👋	Waving hand: hello or goodbye		fun-emoji-meanings
👏	Clapping hands: applause		fun-emoji-meanings
🙏	Folded hands: please, thank you, or hope		fun-emoji-meanings
💪	Flexed arm: strong		fun-emoji-meanings
❤️	Red heart: love		fun-emoji-meanings
💔	Broken heart: sadness		fun-emoji-meanings
⭐	Star: great or favorite		fun-emoji-meanings
🌟	Glowing star: shining		fun-emoji-meanings
🔥	Fire: hot or awesome		fun-emoji-meanings
💯	One hundred: perfect score		fun-emoji-meanings
✅	Check mark: done or correct		fun-emoji-meanings
❌	Cross mark: wrong or no		fun-emoji-meanings
⚠️	Warning: be careful		fun-emoji-meanings
🚫	Prohibited: not allowed		fun-emoji-meanings
🎉	Party popper: celebration		fun-emoji-meanings
🎂	Birthday cake: birthday		fun-emoji-meanings
🎁	Gift: present		fun-emoji-meanings
🌈	Rainbow: colors after rain		fun-emoji-meanings
☀️	Sun: sunny weather		fun-emoji-meanings
🌧️	Rain cloud: rainy weather		fun-emoji-meanings
⛄	Snowman: snow or winter		fun-emoji-meanings
🐶	Dog face: dog		fun-emoji-meanings
🐱	Cat face: cat		fun-emoji-meanings
🐢	Turtle: slow		fun-emoji-meanings
🐝	Honeybee: bee		fun-emoji-meanings
🦋	Butterfly: butterfly		fun-emoji-meanings
🌸	Cherry blossom: spring flower		fun-emoji-meanings
🍎	Red apple: apple or school		fun-emoji-meanings
🍕	Pizza: pizza		fun-emoji-meanings
🍦	Ice cream: ice cream		fun-emoji-meanings
⚽	Soccer ball: soccer		fun-emoji-meanings
🏀	Basketball: basketball		fun-emoji-meanings
🎵	Musical note: music		fun-emoji-meanings
📚	Books: reading or school		fun-emoji-meanings
✏️	Pencil: writing		fun-emoji-meanings
💡	Light bulb: an idea		fun-emoji-meanings
🔒	Lock: locked or private		fun-emoji-meanings
⏰	Alarm clock: time		fun-emoji-meanings
🚗	Car: car		fun-emoji-meanings
✈️	Airplane: flying or travel		fun-emoji-meanings
🚀	Rocket: fast or space		fun-emoji-meanings
🏠	House: home		fun-emoji-meanings
📱	Mobile phone: phone		fun-emoji-meanings
💻	Laptop: computer		fun-emoji-meanings
🙈	See-no-evil monkey: embarrassed or shy		fun-emoji-meanings
🤝	Handshake: agreement		fun-emoji-meanings
Cinderella	A kind girl loses a glass slipper at the prince's ball and is found by it		fun-fairy-tales
Snow White	A princess lives with seven dwarfs and is saved from a wicked queen		fun-fairy-tales
Sleeping Beauty	A princess falls into a long sleep until she is woken		fun-fairy-tales
Little Red Riding Hood	A girl visits her grandmother and meets a wolf		fun-fairy-tales
Goldilocks and the Three Bears	A girl tries the porridge, chairs and beds of three bears		fun-fairy-tales
The Three Little Pigs	Three pigs build houses of straw, sticks and bricks, and the wolf huffs and puffs		fun-fairy-tales
Hansel and Gretel	Two children follow a trail of crumbs and outsmart a witch in a candy house		fun-fairy-tales
Jack and the Beanstalk	A boy climbs a giant beanstalk to a giant's castle		fun-fairy-tales
Rapunzel	A girl with very long hair lives in a tall tower		fun-fairy-tales
The Ugly Duckling	A duckling teased by others grows into a beautiful swan		fun-fairy-tales
The Little Mermaid	A mermaid wants to live on land		fun-fairy-tales
Beauty and the Beast	A kind girl learns to see the goodness in a beast		fun-fairy-tales
Rumpelstiltskin	A little man spins straw into gold and wants a name guessed		fun-fairy-tales
The Frog Prince	A princess kisses or befriends a frog who becomes a prince		fun-fairy-tales
Puss in Boots	A clever cat helps his owner win a fortune		fun-fairy-tales
The Gingerbread Man	A cookie runs away shouting, 'Catch me if you can!'		fun-fairy-tales
The Princess and the Pea	A true princess is found because she feels a pea under many mattresses		fun-fairy-tales
Thumbelina	A tiny girl born in a flower has adventures		fun-fairy-tales
The Elves and the Shoemaker	Tiny helpers make shoes at night for a poor shoemaker		fun-fairy-tales
Pinocchio	A wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy		fun-fairy-tales
The Emperor's New Clothes	A vain emperor is tricked into wearing nothing, and a child tells the truth		fun-fairy-tales
The Little Match Girl	A poor girl strikes matches to see warm visions		fun-fairy-tales
The Brave Little Tailor	A tailor boasts 'seven at one blow' about flies and becomes a hero		fun-fairy-tales
The Pied Piper of Hamelin	A piper plays music to lead rats and later children out of a town		fun-fairy-tales
Aladdin	A boy finds a magic lamp with a genie		fun-fairy-tales
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves	A man says 'Open sesame' to enter a cave of treasure		fun-fairy-tales
Sinbad the Sailor	A sailor has seven voyages with strange creatures		fun-fairy-tales
Peter Pan	A boy who never grows up lives in Neverland		fun-fairy-tales
Alice in Wonderland	A girl follows a white rabbit down a hole		fun-fairy-tales
The Wizard of Oz	Dorothy and her friends follow the yellow brick road		fun-fairy-tales
The Velveteen Rabbit	A toy rabbit becomes real through love		fun-fairy-tales
Stone Soup	Travelers make soup from a stone and get a village to share		fun-fairy-tales
The Little Red Hen	A hen bakes bread alone because no one will help		fun-fairy-tales
Chicken Little	A chick thinks the sky is falling after an acorn lands on it		fun-fairy-tales
Henny Penny	A hen tells everyone the sky is falling		fun-fairy-tales
The Three Billy Goats Gruff	Three goats trick a troll under a bridge		fun-fairy-tales
The Billy Goats and the Troll	The littlest goat goes first, the biggest goat last		fun-fairy-tales
The Enormous Turnip	Many hands pull up a huge turnip		fun-fairy-tales
Tom Thumb	A boy no bigger than a thumb has adventures		fun-fairy-tales
Dick Whittington and His Cat	A poor boy becomes Lord Mayor of London with the help of his cat		fun-fairy-tales
The Snow Queen	A girl rescues her friend from a cold queen		fun-fairy-tales
The Twelve Dancing Princesses	Princesses secretly wear out their shoes each night		fun-fairy-tales
Bremen Town Musicians	Four old animals set out to become musicians		fun-fairy-tales
The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids	Seven young goats are saved from a wolf		fun-fairy-tales
Mother Goose	An imaginary storyteller of rhymes and tales		fun-fairy-tales
Brothers Grimm	Two German brothers who collected folk tales in the 1800s		fun-fairy-tales
Hans Christian Andersen	A Danish writer of fairy tales like The Little Mermaid		fun-fairy-tales
Charles Perrault	A French writer who published tales like Cinderella in 1697		fun-fairy-tales
Once upon a time	A classic way to begin a fairy tale		fun-fairy-tales
Happily ever after	A classic way to end a fairy tale		fun-fairy-tales
Christopher Columbus	Sailed from Spain across the Atlantic in 1492 and reached the Caribbean		fun-famous-explorers
Ferdinand Magellan	Led the first voyage around the world (1519-1522); he died on the way		fun-famous-explorers
Marco Polo	Venetian merchant who traveled to China in the 1200s		fun-famous-explorers
Leif Erikson	Viking who reached North America about 1000 CE		fun-famous-explorers
Vasco da Gama	Sailed from Portugal around Africa to India (1498)		fun-famous-explorers
Zheng He	Chinese admiral who led huge treasure fleets in the early 1400s		fun-famous-explorers
Ibn Battuta	Moroccan traveler who journeyed across much of the known world in the 1300s		fun-famous-explorers
James Cook	British captain who mapped the Pacific in the 1700s		fun-famous-explorers
Lewis and Clark	Led an expedition across the western United States (1804-1806)		fun-famous-explorers
Sacagawea	Shoshone woman who guided and helped the Lewis and Clark expedition		fun-famous-explorers
Roald Amundsen	Led the first team to reach the South Pole (1911)		fun-famous-explorers
Robert Falcon Scott	British explorer who reached the South Pole in 1912, just after Amundsen		fun-famous-explorers
Ernest Shackleton	Led a famous Antarctic expedition where his whole crew survived		fun-famous-explorers
Edmund Hillary	With Tenzing Norgay, first to climb Mount Everest (1953)		fun-famous-explorers
Tenzing Norgay	Sherpa who summited Everest with Hillary		fun-famous-explorers
Neil Armstrong	First person on the Moon (1969)		fun-famous-explorers
Yuri Gagarin	First person in space (1961)		fun-famous-explorers
Amelia Earhart	First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932)		fun-famous-explorers
Charles Lindbergh	First solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic (1927)		fun-famous-explorers
Henry Hudson	Explored the river and bay in North America named for him		fun-famous-explorers
Jacques Cartier	French explorer of the St. Lawrence River (1530s)		fun-famous-explorers
Samuel de Champlain	Explored and founded Quebec (1608)		fun-famous-explorers
Hernan Cortes	Spanish conquistador who invaded the Aztec Empire (1519)		fun-famous-explorers
Francisco Pizarro	Spanish conquistador who invaded the Inca Empire		fun-famous-explorers
Juan Ponce de Leon	Spanish explorer who reached Florida (1513)		fun-famous-explorers
Hernando de Soto	Spanish explorer in the American Southeast		fun-famous-explorers
Francisco Coronado	Spanish explorer in the American Southwest		fun-famous-explorers
Amerigo Vespucci	Italian explorer whose first name was used for America		fun-famous-explorers
Bartolomeu Dias	First European sailor to round the southern tip of Africa (1488)		fun-famous-explorers
Prince Henry the Navigator	Portuguese prince who backed ocean exploration		fun-famous-explorers
John Cabot	Italian explorer who reached North America in 1497 for England		fun-famous-explorers
Sir Francis Drake	English sea captain who sailed around the world (1577-1580)		fun-famous-explorers
Abel Tasman	Dutch explorer who found Tasmania and New Zealand (1642)		fun-famous-explorers
David Livingstone	Scottish explorer of Africa in the 1800s		fun-famous-explorers
Mungo Park	Scottish explorer of the Niger River		fun-famous-explorers
Matthew Henson	African American explorer who reached the North Pole area with Peary (1909)		fun-famous-explorers
Robert Peary	American explorer who led the 1909 Arctic expedition		fun-famous-explorers
Jacques Cousteau	French ocean explorer and filmmaker		fun-famous-explorers
Daniel Boone	American frontiersman who helped open Kentucky		fun-famous-explorers
Zebulon Pike	American explorer in the Rocky Mountains; Pikes Peak is named for him		fun-famous-explorers
John Wesley Powell	Led a river trip through the Grand Canyon in 1869		fun-famous-explorers
Alexander von Humboldt	German scientist-explorer in South America		fun-famous-explorers
Sally Ride	First American woman in space (1983)		fun-famous-explorers
Alan Shepard	First American in space (1961)		fun-famous-explorers
John Glenn	First American to orbit the Earth (1962)		fun-famous-explorers
Samuel Hearne	English explorer of northern Canada		fun-famous-explorers
Pytheas	Greek explorer who sailed to the far north about 325 BCE		fun-famous-explorers
Erik the Red	Viking who founded settlements in Greenland		fun-famous-explorers
Hanno the Navigator	Carthaginian sailor who explored Africa's west coast		fun-famous-explorers
Jedediah Smith	American trapper who explored routes across the West		fun-famous-explorers
Fridtjof Nansen	Norwegian polar explorer		fun-famous-explorers
Thor Heyerdahl	Sailed a raft, the Kon-Tiki, across the Pacific in 1947		fun-famous-explorers
Gertrude Bell	British traveler and writer in the Middle East		fun-famous-explorers
Mary Kingsley	British traveler who explored West Africa in the 1890s		fun-famous-explorers
Nellie Bly	Journalist who raced around the world in 72 days (1889-1890)		fun-famous-explorers
Annie Londonderry	Cyclist who traveled around the world in 1894-1895		fun-famous-explorers
Eiffel Tower	Paris, France		fun-famous-landmarks
Statue of Liberty	New York Harbor, USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Big Ben (clock tower)	London, England		fun-famous-landmarks
Great Wall	China		fun-famous-landmarks
Pyramids of Giza	Egypt		fun-famous-landmarks
Colosseum	Rome, Italy		fun-famous-landmarks
Leaning Tower of Pisa	Pisa, Italy		fun-famous-landmarks
Taj Mahal	Agra, India		fun-famous-landmarks
Machu Picchu	Peru		fun-famous-landmarks
Christ the Redeemer	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		fun-famous-landmarks
Sydney Opera House	Sydney, Australia		fun-famous-landmarks
Golden Gate Bridge	San Francisco, USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Mount Rushmore	South Dakota, USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Stonehenge	England		fun-famous-landmarks
Parthenon	Athens, Greece		fun-famous-landmarks
Acropolis	Athens, Greece		fun-famous-landmarks
Angkor Wat	Cambodia		fun-famous-landmarks
Petra	Jordan		fun-famous-landmarks
Chichen Itza	Mexico		fun-famous-landmarks
Mount Everest	Nepal and Tibet (China), the highest mountain on Earth		fun-famous-landmarks
Mount Fuji	Japan		fun-famous-landmarks
Niagara Falls	On the border of Canada and the USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Grand Canyon	Arizona, USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Great Barrier Reef	Off the coast of Australia		fun-famous-landmarks
Victoria Falls	Zambia and Zimbabwe		fun-famous-landmarks
Mount Kilimanjaro	Tanzania, the highest mountain in Africa		fun-famous-landmarks
Uluru (Ayers Rock)	Australia		fun-famous-landmarks
Burj Khalifa	Dubai, UAE, a very tall skyscraper		fun-famous-landmarks
CN Tower	Toronto, Canada		fun-famous-landmarks
Space Needle	Seattle, USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Gateway Arch	St. Louis, USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Empire State Building	New York City, USA		fun-famous-landmarks
White House	Washington, D.C., USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Lincoln Memorial	Washington, D.C., USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Washington Monument	Washington, D.C., USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Alamo	San Antonio, Texas, USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Brandenburg Gate	Berlin, Germany		fun-famous-landmarks
Neuschwanstein Castle	Bavaria, Germany		fun-famous-landmarks
Notre-Dame Cathedral	Paris, France		fun-famous-landmarks
Louvre Museum	Paris, France, home of the Mona Lisa		fun-famous-landmarks
Versailles	France, a grand royal palace		fun-famous-landmarks
Buckingham Palace	London, England		fun-famous-landmarks
Tower Bridge	London, England		fun-famous-landmarks
Sagrada Familia	Barcelona, Spain		fun-famous-landmarks
Alhambra	Granada, Spain		fun-famous-landmarks
Kremlin and Red Square	Moscow, Russia		fun-famous-landmarks
Saint Basil's Cathedral	Moscow, Russia		fun-famous-landmarks
Hagia Sophia	Istanbul, Turkey		fun-famous-landmarks
Blue Mosque	Istanbul, Turkey		fun-famous-landmarks
Forbidden City	Beijing, China		fun-famous-landmarks
Terracotta Army	Xi'an, China		fun-famous-landmarks
Potala Palace	Lhasa, Tibet		fun-famous-landmarks
Great Buddha of Kamakura	Japan		fun-famous-landmarks
Himeji Castle	Japan		fun-famous-landmarks
Petronas Towers	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia		fun-famous-landmarks
Marina Bay Sands	Singapore		fun-famous-landmarks
Table Mountain	Cape Town, South Africa		fun-famous-landmarks
Cairo Citadel	Cairo, Egypt		fun-famous-landmarks
Abu Simbel	Egypt, temples of Ramses II		fun-famous-landmarks
Easter Island statues (moai)	Chile		fun-famous-landmarks
Galapagos Islands	Ecuador		fun-famous-landmarks
Iguazu Falls	On the border of Argentina and Brazil		fun-famous-landmarks
Amazon River	South America		fun-famous-landmarks
Sahara Desert	North Africa, the largest hot desert		fun-famous-landmarks
Mount Vesuvius	Near Naples, Italy		fun-famous-landmarks
Trevi Fountain	Rome, Italy		fun-famous-landmarks
St. Peter's Basilica	Vatican City		fun-famous-landmarks
Piazza San Marco	Venice, Italy		fun-famous-landmarks
Matterhorn	On the border of Switzerland and Italy		fun-famous-landmarks
Atomium	Brussels, Belgium		fun-famous-landmarks
Little Mermaid statue	Copenhagen, Denmark		fun-famous-landmarks
Mount McKinley (Denali)	Alaska, USA, the tallest mountain in North America		fun-famous-landmarks
Old Faithful	Yellowstone National Park, USA		fun-famous-landmarks
Isaac Newton	Laws of motion and gravity (1600s)		fun-famous-scientists
Albert Einstein	Theory of relativity (1900s)		fun-famous-scientists
Galileo Galilei	Used a telescope to study the Moon and Jupiter's moons (1600s)		fun-famous-scientists
Marie Curie	Studied radioactivity; won two Nobel Prizes		fun-famous-scientists
Charles Darwin	Theory of evolution by natural selection (1859)		fun-famous-scientists
Louis Pasteur	Germ theory, pasteurization and vaccines		fun-famous-scientists
Nikola Tesla	Alternating current electricity and many inventions		fun-famous-scientists
Thomas Edison	Light bulb, phonograph, and many patents		fun-famous-scientists
Alexander Graham Bell	Telephone		fun-famous-scientists
Leonardo da Vinci	Painter and inventor who sketched flying machines (1400s-1500s)		fun-famous-scientists
Copernicus	Said the planets orbit the Sun (1500s)		fun-famous-scientists
Johannes Kepler	Laws of planetary motion (1600s)		fun-famous-scientists
Archimedes	Ancient Greek who found the principle of buoyancy		fun-famous-scientists
Aristotle	Greek thinker who studied many sciences		fun-famous-scientists
Ptolemy	Ancient astronomer who mapped the stars		fun-famous-scientists
Gregor Mendel	Founder of genetics using pea plants		fun-famous-scientists
Rosalind Franklin	Her X-ray work helped reveal DNA's structure		fun-famous-scientists
Ada Lovelace	Wrote the first computer program idea		fun-famous-scientists
Alan Turing	Founder of modern computing ideas (1900s)		fun-famous-scientists
Michael Faraday	Electricity and magnetism experiments		fun-famous-scientists
James Clerk Maxwell	Equations of light and electricity		fun-famous-scientists
Dmitri Mendeleev	Created the periodic table (1869)		fun-famous-scientists
Antoine Lavoisier	Father of modern chemistry		fun-famous-scientists
Robert Hooke	Looked at cork and named 'cells'		fun-famous-scientists
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	Saw tiny microbes with early microscopes		fun-famous-scientists
Edward Jenner	Developed the smallpox vaccine		fun-famous-scientists
Florence Nightingale	Founder of modern nursing		fun-famous-scientists
Joseph Lister	Used clean methods in surgery		fun-famous-scientists
Alexander Fleming	Discovered penicillin		fun-famous-scientists
Jonas Salk	Created a polio vaccine		fun-famous-scientists
Wilhelm Roentgen	Discovered X-rays (1895)		fun-famous-scientists
Ernest Rutherford	Showed that atoms have a nucleus		fun-famous-scientists
Niels Bohr	Model of the atom		fun-famous-scientists
Max Planck	Started quantum theory		fun-famous-scientists
Stephen Hawking	Studied black holes (1942-2018)		fun-famous-scientists
Carl Linnaeus	Created the system for naming living things		fun-famous-scientists
Alfred Wegener	Proposed continental drift		fun-famous-scientists
Edwin Hubble	Showed other galaxies exist and the universe expands		fun-famous-scientists
Henrietta Leavitt	Found a way to measure distances to stars		fun-famous-scientists
Annie Jump Cannon	Sorted stars into classes		fun-famous-scientists
Mary Anning	Fossil hunter who found early marine reptile skeletons		fun-famous-scientists
George Washington Carver	Taught farmers about crop rotation and peanut uses		fun-famous-scientists
Rachel Carson	Wrote Silent Spring about nature and pesticides		fun-famous-scientists
Hypatia	Ancient mathematician and teacher in Alexandria		fun-famous-scientists
Pythagoras	Greek thinker linked to the triangle rule		fun-famous-scientists
Euclid	Wrote the Elements, a famous geometry book		fun-famous-scientists
Blaise Pascal	Mathematician who studied pressure and probability		fun-famous-scientists
Evangelista Torricelli	Invented the barometer		fun-famous-scientists
Robert Boyle	Studied gases and pressure		fun-famous-scientists
Benjamin Franklin	Studied lightning and invented the lightning rod		fun-famous-scientists
Lise Meitner	Helped explain nuclear fission		fun-famous-scientists
Katherine Johnson	NASA mathematician who calculated spaceflight paths		fun-famous-scientists
Wright brothers	Built and flew the first successful airplane		fun-famous-scientists
Samuel Morse	Telegraph and Morse code		fun-famous-scientists
Guglielmo Marconi	Wireless radio		fun-famous-scientists
Henry Ford	Assembly line cars		fun-famous-scientists
James Watt	Improved the steam engine		fun-famous-scientists
Johannes Gutenberg	Printing press in Europe		fun-famous-scientists
Cow	Milk and beef; eats grass and hay		fun-farm-animals
Chicken	Eggs and meat; eats seeds and grain		fun-farm-animals
Sheep	Wool and meat; eats grass		fun-farm-animals
Pig	Pork; eats many kinds of food and loves mud		fun-farm-animals
Goat	Milk, cheese and meat; climbs well		fun-farm-animals
Horse	Rides and farm work; eats grass and hay		fun-farm-animals
Duck	Eggs and feathers; swims in ponds		fun-farm-animals
Turkey	Meat; males gobble		fun-farm-animals
Donkey	Carries loads; brays		fun-farm-animals
Rooster	Crows at dawn		fun-farm-animals
Hen	A female chicken that lays eggs		fun-farm-animals
Lamb	A baby sheep		fun-farm-animals
Calf	A baby cow		fun-farm-animals
Piglet	A baby pig		fun-farm-animals
Foal	A baby horse		fun-farm-animals
Bull	An adult male cow		fun-farm-animals
Ewe	A female sheep		fun-farm-animals
Ram	A male sheep		fun-farm-animals
Sow	A female pig		fun-farm-animals
Boar	A male pig		fun-farm-animals
Mare	A female horse		fun-farm-animals
Stallion	A male horse		fun-farm-animals
Barn	A building for animals, hay and equipment		fun-farm-animals
Silo	A tall tower that stores grain or feed		fun-farm-animals
Tractor	A strong farm machine for pulling tools		fun-farm-animals
Hay	Dried grass used to feed animals		fun-farm-animals
Pasture	Grassy land where animals graze		fun-farm-animals
Coop	A house for chickens		fun-farm-animals
Pen	A small fence for animals		fun-farm-animals
Trough	A long container for animal food or water		fun-farm-animals
Scarecrow	A dummy that scares birds from crops		fun-farm-animals
Farmer	A person who grows food and raises animals		fun-farm-animals
Crop	A plant grown for food		fun-farm-animals
Harvest	Gathering crops when they are ripe		fun-farm-animals
Dairy	Foods made from milk		fun-farm-animals
What is butter made from?	Cream from milk		fun-farm-animals
What is cheese made from?	Milk		fun-farm-animals
What is wool?	Hair from sheep that is spun into yarn		fun-farm-animals
What do you call shearing?	Cutting the wool off a sheep		fun-farm-animals
Where do eggs come from?	Hens		fun-farm-animals
How do cows chew?	They chew cud, bringing food back up to chew again		fun-farm-animals
How many stomach parts does a cow have?	Four		fun-farm-animals
What does a sheepdog do?	Helps herd sheep		fun-farm-animals
What does a barn cat do?	Keeps mice away		fun-farm-animals
What is a farm cooperative?	A group of farmers who share work and sell together		fun-farm-animals
County fair	A community event with animals, rides and prizes		fun-farm-animals
4-H	A youth group that teaches farming, science and community skills		fun-farm-animals
Organic farming	Farming without most synthetic pesticides		fun-farm-animals
Compost	Rotted plant scraps that feed the soil		fun-farm-animals
Fertilizer	Material that helps plants grow		fun-farm-animals
Plow	A tool that turns over soil		fun-farm-animals
Mama	The person who loves you and takes care of you (Say: MAH-mah)		fun-first-words-toddler
Dada	Dad or papa (Say: DAH-dah)		fun-first-words-toddler
Baby	A very young child		fun-first-words-toddler
Dog	A pet that barks		fun-first-words-toddler
Cat	A pet that meows		fun-first-words-toddler
Ball	A round toy that bounces		fun-first-words-toddler
Cup	You drink from it		fun-first-words-toddler
Milk	A white drink		fun-first-words-toddler
Water	Clear drink		fun-first-words-toddler
Apple	A crunchy fruit		fun-first-words-toddler
Banana	A yellow fruit		fun-first-words-toddler
Cookie	A sweet treat		fun-first-words-toddler
Bread	Baked food for sandwiches		fun-first-words-toddler
Eat	To put food in your mouth		fun-first-words-toddler
Drink	To sip water or milk		fun-first-words-toddler
Sleep	What you do in bed at night		fun-first-words-toddler
Bed	Where you sleep		fun-first-words-toddler
Book	Something to read		fun-first-words-toddler
Shoe	You wear it on your foot		fun-first-words-toddler
Sock	You wear it under your shoe		fun-first-words-toddler
Hat	You wear it on your head		fun-first-words-toddler
Hand	At the end of your arm		fun-first-words-toddler
Foot	At the end of your leg		fun-first-words-toddler
Nose	Smell with it		fun-first-words-toddler
Eyes	See with them		fun-first-words-toddler
Mouth	Eat and talk with it		fun-first-words-toddler
Ears	Hear with them		fun-first-words-toddler
Hair	Grows on your head		fun-first-words-toddler
Hello	A greeting		fun-first-words-toddler
Bye-bye	What you say when you leave		fun-first-words-toddler
Please	A polite word when you ask		fun-first-words-toddler
Thank you	A polite word when you get something		fun-first-words-toddler
Yes	A way to agree		fun-first-words-toddler
No	A way to say not		fun-first-words-toddler
More	A little extra		fun-first-words-toddler
All done	Finished		fun-first-words-toddler
Up	Toward the sky		fun-first-words-toddler
Down	Toward the floor		fun-first-words-toddler
Hot	Not safe to touch		fun-first-words-toddler
Cold	Like ice		fun-first-words-toddler
Car	Vroom vroom		fun-first-words-toddler
Bus	Wheels on the bus go round and round		fun-first-words-toddler
Truck	A big vehicle		fun-first-words-toddler
Train	Choo choo		fun-first-words-toddler
Bird	Tweet tweet		fun-first-words-toddler
Cow	Moo		fun-first-words-toddler
Duck	Quack		fun-first-words-toddler
Fish	Swims in water		fun-first-words-toddler
Sun	Warm and bright in the sky		fun-first-words-toddler
Moon	Shines at night		fun-first-words-toddler
Star	Twinkles in the sky		fun-first-words-toddler
Tree	Tall with leaves		fun-first-words-toddler
Flower	Pretty and smells nice		fun-first-words-toddler
Door	You open it to go through		fun-first-words-toddler
Chair	You sit on it		fun-first-words-toddler
Bath	Splash in the tub		fun-first-words-toddler
Teddy	A soft toy bear		fun-first-words-toddler
Hug	Wrap your arms around someone		fun-first-words-toddler
Kiss	A sweet touch with your lips		fun-first-words-toddler
Play	Have fun		fun-first-words-toddler
Love	A warm feeling for people you care about		fun-first-words-toddler
Friend	Someone you like to play with		fun-first-words-toddler
Which country's flag is not a rectangle or square?	Nepal, made of two stacked triangles		fun-flags-fun
Which country has a square flag?	Switzerland (and Vatican City)		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has a dragon on it?	Bhutan		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has a red maple leaf?	Canada		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has a cedar tree on it?	Lebanon		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has an eagle and a snake on a cactus?	Mexico		fun-flags-fun
Which flags have a Union Jack in the corner and stars?	Australia and New Zealand		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has a red circle on white?	Japan		fun-flags-fun
Which flag is called the Stars and Stripes?	The United States		fun-flags-fun
How many stripes are on the US flag?	13, for the original colonies		fun-flags-fun
How many stars are on the US flag?	50, one for each state		fun-flags-fun
What is the Union Jack?	The flag of the United Kingdom		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has a red cross on white?	England (St. George's Cross)		fun-flags-fun
Which flag is vertical blue, white and red?	France (the tricolore)		fun-flags-fun
Which flag is vertical green, white and red?	Italy		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has a crescent moon and a star on red?	Turkey		fun-flags-fun
What does a white flag usually mean?	Peace or a request to talk		fun-flags-fun
What does a checkered flag mean in racing?	The race is over		fun-flags-fun
What is a pirate flag called?	The Jolly Roger		fun-flags-fun
What is a pennant?	A triangular flag		fun-flags-fun
What is the study of flags called?	Vexillology		fun-flags-fun
What is a person who studies flags called?	A vexillologist		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has a lion holding a sword?	Sri Lanka		fun-flags-fun
