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miscellaneous
amazing animal facts
Movie quotes
Riddles
100
Leading up to January 1, 2000, there was widespread concern that computer systems would fail, unable to distinguish between 1900 and 2000. This led to a global effort to update and patch systems, averting major disruptions. This was called.
a. The Millennium
b. Y2K
c. The fallout
What is Y2K?
100
This was the first in the United States to open in Los Angeles, California in April 2, 1902?
A. Movie theatre
b. Resturant
c.Grocery store
What is Movie theatre? Called electric theatre
100
What makes up our solar system?
a. 6 planets
b. 8 planets
c.9 planets
8 planets
100
This animal is born grey, their diet of brine shrimp and blue green algae contains a natural pink dye called canthaxanthin that makes their feathers pink.
a. Pink Robin
b.Flamingo
c.Naked-mole rat
What is Flamingos?
100
who said,
"You are a sad, strange, little man, and you have my pity. Farewell."
who is buzzlight year. Toy story
100
What number between one and ten, when said out loud, sounds like the past tense of the verb "eat"?
What is eight?
200
The Summer Olympics were held in
a. Sydney, Australia
b. Paris, France
c. Salt Lake city, Utah
What is Sydney, Australia
200
This first cross-country trip in the United States on July 26, 1903, was completed with the arrival in New York.
a. train
b. hot air balloon
c. Automobile
What is Automobile
The trip had begun in San Francisco on May 23.
200
An unusual, small, yellow dwarf that provides the perfect amount of energy for life on earth.
a.compositions of stars
b. the moon phases
c. the sun
What is the Sun?
200
These animals hold hands while sleeping, so they don’t float away from each other.
a. Duck bill platepus
b. sea lions
c. otters
What is otters?
200
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
The Wizard (Frank Morgan) in The Wizard of Oz
200
What seven-letter “C” word means to exist in the present time, the fastest-moving part of a water stream, or flowing electric charge?
What is currant?
300
This saw its first long-term residents arrive in November, starting an unbroken chain of human presence in space that continues today.
a. International Space Station
b. NASA home station
c. ALPH galaxy
What is International space Station (ISS)
300
December 17, 1903 - Inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright succeed in the first sustained and manned plane flight, taking the heavier-than-air machine through the winds of Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina, and man into an age of flight. The plane, mechanically propelled with a petroleum engine, flew
a. 852 feet in 59 seconds
b. 1000 feet in 1 min
c. 500 feet in 30 seconds
flew 852 feet in 59 seconds. They would patent the Airplane three years later on May 22, 1906.
300
Arkansas
300
Little is known about the elusive animal however the largest one ever found measured over 50 feet and weighed nearly a ton
a. giant squid
b.Sperm Whale
c.Anaconda
What is a giant Squid?
300
Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) in Dirty Dancing
300
What seven-letter word is a dizzying condition where a person feels the false sensation of movement, and is also the title of a 1958 Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak?
What is vertigo
400
Although developed in the late 1990s, this technology became widely adopted in 2000, revolutionizing wireless communication between devices.
a. Cable technology
b. Dish tecnology
c. Bluetooth technology
What is Bluetooth Technology
400
September 6, 1901 - President William H. McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York while shaking hands with fair visitors, following his speech at the event on President's Day What Vice President was inaugurated as President upon the death of William McKinley from gunshot wounds sustained the week earlier.
A. Grover Cleveland
b.William Taft
c.Theodore Roosevelt
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
colorado
400
A group of parrots is known as a
a. flock
b.pandemonium
c. gaggle
What is Pandemonium?
400
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) in The Princess Bride
400
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to the end of it?
what is short?
500
He was president when the attack of The World Trade Center took place on Sept 11, 2001
a. Bill Clinton
b. George W.Bush
c.George H.W. Bush
Who was George W. Bush
500
January 28, 1909 - The troops of the United States leave Cuba for the first time since the beginning of this War.
a. Spanish-American
b. Mexican
c. Indian
What is Spanish-American
500
Magnesium, calcium, sodium, potassium
a.types of vitamins
b.micronutrients
c.necessary electrolytes
necessary electrolytes
500
What is the collective noun for porcupines?
a. Spears
b. Crooks
c. Prickle
What is Prickle?
500
"You have bewitched me, body and soul."
Matthew Macfadyen as Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (2005)
500
This five-letter word is a noun meaning a stated idea or opinion, a verb meaning to direct others' attention to something by using a finger, and an adjective describing a ballet dancer performing on their toes.
What is point?