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This board helps players review Curiosities · Origins · Logic through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Everyday Mysteries, Odd Origins, Two Things Connected, Numbers Hiding Everywhere, Not Quite What It Sounds Like. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Everyday Mysteries

    Why do your fingers wrinkle after spending a long time in water?

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    Your nervous system constricts blood vessels beneath the skin, creating wrinkles that may improve wet grip

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  • Odd Origins

    What children's toy was originally marketed as wallpaper cleaner before kids began using it for play?

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    Play-Doh

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  • Two Things Connected

    What single word connects a computer pointing device and a small rodent?

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    Mouse

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  • Numbers Hiding Everywhere

    How many total squares are on a standard 8-by-8 chessboard if you count only the smallest individual squares?

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    64

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  • Not Quite What It Sounds Like

    Despite its name, a peanut is technically what type of plant food?

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    A legume

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  • Which Came First?

    Which came first: YouTube or Facebook?

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    Facebook

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  • Look Closer

    On the Target logo, what simple shape appears at its center?

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    A circle

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  • How Did You Know That?

    What smell is produced when rain hits dry soil and is commonly called petrichor?

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    The earthy smell after rain

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Everyday Mysteries

$100 — Why do your fingers wrinkle after spending a long time in water?
Your nervous system constricts blood vessels beneath the skin, creating wrinkles that may improve wet grip
$200 — Why does a bathroom mirror fog up during a hot shower?
Warm water vapor condenses on the cooler mirror
$300 — Why does cutting an onion often make your eyes water?
Cutting releases an irritating sulfur-containing chemical that reaches your eyes
$400 — Why can opening a carbonated drink make it suddenly fizz?
The drop in pressure lets dissolved carbon dioxide escape as bubbles
$500 — Why does a wet road sometimes seem to disappear into the sky in the distance on a hot day?
A mirage bends light through layers of air at different temperatures

Odd Origins

$100 — What children's toy was originally marketed as wallpaper cleaner before kids began using it for play?
Play-Doh
$200 — Bubble Wrap was originally invented while its creators were trying to make what home-decor product?
Textured wallpaper
$300 — What breakfast food was created accidentally after cooked wheat was left sitting out and then rolled into flakes?
Corn Flakes' predecessor, wheat flakes
$400 — What adhesive office product resulted from combining a weak glue with the idea for a removable bookmark?
Post-it Notes
$500 — What spring-shaped toy became a hit after an engineer saw a tension spring tumble from a shelf?
Slinky

Two Things Connected

$100 — What single word connects a computer pointing device and a small rodent?
Mouse
$200 — What word can describe both part of a tree and a local office of a larger organization?
Branch
$300 — What word connects a musical group, a ring worn around a finger, and a strip of frequencies?
Band
$400 — What word can mean a fruit, a color, and a telecommunications company once known for mobile service in Europe?
Orange
$500 — What word can mean a ship's stopping device, a TV news host, and a position in a relay race?
Anchor

Numbers Hiding Everywhere

$100 — How many total squares are on a standard 8-by-8 chessboard if you count only the smallest individual squares?
64
$200 — How many minutes are in two and a half hours?
150
$300 — A gross contains how many items?
144
$400 — If you fold a sheet of paper in half three times, how many layers thick is it?
8
$500 — What is the smallest positive whole number evenly divisible by every number from 1 through 10?
2520

Not Quite What It Sounds Like

$100 — Despite its name, a peanut is technically what type of plant food?
A legume
$200 — Despite the name, what animal called a 'killer whale' is actually the largest member of the dolphin family?
Orca
$300 — A strawberry is not botanically a true berry, but what yellow fruit is?
Banana
$400 — Despite being called a sea, what famous body of water between Jordan and Israel is actually a salt lake?
Dead Sea
$500 — What 'nut' used in pies is botanically the seed of a drupe rather than a true nut?
Pecan

Which Came First?

$100 — Which came first: YouTube or Facebook?
Facebook
$200 — Which came first: the microwave oven or the television remote control?
Microwave oven
$300 — Which came first: sliced bread or the first Academy Awards ceremony?
Sliced bread
$400 — Which came first: the fax machine patent or the American Civil War?
The fax machine patent
$500 — Which came first: Oxford University teaching students or the Aztec Empire being founded?
Oxford University teaching students

Look Closer

$100 — On the Target logo, what simple shape appears at its center?
A circle
$200 — What hidden shape appears between the E and x in the FedEx wordmark?
An arrow
$300 — In the Amazon logo, the curved arrow runs from the letter A to which letter?
Z
$400 — On a standard U.S. traffic light mounted vertically, which color is normally at the top?
Red
$500 — On the U.S. one-dollar bill, what object appears above the unfinished pyramid on the Great Seal?
An eye

How Did You Know That?

$100 — What smell is produced when rain hits dry soil and is commonly called petrichor?
The earthy smell after rain
$200 — What is the dot above a lowercase i or j called?
Tittle
$300 — What is the plastic or metal tip at the end of a shoelace called?
Aglet
$400 — What is the groove between your nose and upper lip called?
Philtrum
$500 — What word describes the pleasant smell of old books, caused partly by compounds released as paper ages?
Bibliosmia

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