Which flag is the St. Andrew's Cross?	Scotland's blue flag with a white X		fun-flags-fun
What is on the Olympic flag?	Five linked rings on a white background		fun-flags-fun
What is on the United Nations flag?	A white world map surrounded by olive branches, on blue		fun-flags-fun
Which flags have a Nordic cross?	Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland		fun-flags-fun
Which Nordic flag is blue with a yellow cross?	Sweden		fun-flags-fun
Which flag is red with a white cross and is square?	Switzerland		fun-flags-fun
Which flag is red with a white Nordic cross?	Denmark		fun-flags-fun
Which flag is green with a yellow diamond and a blue circle?	Brazil		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has a blue Star of David between two blue stripes?	Israel		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has horizontal black, red and gold stripes?	Germany		fun-flags-fun
What words are on Brazil's flag?	Ordem e Progresso, which means Order and Progress		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has two bars, red over white?	Indonesia		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has two bars, white over red?	Poland		fun-flags-fun
Which flag is horizontal red, white and blue?	The Netherlands		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has a green field and a red circle?	Bangladesh		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has a black star on stripes of red, gold and green?	Ghana		fun-flags-fun
Which flag has a red-white-red pattern with a maple leaf in the middle?	Canada		fun-flags-fun
Which flag is often called the oldest continuously used national flag?	Denmark's Dannebrog		fun-flags-fun
What do the stars on the Australian flag form?	The Southern Cross constellation, and a large star for the Commonwealth		fun-flags-fun
What do the colors of the Irish flag stand for?	Green for the Irish, orange for the followers of William of Orange, white for peace		fun-flags-fun
Pizza	Italy; flatbread with tomato, cheese and toppings		fun-food-around-the-world
Pasta	Italy; noodles in many shapes		fun-food-around-the-world
Sushi	Japan; rice with fish, egg or vegetables		fun-food-around-the-world
Ramen	Japan; noodle soup		fun-food-around-the-world
Tacos	Mexico; a tortilla folded around fillings		fun-food-around-the-world
Tamales	Mexico; corn dough wrapped in a husk and steamed		fun-food-around-the-world
Guacamole	Mexico; mashed avocado dip		fun-food-around-the-world
Burrito	Mexico; a large tortilla rolled around fillings		fun-food-around-the-world
Croissant	France; flaky crescent-shaped pastry		fun-food-around-the-world
Baguette	France; long thin loaf of bread		fun-food-around-the-world
Crepe	France; very thin pancake		fun-food-around-the-world
Paella	Spain; rice with vegetables, seafood or chicken		fun-food-around-the-world
Gazpacho	Spain; cold tomato soup		fun-food-around-the-world
Fish and chips	England; fried fish with fries		fun-food-around-the-world
Hamburger	United States; a patty in a bun		fun-food-around-the-world
Hot dog	United States; a sausage in a bun		fun-food-around-the-world
Apple pie	United States and England; a fruit pie		fun-food-around-the-world
Poutine	Canada; fries with gravy and cheese curds		fun-food-around-the-world
Maple syrup	Canada and the northeastern US; made from maple tree sap		fun-food-around-the-world
Curry	India; spiced sauce dishes		fun-food-around-the-world
Naan	India; soft oven-baked flatbread		fun-food-around-the-world
Samosa	India; fried pastry with spiced filling		fun-food-around-the-world
Dumplings	China and many places; dough wrapped around filling		fun-food-around-the-world
Fried rice	China; rice stir-fried with vegetables		fun-food-around-the-world
Peking duck	China; roast duck served with thin pancakes		fun-food-around-the-world
Pad thai	Thailand; stir-fried rice noodles		fun-food-around-the-world
Pho	Vietnam; noodle soup with herbs		fun-food-around-the-world
Kimchi	Korea; spicy fermented cabbage		fun-food-around-the-world
Bibimbap	Korea; rice bowl with vegetables and egg		fun-food-around-the-world
Falafel	Middle East; fried chickpea balls		fun-food-around-the-world
Hummus	Middle East; chickpea dip		fun-food-around-the-world
Pita	Middle East; round pocket bread		fun-food-around-the-world
Shawarma	Middle East; meat shaved off a rotating spit		fun-food-around-the-world
Couscous	North Africa; tiny steamed grains of semolina		fun-food-around-the-world
Injera	Ethiopia; spongy flatbread		fun-food-around-the-world
Jollof rice	West Africa; rice cooked in tomato sauce		fun-food-around-the-world
Goulash	Hungary; a hearty stew of meat and paprika		fun-food-around-the-world
Pierogi	Poland; filled dumplings		fun-food-around-the-world
Borscht	Eastern Europe; beet soup		fun-food-around-the-world
Bratwurst	Germany; grilled sausage		fun-food-around-the-world
Pretzel	Germany; twisted baked bread		fun-food-around-the-world
Schnitzel	Austria and Germany; breaded fried cutlet		fun-food-around-the-world
Fondue	Switzerland; melted cheese for dipping		fun-food-around-the-world
Waffles	Belgium; grid-patterned batter cakes		fun-food-around-the-world
Baklava	Turkey and Greece; layered pastry with nuts and honey		fun-food-around-the-world
Moussaka	Greece; layered eggplant and meat dish		fun-food-around-the-world
Feta	Greece; crumbly salty cheese		fun-food-around-the-world
Empanada	Spain and Latin America; stuffed pastry		fun-food-around-the-world
Arepa	Venezuela and Colombia; cornmeal cake		fun-food-around-the-world
Ceviche	Peru; raw fish cured in citrus juice		fun-food-around-the-world
Feijoada	Brazil; black bean stew		fun-food-around-the-world
Pavlova	Australia and New Zealand; meringue dessert with fruit		fun-food-around-the-world
Meat pie	Australia and New Zealand; a pie with savory filling		fun-food-around-the-world
Mochi	Japan; chewy rice cake		fun-food-around-the-world
Churros	Spain and Mexico; fried dough sticks		fun-food-around-the-world
Gelato	Italy; creamy ice cream		fun-food-around-the-world
Tiramisu	Italy; coffee-flavored layered dessert		fun-food-around-the-world
Risotto	Italy; creamy rice dish		fun-food-around-the-world
Lasagna	Italy; layers of pasta, sauce and cheese		fun-food-around-the-world
Sauerkraut	Germany; fermented cabbage		fun-food-around-the-world
Haggis	Scotland; traditional savory pudding		fun-food-around-the-world
Scones	England and Scotland; small baked cakes served with jam		fun-food-around-the-world
Cornbread	United States; bread made from cornmeal		fun-food-around-the-world
Bagel	Jewish bakers in Poland and New York; ring-shaped boiled bread		fun-food-around-the-world
Tortilla	Mexico; thin flatbread of corn or wheat		fun-food-around-the-world
Quesadilla	Mexico; a tortilla filled with cheese		fun-food-around-the-world
Apple	Grows on trees; comes in red, green and yellow		fun-fruits-vegetables
Banana	Yellow when ripe; grows in bunches called hands		fun-fruits-vegetables
Orange	A citrus fruit full of vitamin C		fun-fruits-vegetables
Strawberry	A red berry with seeds on the outside		fun-fruits-vegetables
Blueberry	A small round blue berry		fun-fruits-vegetables
Grapes	Grow in bunches on vines; raisins are dried grapes		fun-fruits-vegetables
Watermelon	Big green fruit with red juicy inside		fun-fruits-vegetables
Pineapple	Spiky fruit with a leafy crown		fun-fruits-vegetables
Mango	Sweet tropical fruit with one big pit		fun-fruits-vegetables
Kiwi	Fuzzy brown outside, green inside with tiny black seeds		fun-fruits-vegetables
Peach	Fuzzy fruit with a big pit		fun-fruits-vegetables
Pear	Shaped like a bell, with a sweet juicy center		fun-fruits-vegetables
Cherry	Small red fruit with a pit		fun-fruits-vegetables
Lemon	Sour yellow citrus		fun-fruits-vegetables
Lime	Small green sour citrus		fun-fruits-vegetables
Coconut	A big hard-shelled fruit with water and white flesh		fun-fruits-vegetables
Avocado	Creamy green fruit with a large seed		fun-fruits-vegetables
Pomegranate	A fruit full of juicy red seeds		fun-fruits-vegetables
Papaya	Orange tropical fruit with black seeds		fun-fruits-vegetables
Raspberry	A red berry made of tiny round parts		fun-fruits-vegetables
Carrot	Orange root vegetable; grows underground		fun-fruits-vegetables
Potato	A tuber that grows underground		fun-fruits-vegetables
Sweet potato	Orange root with sweet flavor		fun-fruits-vegetables
Broccoli	Green vegetable that looks like little trees		fun-fruits-vegetables
Cauliflower	A white cousin of broccoli		fun-fruits-vegetables
Spinach	Leafy green vegetable		fun-fruits-vegetables
Lettuce	Leafy vegetable used in salads		fun-fruits-vegetables
Cabbage	Round head of tightly packed leaves		fun-fruits-vegetables
Corn	Yellow kernels on a cob		fun-fruits-vegetables
Peas	Round green seeds in a pod		fun-fruits-vegetables
Green beans	Long green pods		fun-fruits-vegetables
Tomato	Botanically a fruit; usually used as a vegetable		fun-fruits-vegetables
Cucumber	Long green and crunchy; pickles are made from it		fun-fruits-vegetables
Onion	A bulb that can make you cry when cut		fun-fruits-vegetables
Garlic	A bulb with cloves and a strong smell		fun-fruits-vegetables
Celery	Crunchy green stalks		fun-fruits-vegetables
Radish	A small, spicy root		fun-fruits-vegetables
Beet	A dark red root		fun-fruits-vegetables
Pumpkin	Big orange squash		fun-fruits-vegetables
Zucchini	Long green squash		fun-fruits-vegetables
Eggplant	Shiny purple vegetable		fun-fruits-vegetables
Bell pepper	Crunchy and available in red, green, yellow and orange		fun-fruits-vegetables
Asparagus	Green spears that grow from the ground		fun-fruits-vegetables
Mushroom	Not a plant but a fungus, eaten as a vegetable		fun-fruits-vegetables
Brussels sprouts	Tiny cabbage-like buds on a stalk		fun-fruits-vegetables
Kale	Dark curly leafy green		fun-fruits-vegetables
Turnip	A round white and purple root		fun-fruits-vegetables
Parsnip	A pale root like a carrot		fun-fruits-vegetables
Artichoke	A thistle flower bud that is eaten		fun-fruits-vegetables
Okra	Green pods used in Southern cooking		fun-fruits-vegetables
Rainbow eating	Eating many colors gives your body many different nutrients		fun-fruits-vegetables
Vitamin C	Found in oranges, peppers, kiwi and strawberries		fun-fruits-vegetables
Fiber	Found in fruits, vegetables and whole grains; helps digestion		fun-fruits-vegetables
Seed	Part of a plant that can grow into a new plant		fun-fruits-vegetables
Root vegetable	Grows underground, such as carrots and beets		fun-fruits-vegetables
Leafy green	A vegetable whose leaves we eat, such as spinach		fun-fruits-vegetables
Citrus	A family that includes oranges, lemons and limes		fun-fruits-vegetables
Berries	Small juicy fruits such as blueberries and raspberries		fun-fruits-vegetables
Orchard	A place where fruit trees grow		fun-fruits-vegetables
Farmers market	A place where farmers sell fresh food directly		fun-fruits-vegetables
Which has more bones, a baby or an adult?	A baby, about 300; many join together to make 206		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the only food that never spoils?	Honey (properly stored)		fun-general-fun-facts
Which planet has days longer than years?	Venus		fun-general-fun-facts
How many hearts does an octopus have?	Three		fun-general-fun-facts
Which animal's fingerprints look like a human's?	The koala		fun-general-fun-facts
How long is a day on Earth?	About 24 hours		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the hardest natural substance?	Diamond		fun-general-fun-facts
Which is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?	Mercury		fun-general-fun-facts
What color is a polar bear's skin?	Black		fun-general-fun-facts
How many legs does a butterfly have?	Six		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the fastest land animal?	The cheetah		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the tallest land animal?	The giraffe		fun-general-fun-facts
How many eyes does a bee have?	Five: two big compound eyes and three small ones		fun-general-fun-facts
What is a group of flamingos called?	A flamboyance		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the smallest planet in our solar system?	Mercury		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the largest ocean?	The Pacific		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the longest river in Europe?	The Volga		fun-general-fun-facts
How much of Earth is covered by water?	About 71 percent		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the Earth's hottest layer?	The inner core		fun-general-fun-facts
What do you call baby kangaroos?	Joeys		fun-general-fun-facts
What fruit floats in water because it is mostly air?	Apples (about 25 percent air)		fun-general-fun-facts
How many hours do giraffes sleep?	Only a few hours, often in short naps		fun-general-fun-facts
Which animal sleeps standing up?	Horses can sleep standing		fun-general-fun-facts
What animal has the biggest eyes of any land animal?	The ostrich		fun-general-fun-facts
Which bird lays the biggest egg?	The ostrich		fun-general-fun-facts
Which bird lays the smallest egg?	The hummingbird		fun-general-fun-facts
What is a rainbow's shape?	A full circle, but we usually see an arc from the ground		fun-general-fun-facts
How fast does sound travel in air?	About 767 miles per hour (343 m/s) at room temperature		fun-general-fun-facts
How fast does light travel?	About 186,000 miles per second		fun-general-fun-facts
What are the Great Lakes?	Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario		fun-general-fun-facts
Which US state has the most lakes?	Alaska has the most lakes by number; Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes		fun-general-fun-facts
What was the first toy advertised on TV?	Mr. Potato Head (1952)		fun-general-fun-facts
Where did popcorn come from?	Corn people have popped for thousands of years in the Americas		fun-general-fun-facts
Where were fortune cookies popularized?	In the United States, not China		fun-general-fun-facts
What came first, the fork or the spoon?	The spoon, thousands of years before forks became common		fun-general-fun-facts
How many dots are on a pair of dice?	42		fun-general-fun-facts
How many keys does a standard piano have?	88		fun-general-fun-facts
How many strings does a standard guitar have?	Six		fun-general-fun-facts
How many players are on a soccer team on the field?	Eleven		fun-general-fun-facts
How many points is a touchdown?	Six		fun-general-fun-facts
How many innings are in a baseball game?	Nine		fun-general-fun-facts
How many rings are on the Olympic flag?	Five		fun-general-fun-facts
How many continents are there?	Seven		fun-general-fun-facts
How many oceans are there?	Five: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic		fun-general-fun-facts
How many days in a leap year?	366		fun-general-fun-facts
How many sides does a stop sign have?	Eight		fun-general-fun-facts
How many colors are on a Rubik's Cube?	Six		fun-general-fun-facts
How many strings on a violin?	Four		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the world's most popular sport by fans?	Soccer (football)		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the smallest bone in the body?	The stapes in the ear		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the longest bone in the body?	The femur		fun-general-fun-facts
How long is a marathon?	26.2 miles		fun-general-fun-facts
What animal is on the Welsh flag?	A red dragon		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the national bird of the United States?	The bald eagle		fun-general-fun-facts
What tree do pandas eat?	Bamboo (it's a grass)		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the biggest cat in the Americas?	The jaguar		fun-general-fun-facts
Which Great Lake is entirely inside the US?	Lake Michigan		fun-general-fun-facts
What do you call the study of insects?	Entomology		fun-general-fun-facts
What do you call the study of birds?	Ornithology		fun-general-fun-facts
What do you call the study of weather?	Meteorology		fun-general-fun-facts
What do you call the study of stars and planets?	Astronomy		fun-general-fun-facts
What do you call the study of fossils?	Paleontology		fun-general-fun-facts
What do you call the study of animals?	Zoology		fun-general-fun-facts
What do you call the study of plants?	Botany		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?	A ring of volcanoes and earthquakes around the Pacific Ocean		fun-general-fun-facts
What is the largest hot desert's name?	The Sahara		fun-general-fun-facts
Zeus	King of the gods and ruler of the sky and thunder		fun-greek-gods
Hera	Queen of the gods, goddess of marriage		fun-greek-gods
Poseidon	God of the sea, earthquakes and horses; carries a trident		fun-greek-gods
Hades	God of the underworld, the place of the dead		fun-greek-gods
Athena	Goddess of wisdom and crafts; she sprang from Zeus's head		fun-greek-gods
Apollo	God of music, the sun, poetry and healing		fun-greek-gods
Artemis	Goddess of the hunt and the moon, twin of Apollo		fun-greek-gods
Ares	God of war		fun-greek-gods
Aphrodite	Goddess of love and beauty		fun-greek-gods
Hephaestus	God of fire and the forge; the gods' blacksmith		fun-greek-gods
Hermes	Messenger of the gods with winged sandals		fun-greek-gods
Demeter	Goddess of the harvest and farming		fun-greek-gods
Dionysus	God of wine and festivals		fun-greek-gods
Hestia	Goddess of the hearth and home		fun-greek-gods
Persephone	Queen of the underworld, daughter of Demeter; her story explains the seasons		fun-greek-gods
Eros	God of love, shown with a bow and arrows		fun-greek-gods
Pan	Half-goat god of shepherds and the wild		fun-greek-gods
Nike	Goddess of victory		fun-greek-gods
Helios	Titan who drove the sun across the sky		fun-greek-gods
Selene	Goddess of the moon		fun-greek-gods
Eos	Goddess of the dawn		fun-greek-gods
Iris	Goddess of the rainbow and a messenger		fun-greek-gods
Morpheus	God of dreams		fun-greek-gods
Hypnos	God of sleep		fun-greek-gods
Nemesis	Goddess of fairness who punishes pride		fun-greek-gods
Tyche	Goddess of luck and fortune		fun-greek-gods
Asclepius	God of medicine and healing		fun-greek-gods
Gaia	Mother Earth		fun-greek-gods
Uranus	The sky, father of the Titans		fun-greek-gods
Cronus	Titan, father of Zeus		fun-greek-gods
Rhea	Titan, mother of Zeus		fun-greek-gods
Atlas	Titan who held up the sky		fun-greek-gods
Prometheus	Titan who gave fire to people		fun-greek-gods
Mount Olympus	Home of the twelve main gods		fun-greek-gods
Titans	The older generation of gods before Zeus		fun-greek-gods
Olympians	The twelve main gods who lived on Olympus		fun-greek-gods
Nymphs	Nature spirits of trees, rivers and mountains		fun-greek-gods
Muses	Nine goddesses of arts and learning		fun-greek-gods
The Fates	Three goddesses who spin the thread of life		fun-greek-gods
Satyr	A woodland being, part man and part goat		fun-greek-gods
Centaur	Half man and half horse		fun-greek-gods
Hercules (Heracles)	Hero of great strength who completed twelve labors		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Perseus	Hero who defeated Medusa using a mirror-like shield		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Theseus	Hero who found his way out of the Labyrinth		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Odysseus	Clever hero whose long trip home from Troy is told in the Odyssey		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Achilles	The greatest Greek warrior at Troy; his weak spot was his heel		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Jason	Hero who sailed on the Argo to find the Golden Fleece		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Atalanta	A famous runner and hunter		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Orpheus	A musician whose songs charmed animals and trees		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Bellerophon	Hero who rode the winged horse Pegasus		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Pegasus	A winged horse		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Medusa	A monster with snakes for hair		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Minotaur	A bull-headed creature in the Labyrinth		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Cyclops	A one-eyed giant		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Polyphemus	The Cyclops that trapped Odysseus		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Hydra	A many-headed water serpent that regrew heads		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Cerberus	The three-headed dog guarding the underworld		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Chimera	A fire-breathing mix of lion, goat and snake		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Sphinx	A creature with a riddle that people had to answer		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Sirens	Sea creatures whose singing lured sailors		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Scylla and Charybdis	A sea monster and a whirlpool on either side of a narrow strait		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Harpies	Winged creatures that snatched food		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Gorgon	A monster like Medusa		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Phoenix	A bird that bursts into flame and is reborn from its ashes		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Griffin	A creature with an eagle's head and wings and a lion's body		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Trojan Horse	A giant wooden horse used to sneak soldiers into the city of Troy		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Helen of Troy	A woman whose story started the Trojan War		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Paris	The prince of Troy who took Helen		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Hector	The bravest defender of Troy		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Penelope	Odysseus's wife who waited twenty years		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Circe	A sorceress who turned men into pigs		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Calypso	A nymph who kept Odysseus on her island		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Daedalus	The inventor who built the Labyrinth and wings of wax and feathers		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Icarus	Daedalus's son who flew too near the sun		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Midas	A king whose touch turned things to gold		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Pandora	The first woman in a tale about a jar of troubles and hope		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Narcissus	A youth who fell in love with his own reflection		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Echo	A nymph who could only repeat the last words she heard		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Arachne	A weaver who became a spider		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Sisyphus	A king who had to roll a boulder uphill again and again		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
The Golden Fleece	A magical golden sheepskin sought by Jason		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Argonauts	The crew of heroes who sailed with Jason		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
The Twelve Labors	The twelve tasks given to Hercules		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Labyrinth	A maze built to hold the Minotaur		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
The Iliad	Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
The Odyssey	Homer's epic poem about Odysseus's journey home		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Achilles' heel	A single weak spot, now meaning any hidden weakness		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Pandora's box	Something that causes many problems when opened		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Midas touch	A talent for making money		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Herculean	Needing great strength		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
Odyssey (word)	Any long, adventurous journey		fun-greek-heroes-monsters
New Year's Day	January 1; many countries celebrate the new calendar year		fun-holidays-around-world
Lunar New Year	A spring festival in many East Asian cultures, with family meals, red decorations and the zodiac animal year		fun-holidays-around-world
Diwali	The Hindu, Sikh and Jain festival of lights, in autumn		fun-holidays-around-world
Holi	The Hindu spring festival of colors in India		fun-holidays-around-world
Hanukkah	A Jewish eight-day festival of lights		fun-holidays-around-world
Passover	A Jewish spring holiday remembering the exodus from Egypt		fun-holidays-around-world
Rosh Hashanah	The Jewish New Year		fun-holidays-around-world
Yom Kippur	The Jewish Day of Atonement		fun-holidays-around-world
Christmas	December 25; Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus		fun-holidays-around-world
Easter	A Christian spring holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus		fun-holidays-around-world
Ramadan	The Muslim holy month of fasting from dawn to sunset		fun-holidays-around-world
Eid al-Fitr	The Muslim festival that ends Ramadan		fun-holidays-around-world
Eid al-Adha	The Muslim festival of sacrifice, linked to the pilgrimage to Mecca		fun-holidays-around-world
Kwanzaa	A week-long celebration of African American culture, December 26 to January 1		fun-holidays-around-world
Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos)	A Mexican celebration to remember loved ones, with marigolds and altars		fun-holidays-around-world
Thanksgiving (US)	Fourth Thursday of November; a day to give thanks and share a meal		fun-holidays-around-world
Canadian Thanksgiving	Second Monday of October		fun-holidays-around-world
Independence Day (US)	July 4; marks the Declaration of Independence in 1776		fun-holidays-around-world
Bastille Day	July 14; France's national day		fun-holidays-around-world
Canada Day	July 1		fun-holidays-around-world
Halloween	October 31; costumes, jack-o'-lanterns and trick-or-treating		fun-holidays-around-world
Bonfire Night	November 5 in the UK, with fireworks		fun-holidays-around-world
Valentine's Day	February 14; a day for sharing cards and kind words		fun-holidays-around-world
St. Patrick's Day	March 17; Irish culture and green clothes		fun-holidays-around-world
April Fools' Day	April 1; a day for harmless pranks		fun-holidays-around-world
Mother's Day	A day to honor mothers, held in different months in different countries		fun-holidays-around-world
Father's Day	A day to honor fathers		fun-holidays-around-world
Earth Day	April 22; a day to care for the planet		fun-holidays-around-world
Cinco de Mayo	May 5; remembers a Mexican victory in 1862 and celebrates Mexican culture		fun-holidays-around-world
Mexican Independence Day	September 16		fun-holidays-around-world
Oktoberfest	A beer and folk festival in Munich, Germany, held in late September and October		fun-holidays-around-world
Carnival	A pre-Lent festival with parades, famous in Rio de Janeiro		fun-holidays-around-world
Mardi Gras	The day before Lent begins; New Orleans has parades and beads		fun-holidays-around-world
Songkran	Thai New Year with water splashing		fun-holidays-around-world
Obon	A Japanese summer festival to honor ancestors		fun-holidays-around-world
Tanabata	A Japanese star festival on July 7		fun-holidays-around-world
Cherry Blossom Festival	Spring celebration of flowering cherry trees in Japan		fun-holidays-around-world
Mid-Autumn Festival	East Asian harvest festival with mooncakes and moon watching		fun-holidays-around-world
Dragon Boat Festival	Chinese festival with boat races and rice dumplings		fun-holidays-around-world
Chuseok	Korean harvest festival		fun-holidays-around-world
Vesak	Buddhist celebration of the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and passing		fun-holidays-around-world
Nowruz	Persian New Year at the spring equinox		fun-holidays-around-world
Lantern Festival	End of Lunar New Year celebrations with lanterns		fun-holidays-around-world
Hogmanay	Scottish New Year's Eve party		fun-holidays-around-world
St. Lucia Day	December 13 in Sweden, with candles and white gowns		fun-holidays-around-world
Three Kings Day	January 6; celebrated in Spain and Latin America		fun-holidays-around-world
