Things your mom would know
Botany and isopods
Marine biology and limnology
Literature, religion, and the Soviets
Herpetology
100

The reason ramen is very unhealthy

What is high sodium?

100

Three common household plants (+10 points for each extra one named). 

What is spider plant, pothos, snake plant, rabbit's foot fern, Boston fern, focus laurata, money plant/ flying saucer, Swiss cheese/ mosastera, dracaena, and orchid?

100

Smallest species of whale (Did you do your accelerated math homework?)

Dwarf sperm whale

100

5 Egyptians gods/ goddesses 

Who are Osiris, Ra, Anubis, Horus, Amun?

100

10 venomous snakes. +5 for every extra named

Black mamba, king Cobra, diamondback rattlesnake, timber rattlesnake, banded krait, cottonmouth, copperhead, etc

200

The silver-green stick with a green pad at the end that you attach a special disposable cloth to to help you clean the floor

What is a Swiffer?

200

3 native plants of Southern California

buckwheat, sagebrush, coast live oak, western sycamore, California poppy

200

Which species holds the deepest and longest recorded dive of a mammal?

Cuvier's beaked whale

200

The name of the ship that Laika was on

Sputnik 2

200

What is the cane toad's native range?

South and Central america

300

Things frozen ice cubes or vinegar cubes can be used for. Keeping things cool does not count

Watering plants, deodorizing drains

300

the best game to play with your fellow feral friends and the roles

What is Jungle tag, Jungle Tag: Rabies, Jungle Tag: Climate Crisis, or Jungle a-tag? What is isopod, rabbit, sloth, frog, snake, quokka, alligator, spider, kangaroo, chimpanzee, 

300

When the University of Louisiana dropped dead alligators to the bottom of the sea, what new species did they discover?

Bone eating worms

300

The first confirmed animal to orbit the moon and come back

Russian tortoise

300

What is a rear-fanged snake and what are some examples of it

A snake where the teeth are located at the back of the mouth. Garter snake, hognose snake

400

Median house price in South Pasadena

1.64 million

400

What analougous structure did isopods evolve with another group of mammals?

Pouches to hold babies, like marsupials

400

Largest strictly-freshwater fish of Australia

Murray cod

400

The Celtic god of the sun and healing (If Gustav is #1 by 200 points or over, he cannot answer)

Belenos

400

What is the name of the third eye on some reptiles, and what is its use

Parietal eye, used to detect light

500

The peak electricity rate time in South Pasadena (or maybe other places)

What is 4pm-9pm?

500

What are the first 7 plates on an isopod shell called?

pereon

500

What is Lessepsian migration?

Migration of marine species along the Suez canal usually from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, but sometimes vice-versa

500

The author and illustrator of Asterix and the black gold

Albert Uderzo

500

Native range for Pantherophis Guttatus, or Red rat snake

southeastern USA

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