True or False
The "dark side of the moon" is permanently shrouded in absolute darkness and never receives any sunlight.
False.
The far side of the moon gets just as much sunlight as the near side; it's just never visible from Earth due to tidal locking.
The full moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox is called what?
Harvest Moon
Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
Margaret Thatcher
Colorado
Denver
In Spanish
Hola
Neutrons carry a positive electrical charge inside the nucleus of an atom.
False.
Neutrons have no net electric charge (they are neutral), whereas protons are positively charged.
President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday during which major historical conflict?
The American Civil War
Who was president when the British set fire to the White House in 1814?
James Madison
Minnesota
St. Paul
In French
Bonjour
New Zealand was the first country to grant women the right to vote in national elections.
True.
Botanically speaking, pumpkins and squash are classified as which of the following?
A. Vegetable
B. Root Tuber
C. Fruit
C. Fruit
They develop from the flower of the plant and contain seeds.
What president accepted and dedicated the Statue of Liberty?
Grover Cleveland
New Jersey
Trenton
In German
Guten Tag
The Eiffel Tower was originally named the "300-Meter Tower".
True.
The Eiffel Tower got its name after the engineer who designed it, Gustave Eiffel.
As autumn approaches and days shorten, trees stop producing which green pigment, allowing other underlying colors to show?
Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll is responsible for photosynthesis and masks other pigments during the spring and summer.
Winston Churchill famously used a two-finger hand gesture throughout World War II. What did it stand for?
"V for Victory"
Utah
Salt Lake City
In Canadian
Hello
Greenland has the world's longest unbroken coastline.
False.
You can find the world's longest unbroken coastline in Canada.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota developed this famous crisp, sweet-tart apple variety...
Honeycrisp
According to George H.W. Bush, the ghost of which U.S. president was rumoured to haunt the White House?
Abraham Lincoln
South Dakota
Pierre
In Japanese
Konnichiwa