What is the most popular pet in the USA?
Cats
In what city is St. Basil's Cathedral located?
Moscow
Name all the branches of the US government
Legislative, executive, and judicial
What is the name of the process by which plants make sugar? (BONUS POINTS: what are the two ingredients that make sugar??)
Photosynthesis
(Carbon dioxide gas and water!!)
What is the name of the drink that contains milk, syrup, and seltzer?
Egg Cream
What is the fastest land animal?
Cheetahs
Name the four Canadian provinces that make up the maritimes.
New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland
A "high hat" is a kind of what?
Cymbal (with a pedal)
What is the name of the fluctuations in our daily body cycles?
Circadian rhythms
Name the three common fruits native to North America.
Cranberries, blueberries, Concord grapes
What is a group of porcupines called?
A prickle!
What continent's tallest mountain is called Aconcagua?
South America (Argentina)
What famous performer was strangled by their own scarf?
Isadora Duncan (1927, Nice, France)
Who discovered penicillin?
Alexander Fleming, 1928
What is the Polish name for stuffed cabbage?
Golumpki
What is the smallest vertebrate?
A frog (Paedophryne amauensis)
What is the last continent to be settled by humans?
Australia
Who invented the sewing machine?
Elias Howe (in 1845), born in Spencer, MA
Where were heat-loving (thermophilic) bacteria first discovered?
Yellowstone hot springs
What is calamari made from?
Squid
From what animal did humans originally catch colds?
Camels!
What country hosts the Doomsday Seed Vault?
Norway (Svalbard)
What is the smallest orchestral wind instrument?
the piccolo (~14 inches long)
What is the oldest type of tree in the world?
Bristlecone Pine (Great Basin, CA) can live over 5,000 years
Where would you eat Hoppin' John?
Southern US (black-eyed peas, bacon/ham, rice). Traditionally eaten on New Year's Day: the peas look like coins ($$$)