Fun Facts
Human Science
Natural Science
Space
Birds and Dinos
100
How many permanent exhibits are there in the Perot?
11
100
In what exhibit can you toss a ping-pong ball with your mind?
Being Human Exhibit
100
What's the 1.5 ton geode called in the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Exhibit?
Grape Jelly Geode
100
Name one person who made a breakthrough that can be learned about in the Expanding Universe Exhibit.
Galileo, Newton, Hershel, and Hubble
100
Where can you build your own bird? (the whole name is required for credit!)
Rose Hall of Birds
200
What molecule can be found in the lobby of the Perot?
H2O or water
200
Where is the Sports Exhibit located?
Lower Level
200
The Perot Museum holds the third largest gold nugget in the world. Where was it originally discovered?
Eastern Goldfields, Australia
200
What telescope provided many of images used in the Expanding Universe Exhibit?
Hubble Space Telescope
200
What does the full-body flight simulator in the Bird Hall allow you to do?
Fly like a bird!
300
When did the doors of the Perot Museum first open to the public?
December 1, 2012
300
What Dallas Cowboys football player can you outrun in the sports hall?
Felix Jones
300
What was the magnitude of the Chilean Earthquake of 1943, found in the Dynamic Earth Exhibit?
8.4
300
There is a certain display that allows you to zoom in and out on different types of matter to better understand the scale of the universe. What is the smallest particle of matter?
String matter
300
Who is the land-dwelling animal that evolved into a giant marine predator?
Mosasaurus
400
Who is the architect of the Perot Museum?
Thom Mayne
400
How many nerve cells are in the average brain?
100 billion
400
Fill in the blank: Virtual travel through _______ feet of gas well in the Shale Voyager motion-based theater to experience natural gas fracking.
9,000 feet
400
Who is the narrator of the video about the big bang in the Expanding Universe Exhibit?
Owen Wilson
400
What dinosaur fossil can be found in the lobby?
Malawisaurus
500
How long are the escalators at the Perot Museum?
54 feet long
500
What can you dissect in the BioLab to see its giant chromosome?
A fruit fly larva
500
Where is the “underground” crawl space revealing root systems and burrowing animals beneath the Piney Woodlands?
Discovering Life Hall
500
In the Expanding Universe Exhibit, you can take a 3D animated journey through the solar system. On what planet does the journey stop?
Mars
500
Who is 85 feet and among the last surviving non-avian dinosaur species?
Alamosaurus
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