Miscellaneous
Science
Geography
History
Animals
100
What Asian country is the largest producer of garlic?
China
100
What colors does litmus paper change?
Red (acid) and blue (base/alkaline)
100
In what direction does the Nile flow?
North
100
When was the ‘year without a summer”?
1816 (Mt. Tambora, in the Phillipines, erupted)
100
What is the only eusocial (group living with a “queen”) mammal?
Naked mole rats
200
What did women make dresses and aprons out of during the depression?
Flour sacks
200
Name the blood types
A, B, O, AB
200
What nation’s name means “Land of Many Rabbits”?
Spain (from Carthiginian, 300BC, Ispania from Sphan = rabbit)
200
What year did the Korean war end?
1953
200
What year was Dolly, the cloned sheep born?
1996
300
What percent of the world is left handed?
10%
300
Where would you find hydrothermal vents?
Mid-ocean ridges
300
Greenland is further north, south, east, and west of what country?
Iceland
300
Who said, “We must all hang together or we will surely hang separately.”?
Benjamin Franklin
300
What vertebrate lives the longest?
The Greenland Shark (> 400 yrs)
400
What is the most commonly written english word?
THE
400
What kind of tree has the most ancient lineage?
Gingko trees were on earth 18 million years before the dinosaurs (Triassic)
400
What US state is closest to Africa?
Maine
400
What does the 230-foot long Bayeux Tapestry depict?
The Norman Invasion of England in 1066
400
What is the vampire moth famous for?
Drinking the blood of vertebrates
500
What were dollar bills originally called?
Greenbacks
500
Why is colorblindness more common in men?
The gene is on the X chromosome and men only have ONE X chromosome
500
What island lies between England and Ireland?
Isle of Man
500
Who was elected the first president of the Russian Republic?
Boris Yeltzin, 1991
500
What two fears are babies born with?
Loud noises and falling