Animal Groups
A group of apes
A shrewdness
The beginning of a river
The head
On November 28, 1995, 50.28% of Irish voters voted in favor of lifting a ban on what?
DIVORCE
May 14 is a national holiday in France, celebrated in honor of which woman?
JOAN OF ARC
Rubies and sapphires are actually the same type of this mineral ?
corundum
The hashtag symbol is technically called an ?
octothorpe
A group of bats
A colony
What is the longest river in the world
The Nile
This past year, in an auction, someone spent $145,9000 for an 18-year old white polyester man's suit which was worn by which person in what context?
JOHN TRAVOLTA WORE IN SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
Just minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as President on January 20, 1981, a historic event took place, involving the number 444. What was it?
52 HOSTAGES WERE RELEASED FROM IRAN AFTER 444 DAYS
Antacids taste like chalk because they ARE chalk, a.k.a. this?
calcium carbonate
The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent what?
100 ways to cook an egg
A group of baboons
A troop
What river carries the most water
The amazon
On January 17, 1995 - a powerful earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter Scale killed more than 5,000 people in which Japanese city?
KOBE
Which automobile company was established in 1899 in Torino, Italy?
FIAT
The earth is slipping along the San Andreas fault at a rate of this per year ?
2"
Apple Pie isn't actually American at all. The first recorded recipe for apple pie was actually written in ?
England
A group of boars
A sounder
What is the shortest river in the world
The Ombla in Croatia
Which U.S. state has the largest percentage of non- English speaking residents, 36%?
NEW MEXICO
What international film festival debuted in France in 1946?
CANNES
The Great Lakes, combined, contain more than this percentage of the world's available fresh water ?
20%
The people behind these two animated characters were actually married in real life?
Mickey and Minnie Mouse
A group of cheetahs
A coalition
What is the longest river that flows only through one country
The Yangtze in China
What is the name of the ship on which Greenpeace members tried stop the French nuclear tests in the Pacific?
RAINBOW WARRIOR.
In 1847, Michigan became the first state to abolish this, and since that time, less than half the states have followed. What is it?
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
What is the most earthquake-prone state in the US ?
Alaska
This is the largest known living organism?
an aspen grove
A group of caterpillars
An army
Almost half the rivers in the world flow into this water body
The Atlantic Ocean
When a floating moth shorted out an early supercomputer, what new phrase was born?
COMPUTER BUG
The tourism board of this state recently adopted state native Nat King Cole's song, Unforgettable , as its state song for tourism. The first capitol of the Confederacy was located in this state. Which state is it?
ALABAMA
What is the most abundant sedimentary rock in the world ?
Shale
M&M stands for this?
Mars and Murrie
A group of buffalo
A gang or obstinacy
What event reversed the flow of the Mississippi River in 1811-1812
New Madrid Earthquakes
When he developed his Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein was living in what capital city?
BERNE, SWITZERLAND
Which dangerous drug, whose generic name was originally a trade name, was first developed in Germany in 1898?
HEROIN
This mineral producing a brilliant red color was widely used in religious art in the Middle Ages ?
cinnabar
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than ______ miles away ?
2
A group of emus
A mob
The Imjin River in South Korea is nicknamed this
River of the Dead
Actress and political activist Jane Fonda said, "It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was thoughtless." What 1972 event was she apologizing for?
POSING WITH NORTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS, that gained her the nickname "Hanoi Jane."
In the summer of 1998, 3.7 billion people world-wide viewed what televised event?
WORLD CUP OF SOCCER
The Amazon forest got enough phosphor to stay fertile from this?
the Sahara desert
Tis type of bird can mimic almost any sounds it hears — including chainsaws
The lyrebird
A group of foxes
A skulk or leash
There is evidence of an underground river that may be as long and 100 times wider than this river above
The amazon
The first one of these was established at Wesleyan College, Georgia, in 1851. Today, then can be found on virtually every college campus. What are they?
SORORITY
What was the Russian name for the first artificial satellite, launched in 1957?
SPUTNIK
______ are the honeybadgers of the gem world, they simply don’t give a crap. They’re hardy little gems, that can undergo multiple orogenic cycles and still maintain their original crystal lattice structures ?
Zircons
The speed of a computer mouse is measured in ?
Mickeys