Archie's Riddlewot Profile

I'm one of Plato's Five. To him, I looked like the heavens. But nowadays you're more likely to come across me as a hipster cactus or candle holder.

I can be motionless! I can be electric! I can be snow!

Dan Brown may have written about the Mona Lisa in The Da Vinci Code, but even he didn't mention this special feature of the painting which is overlooked by the vast majority of people.

I'm a controversial chemical compound. I was used in early rocket fuels, and I'm still found in some transport fuels even though my emissions affect ozone levels. I'm effective at killing small organisms and I'm commonly sold for this purpose. If ingested, I cause psychoactive effects. My common name is derived from Arabic. What is it?

My first part can help put the pressure on. You could say that my second half is related. As a whole, I'm a festive food that's not for eating.

To some, I'm a weapon. To others, I'm something that only causes trouble on sand or soft grass.

There's an attraction between you and me; I can't look away from you. You used to visit me, but only half a dozen times. And now I worry we are gradually drifting apart. Please say my name - but the proper Latin version, please.

This word looks like it describes a ferrous-like substance, although its meaning is quite different. But that's not the main reason people always seem to use it incorrectly in sentences.

I describe a shallow hole, but when you experience me, I seem like a cavernous pit.

In most countries, I'm very small - except in Belgium, where you can find versions of me over 160 billion times larger than normal. What is the name of the Belgian version?

People sometimes see faces in my  negative spaces.

My name may reference a vibrating weapon, but all my violence was staged.

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