Guy Fawkes Night	Another name for Bonfire Night in the UK		fun-holidays-around-world
Juneteenth	June 19; marks the end of slavery in the US in 1865		fun-holidays-around-world
Martin Luther King Jr. Day	Third Monday in January in the US		fun-holidays-around-world
Veterans Day	November 11 in the US; honors those who served in the military		fun-holidays-around-world
Remembrance Day	November 11 in Commonwealth countries		fun-holidays-around-world
Groundhog Day	February 2; a groundhog 'predicts' spring in the US and Canada		fun-holidays-around-world
Labor Day	First Monday in September in the US; honors workers		fun-holidays-around-world
Pi Day	March 14, a math fan holiday for the number 3.14		fun-holidays-around-world
Boxing Day	December 26 in the UK and Commonwealth countries		fun-holidays-around-world
Bonfire of San Juan	Midsummer bonfires in Spain on June 23		fun-holidays-around-world
Midsummer	A Scandinavian celebration of the longest days with flowers and dancing		fun-holidays-around-world
Pancake Day	The day before Lent; people eat pancakes in the UK		fun-holidays-around-world
Pongal	Indian harvest festival in January, especially in Tamil Nadu		fun-holidays-around-world
Onam	A harvest festival in Kerala, India		fun-holidays-around-world
How many bones does an adult have?	206		fun-human-body-facts
Which is the biggest bone in the body?	The femur (thigh bone)		fun-human-body-facts
Which is the smallest bone?	The stapes, in the ear		fun-human-body-facts
How many teeth do most adults have?	32, including wisdom teeth		fun-human-body-facts
How many baby teeth do children have?	20		fun-human-body-facts
What organ pumps blood?	The heart		fun-human-body-facts
What are the lungs for?	Breathing in oxygen and out carbon dioxide		fun-human-body-facts
What is the biggest organ?	The skin		fun-human-body-facts
Which organ is used for thinking?	The brain		fun-human-body-facts
How many chambers does the heart have?	Four		fun-human-body-facts
What color is blood inside the body?	Red		fun-human-body-facts
What do red blood cells carry?	Oxygen		fun-human-body-facts
What do white blood cells do?	Fight germs		fun-human-body-facts
What is the job of the stomach?	To break down food with acid and churning		fun-human-body-facts
What does the liver do?	Cleans the blood and helps digest fat		fun-human-body-facts
What do kidneys do?	Filter waste from blood to make urine		fun-human-body-facts
What organ protects your brain?	The skull		fun-human-body-facts
What protects your heart and lungs?	The rib cage		fun-human-body-facts
What are muscles for?	Moving the body		fun-human-body-facts
Which muscle never gets a rest?	The heart muscle		fun-human-body-facts
How many senses do we usually count?	Five: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch		fun-human-body-facts
What part of the eye lets in light?	The pupil		fun-human-body-facts
What part of the eye is colored?	The iris		fun-human-body-facts
What do ears help us do?	Hear and keep balance		fun-human-body-facts
What are taste buds?	Tiny sensors on the tongue that detect tastes		fun-human-body-facts
What are the basic tastes?	Sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami		fun-human-body-facts
What are fingerprints?	Unique patterns on fingertips		fun-human-body-facts
What does the skeleton do?	Gives shape, protects organs, and helps movement		fun-human-body-facts
How many ribs do most people have?	24, in 12 pairs		fun-human-body-facts
What is the spine?	A column of bones (vertebrae) that protects the spinal cord		fun-human-body-facts
What are joints?	Places where two bones meet		fun-human-body-facts
What is the windpipe called?	The trachea		fun-human-body-facts
What tube carries food to your stomach?	The esophagus		fun-human-body-facts
How long is the small intestine?	About 20 feet (6 meters) in adults		fun-human-body-facts
What happens when you sneeze?	Your body pushes out dust or germs from your nose		fun-human-body-facts
Why do we get hiccups?	The diaphragm twitches suddenly		fun-human-body-facts
Why do we sweat?	To cool the body down		fun-human-body-facts
How much of your body is water?	About 60 percent in adults		fun-human-body-facts
How often does your heart beat?	About 60 to 100 times a minute for adults at rest		fun-human-body-facts
How many hours of sleep do kids need?	About 9 to 12 hours, depending on age		fun-human-body-facts
What does sleep do?	Lets your body and brain rest and grow		fun-human-body-facts
What are vitamins for?	Helping the body work and grow		fun-human-body-facts
What is calcium good for?	Strong bones and teeth		fun-human-body-facts
What is the nervous system?	The brain, spinal cord and nerves that send messages		fun-human-body-facts
What is DNA?	The instruction code inside cells		fun-human-body-facts
What is a cell?	The smallest building block of living things		fun-human-body-facts
How many muscles help you smile?	It takes several muscles in your face		fun-human-body-facts
What is the funny bone?	A spot on your elbow where a nerve runs near the surface		fun-human-body-facts
What is goosebumps?	Tiny muscles at the base of hairs tighten		fun-human-body-facts
What does the cerebellum control?	Balance and coordination		fun-human-body-facts
What are tonsils?	Tissue at the back of the throat that helps fight germs		fun-human-body-facts
What is an appendix?	A small pouch attached to the large intestine		fun-human-body-facts
What do eyelashes do?	Help keep dust out of your eyes		fun-human-body-facts
What do nails protect?	The tips of your fingers and toes		fun-human-body-facts
What is the pulse?	The beat of your heart felt in your wrist or neck		fun-human-body-facts
What is the diaphragm?	A muscle under the lungs that helps you breathe		fun-human-body-facts
What is the largest muscle?	The gluteus maximus in the bottom		fun-human-body-facts
What helps wash hands clean?	Soap and water for at least 20 seconds		fun-human-body-facts
Ladybug	A beetle with spots that eats aphids		fun-insects-and-bugs
Honeybee	Makes honey and pollinates flowers		fun-insects-and-bugs
Bumblebee	A big fuzzy bee		fun-insects-and-bugs
Butterfly	Has colorful wings and drinks nectar		fun-insects-and-bugs
Moth	A winged insect that often flies at night		fun-insects-and-bugs
Dragonfly	A fast flyer with two pairs of wings		fun-insects-and-bugs
Grasshopper	Jumps with strong back legs		fun-insects-and-bugs
Cricket	Chirps by rubbing its wings together		fun-insects-and-bugs
Praying mantis	A hunter that holds its front legs like it is praying		fun-insects-and-bugs
Firefly	A beetle that glows to find friends		fun-insects-and-bugs
Ant	Lives in colonies and works as a team		fun-insects-and-bugs
Termite	Chews wood and builds mounds		fun-insects-and-bugs
Mosquito	Female bites to drink blood		fun-insects-and-bugs
Housefly	Tastes with its feet		fun-insects-and-bugs
Beetle	Has hard wing covers; the biggest group of insects		fun-insects-and-bugs
Stag beetle	A beetle with large jaws like antlers		fun-insects-and-bugs
Dung beetle	Rolls balls of dung		fun-insects-and-bugs
Cicada	Spends years underground, then sings loudly		fun-insects-and-bugs
Walking stick	An insect that looks like a twig		fun-insects-and-bugs
Aphid	A tiny insect that sucks plant juices		fun-insects-and-bugs
Flea	A tiny jumper		fun-insects-and-bugs
Earwig	An insect with pincers on its tail		fun-insects-and-bugs
Cockroach	A tough insect that has been around since before dinosaurs		fun-insects-and-bugs
Wasp	A stinging insect that builds paper nests		fun-insects-and-bugs
Hornet	A large kind of wasp		fun-insects-and-bugs
Caterpillar	The larva of a butterfly or moth		fun-insects-and-bugs
Chrysalis	The case a butterfly caterpillar forms to change inside		fun-insects-and-bugs
Cocoon	The silk case many moth caterpillars spin		fun-insects-and-bugs
Metamorphosis	A big body change, like caterpillar to butterfly		fun-insects-and-bugs
Monarch butterfly	Migrates thousands of miles to Mexico		fun-insects-and-bugs
Luna moth	A big pale green moth		fun-insects-and-bugs
Silkworm	A caterpillar whose cocoon gives us silk		fun-insects-and-bugs
Spider	Not an insect: it has eight legs		fun-insects-and-bugs
Black widow	A spider with a red hourglass mark; wild ones are best left alone		fun-insects-and-bugs
Tarantula	A large hairy spider		fun-insects-and-bugs
Orb weaver	A spider that spins round webs		fun-insects-and-bugs
Jumping spider	A tiny spider with good eyes that leaps on prey		fun-insects-and-bugs
Scorpion	A relative of spiders with a stinging tail		fun-insects-and-bugs
Tick	A tiny spider relative that feeds on blood		fun-insects-and-bugs
Centipede	Has one pair of legs per body segment		fun-insects-and-bugs
Millipede	Has two pairs of legs per segment		fun-insects-and-bugs
Pill bug	Also called a roly-poly; it curls into a ball		fun-insects-and-bugs
Snail	Not an insect; it is a mollusk		fun-insects-and-bugs
Earthworm	Not an insect; it helps soil		fun-insects-and-bugs
How many legs does an insect have?	Six		fun-insects-and-bugs
How many body parts does an insect have?	Three: head, thorax and abdomen		fun-insects-and-bugs
How many legs does a spider have?	Eight		fun-insects-and-bugs
Antennae	Feelers used to smell and touch		fun-insects-and-bugs
Exoskeleton	A hard outside skeleton		fun-insects-and-bugs
Pollinator	An animal that moves pollen from flower to flower		fun-insects-and-bugs
Larva	The young, wormlike stage of many insects		fun-insects-and-bugs
Pupa	The resting stage when a larva changes		fun-insects-and-bugs
Nymph	A young insect that looks like a small adult		fun-insects-and-bugs
Compound eye	An eye made of many tiny lenses		fun-insects-and-bugs
Hive	A beehive where honeybees live		fun-insects-and-bugs
Queen bee	The bee that lays all the eggs		fun-insects-and-bugs
Worker bee	A bee that gathers food and cares for the hive		fun-insects-and-bugs
Waggle dance	A honeybee dance that tells where flowers are		fun-insects-and-bugs
Entomologist	A scientist who studies insects		fun-insects-and-bugs
Camouflage	Colors that help an animal hide		fun-insects-and-bugs
Swarm	A large group of flying insects		fun-insects-and-bugs
Locust	A kind of grasshopper that can swarm		fun-insects-and-bugs
Leafcutter ant	Cuts leaves to grow fungus for food		fun-insects-and-bugs
Water strider	An insect that walks on water		fun-insects-and-bugs
Mayfly	An insect that lives only a short time as an adult		fun-insects-and-bugs
Telephone	Alexander Graham Bell, patented 1876		fun-inventions-who
Light bulb (practical)	Thomas Edison, 1879, building on others' work		fun-inventions-who
Airplane (first powered flight)	Wilbur and Orville Wright, 1903		fun-inventions-who
Printing press with movable type (Europe)	Johannes Gutenberg, about 1440		fun-inventions-who
Phonograph	Thomas Edison, 1877		fun-inventions-who
Steam engine (improved)	James Watt, 1760s-1770s		fun-inventions-who
Radio (wireless)	Guglielmo Marconi, 1890s		fun-inventions-who
Television (electronic)	Philo Farnsworth, 1927		fun-inventions-who
Cotton gin	Eli Whitney, 1793		fun-inventions-who
Sewing machine (practical)	Elias Howe, 1846		fun-inventions-who
Dynamite	Alfred Nobel, 1867		fun-inventions-who
Vaccination (smallpox)	Edward Jenner, 1796		fun-inventions-who
Pasteurization	Louis Pasteur, 1860s		fun-inventions-who
Penicillin discovery	Alexander Fleming, 1928		fun-inventions-who
World Wide Web	Tim Berners-Lee, 1989		fun-inventions-who
Telescope (first)	Hans Lippershey applied in 1608; Galileo improved it in 1609		fun-inventions-who
Microscope (early)	Zacharias Janssen and others, about 1590s		fun-inventions-who
Compass	Invented in ancient China, over 1,000 years ago		fun-inventions-who
Paper	Invented in China, traditionally credited to Cai Lun about 105 CE		fun-inventions-who
Gunpowder	Invented in China around 800 CE		fun-inventions-who
Wheel	Used by ancient peoples in Mesopotamia about 5,500 years ago		fun-inventions-who
Zipper (modern)	Gideon Sundback, 1913		fun-inventions-who
Safety pin	Walter Hunt, 1849		fun-inventions-who
Bicycle (pedal)	Pierre Michaux and others, 1860s		fun-inventions-who
Automobile (gas-powered)	Karl Benz, 1885-1886		fun-inventions-who
Model T mass production	Henry Ford, 1908 onward		fun-inventions-who
Elevator safety brake	Elisha Otis, 1850s		fun-inventions-who
Refrigerator (early)	Several inventors; Jacob Perkins built an early one in 1834		fun-inventions-who
Camera (photograph)	Louis Daguerre's daguerreotype, 1839		fun-inventions-who
Movie camera (kinetoscope)	Thomas Edison and W.K.L. Dickson, 1890s		fun-inventions-who
Morse code and telegraph	Samuel Morse, 1830s-1840s		fun-inventions-who
Braille	Louis Braille, 1824		fun-inventions-who
Stethoscope	Rene Laennec, 1816		fun-inventions-who
Thermometer (Fahrenheit)	Daniel Fahrenheit, 1714		fun-inventions-who
Barometer	Evangelista Torricelli, 1643		fun-inventions-who
Parachute (sketch)	Leonardo da Vinci drew one in about 1485		fun-inventions-who
Hot air balloon	The Montgolfier brothers, 1783		fun-inventions-who
Steamboat (successful)	Robert Fulton, 1807		fun-inventions-who
Locomotive (early)	Richard Trevithick, 1804; George Stephenson's Rocket, 1829		fun-inventions-who
Battery	Alessandro Volta, 1800		fun-inventions-who
Electric generator principle	Michael Faraday, 1831		fun-inventions-who
Alternating current systems	Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, 1880s-1890s		fun-inventions-who
Transistor	Bell Labs: Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley, 1947		fun-inventions-who
Computer (Analytical Engine design)	Charles Babbage, 1830s		fun-inventions-who
First programmer	Ada Lovelace, wrote notes with the first algorithm in 1843		fun-inventions-who
Helicopter (practical)	Igor Sikorsky, 1939		fun-inventions-who
Rocket (liquid fuel)	Robert Goddard, 1926		fun-inventions-who
Post-it notes	Spencer Silver and Art Fry at 3M, 1970s		fun-inventions-who
Velcro	George de Mestral, 1941		fun-inventions-who
Ballpoint pen	Laszlo Biro, 1938		fun-inventions-who
Pencil with eraser	Hymen Lipman patented one in 1858		fun-inventions-who
Crayons (modern)	Binney and Smith, 1903		fun-inventions-who
Basketball	James Naismith, 1891		fun-inventions-who
Frisbee	Walter Morrison, 1948 (Pluto Platter, then Frisbee)		fun-inventions-who
Potato chips	Said to be created by George Crum, 1853		fun-inventions-who
Chocolate chip cookie	Ruth Wakefield, 1938		fun-inventions-who
Popsicle	Frank Epperson, 1905 as a boy; patented 1923		fun-inventions-who
Earmuffs	Chester Greenwood, 1873 at age 15		fun-inventions-who
Trampoline	George Nissen, 1930s		fun-inventions-who
Snowboard (Snurfer)	Sherman Poppen, 1965		fun-inventions-who
Skateboard	California surfers of the 1940s-50s		fun-inventions-who
Traffic light (electric)	James Hoge and others, 1914		fun-inventions-who
What do you call a bear with no teeth?	A gummy bear		fun-jokes-animals
Why do fish live in salt water?	Because pepper makes them sneeze		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a sleeping bull?	A bulldozer		fun-jokes-animals
Why did the chicken cross the road?	To get to the other side		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a fish with no eyes?	A fsh		fun-jokes-animals
What do cows read in the morning?	The moos-paper		fun-jokes-animals
Why are cats good at video games?	They have nine lives		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a pig that does karate?	A pork chop		fun-jokes-animals
What is a cat's favorite color?	Purr-ple		fun-jokes-animals
Why was the cat sitting on the computer?	To keep an eye on the mouse		fun-jokes-animals
What do you get when you cross a snowman with a dog?	Frostbite		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a dinosaur that never gives up?	Try, try, try-ceratops		fun-jokes-animals
Why can't a leopard hide?	Because it is always spotted		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a sheep with no legs?	A cloud		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a dog magician?	A labracadabrador		fun-jokes-animals
Why do bees have sticky hair?	Because they use honeycombs		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a duck that gets all A's?	A wise quacker		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call two birds in love?	Tweethearts		fun-jokes-animals
Why did the owl invite his friends over?	He didn't want to be owl by himself		fun-jokes-animals
How do you count cows?	With a cowculator		fun-jokes-animals
What is a frog's favorite drink?	Croak-a-cola		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?	A dino-snore		fun-jokes-animals
Why do elephants never forget?	Because nobody ever tells them anything		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a happy cowboy's horse?	A hay-ppy horse		fun-jokes-animals
Why was the snake so good at math?	He was an adder		fun-jokes-animals
What's black and white and bouncy?	A penguin on a pogo stick		fun-jokes-animals
Why don't oysters share?	Because they are shellfish		fun-jokes-animals
What is a rabbit's favorite dance?	Hip-hop		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a bee that can't make up its mind?	A maybe		fun-jokes-animals
What's a horse's favorite game?	Stable tennis		fun-jokes-animals
Where do sheep go to get haircuts?	The baa-baa shop		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a bird that's afraid to fly?	A chicken		fun-jokes-animals
What sits on the bottom of the sea and shakes?	A nervous wreck		fun-jokes-animals
What kind of dog loves bubble baths?	A shampoodle		fun-jokes-animals
What do lions say before they eat?	Let us prey		fun-jokes-animals
Why did the dog sit in the shade?	He didn't want to be a hot dog		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a lazy kangaroo?	A pouch potato		fun-jokes-animals
Why are frogs so happy?	They eat whatever bugs them		fun-jokes-animals
Where do fish keep their money?	In the river bank		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a cow with two legs?	Lean beef		fun-jokes-animals
What did the spider do on the computer?	Made a website		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?	A stick		fun-jokes-animals
What do you get from a pampered cow?	Spoiled milk		fun-jokes-animals
How does a penguin build its house?	Igloos it together		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a pony with a cough?	A little hoarse		fun-jokes-animals
Why do ducks have feathers?	To cover their butt quacks		fun-jokes-animals
Why did the turtle cross the road?	To get to the shell station		fun-jokes-animals
What kind of key opens a banana?	A monkey		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a fly without wings?	A walk		fun-jokes-animals
Why was the baby ant confused?	All his uncles were ants		fun-jokes-animals
What is a cheetah's least favorite game?	Hide and seek, they're always spotted		fun-jokes-animals
What did the buffalo say when his son left?	Bison		fun-jokes-animals
How do you make a bee feel better?	Give it a buzz		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a fish wearing a bowtie?	Sofishticated		fun-jokes-animals
Why did the squirrel go to the party?	To get a few nuts to eat		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call an elephant that doesn't matter?	An irrelephant		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call cows with a sense of humor?	Laughing stock		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a cat that loves to bowl?	An alley cat		fun-jokes-animals
What do you call a bear in the rain?	A drizzly bear		fun-jokes-animals
Why did the bird get in trouble in class?	It was acting tweet		fun-jokes-animals
Why did the student eat his homework?	The teacher said it was a piece of cake		fun-jokes-everyday
Why was the math book sad?	It had too many problems		fun-jokes-everyday
What did zero say to eight?	Nice belt		fun-jokes-everyday
Why is six afraid of seven?	Because seven eight nine		fun-jokes-everyday
What kind of tree fits in your hand?	A palm tree		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call cheese that is not yours?	Nacho cheese		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the cookie go to the doctor?	It felt crummy		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call a fake noodle?	An impasta		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the tomato turn red?	It saw the salad dressing		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call a sleeping pizza?	A pizzzzzzza		fun-jokes-everyday
What did the plate say to the other plate?	Dinner is on me		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the banana go to the doctor?	It wasn't peeling well		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call an apple that plays the trumpet?	A tooty fruity		fun-jokes-everyday
What is a ghost's favorite fruit?	Boo-berries		fun-jokes-everyday
Why can't you trust stairs?	They are always up to something		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call a boat full of sleeping people?	A snooze cruise		fun-jokes-everyday
How do you make a lemon drop?	Let it fall		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the scarecrow win an award?	He was outstanding in his field		fun-jokes-everyday
What did one wall say to the other?	I'll meet you at the corner		fun-jokes-everyday
Why was the broom late?	It over-swept		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call a snowman in July?	A puddle		fun-jokes-everyday
What kind of music do mummies listen to?	Wrap music		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the clock get sent to school?	It tocked too much		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call a train carrying bubble gum?	A chew-chew train		fun-jokes-everyday
What has ears but cannot hear?	A cornfield		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the golfer bring two pairs of pants?	In case he got a hole in one		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the bicycle fall over?	It was two-tired		fun-jokes-everyday
What did the ocean say to the shore?	Nothing, it just waved		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call a pencil with no point?	Pointless		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the music teacher need a ladder?	To reach the high notes		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call a dancing bean?	A jumping bean		fun-jokes-everyday
What did the sock say to the shoe?	I'll be right behind you		fun-jokes-everyday
What is a vampire's favorite fruit?	A blood orange		fun-jokes-everyday
Why do bakers work so hard?	They knead the dough		fun-jokes-everyday
What time is it when an elephant sits on your fence?	Time to get a new fence		fun-jokes-everyday
What did the left eye say to the right eye?	Between us, something smells		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the girl bring a ladder to school?	She wanted to go to high school		fun-jokes-everyday
Why are teddy bears never hungry?	They are always stuffed		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call a robot that takes the long way?	R2-Detour		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call a computer that sings?	A Dell		fun-jokes-everyday
What is a computer's favorite snack?	Microchips		fun-jokes-everyday
Why was the computer cold?	It left its Windows open		fun-jokes-everyday
What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?	Aye matey		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the astronaut break up with her girlfriend?	She needed space		fun-jokes-everyday
What do planets like to read?	Comet books		fun-jokes-everyday
How does the moon cut its hair?	Eclipse it		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call a three-legged donkey?	A wonkey		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the pillow go to the doctor?	It was feeling run down		fun-jokes-everyday
What kind of shoes do ninjas wear?	Sneakers		fun-jokes-everyday
What is a sleepy rabbit's favorite game?	Bed-ball		fun-jokes-everyday
Why was the equal sign so humble?	It knew it wasn't less than or greater than anyone		fun-jokes-everyday
What did the big flower say to the little flower?	Hi, bud		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the spoon run away with the fork?	They wanted to elope		fun-jokes-everyday
Where do pencils go on vacation?	Pencil-vania		fun-jokes-everyday
What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet?	Supplies		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call a nosy pepper?	Jalapeno business		fun-jokes-everyday
What do you call an alligator in a vest?	An investigator		fun-jokes-everyday
What is the best day to go to the beach?	Sunday		fun-jokes-everyday
Why did the picture go to jail?	It was framed		fun-jokes-everyday
Lettuce	Lettuce in, it's cold out here!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Boo	Don't cry, it's only a joke!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Orange	Orange you glad to see me?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Interrupting cow	Interrupting cow wh- MOO!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Atch	Bless you!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Dishes	Dishes the police, open up!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Who	Who who? Is there an owl in here?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Howard	Howard you like to let me in?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Ice cream	Ice cream if you don't let me in!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Olive	Olive you!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Alpaca	Alpaca the suitcase, you load the car		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Harry	Harry up and open the door!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Tank	You're welcome!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Cash	No thanks, I prefer peanuts!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Doughnut	Doughnut ask, it's a secret!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Needle	Needle little help getting in here		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Wooden shoe	Wooden shoe like to hear another joke?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Mikey	Mikey doesn't fit in the keyhole!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Ben	Ben knocking for ten minutes!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Justin	Justin time for dinner!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Annie	Annie thing you can do, I can do better!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Yoda	Yoda one who knows how to open the door!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Isabel	Isabel broken? I had to knock!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Kenya	Kenya open the door?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Luke	Luke through the peephole and find out!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Hawaii	I'm fine, Hawaii you?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Nobel	Nobel, so I knocked!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Aida	Aida whole pizza, now I'm full!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Bacon	Bacon a cake for your birthday!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Beets	Beets me, I forgot my name!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Consumption	Consumption be done about this door?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Dozen	Dozen anybody want to let me in?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Figs	Figs the doorbell, it's broken!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Guitar	Guitar you open the door!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Ida	Ida know, let me in and I'll tell you!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Jewel	Jewel know who it is when you open the door!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Kanga	No, kangaroo!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Lass	That's what cowboys say!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Mustache	I mustache you a question!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Noah	Noah good place to eat?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Offer	Offer got my keys!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Pasta	Pasta the salt, please!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Quacker	Quacker another joke!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Radio	Radio not, here I come!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Sherlock	Sherlock your door, so I can't get in!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Thermos	Thermos be a better way to get in!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Uriah	Uriah in the neighborhood and thought I'd stop by!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Vera	Vera nice to see you!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Walrus	Walrus be a good time to chat!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Xavier	Xavier breath, I'm coming in!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Yellow	Yellow! Is anybody home?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Zany	Zany body home?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Cargo	No, car go beep beep!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Rhino	Rhino every knock-knock joke there is!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Snow	Snow use, I forgot my name!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Stopwatch	Stopwatch you're doing and let me in!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Hoo	Is there an echo in here?		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Ears	Ears another knock-knock joke for you!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Tarzan	Tarzan stripes forever!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Beehive	Beehive yourself!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Pizza	Pizza trouble if you don't open up!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
