What document declared the colonies as the free and independent United States of America?
Declaration of Independence
Do bugs have lungs?
No, bugs do not have lungs.
Bugs also do not breathe through their mouths like we do! Their respiratory system is made up of a network of tubes called tracheae (tray·kee·ee). Openings, called spiracles, allow oxygen to flow throughout the bug's body through the tracheae
What is the capital of the Netherlands?
Amsterdam
What is the most dangerous type of thunderstorms?
Supercells
What is Wasabi?
Japanese horseradish
What US president was the target of two assassination attempts in 17 days?
Gerald Ford
What's a community of ants called?
A colony
Which is bigger, the state of Florida or England?
Florida
What is the term for an organism that lives on or in another?
Parasite
What type of fruit is a pomelo?
largest citrus fruit, and the principal ancestor of the grapefruit
What object, which debuted in 1949, is sometimes called a "45"?
An LP single vinyl record
Where does a baby dragonfly grow up?
In water (Dragonfly nymphs are aquatic insects and they may spend up to 5 years underwater, before becoming an adult.)
What famed falls are split in two by Goat Island?
Niagara Falls
If you were to be in space would you get taller or shorter?
taller, due to the lack of gravity
Which smoky-voiced singer sang Too Young in 1951?
Nat King Cole
On what holiday did Harry Houdini died in 1926?
Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 in Detroit, Michigan from appendicitis
Which insect has been named “America’s Top Nuisance Pest?”
Ants
What part of the world did the Vikings come from?
Scandinavia
What layer of the Earth's atmosphere sits between the troposphere and mesosphere?
Stratosphere
What three crops, when planted together, are known as the “Three Sisters?
corn, bean, and squash
What was Atlas famously forced to do by the Greek gods?
Hold the Heavens on his shoulders
What is the loudest insect?
Cicada
What currency is dispensed from Antarctica's only ATM?
U.S. dollar
What is the resistance to changes in motion or speed called?
Inertia
What country makes the most wine, Italy, France, or the United States?
Italy. Italy is the world's leading wine producer, producing about one-third of the world's wine annually. In 2022, Italy produced almost 50 million hectoliters of wine, with a quarter of that coming from the Veneto region alone. Italy's wine industry is worth over $10 billion and accounts for 17% of the world's wine
What mascot represented the women who went to work in factories to help with the war effort during World War II?
Rosie the Riveter
The insect known as the yellow jacket is a type of what?
Wasp
Which US state is nicknamed the "Magnolia State"?
Mississippi
What is the name of the point at which condensation begins?
Dew point
What soft drink was billed as “the real thing?”
Coca cola
What famous leader was assassinated on March 15, 44 BC, the Ides of March?
Julius Caesar
What's the oldest bug?
fossilized millipede 425 million years
What is the highest mountain in Greece?
Mount Olympus
Diamonds last forever, True or false?
False, Diamonds degrade to graphite, because graphite is a lower-energy configuration under typical conditions. Diamond (the stuff in wedding rings) and graphite (the stuff in pencils) are both crystalline forms of pure carbon
What did Jack Dempsy do before he was a boxer?
Farm Hand, and miner
What was the incident where British troops fired on a mob, killing five people in Boston, later called?
Boston Massacre
What insect lives the longest at a highest recorded 51 years?
wood-boring beetles
Which is the largest of the Caribbean islands?
Cuba
What structure in the back of the brain governs motor control?
Cerebellum
What famous baseball player married Marilyn Monroe in 1954?
legend Joe DiMaggio
What do the 36 columns surrounding the Lincoln Memorial represent?
The number of states at the time of Lincoln's death
Which insect has the shortest lifespan?
Mayfly
Which state is home to America’s first public beach?
Massachusetts -- Revere Beach, just north of Boston, is considered America’s first public beach
Which elements are so reactive with water that they have to be stored in oil because they will react with the air’s moisture?
possible answers: Alkali metals, Lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, and cesium
What was the name of the very first Saturday morning cartoon?
Crusader Rabbit was the first animated series produced for television and aired on Saturday mornings, debuting on NBC in 1950.
Which famous entrepreneur is credited with inventing the weekend in 1932?
Henry Ford ( by closing his factories on Saturdays and Sundays in 1926. Ford believed that giving his workers more time off would encourage leisure activities like shopping and vacations, which would in turn boost the economy. In 1932, the United States officially adopted the five-day workweek to help with unemployment during the Great Depression)
What is the biggest bug?
Giant Weta
What are the Benelux countries?
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
Known as the Low Countries because much of the land along the North Sea is below or at sea level, they are often called the Benelux countries, from the initial letters of their names.
What discovery earned Wilhelm Rontgen the first Nobel Prize for Physics?
X-rays
What are the ingredients in a Boulevardier?
1 oz Campari
1 oz Sweet red vermouth
1 oz rye whisky or bourbon