Foods and Beverages
What food is simply fermented cucumbers?
Pickles
What is the common cold caused by?
A virus
Frogs and toads are examples of what type of animal?
Amphibians
What is the name of the tool used to look at the small, invisible world around us?
Microscope
Robert Hooke was a 17th century scientist who looked at what under the microscope?
Cork
What is the ingredient needed in order to make bread rise?
Yeast
Bacterial infections, like a sinus infection, can be treated with what?
Antibiotics
How many types of edible plants are there? (30,000 300,000 3,000 300)
300,000
Humans only eat about 200 species of those plants around the world.
When you blush, what other organ in your body blushes too? Hint: It's in the digestive system)
Cells
What is the popular food in Korean culture, made through fermentation and is traditionally stored underground in jars?
Kimchi
Daily Double: What is the human body's largest organ?
The skin!
Which country has the most plant species due to its large rain forest?
Brazil
Which farm animal was the first cloned mammal, in 1996? (Fact: Her name was Dolly)
What scientist was the first person to write about how everyday objects looked under a microscope?
Robert Hooke
What dairy product takes on a unique smell, taste, and appearance once the mold within in begins to grow? (Don't worry it's safe to eat).
Blue Cheese
Which organ is not used during digestion?
The lungs
What animal has the longest lifespan?
Tortoise
How many hours does it take for a cell to copy all of its DNA? (Between 1-10 hours)
8 hours
Daily Double: Leeuwenhoek assumed the tiny things he saw under the microscope were alive and called them what name?
Animalcules
Salmonella
How many bones are there in the adult human body?
206
Which flower was once more valuable than gold in Holland (The Netherlands)? Hint: These come in many different colors and bloom in early Spring.
Tulips
Jellyfish
Before Anton van Leeuwenhoek began creating his own microscopes and lenses, what was his original business?
Buying and selling cloth