Waiter	Waiter minute while I find my key!		fun-knock-knock-jokes
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 run away. How many are left?	9		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Some months have 31 days. How many have 28?	All twelve		fun-logic-brain-teasers
If you have only one match and enter a dark room with a candle, a lamp and a fireplace, what do you light first?	The match		fun-logic-brain-teasers
How many times can you subtract 5 from 25?	Once, because after that it is 20, not 25		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?	They weigh the same		fun-logic-brain-teasers
A rooster lays an egg on top of a barn roof. Which way does it roll?	Roosters don't lay eggs		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What is half of two plus two?	Three (half of two is 1, plus 2)		fun-logic-brain-teasers
How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?	None, it was Noah		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Divide 30 by half and add 10. What is the answer?	70		fun-logic-brain-teasers
There are 3 apples and you take away 2. How many do you have?	2		fun-logic-brain-teasers
A bat and ball cost $1.10 total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much is the ball?	5 cents		fun-logic-brain-teasers
If 5 machines make 5 widgets in 5 minutes, how long for 100 machines to make 100 widgets?	5 minutes		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What number comes next? 2, 4, 8, 16, ...	32		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What number comes next? 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ...	13 (the Fibonacci numbers)		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What number comes next? 1, 4, 9, 16, ...	25 (square numbers)		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What number comes next? 3, 6, 9, 12, ...	15		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What letter comes next? O, T, T, F, F, S, S, ...	E (One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight)		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What letter comes next? J, F, M, A, M, J, ...	J (months of the year: July)		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Mary's father has five daughters: Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono, and who?	Mary		fun-logic-brain-teasers
A man is looking at a photo. 'Brothers and sisters, I have none, but that man's father is my father's son.' Who is in the photo?	His son		fun-logic-brain-teasers
You are in a race and pass the person in second place. What place are you in?	Second		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Two coins add up to 30 cents and one of them is not a nickel. What are they?	A quarter and a nickel (one of them, the quarter, is not a nickel)		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What can be broken without being touched?	A promise		fun-logic-brain-teasers
If a red house is made of red bricks and a blue house of blue bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?	Glass		fun-logic-brain-teasers
A clock strikes 6 in 5 seconds. How long to strike 12?	11 seconds (count the gaps)		fun-logic-brain-teasers
There are 3 boxes labeled apples, oranges, and both, all labeled wrong. You pick one fruit from one box. Which box?	The box labeled 'both'		fun-logic-brain-teasers
A snail climbs 3 feet up a 10-foot wall each day and slips back 2 feet each night. When does it reach the top?	On day 8		fun-logic-brain-teasers
If it takes 3 people 3 hours to dig 3 holes, how long for 1 person to dig 1 hole?	3 hours		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Tom's mother has 4 children: April, May, June and who?	Tom		fun-logic-brain-teasers
How many two-cent stamps are in a dozen?	Twelve		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What is 100 divided by 2, then plus 1, then divided by 3?	17		fun-logic-brain-teasers
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?	Footsteps		fun-logic-brain-teasers
How can you make the number 7 even without adding or subtracting?	Take away the S: seven becomes even		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Which is bigger, 0.5 or 0.45?	0.5		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What is the next shape? circle, square, triangle, circle, square, ...	Triangle		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Five people shake hands once each with every other person. How many handshakes?	10		fun-logic-brain-teasers
A father is 4 times as old as his son. In 20 years he will be twice as old. How old is the son now?	10 years old		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Which is heavier, a ton of coal or a ton of cotton?	Same		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Which number is missing? 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, __, 17	13 (prime numbers)		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What are the next two letters? A, C, E, G, I, __, __	K and M		fun-logic-brain-teasers
How can two girls be born to the same mother on the same day at the same time and not be twins?	They are part of triplets (or more)		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Two fathers and two sons go fishing and each catch one fish, but only three fish are caught. How?	There are three people: a grandfather, father and son		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What goes up when rain comes down?	An umbrella		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?	Wrong		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What is the smallest three-digit number using different digits?	102		fun-logic-brain-teasers
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 5 nickels, how many coins do you have?	12		fun-logic-brain-teasers
Which is bigger, 1/2 or 1/3?	1/2		fun-logic-brain-teasers
What makes an animal a mammal?	It has hair or fur, feeds babies milk, and is warm-blooded		fun-mammals-world
African elephant	The biggest land animal; uses its trunk like a hand		fun-mammals-world
Giraffe	The tallest animal; its tongue is dark and about 18 inches long		fun-mammals-world
Hippopotamus	Spends the day in water and comes out at night to graze		fun-mammals-world
Rhinoceros	Has one or two horns made of keratin, like fingernails		fun-mammals-world
Lion	Lives in groups called prides; the male has a mane		fun-mammals-world
Cheetah	The fastest land animal		fun-mammals-world
Leopard	A spotted cat that carries prey into trees		fun-mammals-world
Tiger	The largest cat; each has its own stripe pattern		fun-mammals-world
Zebra	Black and white stripes; no two are the same		fun-mammals-world
Gorilla	A gentle forest ape that lives in family groups		fun-mammals-world
Chimpanzee	Shares most of its genes with humans		fun-mammals-world
Orangutan	The name means person of the forest in Malay		fun-mammals-world
Wolf	Lives and hunts in packs		fun-mammals-world
Red fox	A small wild dog with a bushy tail		fun-mammals-world
Grizzly bear	A large brown bear of North America		fun-mammals-world
Panda	Eats bamboo most of the day		fun-mammals-world
Koala	Eats eucalyptus leaves and sleeps up to 20 hours a day		fun-mammals-world
Kangaroo	Hops and carries babies in a pouch		fun-mammals-world
Platypus	A mammal that lays eggs, with a bill like a duck		fun-mammals-world
Bat	The only mammal that can truly fly		fun-mammals-world
Dolphin	A smart sea mammal that breathes air		fun-mammals-world
Blue whale	The largest animal ever		fun-mammals-world
Sea otter	Floats on its back and holds hands while sleeping		fun-mammals-world
Beaver	Builds dams with sticks and mud		fun-mammals-world
Porcupine	Has sharp quills for defense		fun-mammals-world
Hedgehog	Rolls into a spiny ball		fun-mammals-world
Squirrel	Buries nuts and sometimes forgets where		fun-mammals-world
Rabbit	Hops and has long ears and strong back legs		fun-mammals-world
Mole	Digs tunnels with big front paws		fun-mammals-world
Armadillo	Has a bony shell; some can curl into a ball		fun-mammals-world
Anteater	Uses a long sticky tongue to eat ants		fun-mammals-world
Sloth	Moves slowly and hangs upside down		fun-mammals-world
Camel	Stores fat in its hump		fun-mammals-world
Llama	A woolly South American animal that carries loads		fun-mammals-world
Moose	The largest deer; has big flat antlers		fun-mammals-world
Reindeer	Both males and females grow antlers		fun-mammals-world
Bison	A large shaggy animal of North American plains		fun-mammals-world
Mountain goat	Climbs steep cliffs with sure feet		fun-mammals-world
Meerkat	Takes turns standing guard		fun-mammals-world
Lemur	A primate of Madagascar with a ringed tail		fun-mammals-world
Walrus	Has two long tusks and whiskers		fun-mammals-world
Seal	Swims fast and rests on ice or rocks		fun-mammals-world
Polar bear	The largest land carnivore		fun-mammals-world
Hyena	A scavenger and hunter with a laughing call		fun-mammals-world
Warthog	A wild pig of Africa with tusks		fun-mammals-world
Okapi	Looks like a zebra-horse and is related to the giraffe		fun-mammals-world
Capybara	The largest rodent		fun-mammals-world
Red panda	A small tree-climbing animal that eats bamboo		fun-mammals-world
Tasmanian devil	A meat-eating marsupial of Tasmania		fun-mammals-world
Wombat	A digger that makes cube-shaped poop		fun-mammals-world
Narwhal	A whale with a long spiral tusk		fun-mammals-world
Manatee	A gentle sea cow		fun-mammals-world
Aardvark	A night digger that eats ants and termites		fun-mammals-world
Pangolin	A scaly mammal that curls into a ball		fun-mammals-world
Tapir	A forest animal with a flexible snout		fun-mammals-world
Raccoon	Has clever front paws and a masked face		fun-mammals-world
Skunk	Sprays a smelly liquid when scared		fun-mammals-world
Chipmunk	Stores seeds in cheek pouches		fun-mammals-world
Opossum	North America's only marsupial		fun-mammals-world
Bobcat	A wild cat with a short tail		fun-mammals-world
Mountain lion	A large American wild cat also called a cougar		fun-mammals-world
Coyote	A clever wild dog of North America		fun-mammals-world
Elk	A large deer with big antlers		fun-mammals-world
Fennec fox	A tiny desert fox with huge ears		fun-mammals-world
Ocelot	A beautiful spotted wild cat of the Americas		fun-mammals-world
What is a googol?	The number 1 followed by 100 zeros		fun-math-fun-facts
What is pi?	About 3.14159, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter		fun-math-fun-facts
When is Pi Day?	March 14 (3/14)		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the only even prime number?	2		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a prime number?	A number greater than 1 with only two factors: 1 and itself		fun-math-fun-facts
What are the first five prime numbers?	2, 3, 5, 7, 11		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a perfect number?	A number equal to the sum of its smaller factors, like 6 (1+2+3)		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the next perfect number after 6?	28		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a square number?	The result of a number times itself, like 25		fun-math-fun-facts
What are the first five square numbers?	1, 4, 9, 16, 25		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a cube number?	A number times itself twice, like 27		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the Fibonacci sequence?	1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13... each number is the sum of the previous two		fun-math-fun-facts
Where do Fibonacci numbers show up in nature?	In spirals of sunflowers, pinecones and shells		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the golden ratio?	About 1.618, a special ratio found in art and nature		fun-math-fun-facts
Who is the father of geometry?	Euclid		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the Pythagorean theorem?	In a right triangle, a squared plus b squared equals c squared		fun-math-fun-facts
How many degrees in a circle?	360		fun-math-fun-facts
How many degrees in a triangle's angles?	180		fun-math-fun-facts
How many degrees in a right angle?	90		fun-math-fun-facts
How many sides does a hexagon have?	Six		fun-math-fun-facts
How many sides does an octagon have?	Eight		fun-math-fun-facts
What shape is a honeycomb cell?	A hexagon		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a polygon?	A closed shape with straight sides		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a number with no end after the decimal and no pattern?	An irrational number, like pi		fun-math-fun-facts
What is zero?	The number that means none, invented in India		fun-math-fun-facts
Who invented our digits 0 to 9?	They came from India and spread through the Arab world (Hindu-Arabic numerals)		fun-math-fun-facts
What number system do computers use?	Binary, using 0 and 1		fun-math-fun-facts
What is 1,000,000 called?	A million		fun-math-fun-facts
What is 1,000,000,000 called?	A billion		fun-math-fun-facts
What is 1,000,000,000,000 called?	A trillion		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a dozen?	Twelve		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a gross?	144, or twelve dozen		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a score?	Twenty		fun-math-fun-facts
How many seconds in a minute?	60		fun-math-fun-facts
How many minutes in an hour?	60		fun-math-fun-facts
How many hours in a day?	24		fun-math-fun-facts
How many days in a year?	365 (366 in a leap year)		fun-math-fun-facts
How many weeks in a year?	52		fun-math-fun-facts
What are Roman numerals for 1, 5, 10, 50, 100?	I, V, X, L, C		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the Roman numeral for 500?	D		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the Roman numeral for 1,000?	M		fun-math-fun-facts
What is 12 x 12?	144		fun-math-fun-facts
What is 9 x 9?	81		fun-math-fun-facts
What is 7 x 8?	56		fun-math-fun-facts
What happens when you add the digits of a multiple of 9?	The digits add up to a multiple of 9		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the 9s trick on fingers?	Fold down the finger for the number; fingers left of it are tens and right are ones		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a tessellation?	A pattern of shapes that fit together with no gaps		fun-math-fun-facts
What shape tiles a floor without gaps?	Squares, triangles and hexagons		fun-math-fun-facts
What is symmetry?	When one half of a shape mirrors the other		fun-math-fun-facts
How many lines of symmetry does a square have?	Four		fun-math-fun-facts
How many lines of symmetry does a circle have?	Endless		fun-math-fun-facts
What is an average?	The sum of numbers divided by how many there are		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a mean, median and mode?	Average, middle value, and most common value		fun-math-fun-facts
What does 'infinity' mean?	Without end		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the symbol for infinity?	A sideways eight		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the Möbius strip?	A one-sided loop made by twisting a paper strip and joining its ends		fun-math-fun-facts
Who was Ada Lovelace?	An early thinker about computer programs in the 1840s		fun-math-fun-facts
Who was Carl Friedrich Gauss?	A German mathematician; as a boy he quickly added 1 to 100		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the sum of 1 to 100?	5,050		fun-math-fun-facts
What is 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5?	15		fun-math-fun-facts
Why is a circle special?	Every point on it is the same distance from the center		fun-math-fun-facts
How many cents in a dollar?	100		fun-math-fun-facts
What is a percent?	Out of 100		fun-math-fun-facts
What is 50 percent of 80?	40		fun-math-fun-facts
What number is half of 100?	50		fun-math-fun-facts
What is the biggest 3-digit number?	999		fun-math-fun-facts
Is a mushroom a plant?	No, it is a fungus		fun-mushroom-safety
What is the kingdom of mushrooms, molds and yeasts?	Fungi		fun-mushroom-safety
Can fungi make their own food from sunlight?	No, they absorb food from what they grow on		fun-mushroom-safety
What is the mushroom you see above ground?	The fruiting body, like an apple on a tree		fun-mushroom-safety
What is mycelium?	The web of thin threads that is the main body of a fungus		fun-mushroom-safety
What are spores?	Tiny cells that fungi release to make new fungi		fun-mushroom-safety
What is the cap?	The top part of a mushroom		fun-mushroom-safety
What are gills?	Thin plates under the cap that hold spores		fun-mushroom-safety
What is the stipe?	The stem of a mushroom		fun-mushroom-safety
Where do many mushrooms grow?	On damp ground, rotting logs and leaves		fun-mushroom-safety
What is a decomposer?	A living thing that breaks down dead plants and animals		fun-mushroom-safety
Why are fungi helpful to forests?	They break down dead wood and return nutrients to the soil		fun-mushroom-safety
Should you ever eat a wild mushroom you find?	No, unless an expert has identified it		fun-mushroom-safety
Can you tell if a mushroom is safe by how it looks?	No, some poisonous ones look like edible ones		fun-mushroom-safety
What should you do if you see a wild mushroom?	Look and take a photo, but don't touch it with a bare hand or taste it		fun-mushroom-safety
What should you do after touching wild mushrooms?	Wash your hands		fun-mushroom-safety
Which grown-up can check mushrooms?	A trained expert, such as a mycologist		fun-mushroom-safety
What is a mycologist?	A scientist who studies fungi		fun-mushroom-safety
Is there a rule to tell poisonous from safe?	No simple rule works; never rely on tricks		fun-mushroom-safety
What if a pet or small child eats a wild mushroom?	Call a grown-up and poison control right away		fun-mushroom-safety
What is the poison control number in the US?	1-800-222-1222		fun-mushroom-safety
Are all mushrooms in the grocery store safe?	Store-bought ones sold for food are grown to be safe		fun-mushroom-safety
Button mushroom	The common white mushroom sold in stores		fun-mushroom-safety
Portobello	A large brown mushroom grown for food		fun-mushroom-safety
Shiitake	A mushroom grown for food in Asia and elsewhere		fun-mushroom-safety
Oyster mushroom	A soft, shell-shaped mushroom grown for food		fun-mushroom-safety
Truffle	A rare fungus that grows underground and is very costly		fun-mushroom-safety
Puffball	A round fungus that puffs out clouds of spores		fun-mushroom-safety
Fly agaric	A red cap with white spots in many fairy tales; it is poisonous		fun-mushroom-safety
Death cap	A deadly mushroom; never touch or taste wild mushrooms		fun-mushroom-safety
Shelf fungus	A fungus that grows out of trees like a shelf		fun-mushroom-safety
Fairy ring	A circle of mushrooms in a lawn		fun-mushroom-safety
Yeast	A tiny fungus that makes bread rise		fun-mushroom-safety
Mold	A fuzzy fungus that grows on old food		fun-mushroom-safety
Should you eat moldy food?	No, throw it away		fun-mushroom-safety
Penicillin	A medicine first found from a mold		fun-mushroom-safety
Athlete's foot	A skin problem caused by a fungus		fun-mushroom-safety
Lichen	A partnership between a fungus and algae		fun-mushroom-safety
Largest living thing by area?	A honey fungus in Oregon's Blue Mountains, mostly underground		fun-mushroom-safety
Bioluminescent mushrooms	Some mushrooms glow in the dark		fun-mushroom-safety
Do mushrooms need light to grow?	No, many grow in the dark		fun-mushroom-safety
Do mushrooms have seeds?	No, they have spores		fun-mushroom-safety
Are mushrooms animals?	No, they are in a kingdom of their own		fun-mushroom-safety
Which is closer to animals, a mushroom or a plant?	Fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants		fun-mushroom-safety
Why do mushrooms pop up after rain?	They like moisture		fun-mushroom-safety
Why do some mushrooms have bright colors?	Colors can be a warning, but never trust color to decide if it is safe		fun-mushroom-safety
Are mushrooms healthy to eat?	Cooked store-bought mushrooms have vitamins and minerals		fun-mushroom-safety
Is it okay to pick mushrooms in a park?	Better to leave them for the forest and animals		fun-mushroom-safety
Who eats mushrooms in nature?	Squirrels, deer, snails and insects eat some kinds		fun-mushroom-safety
What is a field guide?	A book that helps identify plants, animals or fungi		fun-mushroom-safety
Dragon (European)	A huge winged reptile that breathes fire and guards treasure		fun-mythical-creatures
Dragon (Chinese)	A long, wise, lucky water dragon without wings		fun-mythical-creatures
Unicorn	A white horse with one spiral horn		fun-mythical-creatures
Phoenix	A bird that bursts into flame and is reborn from the ashes		fun-mythical-creatures
Griffin	Half eagle, half lion		fun-mythical-creatures
Pegasus	A winged horse from Greek myths		fun-mythical-creatures
Centaur	Half human, half horse		fun-mythical-creatures
Mermaid	A sea person with a fish tail		fun-mythical-creatures
Merman	A male sea person with a fish tail		fun-mythical-creatures
Siren	In Greek stories, sea beings whose songs lured sailors		fun-mythical-creatures
Sphinx	A lion with a human head, known for riddles		fun-mythical-creatures
Minotaur	Half man, half bull, in the Labyrinth		fun-mythical-creatures
Cyclops	A giant with one eye		fun-mythical-creatures
Hydra	A many-headed serpent		fun-mythical-creatures
Medusa	A woman with snakes for hair		fun-mythical-creatures
Cerberus	A three-headed dog guarding the underworld		fun-mythical-creatures
Chimera	A mix of lion, goat and snake		fun-mythical-creatures
Kraken	A giant sea monster from Norse tales		fun-mythical-creatures
Troll	A big, grumpy creature of Scandinavian stories, often under bridges		fun-mythical-creatures
Elf	A magical, long-lived being of northern European folklore		fun-mythical-creatures
Dwarf	A short, strong miner and smith in legends		fun-mythical-creatures
Giant	A huge person in many folk tales		fun-mythical-creatures
Ogre	A giant that eats people in tales		fun-mythical-creatures
Goblin	A small, tricky creature in folk tales		fun-mythical-creatures
Fairy	A tiny magical being with wings		fun-mythical-creatures
Pixie	A playful fairy of English folk tales		fun-mythical-creatures
Leprechaun	An Irish fairy shoemaker who hides a pot of gold		fun-mythical-creatures
Banshee	An Irish spirit whose wail warns of trouble		fun-mythical-creatures
Selkie	A seal who can take human form in Scottish and Irish tales		fun-mythical-creatures
Kelpie	A Scottish water horse spirit		fun-mythical-creatures
Loch Ness Monster	A legendary creature said to live in a Scottish lake		fun-mythical-creatures
Bigfoot (Sasquatch)	A giant hairy creature said to live in North American forests		fun-mythical-creatures
Yeti	A snowy mountain creature of the Himalayas		fun-mythical-creatures
Thunderbird	A giant bird that makes thunder in many Native American stories		fun-mythical-creatures
Jackalope	A tall tale rabbit with antlers		fun-mythical-creatures
Kitsune	A Japanese fox spirit with many tails		fun-mythical-creatures
Tengu	A Japanese bird-like spirit with a long nose		fun-mythical-creatures
Kappa	A Japanese water imp who loves cucumbers		fun-mythical-creatures
Oni	Japanese ogres		fun-mythical-creatures
Tanuki	A Japanese raccoon dog spirit that can change its shape		fun-mythical-creatures
Qilin	A Chinese creature that looks like a mix of deer and dragon		fun-mythical-creatures
Fenghuang	The Chinese phoenix		fun-mythical-creatures
Garuda	A bird king in Hindu and Buddhist stories		fun-mythical-creatures
Naga	A serpent being in Hindu and Buddhist stories		fun-mythical-creatures
Ganesha	The elephant-headed Hindu god		fun-mythical-creatures
Hanuman	A monkey hero in the Ramayana		fun-mythical-creatures
Djinn (genie)	A being of smokeless fire in Middle Eastern stories		fun-mythical-creatures
Roc	A giant bird in Arabian tales		fun-mythical-creatures
Anansi	A spider trickster in West African and Caribbean stories		fun-mythical-creatures
Baba Yaga	A witch in Slavic tales who lives in a hut on chicken legs		fun-mythical-creatures
Firebird	A glowing magical bird in Russian tales		fun-mythical-creatures
Golem	A clay figure brought to life in Jewish folklore		fun-mythical-creatures
Werewolf	A person who turns into a wolf in tales		fun-mythical-creatures
Vampire	A legendary being who drinks blood, from old folktales		fun-mythical-creatures
Ghost	The spirit of someone who died, in stories		fun-mythical-creatures
Mummy	A wrapped body in Egyptian stories that comes to life in movies		fun-mythical-creatures
Basilisk	A legendary serpent king whose gaze was deadly		fun-mythical-creatures
Cockatrice	A creature with a rooster head and serpent body		fun-mythical-creatures
Hippogriff	A creature with a horse body and eagle head, from old romances		fun-mythical-creatures
Manticore	A Persian creature with a lion body, human face and scorpion tail		fun-mythical-creatures
Wyvern	A two-legged dragon in European heraldry		fun-mythical-creatures
Jabberwock	A creature in a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll		fun-mythical-creatures
Snark	A made-up creature in a poem by Lewis Carroll		fun-mythical-creatures
Yellowstone (WY, MT, ID)	The first national park (1872); Old Faithful geyser and bison		fun-national-parks-us
Yosemite (CA)	Granite cliffs, waterfalls and giant sequoias		fun-national-parks-us
Grand Canyon (AZ)	A huge canyon cut by the Colorado River		fun-national-parks-us
Zion (UT)	Red rock canyons and narrow slot canyons		fun-national-parks-us
Bryce Canyon (UT)	Tall rock spires called hoodoos		fun-national-parks-us
Arches (UT)	More than 2,000 natural sandstone arches		fun-national-parks-us
Canyonlands (UT)	Deep canyons and mesas carved by rivers		fun-national-parks-us
Great Smoky Mountains (TN, NC)	Misty mountains and lots of different plants and animals		fun-national-parks-us
Acadia (ME)	Rocky coast and first sunrise views in the US in some seasons		fun-national-parks-us
Glacier (MT)	Mountains, glaciers and clear lakes		fun-national-parks-us
Rocky Mountain (CO)	High peaks and elk		fun-national-parks-us
Grand Teton (WY)	Jagged mountains rising from a valley		fun-national-parks-us
Olympic (WA)	Rainforest, mountains and Pacific beaches		fun-national-parks-us
Mount Rainier (WA)	A giant volcano with glaciers		fun-national-parks-us
Redwood (CA)	The tallest trees on Earth		fun-national-parks-us
Sequoia (CA)	Giant sequoias, the largest trees by volume		fun-national-parks-us
Joshua Tree (CA)	Desert with twisted Joshua trees		fun-national-parks-us
Death Valley (CA, NV)	The hottest, driest place in North America		fun-national-parks-us
Everglades (FL)	A huge wetland with alligators and wading birds		fun-national-parks-us
