Animals
Plants
Climate Change
Inventions/Inventors
Education
100
What is the word for a group of hippopotami?
A pod or a bloat
100
From which country does the poinsettia originate?
Mexico
100
What is the lowest lying country in the world?
Maldives
100
What was Thomas Edison's nickname?
The wizard of Menlo Park (over 1,000 patents including the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture. Improved telegraph and telephone also!)
100
Name the eight Ivy League colleges
Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton
200
What is the only animal that uses spurs on its legs to deliver venom?
Platypus
200
In what country will you find the world's tallest palm trees?
Columbia. Quidio wax palms grow up to 200 ft. tall in the Cocora valley (6000 ft. elevation) of Colombia
200
Which type of transportation has the biggest impact per capita on climate change?
Aviation
200
When was decaf coffee invented?
First commercially produced in 1905 by German coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius, after he received a shipment of beans soaked in sea water!
200
How old was the youngest person to graduate from college?
TEN years old! Michael Kearny, BS in anthropology. (Learned to read at 10 months)
300
What kind of (real) animal is a silkie?
A chicken
300
What kind of plant does the spice saffron come from?
Crocus
300
Who said "The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
Malcolm X
300
In which country was the first botanical garden created?
Italy, 1545, University of Padua
300
Who said "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think"?
Albert Einstein
400
From what animal did dogs evolve?
Wolves
400
What does "phototropism" mean?
Growing towards the light
400
What Oceania country is the first with which the whole population is migrating away to avoid rising sea levels?
Tuvalu: average height about sea level is 7 feet. 11,000 people will move to Australia within 25 years.
400
Where (specifically) did rugby originate?
The Rugby School, England, early 1800s. The whole school formed two teams!
400
How long a line can the average pencil draw?
35 miles!
500
What body part do cave fish live without?
Eyes
500
What medicine comes from the foxglove plant?
Digitalis, which regulates heart rhythm
500
What three things will happen to the ocean due to climate change?
Warming, less oxygen, becomes acidic
500
What letter of the alphabet was the most recently added?
The letter "J"
(1524, Italy. Originally a swoosh on an “I” to signify the end of a series. i.e. XIIJ)
500
What does dyslexia mean?
