Cooking
If the pan catches fire when you're frying bacon, what should you never throw on it?
Water
What is the study of plant life called?
Botany
What is the largest species of shark currently living?
Whale shark
Established in 1872, what became the world's first national park?
Yellowstone
What is the name of Harry's owl?
Hedwig
In cooking, if you "pare" a carrot, what do you do to it?
Peel it
What layer of the Earth is right below the crust?
Mantle
What semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal is native to Australia and Tasmania?
Platypus
Who was the second president of the USA?
John Adams
What are the four houses of Hogwarts?
Gryfindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Slytherian
What was the original meaning of the phrase "shish kebab"?
Fried Meat
What type of rock is coal?
Sedimentary
Which marine animal is the only known predator of the great white shark
Orca
In Oct. 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced what calendar?
Gregorian calendar
When was the first movie released?
2001
What is the term for cooking meats like pork or duck in order to melt some of the fat out of them?
Rendering
What are the fastest and strongest global winds called?
Jet Streams
What bird has eyes that are larger than its brain?
Ostrich
America's first multimillionaire, John Jacob Astor, made his fortune in what trade?
Fur trade
Which creatures pull the carriages that take students from the Hogwarts Express to the Castle?
Thestrals
If beef is cooked "en brochette", what does that mean?
On skewers
Which age is known as the "Age of Fish"?
Paleozoic Era
A "sounder" is the term used to refer to a group of what type of animal?
Pigs
The Venera space probes, sent to gather information about Venus, were developed by which country
USSR
What does the Mirror of Erised do?
the most desperate desire of our hearts