Biscayne (FL)	Mostly underwater, with coral reefs		fun-national-parks-us
Dry Tortugas (FL)	Islands with an old fort, far out in the Gulf		fun-national-parks-us
Mammoth Cave (KY)	The longest known cave system in the world		fun-national-parks-us
Carlsbad Caverns (NM)	Huge limestone caves and a bat flight at dusk		fun-national-parks-us
Big Bend (TX)	Desert, mountains and the Rio Grande		fun-national-parks-us
Badlands (SD)	Striped, eroded hills and fossils		fun-national-parks-us
Wind Cave (SD)	A cave with rare boxwork formations		fun-national-parks-us
Theodore Roosevelt (ND)	Rugged badlands and wild horses		fun-national-parks-us
Voyageurs (MN)	Lakes and canoeing		fun-national-parks-us
Isle Royale (MI)	A wilderness island in Lake Superior		fun-national-parks-us
Cuyahoga Valley (OH)	A park with waterfalls and a scenic train		fun-national-parks-us
Shenandoah (VA)	Skyline Drive and fall colors		fun-national-parks-us
Hot Springs (AR)	Natural hot springs and old bathhouses		fun-national-parks-us
Congaree (SC)	A forest in a floodplain		fun-national-parks-us
Denali (AK)	Home of North America's tallest mountain		fun-national-parks-us
Glacier Bay (AK)	Tidewater glaciers and whales		fun-national-parks-us
Kenai Fjords (AK)	Fjords, glaciers and sea life		fun-national-parks-us
Katmai (AK)	Brown bears catching salmon		fun-national-parks-us
Haleakala (HI)	A huge volcano crater on Maui		fun-national-parks-us
Hawaii Volcanoes (HI)	Active volcanoes		fun-national-parks-us
Petrified Forest (AZ)	Trees turned to stone		fun-national-parks-us
Saguaro (AZ)	Giant cactus forest		fun-national-parks-us
Mesa Verde (CO)	Ancient cliff homes built by Ancestral Puebloans		fun-national-parks-us
Great Sand Dunes (CO)	The tallest sand dunes in North America		fun-national-parks-us
Crater Lake (OR)	The deepest lake in the US, in an old volcano		fun-national-parks-us
Lassen Volcanic (CA)	Hot springs and volcanic mud pots		fun-national-parks-us
Pinnacles (CA)	Rock spires and rare California condors		fun-national-parks-us
Channel Islands (CA)	Island wildlife off the coast		fun-national-parks-us
North Cascades (WA)	Rugged peaks and glaciers		fun-national-parks-us
Great Basin (NV)	Ancient bristlecone pines and dark skies		fun-national-parks-us
Capitol Reef (UT)	A long wrinkle in the Earth called a monocline		fun-national-parks-us
Black Canyon of the Gunnison (CO)	A very steep, narrow canyon		fun-national-parks-us
Guadalupe Mountains (TX)	Highest point in Texas		fun-national-parks-us
White Sands (NM)	Glowing white gypsum dunes		fun-national-parks-us
Gateway Arch (MO)	A national park with the famous Arch in St. Louis		fun-national-parks-us
Indiana Dunes (IN)	Sand dunes on Lake Michigan		fun-national-parks-us
Virgin Islands (USVI)	Beaches and coral reefs		fun-national-parks-us
National Park Service	The agency that cares for national parks; founded in 1916		fun-national-parks-us
Ranger	A person who protects and teaches about parks		fun-national-parks-us
Junior Ranger	A kids' program where you earn a badge		fun-national-parks-us
Leave No Trace	Take only photos, leave only footprints		fun-national-parks-us
Odin	Chief of the gods, wise, with one eye and two ravens		fun-norse-myths
Thor	God of thunder who carries the hammer Mjolnir		fun-norse-myths
Loki	A clever trickster god who makes mischief		fun-norse-myths
Freya	Goddess of love and beauty, and also of magic		fun-norse-myths
Frigg	Odin's wife, goddess of the home		fun-norse-myths
Baldur	Gentle god of light and joy		fun-norse-myths
Tyr	Brave god of law and war; Tuesday is named for him		fun-norse-myths
Heimdall	Guardian of the rainbow bridge, with sharp ears and eyes		fun-norse-myths
Freyr	God of sunshine, rain and crops		fun-norse-myths
Sif	Thor's wife, famous for her golden hair		fun-norse-myths
Idun	Goddess who keeps the apples of youth		fun-norse-myths
Bragi	God of poetry and song		fun-norse-myths
Hel	Ruler of the world of the dead that shares her name		fun-norse-myths
Mjolnir	Thor's magic hammer		fun-norse-myths
Gungnir	Odin's magic spear		fun-norse-myths
Sleipnir	Odin's eight-legged horse		fun-norse-myths
Huginn and Muninn	Odin's two ravens, Thought and Memory		fun-norse-myths
Asgard	Home of the gods		fun-norse-myths
Midgard	The world of people		fun-norse-myths
Jotunheim	Land of the giants		fun-norse-myths
Bifrost	The rainbow bridge between Asgard and Midgard		fun-norse-myths
Yggdrasil	The giant world tree that connects nine worlds		fun-norse-myths
Valhalla	Odin's great hall for brave warriors		fun-norse-myths
Valkyries	Warrior maidens who serve Odin		fun-norse-myths
Fenrir	A giant wolf, son of Loki		fun-norse-myths
Jormungandr	The huge sea serpent that circles the world		fun-norse-myths
Ragnarok	The great final battle and the end of the old world		fun-norse-myths
Aesir	The main family of Norse gods		fun-norse-myths
Vanir	A second family of gods tied to nature and farming		fun-norse-myths
Giants	Powerful beings who often clash with the gods		fun-norse-myths
Dwarves	Skilled craftspeople who made magic items		fun-norse-myths
Elves	Bright beings of the world Alfheim		fun-norse-myths
Norns	Three women who shape fate		fun-norse-myths
Odin's missing eye	He gave an eye for a drink from the well of wisdom		fun-norse-myths
Wednesday	Named for Woden, another name for Odin		fun-norse-myths
Thursday	Named for Thor		fun-norse-myths
Friday	Named for Frigg or Freya		fun-norse-myths
Runes	Letters of the old Norse alphabet		fun-norse-myths
Longship	The Vikings' fast sailing ship		fun-norse-myths
Skald	A Viking poet		fun-norse-myths
American Robin	Orange-red breast, gray-brown back; hops on lawns hunting worms		fun-north-american-birds
Northern Cardinal	Male is bright red with a crest; female is tan with red touches		fun-north-american-birds
Blue Jay	Blue, white and black with a crest and loud call		fun-north-american-birds
American Goldfinch	Male is bright yellow with a black cap in summer		fun-north-american-birds
House Sparrow	Small brown bird common near people		fun-north-american-birds
Black-capped Chickadee	Small, black cap and bib, says 'chick-a-dee-dee'		fun-north-american-birds
Tufted Titmouse	Gray with a crest and big black eyes		fun-north-american-birds
White-breasted Nuthatch	Climbs down tree trunks head first		fun-north-american-birds
Downy Woodpecker	Small black and white woodpecker		fun-north-american-birds
Red-bellied Woodpecker	Zebra-striped back and a red cap		fun-north-american-birds
Pileated Woodpecker	Crow-sized with a bright red crest		fun-north-american-birds
Mourning Dove	Soft gray-brown bird with a gentle cooing call		fun-north-american-birds
Rock Pigeon	City bird in gray with iridescent neck		fun-north-american-birds
Canada Goose	Black neck, white chin strap, honks in V formation		fun-north-american-birds
Mallard	Male has a shiny green head; female is brown		fun-north-american-birds
Bald Eagle	Large with a white head and tail, the US national bird		fun-north-american-birds
Red-tailed Hawk	Big hawk with a rusty tail, often seen on poles		fun-north-american-birds
Great Horned Owl	Large owl with ear tufts that hoots at night		fun-north-american-birds
Barn Owl	Pale heart-shaped face, hunts at night		fun-north-american-birds
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	Tiny, the male has a red throat; the only hummingbird in most of the eastern US		fun-north-american-birds
Turkey Vulture	Big dark bird with a red head, soars in the sky		fun-north-american-birds
American Crow	All black, says 'caw'		fun-north-american-birds
Common Raven	Bigger than a crow, deep croak		fun-north-american-birds
Northern Mockingbird	Gray bird that copies other birds' songs		fun-north-american-birds
Gray Catbird	Slate gray bird with a call like a cat's mew		fun-north-american-birds
Brown Thrasher	Reddish-brown with a streaked chest, sings long songs		fun-north-american-birds
Eastern Bluebird	Blue back and orange chest		fun-north-american-birds
Baltimore Oriole	Bright orange and black bird that weaves hanging nests		fun-north-american-birds
Red-winged Blackbird	Black with red and yellow shoulder patches		fun-north-american-birds
Common Grackle	Glossy black bird with a long tail		fun-north-american-birds
European Starling	Speckled, shiny and chatty; it came from Europe		fun-north-american-birds
Cedar Waxwing	Silky brown with a crest and a yellow tail tip		fun-north-american-birds
Barn Swallow	Blue back, orange chest, forked tail		fun-north-american-birds
Purple Martin	A large swallow that nests in birdhouses		fun-north-american-birds
Killdeer	Plover with two black chest bands; fakes a hurt wing to lure foes from its nest		fun-north-american-birds
Great Blue Heron	Tall gray-blue wader with a long neck		fun-north-american-birds
Sandhill Crane	Tall gray bird with a red forehead patch		fun-north-american-birds
Herring Gull	The classic seagull, white and gray		fun-north-american-birds
Brown Pelican	Dives into the sea for fish		fun-north-american-birds
Osprey	A fish hawk that dives feet first		fun-north-american-birds
American Kestrel	Our smallest falcon; hovers over fields		fun-north-american-birds
Peregrine Falcon	The fastest diving bird		fun-north-american-birds
Wild Turkey	Big ground bird; males fan their tails		fun-north-american-birds
Common Loon	Black and white bird with an eerie call; Minnesota's state bird		fun-north-american-birds
Scarlet Tanager	Male is bright red with black wings		fun-north-american-birds
Indigo Bunting	A small bird that looks deep blue		fun-north-american-birds
Dark-eyed Junco	Gray bird with a white belly; called the snowbird		fun-north-american-birds
White-throated Sparrow	Song sounds like 'Oh sweet Canada, Canada'		fun-north-american-birds
Song Sparrow	Streaky brown with a central chest spot		fun-north-american-birds
House Finch	Male has a red head and chest		fun-north-american-birds
Eastern Towhee	Black head, rusty sides, says 'drink your tea'		fun-north-american-birds
Carolina Wren	Loud small reddish-brown bird with a white stripe over the eye		fun-north-american-birds
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	A tiny, active bird that flicks its wings		fun-north-american-birds
Belted Kingfisher	Blue-gray fisher with a shaggy crest		fun-north-american-birds
Wood Duck	Colorful duck that nests in tree holes		fun-north-american-birds
Roadrunner	A long-legged bird of the Southwest that runs fast		fun-north-american-birds
Western Meadowlark	Yellow chest with a black V; sweet flute-like song		fun-north-american-birds
Steller's Jay	Dark blue jay with a black crest of the West		fun-north-american-birds
Twinkle, twinkle, little star	How I wonder what you are		fun-nursery-rhymes
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall	Humpty Dumpty had a great fall		fun-nursery-rhymes
Jack and Jill went up the hill	To fetch a pail of water		fun-nursery-rhymes
Mary had a little lamb	Its fleece was white as snow		fun-nursery-rhymes
Hickory, dickory, dock	The mouse ran up the clock		fun-nursery-rhymes
Baa, baa, black sheep	Have you any wool?		fun-nursery-rhymes
Little Miss Muffet	Sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey		fun-nursery-rhymes
Itsy Bitsy Spider	Climbed up the water spout		fun-nursery-rhymes
Row, row, row your boat	Gently down the stream		fun-nursery-rhymes
Old MacDonald had a farm	E-I-E-I-O		fun-nursery-rhymes
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man	Bake me a cake as fast as you can		fun-nursery-rhymes
London Bridge is falling down	Falling down, falling down		fun-nursery-rhymes
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick	Jack jump over the candlestick		fun-nursery-rhymes
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep	And doesn't know where to find them		fun-nursery-rhymes
Little Jack Horner	Sat in a corner eating his Christmas pie		fun-nursery-rhymes
Hey diddle diddle	The cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon		fun-nursery-rhymes
Wee Willie Winkie	Runs through the town		fun-nursery-rhymes
Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie	Kissed the girls and made them cry		fun-nursery-rhymes
Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetop	When the wind blows the cradle will rock		fun-nursery-rhymes
Peter Piper picked	A peck of pickled peppers		fun-nursery-rhymes
Pease porridge hot	Pease porridge cold		fun-nursery-rhymes
Simple Simon met a pieman	Going to the fair		fun-nursery-rhymes
Three blind mice	See how they run		fun-nursery-rhymes
Old King Cole	Was a merry old soul		fun-nursery-rhymes
The Grand Old Duke of York	Had ten thousand men		fun-nursery-rhymes
Ring around the rosie	A pocket full of posies		fun-nursery-rhymes
The wheels on the bus	Go round and round		fun-nursery-rhymes
Five little monkeys	Jumping on the bed		fun-nursery-rhymes
Ten in the bed	And the little one said, 'Roll over!'		fun-nursery-rhymes
Rain, rain, go away	Come again another day		fun-nursery-rhymes
This little piggy went to market	This little piggy stayed home		fun-nursery-rhymes
Polly put the kettle on	We'll all have tea		fun-nursery-rhymes
Sing a song of sixpence	A pocket full of rye		fun-nursery-rhymes
Mary, Mary, quite contrary	How does your garden grow?		fun-nursery-rhymes
Little Boy Blue	Come blow your horn		fun-nursery-rhymes
Yankee Doodle	Went to town riding on a pony		fun-nursery-rhymes
I'm a little teapot	Short and stout		fun-nursery-rhymes
If you're happy and you know it	Clap your hands		fun-nursery-rhymes
The Muffin Man	Do you know the muffin man?		fun-nursery-rhymes
Pop goes the weasel	Round and round the mulberry bush		fun-nursery-rhymes
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester	In a shower of rain		fun-nursery-rhymes
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe	She had so many children she didn't know what to do		fun-nursery-rhymes
Jack Sprat could eat no fat	His wife could eat no lean		fun-nursery-rhymes
Little Tommy Tucker	Sings for his supper		fun-nursery-rhymes
Cock-a-doodle-doo	My dame has lost her shoe		fun-nursery-rhymes
Mary Mary	Quite contrary		fun-nursery-rhymes
One, two, buckle my shoe	Three, four, shut the door		fun-nursery-rhymes
Hot cross buns	One a penny, two a penny		fun-nursery-rhymes
Old Mother Hubbard	Went to the cupboard		fun-nursery-rhymes
Twinkle Twinkle author	The words come from a poem by Jane Taylor, 1806		fun-nursery-rhymes
Who is Mother Goose?	A made-up storyteller linked with rhymes		fun-nursery-rhymes
Where did the ancient Olympics start?	Olympia, Greece, in 776 BCE		fun-olympics
When did the modern Olympics begin?	1896 in Athens, Greece		fun-olympics
How often are the Summer Olympics held?	Every four years		fun-olympics
What are the Olympic rings?	Five linked rings in blue, yellow, black, green and red on a white background		fun-olympics
What do the five rings stand for?	The five inhabited continents joined together		fun-olympics
What is the Olympic motto?	Faster, Higher, Stronger, now with 'Together'		fun-olympics
What is the Olympic flame?	A torch lit in Olympia and carried to the host city		fun-olympics
What do gold, silver and bronze medals stand for?	First, second and third place		fun-olympics
Who founded the modern Olympics?	Pierre de Coubertin of France		fun-olympics
Where were the 1900 Olympics held?	Paris, France		fun-olympics
Where were the 1904 Olympics?	St. Louis, USA		fun-olympics
Where were the 1908 Olympics?	London, England		fun-olympics
Where were the 1912 Olympics?	Stockholm, Sweden		fun-olympics
Where were the 1924 Summer Olympics?	Paris, France		fun-olympics
Where were the 1928 Summer Olympics?	Amsterdam, Netherlands		fun-olympics
Where were the 1932 Summer Olympics?	Los Angeles, USA		fun-olympics
Where were the 1936 Summer Olympics?	Berlin, Germany		fun-olympics
Where were the 1948 Summer Olympics?	London, England		fun-olympics
Where were the 1952 Summer Olympics?	Helsinki, Finland		fun-olympics
Where were the 1956 Summer Olympics?	Melbourne, Australia		fun-olympics
Where were the 1960 Summer Olympics?	Rome, Italy		fun-olympics
Where were the 1964 Summer Olympics?	Tokyo, Japan		fun-olympics
Where were the 1968 Summer Olympics?	Mexico City, Mexico		fun-olympics
Where were the 1972 Summer Olympics?	Munich, West Germany		fun-olympics
Where were the 1976 Summer Olympics?	Montreal, Canada		fun-olympics
Where were the 1980 Summer Olympics?	Moscow, Soviet Union		fun-olympics
Where were the 1984 Summer Olympics?	Los Angeles, USA		fun-olympics
Where were the 1988 Summer Olympics?	Seoul, South Korea		fun-olympics
Where were the 1992 Summer Olympics?	Barcelona, Spain		fun-olympics
Where were the 1996 Summer Olympics?	Atlanta, USA		fun-olympics
Where were the 2000 Summer Olympics?	Sydney, Australia		fun-olympics
Where were the 2004 Summer Olympics?	Athens, Greece		fun-olympics
Where were the 2008 Summer Olympics?	Beijing, China		fun-olympics
Where were the 2012 Summer Olympics?	London, England		fun-olympics
Where were the 2016 Summer Olympics?	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		fun-olympics
Where were the 2020 Summer Olympics (held in 2021)?	Tokyo, Japan		fun-olympics
Where were the 2024 Summer Olympics?	Paris, France		fun-olympics
Where are the 2028 Summer Olympics?	Los Angeles, USA		fun-olympics
Where were the 1980 Winter Olympics?	Lake Placid, USA		fun-olympics
Where were the 1988 Winter Olympics?	Calgary, Canada		fun-olympics
Where were the 1994 Winter Olympics?	Lillehammer, Norway		fun-olympics
Where were the 1998 Winter Olympics?	Nagano, Japan		fun-olympics
Where were the 2002 Winter Olympics?	Salt Lake City, USA		fun-olympics
Where were the 2006 Winter Olympics?	Turin, Italy		fun-olympics
Where were the 2010 Winter Olympics?	Vancouver, Canada		fun-olympics
Where were the 2014 Winter Olympics?	Sochi, Russia		fun-olympics
Where were the 2018 Winter Olympics?	PyeongChang, South Korea		fun-olympics
Where were the 2022 Winter Olympics?	Beijing, China		fun-olympics
Where were the 2026 Winter Olympics?	Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy		fun-olympics
Name three track and field events.	Sprint, long jump, shot put (and many more)		fun-olympics
Name some Summer Olympic sports.	Swimming, gymnastics, athletics, soccer, basketball, cycling		fun-olympics
Name some Winter Olympic sports.	Skiing, skating, snowboarding, ice hockey, curling		fun-olympics
What is the marathon distance?	About 26.2 miles (42.195 km)		fun-olympics
Why is it called a marathon?	Named after a famous run from Marathon to Athens in Greek legend		fun-olympics
What is the decathlon?	A ten-event track and field contest		fun-olympics
What is the heptathlon?	A seven-event contest for women		fun-olympics
What is curling?	Sliding stones on ice toward a target and sweeping the ice		fun-olympics
What is the biathlon?	Cross-country skiing and rifle shooting; a winter sport		fun-olympics
Who was Jesse Owens?	American runner who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics		fun-olympics
Who was Jim Thorpe?	A Native American athlete who won gold in 1912		fun-olympics
What are the Paralympic Games?	Games for athletes with disabilities		fun-olympics
What are the Youth Olympic Games?	Games for teen athletes		fun-olympics
What is the Olympic oath?	A promise by athletes to compete fairly		fun-olympics
What is the Parade of Nations?	Teams from each country march in at the opening		fun-olympics
Optical illusion	A picture that tricks your eyes or brain		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Muller-Lyer illusion	Two lines look different lengths because of the arrow ends, but they are the same		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Ponzo illusion	Two same-size lines look different when placed between converging lines		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Ebbinghaus illusion	A circle looks bigger or smaller depending on the circles around it		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Rubin vase	An image that looks like a vase or two faces		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Duck-rabbit	A drawing that can look like a duck or a rabbit		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Necker cube	A line cube that seems to flip which face is in front		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Penrose triangle	An impossible triangle that cannot exist in real life		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Penrose stairs	An endless staircase that always goes up, impossible in real life		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Cafe wall illusion	Straight lines look tilted because of shifted black and white tiles		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Hermann grid	Gray dots seem to appear where white lines cross		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Checker shadow illusion	Two squares look different but are the same shade		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Afterimage	Staring at a color and looking away shows the opposite color		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Stroop effect	It is hard to say the color of ink when the word names another color		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Troxler fading	Staring makes things in your side vision fade		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Motion illusion	A still picture seems to move		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Moon illusion	The Moon looks bigger near the horizon than high in the sky		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Mirage	A trick of light that makes water seem to appear on hot ground		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Camouflage	Blending in so you are hard to see		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Forced perspective	Using distance to make something look bigger or smaller in a photo		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Impossible object	A drawing that looks real but cannot be built as drawn		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Hidden image	A picture hidden in another picture		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Stereogram (Magic Eye)	A flat picture that shows 3D shapes when you relax your eyes		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Blind spot	The small spot in your vision where the optic nerve leaves the eye		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Persistence of vision	Why a quick series of pictures looks like movement		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Flipbook	Pages of drawings that make movement when flipped fast		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Zoetrope	A spinning drum that makes pictures appear to move		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Illusion of size	Same-size objects look different because of surroundings		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Sleight of hand	Using fast, clever hand moves to fool the eye		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Misdirection	Drawing attention away from the secret move		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Prestidigitation	A fancy word for magic done with the hands		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Illusionist	A magician who performs large tricks		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Magician's assistant	A helper on stage in a trick		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Wand	A thin stick magicians wave		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Top hat	A tall hat from which rabbits seem to appear		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Abracadabra	A magic word said before a trick		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Presto	A word magicians say when the trick is done		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Patter	The words a magician says during a trick		fun-optical-illusions-magic
The reveal	The moment when the trick is shown		fun-optical-illusions-magic
The prestige	The final surprising part of a trick		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Force	When a magician makes you choose the card they want		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Palming	Hiding a small object in the palm		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Shuffle	Mixing a deck of cards		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Card trick	A trick done with playing cards		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Coin trick	A trick where a coin seems to vanish or move		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Rope trick	A trick with a rope that seems to cut and join		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Mind reading act	A show that seems to guess your thoughts		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Houdini	Harry Houdini, a famous escape artist of the early 1900s		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Escapology	The art of escaping from ropes, chains or boxes		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Pull a rabbit out of a hat	A classic magic trick image		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Cut and restored rope	A trick where the rope is cut and magically fixed		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Linking rings	A trick with metal rings that join and separate		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Vanishing	Making something seem to disappear		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Levitation	Making something seem to float		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Fooled you!	Good magicians never reveal their secrets		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Close-up magic	Tricks done right in front of people at a table		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Stage magic	Large tricks done for a big audience		fun-optical-illusions-magic
Street magic	Magic performed for people out in public		fun-optical-illusions-magic
What do all pets need every day?	Fresh water, food, shelter and love		fun-pet-care
How often should a dog be walked?	At least once or twice a day		fun-pet-care
Who takes dogs to the vet?	The pet's owner, with a grown-up's help		fun-pet-care
What is a vet?	A doctor for animals		fun-pet-care
What are vaccines?	Shots that protect pets from diseases		fun-pet-care
What is a microchip?	A tiny chip under the skin that helps find a lost pet		fun-pet-care
What is a collar tag for?	Shows the pet's name and your phone number		fun-pet-care
Should dogs eat chocolate?	No, chocolate is bad for dogs		fun-pet-care
Should cats eat onions?	No, onions can make cats and dogs sick		fun-pet-care
What do cats use a litter box for?	Going to the bathroom		fun-pet-care
How often should you change a cat's water?	Every day		fun-pet-care
What do hamsters like to do on a wheel?	Run		fun-pet-care
When are hamsters most active?	At night		fun-pet-care
What do rabbits eat the most?	Hay		fun-pet-care
What do guinea pigs need in their food?	Vitamin C		fun-pet-care
Can guinea pigs live alone?	They are happier with a companion		fun-pet-care
What do pet fish need?	Clean water, food and the right tank temperature		fun-pet-care
How much should you feed a fish?	A small pinch only; too much makes the water dirty		fun-pet-care
What do pet birds need?	A roomy cage, toys, seed or pellets and fresh water		fun-pet-care
What does a bearded dragon eat?	Insects and vegetables		fun-pet-care
What do turtles need in a tank?	Water, a dry basking spot and a heat lamp		fun-pet-care
What is a pet's habitat?	The home you set up for it		fun-pet-care
What should you do before petting a dog you don't know?	Ask the owner first		fun-pet-care
Where do you let a dog sniff you?	Let it sniff the back of your hand first		fun-pet-care
What does a wagging tail mean?	Usually happy, but not always		fun-pet-care
What does a cat's purr mean?	Usually content, sometimes it is calming itself		fun-pet-care
What does a cat's slow blink mean?	A relaxed, friendly sign		fun-pet-care
Why do dogs pant?	To cool down		fun-pet-care
Why must pets not be left in a hot car?	It heats up fast and can be deadly		fun-pet-care
Why brush a pet's fur?	Keeps the coat clean and healthy		fun-pet-care
Why trim a pet's nails?	So they don't get too long or hurt		fun-pet-care
Why do dogs need training?	So they behave and stay safe		fun-pet-care
