Quiz American State Trivia
Eight American State Questions That Catch Almost Everyone
Capitals that are not the biggest city, borders that follow rivers that moved, and the state that is further east than you think. Eight questions.
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Countdown 70s Nostalgia
15 Things From a 1970s Kitchen Younger People Might Not Recognise
Fifteen objects that sat on the bench, in the drawer or under the sink of an ordinary 1970s kitchen, and what each one was actually for.
Story Wedding Drama
Tell Me Who Is Not Speaking. I Do Not Need to Know Why.
Part five of five. Who apologised, who never will, and the sentence Erin now says out loud about twice a year.
Explainer Can You Spot the Scam?
Six Warning Signs in a Suspicious Message, and What to Do Instead
How to recognise the pressure tactics that almost every scam relies on, described in general terms, with a simple three-step habit that defeats all of them.
Who Is Lying?
Everyone Made a Statement. Exactly One of Them Is Lying
A short elimination puzzle with a single consistent answer, checked by brute force against every possible culprit before publication.
Countdown Recipes We Grew Up With
Ten Dishes That Appear on Almost Every Handwritten Recipe Card
The recipes that were copied out by hand and passed between families, why they were always those ten, and what the handwriting tells you about the cook.
Myth or Fact Bizarre Food Facts
Twelve Foods That Are Not Botanically What You Think They Are
Bananas are berries, strawberries are not, and almonds are not nuts. Twelve everyday foods in the wrong category, with the actual rule explained.
Story Family Secrets
The Largest Act of Disobedience Available to Her
Part five of five. Her brother thinks the label was cowardice. Gwen does not, and she has worked out exactly why.
Countdown Farm Animals
Nine Farm Breeds That Nearly Disappeared, and Why They Came Back
Regional livestock breeds were nearly wiped out by twentieth-century agriculture. What happened, who saved them, and why the reason they survived is not sentiment.
Rebus Rebus Puzzles
Can You Read This Word Picture? The Layout Is the Clue
A rebus puzzle where the arrangement of the words matters more than the words themselves, drawn as real type so nothing is ambiguous.
Countdown Books & Authors
Nine Books That Were Nearly Very Different
Rejected manuscripts, changed titles, altered endings and pen names. Nine publishing decisions that reshaped books everybody now knows in one form only.
Then & Now Britain Then & Now
The British High Street, 1965 and Now: Ten Things That Changed
What was on a typical high street sixty years ago, what replaced it, and the specific commercial reasons each change happened.
Countdown Victorian Life
Eight Everyday Victorian Habits That Seem Bizarre Now
Mourning rules, post-mortem photographs, arsenic wallpaper and a bathing machine. Eight Victorian habits, and the entirely logical reasons behind each one.
Then & Now Everyday Objects: Then & Now
Ten Everyday Objects That Changed Shape for a Specific Reason
Plug pins, bottle bases, milk cartons and the humble pencil. Ten familiar objects whose current shape solves a problem you have probably never noticed.
Countdown 80s Nostalgia
Twelve Things That Lived in an Ordinary 1980s Bedroom
The poster, the radio-cassette, the pencil case with a combination lock: twelve objects that were in almost every 1980s bedroom and are now in almost none.
Guess It Mystery Kitchen Objects
There Is One in Almost Every Kitchen Drawer. What Was It Actually For?
A flat metal disc with a wooden handle and a rippled edge, found in kitchen drawers everywhere. Here is what it did, and the three objects people usually confuse it with.
Myth or Fact Strange Laws & Rules
Eight Famous Strange Laws That Are Completely Made Up
Most viral lists of bizarre laws are wrong. Here are eight of the most repeated ones, what is actually true underneath them, and why they will not die.
Countdown Australian Wildlife
Ten Facts About the Platypus That Sound Invented
Venomous, electroreceptive, egg-laying and without a stomach. Ten documented facts about an animal that European scientists initially assumed was a hoax.