Outta This World
Medical Disorders
Gems & Minerals
Creepy Crawlies
All in the Family
All Things Australian
Homonyms
100
A luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity.
What is a star?
100
Episodes of mania and depression appear in this fairly common disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
100
Colleen's favorite gemstone (we think)?
What is an Australian opal?
100
This rock band is named after predatory arachnids with eight legs, a pair of grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back and always ending with a stinger.
HINT: A sting from this little guy can Rock You Like a Hurricane.
Who are The Scorpions?
100
Your brother David loves this flavor of dessert or sweet treats the most.
What is chocolate?
100
The two animals featured on the Australian coat of arms.
What are the kangaroo and the emu?
100
Used for baseball and is a flying mammal.
What is a bat?
200
The number of years it would take to walk to the moon.
What is nine?
200
Anthrax is caused by this kind of microbe.
What is bacteria?
200
This person is known as a rock expert.
What is a petrologist?
200
The most deadliest insect on the planet that kills 700,000 people annually.
What is the mosquito?
200
This extended family member of yours had the first name of a fruit.
Who was Olive?
200
It's what a popular Australian sausage is called.
What is a snag?
200
Side of a river and a financial institution.
What is a bank?
300
On this planet the sun rises in the west and set in the east.
What is Venus?
300
The medical term for pink eye.
What is conjunctivitis?
300
The only organic gem David and I can think of.
What is amber?
300
The second largest order of insects, these have two pairs of wings covered in small scales that rub off easily and are the only insects with sucking mouth parts in the form of a coiled tube.
What are moths/butterflies? (Lepidoptera = scaly wings)
300
The suburb of Adelaide where we lived in the 1960s.
What is Blackwood?
300
The National Bird of Australia.
What is the emu?
400
On these two planets, a day lasts longer than a year.
What are Venus and Mercury?
400
This bacterial infection affects the tissue under your skin called the fascia. It spreads quickly and can cause life-threatening complications. It requires immediate treatment with surgery and antibiotics.
What is flesh-eating bacteria (Necrotizing fasciitis)?
400
The two categories of igneous rock.
What are extrusive and intrusive?
400
A long thin insect, with an elongated prothorax (neck) and long antennae. Stands with raised head in an s-shaped, snake-like pose. Found in woodland and gardens.
What is a snakefly?
400
The dish that mom frequently made for dinner that we always looked forward to.
What is curry?
400
A boiling pot used to make tea.
What is a billy?
500
This planet (not earth), has evidence of currently running water.
What is Mars?
500
This drug is used if you become infested with worms.
What is an anthelmintic.
500
This is the world's most well-known fossil.
What is Archaeopteryx?
500
The loudest insect - 120 decibals approaching the treshold of human pain.
What is a cicada?
500
This street that your family lived on is the name of a U.S. state.
What is Virginia Terrace?
500
This percentage of Aussies live on the coast of the continent.
What is 85 percent?
600
This constellation is comprised of only a few stars, with Hamal being the brightest and easiest to locate.
What is Aries?
600
This is a condition caused by salts of uric acid.
What is gout?
600
Nuts and seeds are sources of these 2 minerals.
What are copper and manganese?
600
This large fast-moving "spider" that is not actually a spider at all lives in the arid deserts of the Southwest.
What is a camel spider or wind scorpion?
600
Name your elementary school teachers from Randall Elementary.
(We don't know the answer to this, but you might?)
600
Of these three Australian city names, only one is real: Digley Doo, Humpty Doo, Didgeridoo.
What is Humpty Doo?
700
This type of eclipse occurs when the moon gets between the earth and the sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
700
This disease is caused by a difficiency in vitamin B12.
What is pernisious anemia?
700
Sapphires come in these 8 colors.
What are:Colorless (clear), red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and purple.
700
The age of the oldest insect fossil ever found.
What is 400 million years old?
700
This country was your mom's favorite to visit, according to her.
What is Turkey?
700
What Australians call a nosey person.
What is a stickybeak?
800
The first two humans to walk on the moon.
Who are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
800
This rarest blood disorder is extremely uncommon, and has life-threatening conditions involving severe bone marrow failure, genetic mutations, or immune-driven blood cell destruction.
What is Rhnull, or "golden blood, OR, what is paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)?"
800
This rock is what ancient humans made arrowheads out of.
What is flint?
800
This is the shape of the cells in bee hives.
What is hexagonal?
800
The type of company dad's ancestors started when the emigrated to Australia.
What is a clothing company?
800
This is where Mick Dundee comes from.
What is Walkabout Creek? (Fictional Town)