What is a treat for?	A small reward for good behavior		fun-pet-care
What is a leash for?	Keeps your dog safe on walks		fun-pet-care
What is a crate?	A safe den-like space for a dog or cat		fun-pet-care
What is adoption?	Taking in a pet from a shelter		fun-pet-care
What is an animal shelter?	A place that cares for homeless animals		fun-pet-care
What does spaying or neutering do?	Prevents a pet from having babies		fun-pet-care
What does it mean for a pet to be house-trained?	It knows where to go to the bathroom		fun-pet-care
How long do dogs usually live?	About 10 to 15 years, depending on the breed		fun-pet-care
How long do indoor cats live?	Often 12 to 18 years or more		fun-pet-care
How long do hamsters live?	About two to three years		fun-pet-care
How long do parakeets live?	About 5 to 10 years		fun-pet-care
What should you do after touching a pet?	Wash your hands		fun-pet-care
What should you do if a pet is sick?	Tell a grown-up so a vet can help		fun-pet-care
What do puppies chew on?	Toys made for chewing		fun-pet-care
Why do dogs need exercise?	To stay healthy and happy		fun-pet-care
Why do cats scratch?	To stretch and keep claws healthy		fun-pet-care
What is a scratching post for?	Gives a cat a place to scratch		fun-pet-care
What do ferrets love?	Playing and tunnels		fun-pet-care
What is pet insurance?	Pays part of vet bills		fun-pet-care
What does responsible pet ownership mean?	Giving a pet care for its whole life		fun-pet-care
Polar bear	Arctic hunter with black skin under white-looking fur		fun-polar-desert-animals
Penguin	Flightless bird of the southern oceans; the emperor is the tallest		fun-polar-desert-animals
Arctic fox	Turns white in winter to match the snow		fun-polar-desert-animals
Arctic hare	Has thick white fur and long hind legs		fun-polar-desert-animals
Snowy owl	White owl that hunts in the Arctic		fun-polar-desert-animals
Walrus	Uses tusks to haul itself onto ice		fun-polar-desert-animals
Seal	Has blubber to keep warm in icy water		fun-polar-desert-animals
Narwhal	A whale with a long spiral tusk		fun-polar-desert-animals
Beluga whale	A white whale of Arctic waters		fun-polar-desert-animals
Reindeer (caribou)	A deer that travels long distances across the tundra		fun-polar-desert-animals
Musk ox	A shaggy, thick-coated animal of the Arctic		fun-polar-desert-animals
Lemming	A small rodent of the Arctic tundra		fun-polar-desert-animals
Orca	A black and white whale that hunts in cold seas		fun-polar-desert-animals
Arctic tern	Flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic each year		fun-polar-desert-animals
Krill	Tiny shrimp that feed many Antarctic animals		fun-polar-desert-animals
Leopard seal	A big spotted seal of Antarctica		fun-polar-desert-animals
Emperor penguin	The largest penguin; dads keep the egg warm on their feet		fun-polar-desert-animals
Adelie penguin	A smaller penguin with a white ring around its eye		fun-polar-desert-animals
Blubber	A thick layer of fat that keeps animals warm		fun-polar-desert-animals
Tundra	A cold, treeless land where soil under the surface stays frozen		fun-polar-desert-animals
Permafrost	Ground that stays frozen all year		fun-polar-desert-animals
Camel	Stores fat in its hump and can go a long time without water		fun-polar-desert-animals
Fennec fox	A small desert fox with big ears that let heat escape		fun-polar-desert-animals
Meerkat	A small desert mammal that stands guard on its hind legs		fun-polar-desert-animals
Kangaroo rat	A desert rodent that gets water from seeds		fun-polar-desert-animals
Roadrunner	A fast ground bird of the American desert		fun-polar-desert-animals
Gila monster	A venomous lizard of the American Southwest; it is shy		fun-polar-desert-animals
Horned lizard	A spiky desert lizard that can squirt blood from its eyes to scare enemies		fun-polar-desert-animals
Sidewinder	A snake that moves sideways over loose sand		fun-polar-desert-animals
Rattlesnake	A snake that warns with a rattle		fun-polar-desert-animals
Scorpion	Hunts at night in deserts		fun-polar-desert-animals
Tarantula hawk	A big wasp that hunts tarantulas		fun-polar-desert-animals
Coyote	A wild dog that lives in many habitats, deserts included		fun-polar-desert-animals
Javelina (collared peccary)	A wild pig-like animal of the Southwest		fun-polar-desert-animals
Desert tortoise	Digs burrows to escape the heat		fun-polar-desert-animals
Addax	A pale antelope of the Sahara		fun-polar-desert-animals
Oryx	A desert antelope with long straight horns		fun-polar-desert-animals
Dromedary	A camel with one hump		fun-polar-desert-animals
Bactrian camel	A camel with two humps		fun-polar-desert-animals
Jerboa	A tiny hopping desert rodent with long hind legs		fun-polar-desert-animals
Saguaro cactus	A huge cactus of the Sonoran Desert; birds nest in it		fun-polar-desert-animals
Cactus	A plant that stores water in its stem		fun-polar-desert-animals
Oasis	A place in a desert with water and plants		fun-polar-desert-animals
Dune	A hill of sand built by wind		fun-polar-desert-animals
Mirage	A trick of light that makes water appear on hot ground		fun-polar-desert-animals
Nocturnal	Active at night; many desert animals are		fun-polar-desert-animals
Hibernate	To sleep through winter		fun-polar-desert-animals
Camouflage	Colors that help animals hide in their surroundings		fun-polar-desert-animals
Adaptation	A body part or behavior that helps an animal survive where it lives		fun-polar-desert-animals
Sahara	The largest hot desert, in North Africa		fun-polar-desert-animals
Antarctica	A frozen continent at the South Pole		fun-polar-desert-animals
Arctic	The cold region around the North Pole		fun-polar-desert-animals
Jaguar	A strong spotted cat of the Americas that likes water		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Toucan	A bird with a huge colorful bill		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Macaw	A big, bright parrot with a long tail		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Sloth	A slow tree-dweller that sleeps a lot		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Howler monkey	Has one of the loudest calls of any land animal		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Spider monkey	Uses its tail like a fifth hand		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Capuchin monkey	A smart monkey that uses tools		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Orangutan	A red-haired ape of Borneo and Sumatra		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Gorilla	The largest ape; lives in African forests		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Chimpanzee	A smart ape that uses tools		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Bonobo	An ape related to chimpanzees, found in Congo		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Tapir	Has a short flexible trunk-like snout		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Capybara	The world's largest rodent		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Okapi	A forest animal with zebra-like legs, related to giraffes		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Poison dart frog	A tiny, bright frog; its colors warn that it is poisonous		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Red-eyed tree frog	Has bright red eyes and green skin		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Green anaconda	A very heavy snake that lives in water		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Boa constrictor	A big snake that squeezes prey		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Emerald tree boa	A green snake that hangs in trees		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Chameleon	Changes color and has eyes that move on their own		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Leafcutter ant	Carries pieces of leaf like little umbrellas		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Morpho butterfly	A butterfly with shiny blue wings		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Hercules beetle	One of the biggest beetles		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Tarantula	A big hairy spider		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Piranha	A fish with sharp teeth in South American rivers		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Electric eel	Makes electricity in rivers		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Pink river dolphin	A freshwater dolphin of the Amazon		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Harpy eagle	A huge forest eagle with big talons		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Quetzal	A bird with long green tail feathers in Central America		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Hummingbird	Tiny bird that hovers to sip nectar		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Bengal tiger	A large striped cat of Asia's forests		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Asian elephant	Has smaller ears than African elephants		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Sun bear	Smallest bear, with a long tongue for honey		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Binturong	Smells like buttered popcorn and has a gripping tail		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Flying fox	A large fruit bat		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Pangolin	An animal covered in scales that rolls into a ball		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Tarsier	A small primate with giant eyes		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Lemur	Primates of Madagascar		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Aye-aye	A lemur with a long thin finger for finding insects		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Cassowary	A big flightless bird with a helmet-like crest		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Bird of paradise	A bird with showy feathers that dances		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Komodo dragon	The largest lizard, found on a few Indonesian islands		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Rainforest layers	Forest floor, understory, canopy and emergent layer		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Canopy	The thick layer of treetops		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Emergent layer	The tallest trees poking above the canopy		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Understory	A shady layer beneath the canopy		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Epiphyte	A plant that grows on another plant, like many orchids		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Why are rainforests important?	They are home to many species and help clean the air		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Amazon rainforest	The largest tropical rainforest, in South America		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Congo rainforest	A big rainforest in Africa		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Daintree rainforest	An ancient rainforest in Australia		fun-rainforest-jungle-animals
Reptile	A cold-blooded animal with scaly skin, like a snake or lizard		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Amphibian	An animal that starts life in water and often lives on land as an adult		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Cold-blooded	Body heat comes from the surroundings		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Frog	Smooth skin and long legs; starts as a tadpole		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Toad	Bumpy, drier skin and shorter legs than a frog		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Salamander	A lizard-like amphibian with a tail		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Newt	A small salamander that often lives in water		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Axolotl	A salamander that keeps its feathery gills as an adult		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Caecilian	A legless amphibian that looks like a worm		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Tadpole	The baby of a frog, with gills and a tail		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Metamorphosis (frog)	The change from tadpole to frog		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Bullfrog	A big North American frog with a deep call		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Tree frog	A small climbing frog with sticky toe pads		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Poison dart frog	Bright, tiny frog; its colors warn of poison		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Snake	A legless reptile that flicks its tongue to smell		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Python	A big snake that squeezes its prey		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Cobra	A snake that spreads a hood		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Rattlesnake	A snake with a rattle on its tail; best left alone		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Garter snake	A common, harmless snake with stripes		fun-reptiles-amphibians
King cobra	The longest venomous snake		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Lizard	A scaly reptile, usually with four legs		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Gecko	A lizard that climbs walls with sticky toes		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Iguana	A big plant-eating lizard		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Chameleon	Changes color and has independently moving eyes		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Komodo dragon	The biggest lizard		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Bearded dragon	A friendly pet lizard from Australia		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Skink	A lizard with smooth shiny scales		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Anole	A small lizard that can change from green to brown		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Turtle	A reptile with a shell; lives mostly in water		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Tortoise	A land turtle with sturdy legs		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Snapping turtle	A turtle with a strong bite		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Sea turtle	Swims thousands of miles; females return to beaches to lay eggs		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Painted turtle	A colorful pond turtle		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Galapagos tortoise	The largest living tortoise		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Alligator	A reptile with a wide, U-shaped snout		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Crocodile	A reptile with a longer V-shaped snout		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Caiman	A smaller relative of the alligator		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Gharial	A crocodilian with a very long, narrow snout		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Tuatara	A rare reptile of New Zealand that looks like a lizard		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Shedding	Snakes and lizards shed their old skin as they grow		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Hibernation	Winter sleep		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Brumation	Reptile winter slowdown		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Egg	Most reptiles lay leathery eggs on land		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Amphibian eggs	Laid in water, soft and jelly-covered		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Camouflage	Hiding by blending in		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Venom	Poison injected by a bite or sting		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Forked tongue	Helps snakes smell and sense the air		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Basking	Lying in the sun to warm up		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Terrarium	A glass home for small reptiles or amphibians		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Herpetologist	A scientist who studies reptiles and amphibians		fun-reptiles-amphibians
Tail dropping	Some lizards can drop their tail to escape and regrow it		fun-reptiles-amphibians
What has hands but cannot clap?	A clock		fun-riddles-easy
What has a face but no eyes?	A clock		fun-riddles-easy
What goes up but never comes down?	Your age		fun-riddles-easy
What has four legs but cannot walk?	A table		fun-riddles-easy
What gets wetter as it dries?	A towel		fun-riddles-easy
What has a neck but no head?	A bottle		fun-riddles-easy
What has teeth but cannot bite?	A comb		fun-riddles-easy
What has an eye but cannot see?	A needle		fun-riddles-easy
What can you catch but not throw?	A cold		fun-riddles-easy
What has a ring but no finger?	A telephone		fun-riddles-easy
What has legs but cannot walk?	A chair		fun-riddles-easy
What is full of holes but still holds water?	A sponge		fun-riddles-easy
What has one eye and cannot see?	A needle		fun-riddles-easy
What goes up and down but never moves?	A staircase		fun-riddles-easy
What can run but never walks?	Water		fun-riddles-easy
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?	A glove		fun-riddles-easy
What building has the most stories?	A library		fun-riddles-easy
What kind of room has no doors or windows?	A mushroom		fun-riddles-easy
What do you break by saying its name?	Silence		fun-riddles-easy
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?	The letter M		fun-riddles-easy
What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?	A teapot		fun-riddles-easy
What has keys but no locks?	A piano		fun-riddles-easy
What has a bark but no bite?	A tree		fun-riddles-easy
What has a bottom at the top?	Your legs		fun-riddles-easy
What begins with an E and only has one letter in it?	An envelope		fun-riddles-easy
What can fill a room but takes no space?	Light		fun-riddles-easy
What is always in front of you but cannot be seen?	The future		fun-riddles-easy
What has a head and a tail but no body?	A coin		fun-riddles-easy
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?	A stamp		fun-riddles-easy
What gets bigger the more you take from it?	A hole		fun-riddles-easy
What has many keys but cannot open a door?	A keyboard		fun-riddles-easy
What is black and white and read all over?	A newspaper		fun-riddles-easy
I am tall when I am young and short when I am old. What am I?	A candle		fun-riddles-easy
What is yours but others use it more than you?	Your name		fun-riddles-easy
What has words but never speaks?	A book		fun-riddles-easy
What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?	A road		fun-riddles-easy
What do you throw out to use and take in when you are done?	An anchor		fun-riddles-easy
What kind of band never plays music?	A rubber band		fun-riddles-easy
What has a spine but no bones?	A book		fun-riddles-easy
What tastes better than it smells?	A tongue		fun-riddles-easy
What invention lets you look right through a wall?	A window		fun-riddles-easy
What flies without wings?	Time		fun-riddles-easy
What cries without eyes?	A cloud, when it rains		fun-riddles-easy
What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?	Trouble		fun-riddles-easy
What has a heart that does not beat?	An artichoke		fun-riddles-easy
What has four wheels and flies?	A garbage truck		fun-riddles-easy
Which month has 28 days?	All of them		fun-riddles-easy
What is cut but never eaten like a cake?	A deck of cards		fun-riddles-easy
What goes around the house but never moves?	A fence		fun-riddles-easy
What has a mouth but never eats?	A river		fun-riddles-easy
What can you hold without touching it?	A conversation		fun-riddles-easy
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?	A deck of cards		fun-riddles-easy
What is lighter than a feather but even the strongest person cannot hold it for long?	Their breath		fun-riddles-easy
What goes in the water black and comes out red?	A lobster		fun-riddles-easy
What has a lap but cannot sit?	A racetrack		fun-riddles-easy
What starts with P and ends with E and has thousands of letters?	A post office		fun-riddles-easy
What can you keep after giving it to someone?	Your word		fun-riddles-easy
What is never asked a question but always answers?	A doorbell		fun-riddles-easy
What has one horn and gives milk?	A milk truck		fun-riddles-easy
What is round, has numbers, and goes tick-tock?	A clock		fun-riddles-easy
What do you call a bear with no teeth?	A gummy bear		fun-riddles-easy
What is white when dirty?	A blackboard		fun-riddles-easy
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body but come alive with wind. What am I?	An echo		fun-riddles-harder
The more of me there is, the less you see. What am I?	Darkness		fun-riddles-harder
I can be cracked, made, told and played. What am I?	A joke		fun-riddles-harder
I have cities but no houses, mountains but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?	A map		fun-riddles-harder
What has to be broken before you can use it?	An egg		fun-riddles-harder
I am not alive, but I grow. I do not have lungs, but I need air. What am I?	Fire		fun-riddles-harder
What belongs to you but is used more by others?	Your name		fun-riddles-harder
What can you hear but not touch or see?	A sound		fun-riddles-harder
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters?	Short		fun-riddles-harder
Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?	The word 'ton'		fun-riddles-harder
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?	A penny		fun-riddles-harder
I have branches but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?	A bank		fun-riddles-harder
What building has the most stories but no one lives in it?	A library		fun-riddles-harder
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?	Silence		fun-riddles-harder
I get wet while drying. What am I?	A towel		fun-riddles-harder
What can run but cannot walk, has a mouth but cannot talk?	A river		fun-riddles-harder
What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?	A coat of paint		fun-riddles-harder
I'm light as a feather yet the strongest person can't hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?	Breath		fun-riddles-harder
What has 88 keys but cannot open a single door?	A piano		fun-riddles-harder
What has a golden head and a golden tail but no body?	A gold coin		fun-riddles-harder
What do you fill with empty hands?	Gloves		fun-riddles-harder
What word contains 26 letters but has only three syllables?	Alphabet		fun-riddles-harder
What starts with a P, ends with an X, and has a million letters?	A postbox		fun-riddles-harder
What has roots that nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, and yet never grows?	A mountain		fun-riddles-harder
What is seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?	The letter R		fun-riddles-harder
What English word has three consecutive double letters?	Bookkeeper		fun-riddles-harder
What can you add to a bucket of water to make it lighter?	A hole		fun-riddles-harder
What gets sharper the more you use it?	Your brain		fun-riddles-harder
What has no beginning, end or middle?	A circle		fun-riddles-harder
What kind of cup can't hold water?	A cupcake		fun-riddles-harder
Where does today come before yesterday?	In the dictionary		fun-riddles-harder
What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place?	The letter E		fun-riddles-harder
Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?	The C (sea)		fun-riddles-harder
What is always coming but never arrives?	Tomorrow		fun-riddles-harder
What goes up but never comes down, and is measured in years?	Your age		fun-riddles-harder
I shave every day but my beard stays the same. Who am I?	A barber		fun-riddles-harder
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?	A promise		fun-riddles-harder
What type of ship has two mates but no captain?	A relationship		fun-riddles-harder
What begins with 'e', ends with 'e', and contains one letter?	An envelope		fun-riddles-harder
Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?	Incorrectly		fun-riddles-harder
What do you call a word that reads the same backward?	A palindrome		fun-riddles-harder
What has a thumb and four fingers but isn't alive?	A glove		fun-riddles-harder
What loses its head every morning and gets it back every night?	A pillow		fun-riddles-harder
What goes through a door but never goes in or out?	A keyhole		fun-riddles-harder
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?	A clock		fun-riddles-harder
Jupiter	Greek: Zeus. King of the gods, sky and thunder; also the largest planet		fun-roman-gods
Juno	Greek: Hera. Queen of the gods, goddess of marriage		fun-roman-gods
Neptune	Greek: Poseidon. God of the sea; also a planet		fun-roman-gods
Pluto	Greek: Hades. God of the underworld; also a dwarf planet		fun-roman-gods
Minerva	Greek: Athena. Goddess of wisdom		fun-roman-gods
Mars	Greek: Ares. God of war; also the red planet		fun-roman-gods
Venus	Greek: Aphrodite. Goddess of love; also the bright planet		fun-roman-gods
Mercury	Greek: Hermes. Messenger of the gods; also the fastest planet		fun-roman-gods
Apollo	Same name in Rome. God of music, healing and the sun		fun-roman-gods
Diana	Greek: Artemis. Goddess of the hunt and moon		fun-roman-gods
Vulcan	Greek: Hephaestus. God of fire and forges		fun-roman-gods
Ceres	Greek: Demeter. Goddess of grain; the word 'cereal' comes from her		fun-roman-gods
Bacchus	Greek: Dionysus. God of wine and festivals		fun-roman-gods
Vesta	Greek: Hestia. Goddess of the hearth		fun-roman-gods
Cupid	Greek: Eros. God of love with a bow and arrows		fun-roman-gods
Proserpina	Greek: Persephone. Queen of the underworld		fun-roman-gods
Saturn	Greek: Cronus. God of farming; also a planet with rings		fun-roman-gods
Janus	Roman god of doors and beginnings, with two faces; January is named for him		fun-roman-gods
Aurora	Roman goddess of dawn		fun-roman-gods
Fortuna	Goddess of luck; her name gives us 'fortune'		fun-roman-gods
Victoria	Goddess of victory		fun-roman-gods
Flora	Goddess of flowers		fun-roman-gods
Luna	Goddess of the moon		fun-roman-gods
Sol	God of the sun		fun-roman-gods
Somnus	God of sleep		fun-roman-gods
Terra	The Earth goddess		fun-roman-gods
Romulus	Legendary founder of Rome, raised with his twin by a wolf		fun-roman-gods
Remus	Twin brother of Romulus		fun-roman-gods
Aeneas	Trojan hero whose descendants founded Rome in legend		fun-roman-gods
Lares	Household spirits that guarded the home		fun-roman-gods
Pantheon	A temple to all the gods in Rome		fun-roman-gods
Which month is named for Mars?	March		fun-roman-gods
Which month is named for Juno?	June		fun-roman-gods
Which month is named for Janus?	January		fun-roman-gods
Which month honors Julius Caesar?	July		fun-roman-gods
Which month honors Augustus Caesar?	August		fun-roman-gods
Which day is named for Saturn?	Saturday		fun-roman-gods
Which day is named for the sun?	Sunday		fun-roman-gods
Which day is named for the moon?	Monday		fun-roman-gods
Colosseum	Roman arena; it still stands in Rome today		fun-roman-gods
Great white shark	A big hunter that lives in many coastal oceans		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Whale shark	The largest fish; it eats tiny plankton		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Hammerhead shark	A shark with a wide, flat head		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Tiger shark	A shark with dark stripes that fade with age		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Nurse shark	A calm, bottom-dwelling shark		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Basking shark	A giant shark that filters plankton		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Bull shark	A shark that can swim in fresh water		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Megalodon	An extinct giant shark, long gone		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Shark skeleton	Made of cartilage, the same bendy stuff as your ear		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Shark teeth	They are replaced throughout life		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Blue whale	The biggest animal ever to live		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Humpback whale	Known for its songs and big leaps		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Orca	A black and white whale also called a killer whale, really a big dolphin		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Narwhal	A whale with a long tusk, nicknamed the unicorn of the sea		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Beluga	A white whale that makes many sounds		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Sperm whale	A deep diver with a huge head		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Bottlenose dolphin	A smart, playful dolphin		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Manatee	A gentle sea cow that eats plants		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Sea otter	Floats on its back and uses rocks to crack shells		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Walrus	A big seal relative with tusks		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Seal	A sleek swimmer with flippers		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Sea lion	A seal relative with ear flaps that can walk on its flippers		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Octopus	Has eight arms and three hearts		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Squid	Has ten arms and a streamlined body		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Cuttlefish	Changes color to hide or talk		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Giant squid	A deep-sea giant with huge eyes		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Jellyfish	A soft sea animal with stinging tentacles and no brain		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Starfish	A sea star with arms and no fish parts at all		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Sea urchin	A spiny round animal on the sea floor		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Sea cucumber	A soft, tube-like animal on the sea bottom		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Seahorse	A fish where the dad carries the babies		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Clownfish	Lives safely in sea anemones		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Pufferfish	Puffs up like a ball when scared		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Angelfish	A colorful, flat reef fish		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Manta ray	A huge flat swimmer that looks like it flaps wings		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Stingray	A flat fish with a stinging tail spine		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Electric eel	Lives in rivers and can make a strong electric shock		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Moray eel	A snake-like fish that hides in reef holes		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Swordfish	A fast fish with a long pointed bill		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Barracuda	A long, fast fish with sharp teeth		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Tuna	A fast, strong ocean fish		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Flying fish	A fish that glides above the waves		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Anglerfish	A deep-sea fish with a glowing lure		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Coral	Tiny animals that build reefs		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Sea turtle	Reptile that lays eggs on beaches		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Leatherback turtle	The largest sea turtle		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Hermit crab	A crab that lives in borrowed shells		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Lobster	A crustacean with big claws		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Horseshoe crab	An old kind of animal with blue blood		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Mantis shrimp	A colorful shrimp with a super-fast punch		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Sea anemone	A flower-like animal with stinging tentacles		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Nautilus	A sea animal with a coiled shell		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Penguin	A bird that swims instead of flies		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Pelican	A seabird with a big pouch		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Coral reef	A busy underwater city for fish		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Kelp forest	Underwater forest of giant seaweed		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Plankton	Tiny drifting plants and animals in the ocean		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Krill	Tiny shrimp-like animals eaten by many whales		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Mariana Trench	The deepest part of the ocean		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Bioluminescence	Light made by living things such as some jellyfish and fish		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Sea	A large body of salt water		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Tide	The rise and fall of the sea each day		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
Tsunami	A giant wave caused by an underwater earthquake		fun-sharks-and-sea-creatures
What is the closest star to Earth?	The Sun		fun-space-facts
Which planet is closest to the Sun?	Mercury		fun-space-facts
Which planet is the hottest?	Venus		fun-space-facts
Which planet is called the Red Planet?	Mars		fun-space-facts
Which planet is the largest?	Jupiter		fun-space-facts
Which planet has the most famous rings?	Saturn		fun-space-facts
Which planet spins on its side?	Uranus		fun-space-facts
Which planet is the farthest from the Sun?	Neptune		fun-space-facts
How many planets are in our solar system?	Eight		fun-space-facts
What is the order of the planets?	Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune		fun-space-facts
What is the Moon?	Earth's natural satellite		fun-space-facts
How long does the Moon take to go around Earth?	About 27 days		fun-space-facts
Who was the first person on the Moon?	Neil Armstrong, in 1969		fun-space-facts
What is the Milky Way?	Our home galaxy		fun-space-facts
What is a galaxy?	A huge group of stars, gas and dust		fun-space-facts
What is a light-year?	The distance light travels in one year		fun-space-facts
What is a comet?	An icy body that grows a glowing tail near the Sun		fun-space-facts
What is an asteroid?	A rocky object that orbits the Sun		fun-space-facts
What is a meteor?	A streak of light when space rock burns in the air		fun-space-facts
What is a meteorite?	A space rock that lands on Earth		fun-space-facts
What is the Great Red Spot?	A giant storm on Jupiter		fun-space-facts
What is a black hole?	A place where gravity is so strong that light cannot escape		fun-space-facts
What is a supernova?	The huge explosion of a dying star		fun-space-facts
What is a constellation?	A pattern of stars, like the Big Dipper		fun-space-facts
What is the North Star?	Polaris, which stays nearly in the same place in the northern sky		fun-space-facts
What is an eclipse of the Sun?	When the Moon blocks the Sun's light from Earth		fun-space-facts
What is a lunar eclipse?	When Earth's shadow falls on the Moon		fun-space-facts
What causes day and night?	Earth spinning on its axis		fun-space-facts
What causes seasons?	Earth's tilt as it goes around the Sun		fun-space-facts
How long is a year on Earth?	About 365 days		fun-space-facts
What was the first animal to orbit Earth?	A dog named Laika, in 1957		fun-space-facts
What was the first artificial satellite?	Sputnik 1, launched in 1957		fun-space-facts
What is the ISS?	The International Space Station, where astronauts live and work		fun-space-facts
Who was the first person in space?	Yuri Gagarin, in 1961		fun-space-facts
What is NASA?	The United States space agency		fun-space-facts
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?	A telescope that orbits Earth and takes sharp pictures of space		fun-space-facts
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?	An infrared space telescope launched in 2021		fun-space-facts
What are Mars rovers?	Robot vehicles that explore Mars		fun-space-facts
Which planet has a day longer than its year?	Venus		fun-space-facts
Which planet has the most moons known?	Saturn has the most confirmed moons		fun-space-facts
What are Jupiter's four big moons called?	Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto		fun-space-facts
Which is the largest moon in the solar system?	Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter		fun-space-facts
What is Pluto now called?	A dwarf planet		fun-space-facts
What is the asteroid belt?	A ring of rocky objects between Mars and Jupiter		fun-space-facts
What makes the Sun shine?	Nuclear fusion in its core		fun-space-facts
What color are the hottest stars?	Blue-white		fun-space-facts
What is the Sun made of?	Mostly hydrogen and helium gas		fun-space-facts
How long does sunlight take to reach Earth?	About 8 minutes		fun-space-facts
What is the Big Bang?	The idea that the universe began about 13.8 billion years ago from a hot, dense start		fun-space-facts
What is gravity?	The pull between objects with mass		fun-space-facts
Why do astronauts float?	They are in free fall around the Earth		fun-space-facts
What is the Apollo program?	NASA's program that landed people on the Moon (1969-1972)		fun-space-facts
What is the Space Shuttle?	A reusable NASA spacecraft that flew from 1981 to 2011		fun-space-facts
What is a rocket's fuel for?	To push it up fast enough to escape Earth's gravity		fun-space-facts
What is Halley's Comet?	A famous comet seen from Earth about every 76 years		fun-space-facts
What is the Big Dipper?	Seven bright stars shaped like a ladle		fun-space-facts
What are Orion's belt stars?	Three bright stars in a row in the constellation Orion		fun-space-facts
What is the Aurora?	Colored lights in the sky near the poles, caused by particles from the Sun		fun-space-facts
What is the solar system?	The Sun and everything that orbits it		fun-space-facts
What is a satellite?	An object that orbits a larger one		fun-space-facts
What is an astronaut?	A person trained to travel in space		fun-space-facts
Cinnamon	Bark from a tree; sweet and warm		fun-spices-herbs
Black pepper	Dried berry of a vine; the most traded spice		fun-spices-herbs
Ginger	A spicy root used fresh or dried		fun-spices-herbs
Turmeric	Bright yellow-orange root; colors curry		fun-spices-herbs
Cumin	Earthy seeds common in Mexican and Indian food		fun-spices-herbs
Paprika	Ground dried red peppers		fun-spices-herbs
Chili powder	A mix with ground chilies and other spices		fun-spices-herbs
Cayenne	A hot red pepper powder		fun-spices-herbs
Nutmeg	Seed of a tree grated into sweet dishes		fun-spices-herbs
Cloves	Dried flower buds with a strong smell		fun-spices-herbs
Allspice	A berry that tastes like cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves together		fun-spices-herbs
Cardamom	Seed pods with a sweet, citrusy flavor		fun-spices-herbs
Vanilla	Flavor from the pod of an orchid		fun-spices-herbs
Saffron	Thread-like stigmas of a crocus flower; the world's costliest spice		fun-spices-herbs
Coriander	Seeds of the cilantro plant		fun-spices-herbs
Cilantro	Leafy herb used in salsa and curry		fun-spices-herbs
Mustard seed	Tiny seeds ground into mustard		fun-spices-herbs
Sesame seed	Small seeds used on buns and in tahini		fun-spices-herbs
Poppy seed	Tiny blue-black seeds used in baking		fun-spices-herbs
Fennel seed	Licorice-flavored seeds		fun-spices-herbs
Star anise	Star-shaped pod with a licorice flavor		fun-spices-herbs
Basil	Sweet green herb used in pesto and pizza		fun-spices-herbs
Oregano	Herb popular in Italian and Greek food		fun-spices-herbs
Thyme	Small-leaved herb with a gentle flavor		fun-spices-herbs
Rosemary	Needle-like leaves with a piney smell		fun-spices-herbs
Sage	Soft gray-green herb		fun-spices-herbs
Parsley	Bright green herb; curly or flat leaf		fun-spices-herbs
Mint	Cool, fresh-tasting leaves		fun-spices-herbs
Dill	Feathery herb used on pickles and fish		fun-spices-herbs
Chives	Thin green stalks with a mild onion flavor		fun-spices-herbs
Bay leaf	Dried leaf added to soups and removed before eating		fun-spices-herbs
Tarragon	Herb with a mild licorice flavor		fun-spices-herbs
Lemongrass	Tall grass with a lemon scent, used in Thai food		fun-spices-herbs
Wasabi	Sharp green paste served with sushi		fun-spices-herbs
Garlic powder	Dried, ground garlic		fun-spices-herbs
Onion powder	Dried, ground onion		fun-spices-herbs
Curry powder	A blend of spices such as turmeric, cumin and coriander		fun-spices-herbs
Garam masala	An Indian spice blend		fun-spices-herbs
Italian seasoning	A blend of dried herbs such as oregano and basil		fun-spices-herbs
Herbes de Provence	A French herb blend		fun-spices-herbs
Salt	A mineral, not a spice, used to flavor food		fun-spices-herbs
Spice route	Old trade paths that carried spices between Asia and Europe		fun-spices-herbs
What are spices?	Seeds, bark, roots or buds used to flavor food		fun-spices-herbs
What are herbs?	Usually the green leaves of plants used to flavor food		fun-spices-herbs
Spice Islands	The Maluku Islands in Indonesia, once the only source of cloves and nutmeg		fun-spices-herbs
Pumpkin pie spice	A mix of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves		fun-spices-herbs
Peppercorn colors	Black, white, green and pink peppercorns come from different stages or plants		fun-spices-herbs
Capsaicin	The chemical that makes chili peppers hot		fun-spices-herbs
Scoville scale	A scale for measuring how hot peppers are		fun-spices-herbs
Jalapeno	A medium-hot green pepper		fun-spices-herbs
Habanero	A very hot orange pepper		fun-spices-herbs
Red	Apple, strawberry, fire truck, stop sign		fun-toddler-colors
Blue	Sky, ocean, blueberry, jeans		fun-toddler-colors
Yellow	Sun, banana, lemon, duckling		fun-toddler-colors
Green	Grass, frog, leaf, broccoli		fun-toddler-colors
Orange	Orange, carrot, pumpkin, goldfish		fun-toddler-colors
Purple	Grapes, eggplant, violet		fun-toddler-colors
Pink	Flamingo, bubble gum, piglet		fun-toddler-colors
Brown	Bear, chocolate, tree trunk, mud		fun-toddler-colors
Black	Night sky, crow, tire, coal		fun-toddler-colors
White	Snow, cloud, milk, polar bear		fun-toddler-colors
Gray	Elephant, rain cloud, mouse		fun-toddler-colors
Gold	Treasure, a crown, a trophy		fun-toddler-colors
Silver	A spoon, a coin, a robot		fun-toddler-colors
Red + yellow makes	Orange		fun-toddler-colors
Blue + yellow makes	Green		fun-toddler-colors
Red + blue makes	Purple		fun-toddler-colors
Red + white makes	Pink		fun-toddler-colors
Black + white makes	Gray		fun-toddler-colors
Primary colors	Red, yellow and blue		fun-toddler-colors
Secondary colors	Orange, green and purple		fun-toddler-colors
Rainbow colors	Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is the sky on a sunny day?	Blue		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a banana?	Yellow when ripe		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a fire engine?	Red		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is grass?	Green		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a pumpkin?	Orange		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a grape?	Purple or green		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a tomato?	Red		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a ladybug?	Red with black spots		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a bluebird?	Blue		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a lemon?	Yellow		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a school bus?	Yellow		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a firefly's glow?	Yellow-green		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a zebra?	Black and white stripes		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a tiger?	Orange with black stripes		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a rose?	Red, pink, white or yellow		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is chocolate?	Brown		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is the Moon?	Gray-white		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a stop light for go?	Green		fun-toddler-colors
Which color is a stop light for stop?	Red		fun-toddler-colors
Up	Down		fun-toddler-opposites
Hot	Cold		fun-toddler-opposites
Big	Small		fun-toddler-opposites
Fast	Slow		fun-toddler-opposites
Happy	Sad		fun-toddler-opposites
Day	Night		fun-toddler-opposites
In	Out		fun-toddler-opposites
On	Off		fun-toddler-opposites
Open	Closed		fun-toddler-opposites
Wet	Dry		fun-toddler-opposites
Full	Empty		fun-toddler-opposites
Old	New		fun-toddler-opposites
Young	Old		fun-toddler-opposites
Tall	Short		fun-toddler-opposites
Long	Short		fun-toddler-opposites
Hard	Soft		fun-toddler-opposites
Heavy	Light		fun-toddler-opposites
Loud	Quiet		fun-toddler-opposites
Clean	Dirty		fun-toddler-opposites
Good	Bad		fun-toddler-opposites
Right	Left		fun-toddler-opposites
Front	Back		fun-toddler-opposites
Top	Bottom		fun-toddler-opposites
Over	Under		fun-toddler-opposites
Near	Far		fun-toddler-opposites
Early	Late		fun-toddler-opposites
First	Last		fun-toddler-opposites
Push	Pull		fun-toddler-opposites
Stop	Go		fun-toddler-opposites
Come	Go		fun-toddler-opposites
Give	Take		fun-toddler-opposites
Laugh	Cry		fun-toddler-opposites
Awake	Asleep		fun-toddler-opposites
Wide	Narrow		fun-toddler-opposites
Thick	Thin		fun-toddler-opposites
Rough	Smooth		fun-toddler-opposites
Sharp	Dull		fun-toddler-opposites
Same	Different		fun-toddler-opposites
Inside	Outside		fun-toddler-opposites
Above	Below		fun-toddler-opposites
Before	After		fun-toddler-opposites
Begin	End		fun-toddler-opposites
Win	Lose		fun-toddler-opposites
Love	Hate		fun-toddler-opposites
Yes	No		fun-toddler-opposites
True	False		fun-toddler-opposites
Rich	Poor		fun-toddler-opposites
Strong	Weak		fun-toddler-opposites
Brave	Scared		fun-toddler-opposites
Sweet	Sour		fun-toddler-opposites
Black	White		fun-toddler-opposites
Sun	Moon		fun-toddler-opposites
Boy	Girl		fun-toddler-opposites
Mother	Father		fun-toddler-opposites
Summer	Winter		fun-toddler-opposites
Add	Subtract		fun-toddler-opposites
Buy	Sell		fun-toddler-opposites
Find	Lose		fun-toddler-opposites
Work	Play		fun-toddler-opposites
Ask	Answer		fun-toddler-opposites
Circle	A ball, a wheel, a pizza, a cookie		fun-toddler-shapes
Square	A window, a napkin, a block, a cracker		fun-toddler-shapes
Triangle	A slice of pizza, a roof, a yield sign		fun-toddler-shapes
Rectangle	A door, a book, a phone, a TV		fun-toddler-shapes
Oval	An egg, a mirror, a football		fun-toddler-shapes
Star	A star in the sky, a sheriff's badge		fun-toddler-shapes
Heart	A valentine card		fun-toddler-shapes
Diamond	A kite, a baseball field		fun-toddler-shapes
Crescent	The moon on some nights		fun-toddler-shapes
Pentagon	A shape with five sides, like a home plate in baseball		fun-toddler-shapes
Hexagon	A shape with six sides, like a honeycomb cell		fun-toddler-shapes
Octagon	A shape with eight sides, like a stop sign		fun-toddler-shapes
Cube	A dice or a block		fun-toddler-shapes
Sphere	A ball or an orange		fun-toddler-shapes
Cone	An ice cream cone or a party hat		fun-toddler-shapes
Cylinder	A can of soup		fun-toddler-shapes
How many sides does a triangle have?	Three		fun-toddler-shapes
How many sides does a square have?	Four, all the same length		fun-toddler-shapes
How many sides does a rectangle have?	Four, with two long and two short		fun-toddler-shapes
How many sides does a circle have?	None, it is round		fun-toddler-shapes
How many corners does a triangle have?	Three		fun-toddler-shapes
How many corners does a square have?	Four		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape rolls?	A circle or a ball		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a stop sign?	An octagon		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a pizza box?	A square		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a door?	A rectangle		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a cookie?	A circle		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a slice of watermelon?	A half circle		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a kite?	A diamond		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is an egg?	An oval		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a clock face?	A circle		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a wheel?	A circle		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a roof?	A triangle		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a book?	A rectangle		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a window?	A square or a rectangle		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a party hat?	A cone		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a box?	A cube or rectangle prism		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a snowman's body?	Spheres		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape is a rainbow?	An arch		fun-toddler-shapes
Which shape shines in the night sky?	A star		fun-toddler-shapes
S sounds	She sells seashells by the seashore		fun-tongue-twisters
P sounds	Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers		fun-tongue-twisters
W sounds	How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?		fun-tongue-twisters
B sounds	Betty Botter bought some butter		fun-tongue-twisters
F sounds	Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear; Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair		fun-tongue-twisters
R sounds	Red lorry, yellow lorry		fun-tongue-twisters
Sh and S	Sixty-six sick chicks		fun-tongue-twisters
L and R	Really leery, rarely rural		fun-tongue-twisters
T sounds	Two tiny tigers took two taxis to town		fun-tongue-twisters
K sounds	Kim can catch crabs		fun-tongue-twisters
C sounds	Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?		fun-tongue-twisters
G sounds	Gobbling gorillas grow great gobs of grapes		fun-tongue-twisters
Th sounds	Three thin thieves thought a thousand thoughts		fun-tongue-twisters
M sounds	Mommy made me eat my M&M's		fun-tongue-twisters
N sounds	Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely		fun-tongue-twisters
D sounds	Dan the duck dug deep		fun-tongue-twisters
Ch sounds	Chester Cheetah chews cheese		fun-tongue-twisters
V sounds	Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently		fun-tongue-twisters
Z sounds	Zebras zig and zebras zag		fun-tongue-twisters
H sounds	Henry Hippo hurried home hungry		fun-tongue-twisters
J sounds	Jolly Jack jumps and jiggles		fun-tongue-twisters
Y sounds	Yellow yo-yos yo yo yearly		fun-tongue-twisters
B and P	Big black bugs bleed blue black blood		fun-tongue-twisters
Fish	Fresh fried fish, fish fresh fried, fried fish fresh, fish fried fresh		fun-tongue-twisters
Toy boat	Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat		fun-tongue-twisters
Unique New York	Unique New York, unique New York, you know you need unique New York		fun-tongue-twisters
Rubber baby buggy	Rubber baby buggy bumpers		fun-tongue-twisters
Black bat	A black bug bit a big black bear		fun-tongue-twisters
Flea and fly	A flea and a fly flew up in a flue		fun-tongue-twisters
Cheese	I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream		fun-tongue-twisters
Pickle	A proper copper coffee pot		fun-tongue-twisters
Slippery	Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward		fun-tongue-twisters
Brisk	The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick		fun-tongue-twisters
Silly	Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep		fun-tongue-twisters
Bug	Bug's black blood		fun-tongue-twisters
Tutor	A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot		fun-tongue-twisters
Crisp	Crisp crusts crackle		fun-tongue-twisters
Wristwatch	Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?		fun-tongue-twisters
Lemon	Lemon liniment		fun-tongue-twisters
Ladle	Lucky ladles lift lovely lumps		fun-tongue-twisters
Mixed biscuits	Mixed biscuit mixer		fun-tongue-twisters
Nick	Nick knocks on nine neat knobs		fun-tongue-twisters
Truly	Truly rural		fun-tongue-twisters
Weather	Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not		fun-tongue-twisters
Brave	Brave Brad brought bright blue bread		fun-tongue-twisters
Great grape	Great gray goats grow green grass		fun-tongue-twisters
Zippers	Zany zebras zip zippers		fun-tongue-twisters
Oak	Lobed leaves and acorns		fun-trees-and-leaves
Maple	Leaves with pointed lobes, winged seeds, and sweet sap		fun-trees-and-leaves
Pine	Needles in bundles, cones		fun-trees-and-leaves
Spruce	Short stiff single needles, hanging cones		fun-trees-and-leaves
Fir	Flat soft needles; popular Christmas trees		fun-trees-and-leaves
Birch	White papery bark that peels		fun-trees-and-leaves
Aspen	Round leaves that shimmer and tremble in the wind		fun-trees-and-leaves
Elm	Lopsided toothed leaves, vase shape		fun-trees-and-leaves
Willow	Long narrow leaves and drooping branches near water		fun-trees-and-leaves
Cottonwood	Triangular leaves and fluffy seeds		fun-trees-and-leaves
Sycamore	Peeling patchy bark and large leaves		fun-trees-and-leaves
Beech	Smooth gray bark and oval toothed leaves		fun-trees-and-leaves
Hickory	Compound leaves and hard nuts		fun-trees-and-leaves
Walnut	Long compound leaves and round nuts in green husks		fun-trees-and-leaves
Cedar	Scale-like leaves and fragrant wood		fun-trees-and-leaves
Redwood	The tallest trees, on the California coast		fun-trees-and-leaves
Sequoia	The giant sequoia is the biggest tree by volume		fun-trees-and-leaves
Cypress	Some grow knobby 'knees' in swamps		fun-trees-and-leaves
Palm	Big fronds and no real branches		fun-trees-and-leaves
Apple tree	Pink-white blossoms in spring and apples in fall		fun-trees-and-leaves
Cherry tree	Pink blossoms and small red fruit		fun-trees-and-leaves
Orange tree	Evergreen with shiny leaves and white fragrant flowers		fun-trees-and-leaves
Ginkgo	Fan-shaped leaves; an ancient kind of tree		fun-trees-and-leaves
Sweetgum	Star-shaped leaves and spiky balls		fun-trees-and-leaves
Tulip tree	Leaves with a notched end and tulip-like flowers		fun-trees-and-leaves
Dogwood	Showy white or pink flower bracts in spring		fun-trees-and-leaves
Magnolia	Big creamy flowers and glossy leaves		fun-trees-and-leaves
Mulberry	Berries that look like blackberries		fun-trees-and-leaves
Hawthorn	Thorny small tree with red berries		fun-trees-and-leaves
Black locust	Rows of small leaves and thorns		fun-trees-and-leaves
Evergreen	A tree that stays green all year		fun-trees-and-leaves
Deciduous	A tree that drops its leaves in the fall		fun-trees-and-leaves
Conifer	A tree that bears cones		fun-trees-and-leaves
Broadleaf	A tree with wide, flat leaves		fun-trees-and-leaves
Photosynthesis	How leaves make food from sunlight, water and air		fun-trees-and-leaves
Chlorophyll	The green stuff in leaves that catches sunlight		fun-trees-and-leaves
Why leaves change color in fall	Chlorophyll fades, showing yellows and oranges that were hidden		fun-trees-and-leaves
Tree rings	Each ring is about one year of growth		fun-trees-and-leaves
Bark	Protective outer covering of a tree		fun-trees-and-leaves
Roots	Hold the tree and drink water from soil		fun-trees-and-leaves
Trunk	The main stem that holds up the tree		fun-trees-and-leaves
Canopy	The top layer of leaves in a forest		fun-trees-and-leaves
Sap	Liquid that carries food and water inside a tree		fun-trees-and-leaves
Maple syrup	Made by boiling maple sap		fun-trees-and-leaves
Acorn	The nut of an oak tree		fun-trees-and-leaves
Pinecone	Where pine seeds grow		fun-trees-and-leaves
Samara	A winged seed, like a maple 'helicopter'		fun-trees-and-leaves
Simple leaf	A leaf with one blade		fun-trees-and-leaves
Compound leaf	A leaf split into many small leaflets		fun-trees-and-leaves
Needle leaf	A thin, needle-shaped leaf		fun-trees-and-leaves
Arborist	A person who cares for trees		fun-trees-and-leaves
Forester	A person who manages forests		fun-trees-and-leaves
Arbor Day	A holiday for planting trees		fun-trees-and-leaves
Oldest living trees	Bristlecone pines live thousands of years		fun-trees-and-leaves
Banyan	A tree whose branches grow roots down to the ground		fun-trees-and-leaves
Baobab	African tree with a very thick trunk, nicknamed the upside-down tree		fun-trees-and-leaves
Mangrove	Tree with roots standing in salty water		fun-trees-and-leaves
Rubber tree	A tree whose sap is used to make rubber		fun-trees-and-leaves
Cork oak	Oak whose bark is used for corks		fun-trees-and-leaves
Eucalyptus	Tree whose leaves koalas eat		fun-trees-and-leaves
Coconut palm	Palm that grows coconuts		fun-trees-and-leaves
Poison ivy	A vine, not a tree: 'leaves of three, let it be'		fun-trees-and-leaves
What are clouds made of?	Tiny drops of water or ice crystals		fun-weather-fun
What are fluffy white clouds called?	Cumulus		fun-weather-fun
What are thin, wispy clouds high in the sky called?	Cirrus		fun-weather-fun
What are flat gray sheets of cloud called?	Stratus		fun-weather-fun
What are tall dark storm clouds called?	Cumulonimbus		fun-weather-fun
What is fog?	A cloud near the ground		fun-weather-fun
What causes rain?	Water drops in clouds get heavy and fall		fun-weather-fun
What is snow?	Frozen crystals that fall from clouds		fun-weather-fun
What is hail?	Balls of ice that fall during storms		fun-weather-fun
What is sleet?	Frozen raindrops		fun-weather-fun
What causes thunder?	The sound of air heating up fast around lightning		fun-weather-fun
What is lightning?	A giant spark of electricity in the sky		fun-weather-fun
Which comes first, lightning or thunder?	You see lightning first because light travels faster than sound		fun-weather-fun
What should you do in a thunderstorm?	Go indoors		fun-weather-fun
What makes a rainbow?	Sunlight bending through raindrops		fun-weather-fun
How many colors are in a rainbow?	Seven: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet		fun-weather-fun
What is a tornado?	A spinning funnel of wind that touches the ground		fun-weather-fun
What is a hurricane?	A huge ocean storm with strong winds and rain		fun-weather-fun
What is the center of a hurricane called?	The eye		fun-weather-fun
What is a blizzard?	A snowstorm with strong winds		fun-weather-fun
What is a drought?	A long time with little rain		fun-weather-fun
What is a flood?	Water covering land that is usually dry		fun-weather-fun
What is wind?	Moving air		fun-weather-fun
What do we use to measure temperature?	A thermometer		fun-weather-fun
What do we use to measure wind speed?	An anemometer		fun-weather-fun
What do we use to measure rain?	A rain gauge		fun-weather-fun
What does a barometer measure?	Air pressure		fun-weather-fun
What does a weather vane show?	Which way the wind blows		fun-weather-fun
What is humidity?	How much water is in the air		fun-weather-fun
What is the water cycle?	Water evaporates, makes clouds, falls as rain, and flows back		fun-weather-fun
What is evaporation?	When liquid water turns into a gas		fun-weather-fun
What is condensation?	When water vapor turns into drops		fun-weather-fun
What is precipitation?	Rain, snow, sleet or hail falling from the sky		fun-weather-fun
What is a meteorologist?	A scientist who studies and forecasts weather		fun-weather-fun
What is a forecast?	A prediction of the weather		fun-weather-fun
What is climate?	The usual weather of a place over many years		fun-weather-fun
What are the four seasons?	Spring, summer, fall (autumn) and winter		fun-weather-fun
What is the equinox?	A day with about equal day and night, in spring and fall		fun-weather-fun
What is the solstice?	The longest or shortest day of the year		fun-weather-fun
What is a frost?	A thin layer of ice crystals on cold surfaces		fun-weather-fun
What is dew?	Tiny water drops that form on grass overnight		fun-weather-fun
What is a monsoon?	A seasonal wind that brings heavy rains		fun-weather-fun
What are the northern lights called?	Aurora borealis		fun-weather-fun
What is a heat wave?	A long period of very hot weather		fun-weather-fun
What is a sunbeam?	A ray of sunshine		fun-weather-fun
What is a sundog?	A bright spot beside the Sun caused by ice crystals		fun-weather-fun
What is a halo around the Moon?	A ring caused by light passing through ice crystals		fun-weather-fun
What is a rain shadow?	A dry area behind mountains		fun-weather-fun
Which US state gets the most tornadoes?	Texas		fun-weather-fun
Where is the rainiest place in the continental US?	The Pacific Northwest coast, including parts of Washington		fun-weather-fun
Why is the sky blue?	Air scatters blue light from the Sun more than other colors		fun-weather-fun
Why are sunsets red?	Light travels through more air and the blue is scattered away		fun-weather-fun
You wear it on your feet. It has laces. It keeps your feet safe.	A shoe		fun-what-is-it
It is round, it has numbers and hands, and it tells time.	A clock		fun-what-is-it
It is white and cold and falls in winter.	Snow		fun-what-is-it
It has four legs, a back, and you sit on it.	A chair		fun-what-is-it
It is yellow, curved, and monkeys like it.	A banana		fun-what-is-it
It lives in water, has fins and scales.	A fish		fun-what-is-it
It is big and gray, has a trunk and big ears.	An elephant		fun-what-is-it
It flies in the sky, has wings, but is not a bird. People ride in it.	An airplane		fun-what-is-it
It is a sweet frozen treat in a cone.	Ice cream		fun-what-is-it
It rolls on the road and has four wheels.	A car		fun-what-is-it
It has pages and words and stories.	A book		fun-what-is-it
It shines at night and changes shape.	The Moon		fun-what-is-it
It is red, round, and grows on trees. You can bake it in a pie.	An apple		fun-what-is-it
It has a long neck and spots and eats leaves from tall trees.	A giraffe		fun-what-is-it
It is hot, bright and in the sky in the daytime.	The Sun		fun-what-is-it
It falls from clouds and makes puddles.	Rain		fun-what-is-it
It has eight legs and spins a web.	A spider		fun-what-is-it
You use it to write. It has an eraser on the end.	A pencil		fun-what-is-it
It keeps rain off your head. You hold it over you.	An umbrella		fun-what-is-it
You sleep in it at night. It has pillows.	A bed		fun-what-is-it
It buzzes, makes honey and stings.	A bee		fun-what-is-it
It has a shell and walks slowly.	A turtle or snail		fun-what-is-it
It's green, hops and says ribbit.	A frog		fun-what-is-it
It has colors and arches in the sky after rain.	A rainbow		fun-what-is-it
It is a place with lots of books you borrow.	A library		fun-what-is-it
It is a place where you learn with a teacher.	A school		fun-what-is-it
It is a big yellow vehicle that takes kids to school.	A school bus		fun-what-is-it
It has a bark but is a pet. It wags its tail.	A dog		fun-what-is-it
It purrs, has whiskers and likes to nap.	A cat		fun-what-is-it
It is a big cat with a mane and a roar.	A lion		fun-what-is-it
It has black and white stripes like a horse.	A zebra		fun-what-is-it
It has a pouch and hops.	A kangaroo		fun-what-is-it
It's black and white and lives in cold places. It waddles and cannot fly.	A penguin		fun-what-is-it
You blow it up and it floats. It pops!	A balloon		fun-what-is-it
It is a tall plant with leaves and a trunk of wood.	A tree		fun-what-is-it
It grows in a garden, has petals, and smells nice.	A flower		fun-what-is-it
You brush your teeth with it.	A toothbrush		fun-what-is-it
You use it to cut paper. It has two blades.	Scissors		fun-what-is-it
You use it to eat soup.	A spoon		fun-what-is-it
You use it to see far-away stars.	A telescope		fun-what-is-it
You use it to look at tiny things.	A microscope		fun-what-is-it
You use it to find north.	A compass		fun-what-is-it
It is a red vehicle that puts out fires.	A fire truck		fun-what-is-it
It has a big wheel and flies in the wind with a string.	A kite		fun-what-is-it
It is a vehicle with two wheels and pedals.	A bicycle		fun-what-is-it
It runs on tracks and goes choo choo.	A train		fun-what-is-it
It floats on water and carries people.	A boat		fun-what-is-it
It goes up to space with fire at its tail.	A rocket		fun-what-is-it
It is a room where food is cooked.	A kitchen		fun-what-is-it
You wash in it with soap and water.	A bathtub or sink		fun-what-is-it
It is a piece of clothing for your head.	A hat		fun-what-is-it
Dandelion	Yellow flower that turns into a white puffball of seeds		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Daisy	White petals around a yellow center		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Sunflower	Tall flower with a big seed head that follows the sun when young		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Rose	Fragrant flower with thorns on its stem		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Tulip	Spring bulb flower from the Netherlands and Turkey		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Daffodil	Yellow trumpet-shaped spring flower		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Violet	Small purple spring flower		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Buttercup	Shiny yellow cup-shaped flower		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Clover	Plant with three small leaves; four-leaf ones are lucky		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Black-eyed Susan	Yellow petals with a dark brown center		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Coneflower	Pink petals around a spiky cone		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Lupine	Tall spikes of blue-purple flowers		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Bluebonnet	The state flower of Texas		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
California poppy	Orange flower; California's state flower		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Goldenrod	Late-summer tall plant with yellow plumes		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Aster	Late-season daisy-like flowers		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Cornflower	Bright blue flowers		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Marigold	Orange or yellow flowers with a strong smell		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Zinnia	Colorful flower that butterflies like		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Pansy	Small flower with a face-like pattern		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Petunia	Trumpet-shaped garden flower		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Lily	Large flowers with six petals		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Lavender	Purple fragrant flower and herb		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Iris	A flower named for the Greek goddess of the rainbow		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Orchid	A huge family of flowers; vanilla comes from one		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Lilac	Fragrant purple spring flower clusters		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Peony	Big, fluffy spring flower		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Hydrangea	Big round heads of flowers; some change color with soil		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Crocus	One of the first flowers of spring		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Snowdrop	A small white flower that blooms in late winter		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Foxglove	Tall spikes of bell-shaped flowers; do not eat, it is poisonous		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Morning glory	Vine with flowers that open in the morning		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Honeysuckle	Vine with sweet-smelling flowers		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Queen Anne's lace	White lacy flower cluster on a wild carrot		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Milkweed	The only plant monarch caterpillars eat		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Bleeding heart	Pink heart-shaped flowers		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Poppy	Papery red flowers, a memorial flower in some countries		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Forget-me-not	Tiny sky-blue flowers		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Cherry blossom	Pink spring flowers celebrated in Japan		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Lotus	Water flower that rises from mud		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Water lily	Floating flowers on a pond		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Cattail	Marsh plant with a brown fuzzy spike		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Petal	Colorful part of a flower		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Stamen	The part of a flower that makes pollen		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Pistil	The part of a flower that grows seeds		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Sepal	Small green leaf-like parts under the petals		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Pollen	Powder that helps flowers make seeds		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Nectar	Sweet liquid that bees and butterflies drink		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Bulb	An underground storage part that grows into some flowers		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Annual	A plant that lives one year		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Perennial	A plant that comes back year after year		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Weed	A plant growing where people do not want it		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Wildflower tip	Look and take photos; do not pick or eat unknown plants		fun-wildflowers-and-garden
Great Pyramid of Giza	The only ancient wonder still standing; built about 4,500 years ago		fun-wonders-of-world
Hanging Gardens of Babylon	Terraced gardens said to be in ancient Babylon; no one is sure they existed		fun-wonders-of-world
Statue of Zeus at Olympia	A huge statue of the king of the Greek gods		fun-wonders-of-world
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus	A grand temple to the Greek goddess of the hunt, in what is now Turkey		fun-wonders-of-world
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus	A large tomb built for a king named Mausolus; gave us the word mausoleum		fun-wonders-of-world
Colossus of Rhodes	A giant bronze statue of the sun god Helios on a Greek island		fun-wonders-of-world
Lighthouse of Alexandria	A very tall lighthouse in Egypt		fun-wonders-of-world
How many ancient wonders are there?	Seven		fun-wonders-of-world
Great Wall of China	A defensive wall stretching thousands of miles		fun-wonders-of-world
Petra	A city carved into rose-colored rock in Jordan		fun-wonders-of-world
Christ the Redeemer	A giant statue above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		fun-wonders-of-world
Machu Picchu	An Inca city high in the Andes of Peru		fun-wonders-of-world
Chichen Itza	A Maya city with a great step pyramid in Mexico		fun-wonders-of-world
Colosseum	A huge Roman arena in Rome		fun-wonders-of-world
Taj Mahal	A white marble tomb in Agra, India, built in the 1600s		fun-wonders-of-world
How many new wonders were chosen in 2007?	Seven		fun-wonders-of-world
Grand Canyon	A natural wonder carved by the Colorado River		fun-wonders-of-world
Great Barrier Reef	The largest living reef system, off Australia		fun-wonders-of-world
Victoria Falls	A mile-wide waterfall on the Zambezi River		fun-wonders-of-world
Mount Everest	The highest mountain above sea level		fun-wonders-of-world
Northern Lights	Glowing colored lights in the sky near the poles		fun-wonders-of-world
Amazon Rainforest	The world's largest tropical forest		fun-wonders-of-world
Paricutin volcano	A volcano that rose from a Mexican cornfield in 1943		fun-wonders-of-world
Harbor of Rio de Janeiro	A scenic bay in Brazil		fun-wonders-of-world
Angel Falls	The world's tallest waterfall, in Venezuela		fun-wonders-of-world
Niagara Falls	Huge waterfalls between Canada and the USA		fun-wonders-of-world
Uluru	A giant red sandstone rock in Australia, sacred to the Anangu		fun-wonders-of-world
Stonehenge	A ring of huge standing stones in England		fun-wonders-of-world
Easter Island moai	Giant stone heads on Rapa Nui		fun-wonders-of-world
Angkor Wat	The largest religious building in the world, in Cambodia		fun-wonders-of-world
Hagia Sophia	A famous building in Istanbul, once a church, then a mosque		fun-wonders-of-world
Eiffel Tower	An iron tower in Paris built for the 1889 World's Fair		fun-wonders-of-world
Pyramids of Teotihuacan	Giant pyramids near Mexico City		fun-wonders-of-world
Alhambra	A palace and fortress in Granada, Spain		fun-wonders-of-world
Forbidden City	The palace city of Chinese emperors in Beijing		fun-wonders-of-world
Acropolis	A hilltop with the Parthenon in Athens		fun-wonders-of-world
Great Zimbabwe	Ruins of a stone city in Africa		fun-wonders-of-world
Borobudur	A huge Buddhist temple in Java, Indonesia		fun-wonders-of-world
Pompeii	A Roman town preserved by volcanic ash from Vesuvius in 79 CE		fun-wonders-of-world
Terracotta Army	Thousands of clay soldiers buried with China's first emperor		fun-wonders-of-world
Lascaux caves	Famous cave paintings in France		fun-wonders-of-world
Cappadocia	Fairy chimney rock formations in Turkey		fun-wonders-of-world
Cliffs of Moher	High sea cliffs in Ireland		fun-wonders-of-world
Giant's Causeway	Thousands of basalt columns on the coast of Northern Ireland		fun-wonders-of-world
Halong Bay	Limestone islands rising from the sea in Vietnam		fun-wonders-of-world
Mount Fuji	Japan's tallest mountain, a snowcapped volcano		fun-wonders-of-world
Lake Baikal	The deepest lake in the world		fun-wonders-of-world
Dead Sea	A salty lake where people float easily		fun-wonders-of-world
Serengeti	Plains in Tanzania with huge animal migrations		fun-wonders-of-world
Great Rift Valley	A long crack in the Earth's surface in Africa		fun-wonders-of-world
Galapagos Islands	Home of unique wildlife that inspired Darwin		fun-wonders-of-world
Sahara Desert	The largest hot desert		fun-wonders-of-world
Antarctica	The southernmost continent		fun-wonders-of-world
Yellowstone	First national park, with geysers		fun-wonders-of-world
Palindrome	A word or phrase that reads the same backward and forward		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Mom	A palindrome		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Dad	A palindrome		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Wow	A palindrome		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Racecar	A palindrome		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Level	A palindrome		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Radar	A palindrome		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Kayak	A palindrome		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Madam	A palindrome		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Noon	A palindrome		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Civic	A palindrome		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Refer	A palindrome		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama	A famous palindrome sentence		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Was it a car or a cat I saw?	A palindrome sentence		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Homophone	Words that sound the same but are spelled differently		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
to, too, two	Homophones: to the park, too hot, two cats		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
there, their, they're	Homophones: over there, their dog, they're happy		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
see, sea	Homophones: see with eyes, the sea is salty		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
write, right	Homophones: write a note, turn right		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
night, knight	Homophones: dark night, a knight in armor		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
knew, new	Homophones: I knew it, a new toy		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
flower, flour	Homophones: a pretty flower, flour for baking		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
bear, bare	Homophones: a big bear, bare feet		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
hear, here	Homophones: hear with ears, come here		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
son, sun	Homophones: a boy, a star		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
pair, pear, pare	Homophones: two shoes, a fruit, to peel		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
red, read	Homophones: a color, past tense of read		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
mail, male	Homophones: letters, boy		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
tail, tale	Homophones: a dog's tail, a story		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
blue, blew	Homophones: a color, wind blew		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
plane, plain	Homophones: a flying plane, a plain shirt		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
steak, stake	Homophones: a meat dinner, a pointy stick		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
wait, weight	Homophones: wait for a bus, how heavy		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
way, weigh	Homophones: a path, to measure weight		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
so, sew, sow	Homophones: so happy, sew a button, sow seeds		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
ate, eight	Homophones: ate lunch, the number 8		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
by, buy, bye	Homophones: by the door, buy a toy, say bye		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
dear, deer	Homophones: dear friend, a woodland animal		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
whole, hole	Homophones: the whole pie, a hole in the ground		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Homograph	Words spelled the same but with different meanings, like bat		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Bat	An animal that flies, or a stick used in baseball		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Bark	A dog's sound, or the covering of a tree		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Bank	Where money is kept, or the side of a river		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Lead	To guide, or a soft gray metal (said led)		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Wind	Moving air, or to turn something around		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Tear	A drop from the eye, or to rip		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Present	A gift, or here and now		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Close	To shut, or very near		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Contronym	A word that means its own opposite, like 'cleave'		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Anagram	A word made by rearranging the letters of another, like listen and silent		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Listen	An anagram of silent		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Evil	An anagram of live (or vile)		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Stressed	Spelled backward it is desserts		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Onomatopoeia	A word that sounds like what it means, like buzz or splash		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Buzz	An onomatopoeia for a bee's sound		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Splash	An onomatopoeia for water		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Pop	An onomatopoeia for a balloon		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Alliteration	Words close together that start with the same sound		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Pun	A joke that plays on word meanings or sounds		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Idiom	A saying whose meaning is not literal, like 'raining cats and dogs'		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Simile	A comparison using like or as		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Metaphor	A comparison that says one thing is another		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Longest English word in the dictionary (often cited)	Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Longest word with no repeated letter, often cited	Uncopyrightable		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Shortest complete sentence	I am.		fun-word-play-homophones-palindromes
Tallest mountain above sea level	Mount Everest, about 29,000 feet (8,849 m)		fun-world-records
Longest river (often cited)	The Nile or the Amazon, depending on how it is measured		fun-world-records
Largest ocean	The Pacific Ocean		fun-world-records
Deepest ocean trench	The Mariana Trench in the Pacific		fun-world-records
Largest desert on Earth	Antarctica, a polar desert		fun-world-records
Largest hot desert	The Sahara		fun-world-records
Largest continent	Asia		fun-world-records
Smallest continent	Australia		fun-world-records
Largest country by area	Russia		fun-world-records
Smallest country by area	Vatican City		fun-world-records
Largest island	Greenland (not counting continents)		fun-world-records
Largest lake by surface area	The Caspian Sea		fun-world-records
Largest freshwater lake by area	Lake Superior		fun-world-records
Deepest lake	Lake Baikal in Russia		fun-world-records
Highest waterfall	Angel Falls in Venezuela		fun-world-records
Largest rainforest	The Amazon rainforest		fun-world-records
Largest coral reef system	The Great Barrier Reef in Australia		fun-world-records
Longest mountain range	The Andes in South America (on land)		fun-world-records
Tallest mountain from base to peak	Mauna Kea in Hawaii		fun-world-records
Largest volcano in the solar system	Olympus Mons on Mars		fun-world-records
Biggest canyon in the US	The Grand Canyon		fun-world-records
Biggest planet	Jupiter		fun-world-records
Hottest planet	Venus		fun-world-records
Coldest place on Earth	Antarctica		fun-world-records
Driest place on Earth	Parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile		fun-world-records
Highest capital city	La Paz, Bolivia		fun-world-records
Longest wall	The Great Wall of China		fun-world-records
Largest country in Africa by area	Algeria		fun-world-records
Largest country in South America	Brazil		fun-world-records
Largest country in North America by area	Canada		fun-world-records
Tallest tree species	Coast redwood		fun-world-records
Biggest tree by volume	Giant sequoia named General Sherman		fun-world-records
Oldest living tree species (individual groves)	Great Basin bristlecone pine		fun-world-records
Biggest single flower	Rafflesia arnoldii of Southeast Asia		fun-world-records
Biggest cat	The tiger		fun-world-records
Biggest animal	The blue whale		fun-world-records
Fastest land animal	The cheetah		fun-world-records
Tallest living animal	The giraffe		fun-world-records
Largest bird	The ostrich		fun-world-records
Longest-lived land animal	The Galapagos tortoise		fun-world-records
Tallest building (2010 onward)	Burj Khalifa in Dubai, over 2,700 feet (828 m)		fun-world-records
First person to reach the summit of Mount Everest	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953		fun-world-records
First to the South Pole	Roald Amundsen's team in 1911		fun-world-records
First person in space	Yuri Gagarin in 1961		fun-world-records
First person on the Moon	Neil Armstrong in 1969		fun-world-records
First powered flight	The Wright brothers in 1903		fun-world-records
First solo nonstop Atlantic flight	Charles Lindbergh in 1927		fun-world-records
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic	Amelia Earhart in 1932		fun-world-records
First country to put a satellite in orbit	The Soviet Union, Sputnik 1 in 1957		fun-world-records
First US astronaut in orbit	John Glenn in 1962		fun-world-records
Hottest temperature measured on Earth (official)	134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 C) at Death Valley in 1913		fun-world-records
Coldest temperature measured on Earth	About minus 128.6 F (minus 89.2 C) in Antarctica in 1983		fun-world-records
Most spoken first language	Mandarin Chinese		fun-world-records
Oldest city still lived in (often cited)	Damascus, Syria, or Jericho, depending on definition		fun-world-records
Most visited museum (in most years)	The Louvre in Paris		fun-world-records